THE GOD DELUSION by Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins was recently voted one of the world's top three intellectuals (alongside Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky) by Prospect Magazine. As the author of many classic works on science and philosophy, he has always asserted the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm it has inflicted on society. He now focuses his fierce intellect exclusively on this subject, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes.

While Europe is becoming increasingly secular, the rise of religious fundamentalism, whether in the Middle East or Middle America, is dramatically and dangerously dividing opinion around the world. In America, Australia and elsewhere, a dispute is being drummed up by propagandists for 'intellectual design' against Darwinism, which is seriously undermining and restricting the teaching of science. Medieval religious dogma still serves to abuse basic human rights. Dawkins shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry and abuses children. And all for a God whose existence lacks evidence of any kind.

He presents a hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types and does so in the lucid, witty and powerful language for which he is renowned.

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