The God Dolusion, by Richard Dawkins
Narrator: Richard Dawkins and Lalla Ward
Discover magazine recently called Richard Dawkins “Darwin’s Rottweiler” for
his fierce and effective defense of evolution.
Prospect magazine voted him among the top three public intellectuals in the
world (along with Umberto Eco and Noam Chomsky). Now Dawkins turns his
considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the
suffering it causes. He critiques God in all his forms, from the
sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still
illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He
eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme
improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments
bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and
contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief
in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.
Dawkins has fashioned an impassioned, rigorous rebuttal to religion, to be
embraced by anyone who sputters at the inconsistencies and cruelties that
riddle the Bible, bristles at the inanity of “intelligent design”, or
agonizes over fundamentalism in the Middle East or Middle America.
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