God is not Great-- Christopher Hitchens

subtitled : How Religion Poisons Everything

With a necessary part of it's collective mind, religion looks forward to the destruction of the world. By this I do not mean it " looks forward " in the purely eschatological sense of anticipating the end. I mean, rather, that it openly or covertly wishes that end to occur. It stretches from the epistles of Saint Paul, who clearly thought and hoped that time was running out for humanity, through the deranged fantasies of the book of Revelation, to the best selling pulp-fiction " Left Behind ' series.