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Argumentation for en oplyst ateisme. Tro må erstattes med viden og irrationelle følelser med fornuft, hvis religionerne ikke fortsat skal skabe splid, udertrykkelse og krig. Religion er, ifølge forfatteren, nemlig den største trussel i det 21. århundrede.
Observers of the Christopher Hitchens phenomenon have been expecting a book about religion from him around now. But this impressive and enjoyable attack on everything so many people hold dear is not the book we were expecting. . . He has written, with tremendous brio and great wit, but also with an underlying genuine anger, an all-out attack on all aspects of religion.
On the evidence of this book, Hitchens has spent too much time around religion, not too little. Like an ex-smoker who grows to loathe the habit more than those who have not tasted nicotine, he abominates God with the zealotry implicit in dictatorial faith. Anyone who has grown up in the shadow of hellfire evangelism will recognise some answering echo here. This is a papal bull for the non-believer.
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Oh, wearisome condition of humanity, Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot, and yet forbidden vanity, Created sick, commanded to be sound. -Fulke Greville, Mustapha
And do you think that unto such as you A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew God gave a secret, and denied it me? Well, well - what matters it? Believe that, too! -The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Richard Le Gallienne translation)
Peacefully they will die, peacefully they will expire in your name, and beyond the grave they will find only death. But we will keep the secret, and for their own happiness we will entice them with a heavenly and eternal reward. -The Grand Inquisitor to his "Savior" in The Brothers Karamazov
Tilegnelse
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For Ian McEwan In serene recollection of La Refulgencia
Første ord
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If the intended reader of this book should want to go beyond disagreement with its author and try to identify the sins and deformities that animated him to write it (and I have certainly noticed that those who publicly affirm charity and compassion and forgiveness are often inclined to take this course), then he or she will not just be quarreling with the unknowable and ineffable creator who - presumably - opted to make me this way.
Citater
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The voice of Reason is soft. But it is very persistent.
And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anthing that contradicts science or outrages reason. ("Putting it Mildly")
Sidste ord
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To clear the mind for the project, it has become necessary to know the enemy, and to prepare to fight it.
Argumentation for en oplyst ateisme. Tro må erstattes med viden og irrationelle følelser med fornuft, hvis religionerne ikke fortsat skal skabe splid, udertrykkelse og krig. Religion er, ifølge forfatteren, nemlig den største trussel i det 21. århundrede.
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