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Article: THE POWER SWING IN THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS SPURRED HITCHENS BOOK.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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These are sanctimonious times that try the rationalist's soul, what with the way that religions of one kind or another are being used as justification for violence, demonizing and repression in countless places around the globe.
Enter Christopher Hitchens, ready, willing and able to do battle with words! The iconoclastic, contrarian British-born journalist, who has lived in the United States since 1981, fearlessly treads where others scarcely dare tiptoe.
His impassioned and indignant new book examines the nature and misuse of religious faith today - "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" (Twelve Books, 320 pages, $24.99). Hitchens has ...