Floodlights
The world has run amuck, religion gets away with bloody murder, and more than ever we need the consolations of rational thinking. Reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, is like flicking on a light switch in your brain—there’s a series of pops as the stadium floodlights come on, wiping out the darkness in which you’ve been living. If you are incensed at how powerful lobbies attempt to bring creationism back by repackaging it as “intelligent design”, read this book. If you are sick of being bullied by evangelists and fundamentalists bludgeoning the hordes with their ignorance, read this book. If you feel compelled to feign belief in things that have always struck you as illogical and more than slightly silly, read this book. If you’re afraid to announce what you really think because you’re afraid to be isolated, read this book. If you can’t buy it or find it, I’ll lend it to you. No, wait, I just remembered all the books I had that were never returned. But read this book.