The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
This book is a tour-de-force eye-opener. I've described Steven Pinker's "How the Mind Works" as an epiphany-a-page. The same applies to Dawkins' latest book. I've read some of his science writing, but this, this.... It could not be more relevant, more brave, more informed. Controversial, but difficult to refute. Some passages had me raising my eyebrows, but more had me lean back in reluctant awe, "he's right...." Basically, he is calling for the complete and utter separation of church and state, in that religious issues should have absolutely no place in the laws of a civilized society, and instead, we should seek to define one moral ideology that frees and protects all citizens equally. And for this, his angle (being an evolutionary biologist by trade) is of course reason, rationality, empiricism. Judging from the world's current state, how can we move elsewhere? "Imagine no religion....."