This book may as well be called ‘How Atheism Screwed Up The World’. The time it would take to comb through the author’s own biases and logical fallacies is almost incalculable. At the root of every argument in this book is the idea that if you don’t believe in God there’s no way you can have any sense of morality since there is no supreme being to hold you accountable for your actions, in this life or the next. It confounds me that even as he describes religion as having the ability to control our behavior, and that for some people that’s the only thing keeping them from being raping, murderous assholes, that he can’t comprehend that religion is a human/social construct in itself to control others. No one can truly know what is the ‘one, true religion’, but in my opinion if there was a one, true religion then god would not make it so difficult to discern.

The whole time I’m listening to the audio book though I’m thinking to myself, what is a workable alternative in the author’s point of view? To live in a theocracy? Does he comprehend even the evils that religion has unleashed upon the world in its name over the course of history? It was no surprise to me that in the afterward he makes a call for us to turn to God for answers and to forsake science and technology as inherently evil.

To be clear, I’m not just giving this book 1 star because I disagree with the author. There are some good points here and there, but overall this book is a massive contradiction. He makes the claim that some of these authors merely wrote their books on the topics of their choosing to further whatever personal ideology they adhered to - is he not doing the same? The self-righteous attitude that’s prevalent throughout this whole book is nauseating, especially when it’s clear that he can’t comprehend other interpretations of these works or history itself as being valid, since his is the one, true interpretation.