I wish I could give this book a 3.5 star rating. The story was nice and detailed and gave some interesting arguments about the origins of religious organizations. However, some of the writing seemed long and full of abundance that didn't need to be there. The book was 525 pages and felt that it could have lost around 100 pages and still be a good read.

My other problem was the total deconstruction of faith without the equal strength argument for faith. Even though there were circumstances and events that bring the "faith" argument to light, the majority of the book is built upon the "scientific" argument and diatribe against the lunacy of "spiritual" belief. While the story is enhanced by the "mad" manner of belief taken too far ... the book slams one belief repeatedly over the head of the reader.

Overall the story is a decent story. And even though it was a hefty page reader for a summer day it went by pretty fast.