Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists /by Dan Barker and Richard Dawkins. It isn’t difficult to work out that religious fundamentalists are deluded those people who think the entire universe began after the agricultural revolution people who believe literally that a snake, presumably in fluent Hebrew, beguiled into sin a man fashioned from clay and a woman grown from him as a cutting: people who find it self evident that the origin myth that happened to dominate their own childhood trumps the thousands of alternative myths sprung from all the dreamtimes of the world. It is one thing to know that these faith-heads are wrong. My mistake has been naively to think I can remove their delusion simply by talking to them in a quiet, sensible voice and laying out the evidence, clear for all to see.
