Opening paragraphs...........................

At a time when Islamist extremists strap bombs to themselves and blow up women and children; when American has just come staggering out of the searing thirty-year-plus embrace of the reactionary, dumb-as-mud Religious Right; and when some people are bullying, harassing, and persecuting gay men and women in the name of religion, ti's understandable that the sort of decent people most of us would want for neighbors run from religion.  There is a problem, though, for those who flee religion expecting to find sanity in unbelief:  The madness was never about religion, let alone caused by faith in God.  It was and is about how we evolved and what we evolved into.
-Frank Schaeffer, Patience With God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion {or Atheism}