Does Religion Poison Everything?

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The Thinking Atheist

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🗓️ 3 January 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In his 2007 book, "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," the late Christopher Hitchens asserted, without apology, that there is nothing that has been or can be improved by religion. In fact, religion is a toxin which damages or destroys everything it touches.

Is this assertion accurate and fair? Is there nothing positive that religion has brought to humanity?

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go.
0:01.0	Stand by.
0:01.8	Three, two, one.
0:03.9	Action.
0:06.6	Assume nothing.
0:08.4	Brash, bald face, blasphemy.
0:10.6	Question everything.
0:12.5	I find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.3	Open your eyes.
0:16.2	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.
0:25.0	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.4	Challenge the opposition.
0:29.0	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.7	And start thinking.
0:37.7	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.5	Happy New Year, to you and to yours, and thank you so much for starting 2014 with me.
0:52.0	We have a lot to talk about tonight.
0:53.9	Before we get into the meat of the show,
0:55.7	though, there's just some other stuff I wanted to talk about. I'm a little bit unprepared for the
1:05.2	evening. I mean, I've prepared the show, but after taking last week off for the holiday,
1:10.7	I sort of have forgotten where everything is.
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