Book Review: Agnostic Khushwant: There Is No God!

With Fifteen chapters "Agnostic Khuswant- There is no god" tries to highlight the dogmatism and irrationality associated with religions across the world. The authors are of the view that religious scriptures must be seen as books of literature and not as rule books as many things in such books are questionable and lack logical reasoning. The authors dare to challenge rituals, religious processes and Godmen. 

In the last two chapters the book is critical on the Dalai Lama and Swami Vivekananda. Some of the quotes of Vivekananda provided in the book makes a typical Hindu rethink about the high position provided to him. For example, the book says around 100 years ago Swamiji had predicted that Europe will crumble in another 50 years. 

The authors have provided some description about the source and basic tenets of all religions. However, what distracts a reader is disproportional discussion on Shikh religion. Again it is difficult to find out how much of the quotes are result of selective absorption, selective retention and selective distortion. Authors at many places have provided quotes leaving it to the reader to interpret. At some places the book lacks natural flow and structure, some concepts/information are repetitive in nature. 

The book will be a great read (except a few chapters) if you have been blindly believing religion and rituals. It will make you think. If you believe every creation needs to have a creator and God is that creator, the book will simulate your intellect to ask who has created God. 

Not a great read if you have already done some research on religion and its origin; if have evaluated logically the rituals and their significance.