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With over 400 pages of compelling arguments and insights, this global bestseller has sparked conversations and debates worldwide. ## Description A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11. With rigor and wit, Dawkins examines God in all his forms, from the sex-obsessed tyrant of the Old Testament to the more benign (but still illogical) Celestial Watchmaker favored by some Enlightenment thinkers. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. The God Delusion makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just wrong but potentially deadly. It also offers exhilarating insight into the advantages of atheism to the individual and society, not the least of which is a clearer, truer appreciation of the universe's wonders than any faith could ever muster. Review: Influential Book on an Important Topic - The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" is the book that raised consciousness about the "God" question. It takes a critical look at the belief of God and espouses a superior way of viewing the world. This book has inspired countless other books of this ilk and in many respects provided the inspiration for many people to "come out". The book holds up quite well after a third reading, biologist, best-selling author and icon of the atheist movement, Richard Dawkins takes the reader on a journey into the most fascinating topic of them all, religion. This captivating 464-page book is composed of the following ten chapters: 1. A Deeply Religious Non-Believer, 2. The God Hypothesis, 3. Arguments for God's Existence, 4. Why There Are Almost Certainly No God, 5. The Roots of Religion, 6. The Roots of Morality: Why are we Good?, 7. The `Good' Book and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist, 8. What's Wrong with Religion? Why be so Hostile? 9. Childhood, Abuse and the Escape from Religion, and 10. A Much Needed Gap? Positives: 1. An influential book that inspired an intellectual movement. 2. The most interesting topic, religion, in the hands of a great, passionate thinker. 3. A thought-provoking book written with panache. 4. A book that focuses on raising consciousness on the "God" question, mission accomplished. 5. This book is a quote fest, "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." 6. A look at the many views of `God', "Of course, like any other word, the word `God' can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that `God' is energy,' then you can find God in a lump of coal." 7. The author does a wonderful job of defining important terms. 8. Debunking misconceptions. Take Einstein for instance, "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever." 9. The author does a wonderful job of supporting his arguments with case studies and sound logic. 10. The religious views of the Founding Fathers in perspective. Interesting stuff! 11. The spectrum of religious belief. 12. A look at prayer, "to pray: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessed unworthy." The prayer case study. 13. A couple of chapters are dedicated to the most popular arguments for God's existence. 14. Natural selection as a conscious raiser. "Natural selection not only explains the whole of life; it also raises our consciousness to the power of science to explain how organized complexity can emerge from simple beginnings without any deliberate guidance." 15. Ideas of where religion came from. Many interesting ideas on why people are vulnerable to the charms of religion. Dawkins' specific hypothesis relates to the indoctrination of children. A partial list of religious memes. 16. The roots of morality. The four good Darwinian reasons for individuals to be moral. 17. A great chapter on why people who claim to derive their morals from scripture do not really do so in practice. Biblical examples that illustrate that, "we don't get our morals from scripture." Dawkins takes off his gloves. 18. Debunking the notion that atheism is behind bad behaviour. "What matters is not whether Hitler and Stalin were atheists but whether atheism systematically influences people to do bad things. There is not the smallest evidence that it does." 19. The effects of religion, "one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding." "As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect." 20. The dangers of indoctrination of children into religion. "Children should be taught not so much what to think as how to think." 21. I enjoyed reading the list of Bible-inspired phrases. 22. Debunks the notion of the necessity for a god. "Religion's power to console doesn't make it true". 23. An excellent appendix that provides resources for people trying to escape from religion. 24. Books cited. Negatives: 1. No links for Kindle. 2. Dawkins is unable to answer some questions in which I believe there are plausible answers. To the question of why religion has flourished in America, I would contend that the separation of Church and State has in combination with financial benefits (tax-free) and the open-market system has contributed greatly. In summary, I read this book years ago when it first came out and I must say it inspired me. I always felt that for the truth to have any value it would have to correspond to reality but never really had the courage to espouse my views openly. Thanks to people like the late Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris I was able to not only obtain the courage but the clarity of thought to be comfortable enough to be comfortable in my own skin. Is this book the best book out there on this topic? No. Is it the most theologically strident book? Hardly. Is it the most comprehensive book on the topic? Once again, no, but it may be the most important book on the topic because it caused an intellectual movement that is here to stay. Highly recommended! Further suggestions: " Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity " and " The End of Christianity " by John Loftus, " Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism " and "Why I'm Not a Christian" by Richard Carrier, " Natural Atheism " and " Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of a Freethinker " by Dr. David Eller, " Man Made God: A Collection of Essays " by Barbara G. Walker, " The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values " by Sam Harris, "The World Is Not as We Think It Is" by Dennis Littrell, " Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization " by Stephen Cave, , " God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist " by Victor J. Stenger, " Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists " by Dan Barker, "Christian No More: On Leaving Christianity, Debunking Christianity, And Embracing Atheism And Freethinking" by Jeffrey Mark, and "The Invention of God" by Bill Lauritzen. Review: Not-so-gentle persuasion from a determined scientist - Anyone who has read Prof. Dawkins knows that he is concise and articulate, but there is more to say about his extraordinary writing skill. He consistently succeeds in adding uniquely fresh and inventive touches to nearly any subject, from the most esoteric to the most mundane. This extra quality is sufficient to place "The God Delusion" pretty much in a class by itself among works aimed at helping the general reader understand how normal scientific progress has, over time, inexorably revealed fatal weaknesses in virtually all religious claims which specify some sort of observable effects or outcomes. Prominent among those claims, of course, are the ones establishing a class of supernatural creators and supervisors affectionately known as "gods." In the book's initial 160 pages, Dawkins builds a devastating case against the existence of any kind of personal, interactive, creator god. Enormous consequences ride on this case because the world's three "great" monotheistic religions have always, despite their occasionally murderous disagreements, had the same ultrapersonal god (Yahweh/Allah) in mind. In Judaism, Yahweh is the undisputed main man. Although Christianity is centered on the kinder and gentler persona of Jesus, loss of confidence in the father's existence would also extinguish the sole source of the son's divinity. The core principles of Islam make it perfectly clear that Muhammad completes the line of prophets from Abraham through Moses to Jesus, so Muslims are, regardless of any delusions of independence, firmly welded by their own doctrine to the Old Testament deity. Such admirable unity among billions of big-three believers makes Yahweh/Allah an exceptionally large and well-delineated target for rational analysis. Regarding Y/A's character, chances are Dawkins' frank appraisal of him as a "...megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully" will ring true to every thoughtful person who has read the Bible without spin from an "interpreter." Dawkins doesn't ignore the classic philosophical "proofs" of god's existence; in fact he devotes all of Chapter 3 to their strengths and weaknesses. But his main thesis, delivered in Chapter 4, is pragmatic and firmly grounded in science. The author picks two potent and practical grenades to toss at the glass houses in which personal gods so precariously dwell. First, the Judeo-Christian-Islamic god suffers severely from a simple lack of evidence because a) events and conditions in the observable world do not suggest the presence of an omniscient, all-powerful overseer, and b) the consistently successful explanations and predictions of modern cosmology and evolutionary biology reveal no scientifically credible requirement for any kind of conscious, sentient creator/designer. The second grenade contains a challenge to the very idea that calling up supreme beings serves any logically valid purpose, or (as a lawyer might put it) has any probative value in solving the mysteries of the universe and our place in it. Here Dawkins evokes an ingenious and powerful metaphor -- god as the "ultimate Boeing 747." To set the stage, he cites British astronomer Fred Hoyle's attempt to refute evolution by charging that the prospect of living things being formed by random processes is as unlikely as a hurricane sweeping through a junkyard and fortuitously assembling a jetliner. (Hoyle's misunderstanding here seems monumental, since evolution teaches the GRADUAL accumulation of small, initially random changes in germ cell genomes via the decidedly NON-RANDOM process of natural selection.) The author then picks up Hoyle's logically misdirected cudgel and, this time with valid premises, swings it back at the defenders of supernatural design. Dawkins' point is that if creationists can't explain where the designer came from and how it acquired its abilities (which do, after all, massively interact with the natural world), then their god is even more far fetched and intellectually useless than Hoyle's accidentally blown-together airplane. The author rightly charges that preferential coddling of religion is neither justifiable nor beneficial to society -- in fact quite the opposite. In no way does he advocate censoring beliefs, but instead supports the reasonable view that supernatural claims belong on the level playing field where all other ideas, including scientific ones, fairly compete. Related to this issue are the sometimes unhelpful contributions of scientists themselves. For example, in Chapter 2 Dawkins explains how the NOMA (Non-Overlapping Magisteria) slogan, coined by paleontologist Steven Jay Gould, has been used to promote the dubious notion that some sort of uncrossable barrier divides science from religion. In the interest of avoiding controversy (and preserving grants?), NOMA enthusiasts somehow manage to ignore the constant stream of readily checkable claims emanating from religious sources. When someone confidently claims the Earth is only a few thousand years old, or prayer works, or guilt transfers across generations, or the Bible originated morality, or evolution fails to account for the full variety of living things, Dawkins asks us to remember that the resources and methods of science can and should be used routinely to help decide whether such assertions are credible. Dawkins' discussion of the changing moral zeitgeist (Chapter 7) is particularly interesting and, I believe, significant. "Zeitgeist" is a German term meaning "spirit of the times," an index of people's collective attitudes through history. In addition to many depressing examples of morally brain-dead attitudes in the Bible, Dawkins provides striking reminders of how recently our current views on such issues as universal suffrage and racial equality were formed. He supports his case with some absolutely appalling quotes from T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog"), Abraham Lincoln and H.G. Wells. On the other hand, the positive side of zeitgeist drift is the rapidity with which social attitudes can change for the better when, after long stagnation, a tipping point is finally reached. A prime example is the drastic rejection of smoking which is happening today in response to overwhelming medical evidence. Perhaps it is not futile to hope that the words of Prof. Dawkins and many other voices of reason are, even now, stirring the wave of understanding which will eventually free billions of basically kind and intelligent people from the tragically false and harmful grip of supernatural pipe dreams. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #18,170 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #4 in Atheism (Books) #21 in Religion & Philosophy (Books) #32 in History & Philosophy of Science (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,139 Reviews | ## Images ![The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61WThQjTzPL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Influential Book on an Important Topic *by B***K on April 3, 2013* The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins "The God Delusion" is the book that raised consciousness about the "God" question. It takes a critical look at the belief of God and espouses a superior way of viewing the world. This book has inspired countless other books of this ilk and in many respects provided the inspiration for many people to "come out". The book holds up quite well after a third reading, biologist, best-selling author and icon of the atheist movement, Richard Dawkins takes the reader on a journey into the most fascinating topic of them all, religion. This captivating 464-page book is composed of the following ten chapters: 1. A Deeply Religious Non-Believer, 2. The God Hypothesis, 3. Arguments for God's Existence, 4. Why There Are Almost Certainly No God, 5. The Roots of Religion, 6. The Roots of Morality: Why are we Good?, 7. The `Good' Book and the Changing Moral Zeitgeist, 8. What's Wrong with Religion? Why be so Hostile? 9. Childhood, Abuse and the Escape from Religion, and 10. A Much Needed Gap? Positives: 1. An influential book that inspired an intellectual movement. 2. The most interesting topic, religion, in the hands of a great, passionate thinker. 3. A thought-provoking book written with panache. 4. A book that focuses on raising consciousness on the "God" question, mission accomplished. 5. This book is a quote fest, "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion." 6. A look at the many views of `God', "Of course, like any other word, the word `God' can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that `God' is energy,' then you can find God in a lump of coal." 7. The author does a wonderful job of defining important terms. 8. Debunking misconceptions. Take Einstein for instance, "I am a deeply religious nonbeliever." 9. The author does a wonderful job of supporting his arguments with case studies and sound logic. 10. The religious views of the Founding Fathers in perspective. Interesting stuff! 11. The spectrum of religious belief. 12. A look at prayer, "to pray: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessed unworthy." The prayer case study. 13. A couple of chapters are dedicated to the most popular arguments for God's existence. 14. Natural selection as a conscious raiser. "Natural selection not only explains the whole of life; it also raises our consciousness to the power of science to explain how organized complexity can emerge from simple beginnings without any deliberate guidance." 15. Ideas of where religion came from. Many interesting ideas on why people are vulnerable to the charms of religion. Dawkins' specific hypothesis relates to the indoctrination of children. A partial list of religious memes. 16. The roots of morality. The four good Darwinian reasons for individuals to be moral. 17. A great chapter on why people who claim to derive their morals from scripture do not really do so in practice. Biblical examples that illustrate that, "we don't get our morals from scripture." Dawkins takes off his gloves. 18. Debunking the notion that atheism is behind bad behaviour. "What matters is not whether Hitler and Stalin were atheists but whether atheism systematically influences people to do bad things. There is not the smallest evidence that it does." 19. The effects of religion, "one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding." "As a scientist, I am hostile to fundamentalist religion because it actively debauches the scientific enterprise. It teaches us not to change our minds, and not to want to know exciting things that are available to be known. It subverts science and saps the intellect." 20. The dangers of indoctrination of children into religion. "Children should be taught not so much what to think as how to think." 21. I enjoyed reading the list of Bible-inspired phrases. 22. Debunks the notion of the necessity for a god. "Religion's power to console doesn't make it true". 23. An excellent appendix that provides resources for people trying to escape from religion. 24. Books cited. Negatives: 1. No links for Kindle. 2. Dawkins is unable to answer some questions in which I believe there are plausible answers. To the question of why religion has flourished in America, I would contend that the separation of Church and State has in combination with financial benefits (tax-free) and the open-market system has contributed greatly. In summary, I read this book years ago when it first came out and I must say it inspired me. I always felt that for the truth to have any value it would have to correspond to reality but never really had the courage to espouse my views openly. Thanks to people like the late Hitchens, Dawkins and Harris I was able to not only obtain the courage but the clarity of thought to be comfortable enough to be comfortable in my own skin. Is this book the best book out there on this topic? No. Is it the most theologically strident book? Hardly. Is it the most comprehensive book on the topic? Once again, no, but it may be the most important book on the topic because it caused an intellectual movement that is here to stay. Highly recommended! Further suggestions: " Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity " and " The End of Christianity " by John Loftus, " Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism " and "Why I'm Not a Christian" by Richard Carrier, " Natural Atheism " and " Atheism Advanced: Further Thoughts of a Freethinker " by Dr. David Eller, " Man Made God: A Collection of Essays " by Barbara G. Walker, " The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values " by Sam Harris, "The World Is Not as We Think It Is" by Dennis Littrell, " Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Civilization " by Stephen Cave, , " God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist " by Victor J. Stenger, " Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists " by Dan Barker, "Christian No More: On Leaving Christianity, Debunking Christianity, And Embracing Atheism And Freethinking" by Jeffrey Mark, and "The Invention of God" by Bill Lauritzen. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Not-so-gentle persuasion from a determined scientist *by J***S on May 20, 2007* Anyone who has read Prof. Dawkins knows that he is concise and articulate, but there is more to say about his extraordinary writing skill. He consistently succeeds in adding uniquely fresh and inventive touches to nearly any subject, from the most esoteric to the most mundane. This extra quality is sufficient to place "The God Delusion" pretty much in a class by itself among works aimed at helping the general reader understand how normal scientific progress has, over time, inexorably revealed fatal weaknesses in virtually all religious claims which specify some sort of observable effects or outcomes. Prominent among those claims, of course, are the ones establishing a class of supernatural creators and supervisors affectionately known as "gods." In the book's initial 160 pages, Dawkins builds a devastating case against the existence of any kind of personal, interactive, creator god. Enormous consequences ride on this case because the world's three "great" monotheistic religions have always, despite their occasionally murderous disagreements, had the same ultrapersonal god (Yahweh/Allah) in mind. In Judaism, Yahweh is the undisputed main man. Although Christianity is centered on the kinder and gentler persona of Jesus, loss of confidence in the father's existence would also extinguish the sole source of the son's divinity. The core principles of Islam make it perfectly clear that Muhammad completes the line of prophets from Abraham through Moses to Jesus, so Muslims are, regardless of any delusions of independence, firmly welded by their own doctrine to the Old Testament deity. Such admirable unity among billions of big-three believers makes Yahweh/Allah an exceptionally large and well-delineated target for rational analysis. Regarding Y/A's character, chances are Dawkins' frank appraisal of him as a "...megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully" will ring true to every thoughtful person who has read the Bible without spin from an "interpreter." Dawkins doesn't ignore the classic philosophical "proofs" of god's existence; in fact he devotes all of Chapter 3 to their strengths and weaknesses. But his main thesis, delivered in Chapter 4, is pragmatic and firmly grounded in science. The author picks two potent and practical grenades to toss at the glass houses in which personal gods so precariously dwell. First, the Judeo-Christian-Islamic god suffers severely from a simple lack of evidence because a) events and conditions in the observable world do not suggest the presence of an omniscient, all-powerful overseer, and b) the consistently successful explanations and predictions of modern cosmology and evolutionary biology reveal no scientifically credible requirement for any kind of conscious, sentient creator/designer. The second grenade contains a challenge to the very idea that calling up supreme beings serves any logically valid purpose, or (as a lawyer might put it) has any probative value in solving the mysteries of the universe and our place in it. Here Dawkins evokes an ingenious and powerful metaphor -- god as the "ultimate Boeing 747." To set the stage, he cites British astronomer Fred Hoyle's attempt to refute evolution by charging that the prospect of living things being formed by random processes is as unlikely as a hurricane sweeping through a junkyard and fortuitously assembling a jetliner. (Hoyle's misunderstanding here seems monumental, since evolution teaches the GRADUAL accumulation of small, initially random changes in germ cell genomes via the decidedly NON-RANDOM process of natural selection.) The author then picks up Hoyle's logically misdirected cudgel and, this time with valid premises, swings it back at the defenders of supernatural design. Dawkins' point is that if creationists can't explain where the designer came from and how it acquired its abilities (which do, after all, massively interact with the natural world), then their god is even more far fetched and intellectually useless than Hoyle's accidentally blown-together airplane. The author rightly charges that preferential coddling of religion is neither justifiable nor beneficial to society -- in fact quite the opposite. In no way does he advocate censoring beliefs, but instead supports the reasonable view that supernatural claims belong on the level playing field where all other ideas, including scientific ones, fairly compete. Related to this issue are the sometimes unhelpful contributions of scientists themselves. For example, in Chapter 2 Dawkins explains how the NOMA (Non-Overlapping Magisteria) slogan, coined by paleontologist Steven Jay Gould, has been used to promote the dubious notion that some sort of uncrossable barrier divides science from religion. In the interest of avoiding controversy (and preserving grants?), NOMA enthusiasts somehow manage to ignore the constant stream of readily checkable claims emanating from religious sources. When someone confidently claims the Earth is only a few thousand years old, or prayer works, or guilt transfers across generations, or the Bible originated morality, or evolution fails to account for the full variety of living things, Dawkins asks us to remember that the resources and methods of science can and should be used routinely to help decide whether such assertions are credible. Dawkins' discussion of the changing moral zeitgeist (Chapter 7) is particularly interesting and, I believe, significant. "Zeitgeist" is a German term meaning "spirit of the times," an index of people's collective attitudes through history. In addition to many depressing examples of morally brain-dead attitudes in the Bible, Dawkins provides striking reminders of how recently our current views on such issues as universal suffrage and racial equality were formed. He supports his case with some absolutely appalling quotes from T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog"), Abraham Lincoln and H.G. Wells. On the other hand, the positive side of zeitgeist drift is the rapidity with which social attitudes can change for the better when, after long stagnation, a tipping point is finally reached. A prime example is the drastic rejection of smoking which is happening today in response to overwhelming medical evidence. Perhaps it is not futile to hope that the words of Prof. Dawkins and many other voices of reason are, even now, stirring the wave of understanding which will eventually free billions of basically kind and intelligent people from the tragically false and harmful grip of supernatural pipe dreams. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Good Read For Serious Thinkers - Faithless And Faithful Alike *by T***S on July 13, 2026* The New Atheist movement that influenced the course of early 2000s that made many atheists, and its "Four Horsemen" should be well known to many of you. I have no desire to hash out the arguments made in this book or any of its peers about the existence nor absence of the divine. I will attest that this book along with many of the other Horsemen books made sound arguments against religions, the supernature or other beliefs not supported empirically. With that said, I am no atheist, and I believe that even "believers" or the "curious" should be well versed in the criticism against faith as all serious thinkers - even ones who believes in Aquinas, Augustine, Ibn Al-Haitham, Maimonides or the Buddha will be edified knowing where their weaknesses are. For it is far more intellectually honest to admit faith is indeed believing in the unreasonable, unprovable than the vain and often intellectually laughable stances provided by half-logic, circular reasoning or science denial provided by apologists of faiths. This book is a 4 star and not 5 because the book made a compelling argument against faith, and though it is not the goal of this book it should truly provide a sound, intellectually honest, and emotionally compelling for an alternative especially if the goal is to "convert"? Given the tone of the book, the veracity of its attacks, and the ruthlessness of its dismantling of "God" it seems to be the goal was to convert. Non-Belief is a by-definition "negative" belief - that is a stance for the absence of, not the "positive" assertion of something. The Horsemen's decades long crusade against faith has thus far failed and religion has been recovering precisely because non-belief provides no philosophical, sociological grounding required for the healthy mind to exist. Whether it is humanism, pessimism, nihilism, or whatever-isms required for a mind to exist, it is evident by the revival of not only religion but traditional religions like Catholicism & Orthodoxy that the human mind needs philosophical grounding. And this weakness is shared by this book but I will still like to recommend to any serious thinker to see the logical fallacies, the weak arguments for faith and God. ## Frequently Bought Together - The God Delusion - The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sk/products/235255-the-god-delusion-a-study-of-religious-belief-and-skepticism](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/235255-the-god-delusion-a-study-of-religious-belief-and-skepticism) --- *Product available on Desertcart Slovakia* *Store origin: SK* *Last updated: 2026-10-14*