Dangerous Illusions
"They are back; they have invaded our lives and we cannot survive without a war against them"
Dangerous Illusions examines what Malkin believes are religion’s illusory foundations, calling on his readers to question religion’s value in a society as advanced as ours. Malkin tackles issues like suffering and evil, pleasure and asceticism, and sex and celibacy, through the lens of the three major monotheistic religions––Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Dangerous Illusions fearlessly refutes some of our most archaic beliefs, encouraging to be more aware of the dangers that religion poses to collective intellectual advancement.
"I’m not interested so much in what intellectuals say about the book, because that won’t change my ideas. These may be wrong, but I do feel that intellectualism all too often fails to speak to the general people, which is what I want. I hope this book might get them to reconsider religion."