God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Christopher Hitchens

This book can be misinterpreted in a lot of ways. Many theologians today have tested Hitchens for his literalist interpretations of ancient texts. Theologians see revisions to texts as natural evolutions over the course of time while Hitchens sees them as evidence the word of "God" never was as such. On one level, God is Not Great is a survey of the ancient texts and how they should not give the picture of the merciful God we know today. A second level of the book is about the falsifications over time and their relevance. Modern readers may not be able to see problems with some of the chapters because the arguments seem archaic, but Hitchens wants the reader to understand the evolution of lies over the years. Limbo may not mean much to Catholics today, but it was a very real place to generations of people before. Hitchens makes outrage over it all of a sudden being non-existent in the Catholic Church. Christopher Hitchens is a political writer and shows his personality by writing about a historical subject in the fashion of its controversies and falsehoods over the years. Hitchens makes the book topical by presenting each of his complaints in its sociological context.