Topping the nonfiction lists at present is Oxford Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion. Dawkins is up front about the purpose of his book: "If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down". The marketing team should have considered a warning label!

More than anything, The God Delusion is concerned with the psychological damage that religious belief can cause. It presents as a self-help book for those who wish to escape their religious upbringing and enter into the ‘freedom’ of unbelief. Dawkins is serious about developing a ‘church’ for atheists; he provides an appendix of organizations around the world to which apostates can turn for support.

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