God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Content: Putting it mildly --
Religion kills --
A short digression on the pig
 or, Why Heaven hates ham --
A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous --
The metaphysical claims of religion are false --
Arguments from design --
Revelation: the nightmare of the "Old" Testament --
The "New" Testament exceeds the evil of the "Old" one --
The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths --
The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell --
"The lowly stamp of their origin": religion's corrupt beginnings --
A coda: how religions end --
Does religion make people behave better? --
There is no "Eastern" solution --
Religion as an original sin --
Is religion child abuse? --
An objection anticipated: the last-ditch "case" against secularism --
A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational --
In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment.