Recommended: A long, and very interesting, review by James Wood of Sam Harris' book,
Letter to a Christian Nation, titled "The Celestial Teapot," at
http://www.powells.com/review/2006_12_14 .
Wood identifies himself as an atheist, and says "Like many raised in a religious household, I often find myself caught in a painful, if comic, paradox, whereby I am involved in an angry relationship with the very God whose existence I am supposed to deny."