Whether you re a lifelong believer a devout atheist or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas. With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish a cause of dangerous sexual repression and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope s awesome view of the universe and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris s The End of Faith Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.