Putting it mildly -- Religion kills -- A short digression on the pig: or, Why Heaven hates ham -- A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous -- The metaphysical claims of religion are false -- Arguments from design -- Revelation: the nightmare of the Old Testament -- The New Testament exceeds the evil of the Old one -- The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths -- The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell -- The lowly stamp of their origin: religion?s corrupt beginnings -- A coda: how religions end -- Does religion make people behave better? -- There is no Eastern solution -- Religion as an original sin -- Is religion child abuse? -- An objection anticipated: the last-ditch case against secularism -- A finer tradition: the resistance of the rational -- In conclusion: the need for a new enlightenment.