It took me some time to decide how to rate this work. It is well written, engaging, and explains well the concepts it is trying to explain. It's only technical detraction being that it does sidetrack often. In these respects I would give it 4 or 4.5 stars.

Now that being said the subject and premises of the book I would give only a 1 star. The entire basis of the work is that strain of thought that seems so common in religious thinkers, the belief that in order to hold their creator in high regard they must hold creation in a low one. Not a paragraph goes by in which the author does not remind the reader that all of existence and all things which god has wrought are evil, detestable, repugnant. Intermixed in are advice on loving god that could come from a manual on gaslighting people into abusive relationships, at one point even admonishing people for being in good health because they obviously aren't praying hard enough if their health hasn't suffered for it.

Because I could not decide which rating to use I decided to give a 3 star average.