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This 3 page paper argues that Christopher Hitchens is correct in his assertion that God is not great. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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to make a great many people angry, and an equal number quite happy. This essay expresses the students agreement with Hitchens position. Discussion Hitchens writes that his doubt and disbelief
began very early, when a teacher said that God had made "all the trees and grass to be green, which is exactly the color that is most restful to our
eyes. Imagine if instead, the vegetation was all purple, or orange, how awful that would be" (Hitchens, 2007, p. 2). Hitchens knew instinctively that something was wrong: " The eyes
were adjusted to nature, and not the other way about" (Hitchens, 2007, p. 3). From that time on (he was nine), Hitchens observed, questioned, and looked at his world differently,
and from that examination grew the atheist that he is today. The points he makes resonate strongly with many people, including observations such as why, if God is the creator
of all things, must he be praised constantly for doing something that came naturally to him anyway anyway? (Hitchens, 2007, p. 4). Hitchens says that he and other atheists have
four objections to religious faith: "... that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum of
servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking" (Hitchens, 2007, p.
4). At this point the student will want to add his thoughts about why he agrees with Hitchens; his reasoning might be something like the following. Because we are a
scientifically and technologically oriented society, we tend to approach everything from that perspective, and seek truth without first turning to religion. When I do that, I find that religion cannot
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