The Rationale Quest - Philosophy and Religion latent state challenged in global economic arena

The book is chock-full of loaded terms like "pathetic," "baseless" and "awful." Hitchens refuses to capitalize the word "God," even when it's a proper noun. For some reason, he gets a kick out of labeling those he dislikes "mammals," or redundantly, "human mammals." Religion comes from the "infancy of our species." In short, he insults the religious too much to ever convert them, settling for ginning up his relatively small base of unbelievers. That's not too much of a loss, though, as his case isn't that convincing. He starts with the thesis that religion is evil, then finds all the evidence he can for it, rather than weighing competing bits of evidence against each other. He ignores or dismisses ideas he doesn't like.