I usually don’t leave less than three stars because three stars to me is somewhere along “I’m glad to have finished this book” to “I was entertained or it had some interesting points.” So when I leave two stars I feel the need to write a review to explain it.

Simply put, this book read like the author simply had an axe to grind against Protestant Christianity and new age philosophies (which he more or less assumes is all the same thing regardless). What I assumed would be an interesting look at the propensity of Americans to be outlandish or rebellious due to selection bias of who founded the country was mostly just a rant that not so subtly implied that there are few people in America that have any sort of brains (and of course the author is one of them).

So while there were some interesting historical anicdotes this was mainly just a really long opinion piece. And for a book that decries the loss of reality based truth seekers, I didn’t come across many properly sites sources of data (though to be fair I listened to the audio book and the ebook or print version might have more footnotes or sources listed).

All in all I couldn’t wait to be done with this book and it could have been about half as long and still provide the same impact. Not my cup of tea.