This book needed an editor. The long, breathless essays were tiresome. Early in the book, he waxes poetic about the mobius strip calling it an Escher creation. What? He is always dropping names of politicians and their associations with "the family". Who would have guessed that some politicians are fundamentalist christians? He acts so suprised that fundamentalist christians get together to influence government. He seems to see a conspiracy behind ever tree. It would be like saying the jews controlled the diamond industry because so many diamond cutters are jewish. If this book were written about jews, people would have called it outrageous. I tend to be anit-religion but this book just didn't cut it for me because it was so blantantly partisan. Had a hard time finishing this book.