At times, he seems more interested in what can be called a “controlled rant” and may even seem long-winded. He often references previous works of his and others’ repeatedly, making me wonder often throughout the book if I could simply read a more concise version of the same premises with these other pieces. However, his avid citations provide the reader with an immense database of further reading and a great starting point for anybody interested in getting involved politically against (or getting un-involved domestically, as the case may be) religious organizations.

Often Atheists are defensive about their beliefs in the face of a fiendishly numerically-superior enemy, but Dawkins takes this opportunity to go on the offensive. Not only does he say “leave us alone” to the religious institutions of the world as is the average unbeliever’s approach, he goes a step farther to say “you are wrong, you are hurting people every day, and it is YOU that should be abolished”.

Although the book was a great reaffirmation for me that not believing what the people around me tell me is not only okay, but that questioning is actually a duty, I think Dawkins could have been more concise in many of his points. His militant assault on the religious is at times jarring to one’s sense of idealogical freedom, but when I stop to think about the extent to which idealogical freedom has been granted to nonbelievers by  centuries of religious leadership and sentiment, I believe that Dawkins words are quite mercifully composed. Dawkins’s convicted book will be a great addition to the thinker’s library.