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As usual you're taking my rather straight-forward comments and blowing them out of proportion and out of context. Why you seem to do this so often is beyond me. Do I have to completely avoid all of your posts so that I'm not forced to continually defend my motives and arguments? Can't we have a more honest dialogue...ever?

The book looks good. That's pretty much my message. I just could do without the continuous references to an imaginary supernatural being. To me this is ridiculous and not even remotely necessary.

In the book description you provide check out the religious undertones I'm seeing:

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brings an almost biblical fury

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bears witness to sights man was never meant to see.

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There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who is not honored here today

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And in a perverse miracle

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providing the reader with more and more clues about what destroyed it

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he is not the word of God God never spoke

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And you said:

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...the desire to finally rid the world of something...to completely eliminate and cleanse humanity of some sort of unredeemable evil: to fully annihilate some absolutely unacceptable threat.

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Come on Dissident. My brief post wasn't about ridding the world of the evils of religion and you know it. Why the need to continually twist other peoples words, erect straw men and then cleverly knock them down?

My statement about wanting religion and God out of the book isn't any different than if I said, "The book would probably be great if the author weren't continually referencing a celestial teapot." I'm talking about the illogical link between a nonexistent supernatural being and the very real possibility of a massive global catastrophe where civilization, as we know it, is largely destroyed. Common sense tells that rational individual that a nonexistent supernatural being cannot be the cause of such an apocalyptic event, but the belief in a nonexistent supernatural being could easily be the cause. Books that dumb down the already ignorant masses are dangerous and this appears to be one more such book. But if the irrational elements could be removed it might be a damn good read. That was my point. Pretty straight-forward stuff.

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Questions about what ultimately matters, who are we really, what are we and who and what are we willing to sacrifice, the power of hope in seemingly hopeless circumstances, how we live with loss, grief, sadness, lost dreams, and terrifying futures, what are we willing to do for love....it makes sense that a story like The Road would reflect some of these religious themes.

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None of these are "religious themes" Dissident. They are human themes. This is what disgusts many of us atheists. The attempt to lay claim to any and all of the "Big Questions" in life by the theistic community is ludicrous.

Don't atheists and rationalists ponder these issues just as frequently as just as intensely as you theists? Of course we do....we just don't summon a nonexistent supernatural being for their input. We rely on reason to figure our way through life's great questions.

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Questions about what ultimately matters

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This isn't a "religious theme," as all humans tend to ask this question and attempt to figure out what ultimately matters. I'm an atheist and I'm under the impression that I contemplate this question far more than most Christians I've encountered. So this isn't the domain of religion, Dissident.

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who are we really

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We're one species with some fantastic characteristics. But we're merely animals. Again, this isn't a religious question although some of you like to imagine that humans have some elevated status among Kingdom Animalia.

I could go on and on, but you won't even address my points so I'm done right here.