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Hitchcock's abrasive and condescending approach to showing the absurdity of all religions and their shared notion of a god or gods is unlikely to convince readers who do not already share his views. While writing in the vein of such recent bestselling proponents as Christopher Hitchens, this author lacks their intellectual finesse. The text is most effective in revealing the anti-intellectualism, contradictions, inconsistencies and hypocrisies inherent in the dogma and sacred texts of major world religions, citing examples from the Old and New Testaments and the Koran to advance his arguments. He undermines his credible assertion that the indoctrination of children is an important tool of religion, however, by outrageously equating it with child abuse. While conceding that not...all religions are equally harmful, he insists that religion does irreparable harm to almost everything and that church organizations are parasitic and add nothing to a community. The indelible role of religious faith in motivating such humanitarians as Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa negates these arguments. This belligerent tract is unlikely to win over converts and will disappoint readers seeking information about atheism. (Nonfiction. YA) (Kirkus Reviews)

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S. C. Hitchcock has won a national award from the Society of Professional Journalists, was published in a journal by the National Council for Social Studies, and his fiction has been published in small literary magazines. He lives in the Midwest.Tom Flynn is the editor of Free Inquiry magazine, director of the Center for Inquiry, founding coeditor of Secular Humanist Bulletin, director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum, and coauthor of The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief. He lives in Amherst, New York.

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