A broad critique of the negative role that religion has played in influencing human culture historically along with an updated look at its conflict with the atheist ethos. This goes hand in hand with a personal reflection on why the author became a non-believer.

• Acknowledgements
• Chilli con catharsis
• A god in hiding
• The uninspired desert scribes
• Creation fiction vs. evolution fact
• Incompetent designer
• A lion, a mouse and a metaphorical apple1
• The Jesus deception
• Complete Moroni
• Praying for miraculous coincidences
• Infamous atheists, allegedly
• Unholy history
• Ten things I hate about you
• No faith in our children
• Soul traders
• God’s favourite slaves
• ‘You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours’
• One trick pony
• ‘I believe because…’
• Defending the evidently obvious
• A dragon slayer’s rearguard action