God-basher invigorating, if a little maddening

From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: October 29, 2006 | Copyright information

The God Delusion

By Richard Dawkins

Houghton Mifflin, 400 pages, $36

Reviewed by Morley Walker

SOMEWHERE in Winnipeg this morning, a bright 15-year-old is rolling his eyes at the platitudes expressed by the pastor at his parents' church.

Maybe his qualms were exacerbated by the theological simplicities offered at last weekend's Franklin Graham Festival.

Or maybe his youthful cynicism has been inflamed by the continual hostility displayed by rabbis and...