Book Review [40] : God is not great

Christopher Hitchens was one of the extremist philosopher of the moder era,  and even the epitabh of an 'Atheist Fundamentalist' does not do any justice to his sharp "intellect". Unfortunately i started reading him after his death so could not question him directly for his critique of religion. 

'God is not great' is called his magnum opus and it indeed raises many questions and makes many observations but the questions and inferences that it raises are not new, the same questions were raised thousands of years back by the 'Shramanas' of India, Socrates of Athens etc etc. I was expecting some thing new and some thing more concrete from Hitchens but looks like he has left that work to the fledgling atheist movement of the 21st century. Every society needs laws for its organic evolution and every great civilization ever lived had its own set of laws and whoever revolted against those laws got a severe punishment, even Socrates had to drink poison. And even in today's world people like Assange have to fight cases to save themselves. Almost all religions that i know have great ideals in them the problem lies in the implementation of those ideals. And not all axioms of religion can be taken at the face value, each and every word of written book or revealed book should be subjected to a severe test of rationalism before accepting or considering it as truth. Everybook has a life span and it will be a real shame if the wisdom of a book be a given more weightage than the Genius of that era. Giving birth to 10 children or not using contraceptives may be a good "constraint" for a scantily populated region of MENA but certainly that can not be applied to the region of Bangladesh or Indonesia although both these regions are Islamic regions. Gotta go now, its 01:01 AM, good night guys.
Highly Recommended (8/10)