--- product_id: 228644517 title: "God Is Not Great: Christopher Hitchens" price: "SAR 45" currency: SAR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/228644517-god-is-not-great-christopher-hitchens store_origin: SA region: Saudi Arabia --- # 4.6/5 from 9,400+ reviews Bestselling cult classic Top-ranked in 3 theology categories God Is Not Great: Christopher Hitchens **Price:** SAR 45 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Ignite your mind with the ultimate critique of faith—because great minds question everything. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** God Is Not Great: Christopher Hitchens - **How much does it cost?** SAR 45 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.sa](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/228644517-god-is-not-great-christopher-hitchens) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Unmatched Bestseller Status:** Ranked #1 in Bible Criticism, Theology, and Ethics—dominate your intellectual circle. - • **Fuel Your Freedom of Thought:** Perfect for professionals who value fearless discourse and want to lead, not follow. - • **Cult Classic with Enduring Impact:** Join 9,400+ readers who rate this a 4.6-star must-read—don’t miss the conversation shaping modern thought. - • **Elevate Your Intellectual Arsenal:** Expand your vocabulary and critical thinking with Hitchens’ eloquent, incisive prose. - • **Provocative, Well-Researched Critique:** Hitchens dismantles religion with razor-sharp wit and deep scholarship—challenge the status quo. ## Overview God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens is a bestselling, critically acclaimed book that challenges the foundations of religion through sharp analysis and eloquent argumentation. Ranked #1 in multiple theology categories and boasting over 9,400 reviews with a 4.6-star average, this cult classic is essential reading for anyone seeking to engage with one of the most provocative debates of our time. ## Description The bestselling cult classic god Is Not Great is the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens demonstrates the ways in which religion is man-made, dangerously sexually repressive and distorts the very origins of the cosmos. Above all, Hitchens argues that the concept of an omniscient God has profoundly damaged humanity, and proposes that the world might be a great deal better off without 'him'. In god is Not Great Hitchens turned his formidable eloquence and rhetorical energy to the most controversial issue in the world: God and religion. The result is a devastating critique of religious faith Review: A Fantastic Review of the BAD in Religions - Christopher Hitchens died last year and until he died I had never heard of him. I read eulogies from his fellow journalists and then heard no more until last week when, by chance, I came across some video clips of Hitchens speaking about his views on religion and I found them fascinating. I then found that Hitchens had written a book, God is not Great: how religion poisons everything. I bought the book and have now read it. Firstly, I have only read a couple of chapters of Richard Dawkins The God Delusion and I have to say that Hitchens did a far better job than Dawkins. Religious people do not like God is not Great. Not because it tests their faith but because of what it reveals about what goes on in the name of religion. Hitchens tells us, almost in passing, that he has received death threats, nasty phone calls and threats of violence for holding his view that he believes that religions poison everything. Having been born and brought up in a country where freedom of speech is taken for granted, I wonder at who it could be that would so object to someone's views that they threaten murder. That's for their conscience! As for the book, it is entertainingly written and full of stories aimed at the three main monotheisms: Christianity, Jewry, Islam. He regales us with story after story of the things that clerics hiding under these three banners get up to and have got up to for millennia. Hitchens reveals a great number of sources too: he's not just letting off steam. I have to say that I read this book for the overview it provided and not to learn the deep and detailed information that Hitchens sometimes goes into: it's there if you want it, of course. I like Hitchens' style as it is keen, ascerbic, funny, witty, well sourced and contains many words that I had never come across before. At least it will improve your vocabulary. I have to say that another motivation for reading the book is that I arrived at a similar position to Hitchens vis a vis religion over the last two or three years having seen religious brainwashing and its consequences at first hand. No God will work in that way with those people: something else is most definitely going on and I could support these things no longer, having realised what was happening. I imagine there will be people who read this mini review and who might feel angry with me for having written it: well, that's for you to come to terms with. I am glad I read the book, I learned many things about religions that I did not previously know and Hitchens gives a message that we all ought to consider. You do not have to agree with him! What's wrong with the book? Well, Hitchens has a mission, to clarify why he thinks religions poison everything. He gives no time to the good that good people in religions often do. He does not attempt to redress any imbalances in his arguments at all in this respect. If he were alive to answer this point I am sure he would ask, why on earth should I? Overall, if you are deeply committed to your religion you might not want to read this book but I think you should suspend your faith, read it and then explore fully what Hitchens has to say. Don't dismiss this book with anger in your heart! If you give Hitchens a fair hearing and stick to your guns then fine. I recommend this book to everyone but if your English reading skills are weak, it will be difficult for you: Hitchens' English language skills are highly developed and he's writing for an educated audience. No offence to anyone, just a friendly warning! DW Review: Review: God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens - Review: God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens The title of the book did not appeal to me but Hitchens' reputation had already filtered down to me long before the time I began to read his books. I found Hitchens' style of writing easy and relaxed and to the point especially on a topic that is normally heavy and dull. Hitchens soon showed why the God of Moses, the God of Jesus, the God of the Jews and Christians (and Islam) is not great although most Jews and Christians (and Muslims) consider that their God who created the Universe as well as man must be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent which is in accordance with the stories in the Torah, the Bible and the Quran. But with the benefit of modern science, freedom of expression, and liberated concepts, Hitchens slowly dismantles the pillars of faith in his book. The religious misrepresentation of the origins of man and the cosmos is still maintained by fundamentalists (of all three Abrahamic faiths) who manage to keep the maximum of solipsism grounded on wishful thinking or some other convoluted reinterpretation of words. Fundamentalists will not concede that when religion was first conceived in the dark ages, the only source of information was derived from the limited knowledge of the clergy of religion, but as the light of knowledge appeared it was foolish to still use such a blind man as guide. But faith will still use the familiar guides of old for fear of upsetting the memes he was groomed with from childhood. The Abrahamic faiths as organised religion has a doctrine, and history of violent, irrational, intolerant tribalism and bigotry invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children, has a lot to answer for. The reality that religion and churches, temples, and mosques were manufactured by man is totally ignored in order to mystify the gullible ignorant people to accept some mystical ethereal figure that there is some supernatural power who controls their destiny. This ethereal figure painted as some omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent spiritual figure who created and rules over us, but strangely is never present when you need him most when disaster strikes, led to challenges whether he is actually omnipotent, or simply unwilling, or even a malevolent in his intent. This has led to the next logical conclusion: "The absence of evidence is the evidence of absence." It is a Must read for those with and those without faith. ............................................................................................................................................. As a tribute to this great author I would like to quote this from his wife, Carol Blue: CAROL BLUE: Yes. Freedom of speech was everything to Christopher. He believed in an absolute First Amendment. His voice, both written and spoken, was everything to him and he writes in the article that you referred to - or in the snippet that appears in Mortality - about the - how the spoken word and the written word dovetail and are kind of synergetic. And so it was very odd for this man with the most perfect voice who could command the attention of anyone, any time, anywhere suddenly sitting at the dinner table surrounded by children and relatives trying to cut into the conversation. It was very odd. Luckily, it didn't last for very long. His voice popped back in just as he was filing that Vanity Fair piece that became part of the essay of Mortality. ## Features - New Store Stock ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 4,869 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1 in Bible Criticism & Interpretation 1 in Philosophy of Theology 1 in Ethics & Moral Teaching in Christian Theology | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 9,414 Reviews | ## Images ![God Is Not Great: Christopher Hitchens - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7120EeJh8-L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Fantastic Review of the BAD in Religions *by D***N on 16 April 2012* Christopher Hitchens died last year and until he died I had never heard of him. I read eulogies from his fellow journalists and then heard no more until last week when, by chance, I came across some video clips of Hitchens speaking about his views on religion and I found them fascinating. I then found that Hitchens had written a book, God is not Great: how religion poisons everything. I bought the book and have now read it. Firstly, I have only read a couple of chapters of Richard Dawkins The God Delusion and I have to say that Hitchens did a far better job than Dawkins. Religious people do not like God is not Great. Not because it tests their faith but because of what it reveals about what goes on in the name of religion. Hitchens tells us, almost in passing, that he has received death threats, nasty phone calls and threats of violence for holding his view that he believes that religions poison everything. Having been born and brought up in a country where freedom of speech is taken for granted, I wonder at who it could be that would so object to someone's views that they threaten murder. That's for their conscience! As for the book, it is entertainingly written and full of stories aimed at the three main monotheisms: Christianity, Jewry, Islam. He regales us with story after story of the things that clerics hiding under these three banners get up to and have got up to for millennia. Hitchens reveals a great number of sources too: he's not just letting off steam. I have to say that I read this book for the overview it provided and not to learn the deep and detailed information that Hitchens sometimes goes into: it's there if you want it, of course. I like Hitchens' style as it is keen, ascerbic, funny, witty, well sourced and contains many words that I had never come across before. At least it will improve your vocabulary. I have to say that another motivation for reading the book is that I arrived at a similar position to Hitchens vis a vis religion over the last two or three years having seen religious brainwashing and its consequences at first hand. No God will work in that way with those people: something else is most definitely going on and I could support these things no longer, having realised what was happening. I imagine there will be people who read this mini review and who might feel angry with me for having written it: well, that's for you to come to terms with. I am glad I read the book, I learned many things about religions that I did not previously know and Hitchens gives a message that we all ought to consider. You do not have to agree with him! What's wrong with the book? Well, Hitchens has a mission, to clarify why he thinks religions poison everything. He gives no time to the good that good people in religions often do. He does not attempt to redress any imbalances in his arguments at all in this respect. If he were alive to answer this point I am sure he would ask, why on earth should I? Overall, if you are deeply committed to your religion you might not want to read this book but I think you should suspend your faith, read it and then explore fully what Hitchens has to say. Don't dismiss this book with anger in your heart! If you give Hitchens a fair hearing and stick to your guns then fine. I recommend this book to everyone but if your English reading skills are weak, it will be difficult for you: Hitchens' English language skills are highly developed and he's writing for an educated audience. No offence to anyone, just a friendly warning! DW ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review: God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens *by M***E on 11 February 2013* Review: God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens The title of the book did not appeal to me but Hitchens' reputation had already filtered down to me long before the time I began to read his books. I found Hitchens' style of writing easy and relaxed and to the point especially on a topic that is normally heavy and dull. Hitchens soon showed why the God of Moses, the God of Jesus, the God of the Jews and Christians (and Islam) is not great although most Jews and Christians (and Muslims) consider that their God who created the Universe as well as man must be omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent which is in accordance with the stories in the Torah, the Bible and the Quran. But with the benefit of modern science, freedom of expression, and liberated concepts, Hitchens slowly dismantles the pillars of faith in his book. The religious misrepresentation of the origins of man and the cosmos is still maintained by fundamentalists (of all three Abrahamic faiths) who manage to keep the maximum of solipsism grounded on wishful thinking or some other convoluted reinterpretation of words. Fundamentalists will not concede that when religion was first conceived in the dark ages, the only source of information was derived from the limited knowledge of the clergy of religion, but as the light of knowledge appeared it was foolish to still use such a blind man as guide. But faith will still use the familiar guides of old for fear of upsetting the memes he was groomed with from childhood. The Abrahamic faiths as organised religion has a doctrine, and history of violent, irrational, intolerant tribalism and bigotry invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children, has a lot to answer for. The reality that religion and churches, temples, and mosques were manufactured by man is totally ignored in order to mystify the gullible ignorant people to accept some mystical ethereal figure that there is some supernatural power who controls their destiny. This ethereal figure painted as some omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent spiritual figure who created and rules over us, but strangely is never present when you need him most when disaster strikes, led to challenges whether he is actually omnipotent, or simply unwilling, or even a malevolent in his intent. This has led to the next logical conclusion: "The absence of evidence is the evidence of absence." It is a Must read for those with and those without faith. ............................................................................................................................................. As a tribute to this great author I would like to quote this from his wife, Carol Blue: CAROL BLUE: Yes. Freedom of speech was everything to Christopher. He believed in an absolute First Amendment. His voice, both written and spoken, was everything to him and he writes in the article that you referred to - or in the snippet that appears in Mortality - about the - how the spoken word and the written word dovetail and are kind of synergetic. And so it was very odd for this man with the most perfect voice who could command the attention of anyone, any time, anywhere suddenly sitting at the dinner table surrounded by children and relatives trying to cut into the conversation. It was very odd. Luckily, it didn't last for very long. His voice popped back in just as he was filing that Vanity Fair piece that became part of the essay of Mortality. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Which religious belief is correct ? *by M***M on 28 September 2013* The book has impact. It's important. Thoughts refuse to stop reverberating after reading it - in that, it is powerful. If you follow one of the big three monotheistic religions (or indeed any of the numerous lesser ones whether mono- or polytheistic), there may be little point in reading this book, as Hitchens, an atheist logically, does not accept the constructs of Faith, or Belief. Instead, it is about Evidence, Proof, Science, Philosophy, Truth. It is about Education, not Indoctrination. It might make you think for a moment if you have an unshakeable belief, and it certainly will if you don't. There are upsetting accounts of the inhumane things done in the *name* of religion over the centuries. This says more about human behaviour, than about religion, and one can follow Hitchens' line of thought that religion must be man made. Perhaps a more balanced approach by Hitchens could have assessed the good output of religion, and where this has aided human development. For example, community/social aspects of religious organisation, a moral code. However, religion is not a pre-requisite for these things, the book argues. I would have liked Hitchens to question why religious belief is still so very strong, amongst very poorly educated peoples, but more interestingly, among those very highly educated, and explore the underlying reasons for this. A scientific approach might look into the way the human brain has evolved, as far as religion is to do with what goes on in the mind. I think that the book should have looked at why it's not a simple matter for a religious believer to abandon their belief - family, community, culture, esteem, belonging, all built on century-upon-century, in exchange for the offer from Atheism - all these things matter, regardless of whether a believer silently questions rules and regulations specified by limited minds hundreds or thousands of years ago, or even minds behind newer religions. Hitchens discusses the totalitarian aspects of some religions, and undoubtedly there is a grave threat to a free-thinking civilization and human advancement here. An exploration of religion being used as a political tool, for the retention and growth of a power base, would have been highly relevant. Some discussion that, there is perhaps something special that puts homo-sapiens completely apart from other animals - is that all down to evolution? Along with this an exploration of how we are limited by our senses - what is beyond these senses that we cannot connect with ? With the tools we have, we can't dismiss the idea of something greater and purposeful beyond ourselves. Finally, I'd have liked a discussion on why religion cannot explain the reason why an omnipotent, omnipresent deity, allows indiscriminate human suffering on a vast scale, to continue with no end in sight. I for one would be very happy if such a being did intervene to stop humans killing or doing very bad things to each other - children suffering in wars is really especially bad (e.g in Syria right now) - it just does not make any sense that a benevolent and powerful being can allow this, even if the suffering is negated in some after-life; in other words a discussion on the philosophical 'problem of evil'. A God that can look into the eyes of a child that is suffering and say, 'sorry, but I have my reasons' ........ It loses a star in my view for these omissions that would in my mind have made the book more complete, but nevertheless I'm glad to have read it. ## Frequently Bought Together - God Is Not Great - God Delusion, The (L) (10th Anniv Edit) - The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/228644517-god-is-not-great-christopher-hitchens](https://www.desertcart.com.sa/products/228644517-god-is-not-great-christopher-hitchens) --- *Product available on Desertcart Saudi Arabia* *Store origin: SA* *Last updated: 2026-08-04*