The Athiests Bible

Hitchens lays a solid foundation to bolster the stunning title of this tome, that will make find its place along Voltaire and Camus as a must read for every serious skeptic and thinker.

I received this book as a "Christmas" gift - I'll let that irony sit with you for a bit! I'd seen the author on C-Span and read his articles on Slate - while I wasn't a huge fan, I did recognize that he has an authoritative sophists voice - whether you fully agree with his concepts, he's certainly an enjoyable writer to listen/read.

If you can get through this one with out becoming uncomfortable (and having the dictionary handy) you're not reading it thoroughly enough. Hitchens does a yoeman's job of carefully setting up his own tortured history of being indoctrinated into religion, and slowly coming to the realization that not only is religion nonsensical, contradictory, warlike, unredemptive - but also the biggest threat to the existence of mankind.

Through open the curtains of your mind, and delve into this one. I'm on my second read through, and while I counted myself among those who politely attended middle of the road religous services, celebrated with amusement the cultural religous holidays, and took the wilder claims by zealots w/a grain of salt; i'm now steadfast against passing on this broken fallicy to future saps.