Religion has played a major role in the past’s conflicts and will per many theorists, continuous, be a huge factor in the future’s discrepancies the world’s countries between. Since the 14th century religion and science has been each other’s contrasts due to the way of portraying the world. It is a vexed question whether religion and science could complement each other because the religion starts where the science ends or vice versa. In the beginning of the 21st century little by little the existence of God was questioned and the faith/believe in science gained a footing. Christopher Hitchens published the 1st of May 2007 his life’s work: “God is not great – how religion poisons everything”.
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The medium is a book consisting of 362 pages. From the early beginning, the reader knows what the theme of the book is: Religion. With capital letters, C. Hitchens writes: GOD IS NOT GREAT [the headline] on the front page, which is very intimidating as it feels like someone is yelling directly at you. This is his way to bring out his purpose and message with the book. The context of the publication cannot be ascertained.
The major claim lies in the headline: “- How religion poisons everything”. Generally, the text is strongly critical to(wards) religion and religious convictions from all over the world. Not only the Christianity and Islam gets criticized – also Buddhism, Judaism, and Hinduism get blamed of being poisoned. His support is very weak since he majorly sustains his claims with his own points of view. A few claims are supported by sayings from e.g. Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler.
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The writer’s language use is very direct and harsh.
God is not great is a very subjective-written book that only depicts the writer’s opinions and points of view – the book is very one-sided. The text is therefore as mentioned earlier very unreliable and cannot be used as a credible text/source. He also often uses the first-person pronoun ‘I’, which is a subjectivity marker, which furthermore sustains the fact that the text is subjective.
We are about 7,2 billion people in the world, and Christopher Hitchens points of views amount 1/7,200,000,000 of the world’s population’s. When it comes to religion and religious conviction there is no correct answer, and no one can determine how you are ought to live your life. Although, C. Hitchens finds it impossible to connect religion and science some people take advantages of each ‘box’ and combine it to make the most out of it. Even though we are not in favor of other’s viewpoints, we must respect it and tolerate the choices they have made in life hoping for the same mutual respect and
The book is written by the English-American author …show more content…
The medium is a book consisting of 362 pages. From the early beginning, the reader knows what the theme of the book is: Religion. With capital letters, C. Hitchens writes: GOD IS NOT GREAT [the headline] on the front page, which is very intimidating as it feels like someone is yelling directly at you. This is his way to bring out his purpose and message with the book. The context of the publication cannot be ascertained.
The major claim lies in the headline: “- How religion poisons everything”. Generally, the text is strongly critical to(wards) religion and religious convictions from all over the world. Not only the Christianity and Islam gets criticized – also Buddhism, Judaism, and Hinduism get blamed of being poisoned. His support is very weak since he majorly sustains his claims with his own points of view. A few claims are supported by sayings from e.g. Dostoyevsky, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler.
Modes of …show more content…
The writer’s language use is very direct and harsh.
God is not great is a very subjective-written book that only depicts the writer’s opinions and points of view – the book is very one-sided. The text is therefore as mentioned earlier very unreliable and cannot be used as a credible text/source. He also often uses the first-person pronoun ‘I’, which is a subjectivity marker, which furthermore sustains the fact that the text is subjective.
We are about 7,2 billion people in the world, and Christopher Hitchens points of views amount 1/7,200,000,000 of the world’s population’s. When it comes to religion and religious conviction there is no correct answer, and no one can determine how you are ought to live your life. Although, C. Hitchens finds it impossible to connect religion and science some people take advantages of each ‘box’ and combine it to make the most out of it. Even though we are not in favor of other’s viewpoints, we must respect it and tolerate the choices they have made in life hoping for the same mutual respect and