In this book, the author attempts to explain the good qualities of religion, and how they make people feel. Religious gratification can make people extremely emotional. When you have indoctrination from a young age, extreme emotionality, and twisting religious text to fit whatever social or political narrative you need it to...bad things can happen. Mass suicides, suicide bombings, terrorist attacks, etc. It's bizarre to me how people can get whipped up into these types of frenzies, but we do see it time and again across a variety of cults and religious teachings.

I chose this book out of the sheer interest I have in cults and religious fanaticism. I thought that I would be extremely interested in this book, and I hate to say that I was not. I was fairly disappointed in it, actually. It was extremely dull in my opinion, and I really had to focus to get through it. It just did not hold my interest the way that I expected it to. The most interesting part was the end, which really should have been the beginning of the book. I think this book could have been better.