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Abstract
There are no punches pulled in this book by Dawkins, who is an eminent Oxford scholar and avowed atheist, as evidenced in the second chapter called "The God Hypothesis": "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all offiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully." It is simply logical, as far as Dawkins ruminates, to be an atheist: An atheist . . . is somebody who believes there is nothing beyond the natural, physical world, no supernatural creative intelligence lurking behind the observable universe, no soul that outlasts the body and no miracles . . . Just as Ludwig Feuerbach in the nineteenth century argued the atheist's point of view, Dawkins has provided an intelligent argument throughout his book against various religious positions.