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    <![CDATA[The God Delusion]]>
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    <![CDATA[Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins &quot;Darwin's Rottweiler&quot; 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 &quot;intelligent design,&quot; or agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East&#8212;or Middle America.]]>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone, but particularly Christians and Muslims]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 20 14:06:11 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, this settles it once and for all.  There is no God.  Which turns out to be a good thing, considering the God most Americans believe in is a crazy, vengeful, ego-maniacal monster.  Dawkins’ insights are so cunning and profound you can’t help feeling embarrassed for the believer.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6720641">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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