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Houghton Mifflin
September 2006
On Sale: September 1, 2006
416 pages
ISBN: 0618680004
EAN: 9780618680009
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Non-Fiction Religion
Discover magazine recently called Richard
Dawkins "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective
defense of evolution. Prospect magazine voted him among
the top three public intellectuals in the world (along
with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his
considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty
logic and the suffering it causes. He critiques God in all
his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old
Testament to the more benign (but still illogical)
Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment
thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion
and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme
being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry,
and abuses children, buttressing his points with
historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he
makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just
irrational, but potentially deadly. Dawkins has fashioned
an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be
embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and
cruelties that riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity
of "intelligent design," or agonizes over fundamentalism
in the Middle East—or Middle America.
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