Written more than 20 years ago and regarded by many publishers as too hot to handle, Brian Smallerhats How to be an Atheist is thoughtful and wickedly entertaining. As they say, Now it can be sold Brian confronts those who, in his own words, have fallen into a trap - Christians and other Believers - wishing, as did Feuerbach years ago, that they were friends of Man rather than friends of God. Brian handles Jesus with equal directness, suggesting that we throw out the New Testament parables and the miracles of this misguided young Jew as both confusing and irrelevant. He also recommends the publication of a new Honest Broadside Version of the Old Testament with a critical glossary, based on the best scholarship available, running alongside every page of its text. There is also a piercing chapter on Sex and Sin guaranteed to make your eyes water. If God wants me, Brian told himself as a young student, he can bloody-well come and get me. God still hasnt, despite those wicked cartoons