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Religion: How Religion Feeds Superstition, Weakens Science, and Silences Questioning
Hardcover
Series: Religion: The Holy Poison, Book 1
Atheism & AgnosticismReligion General
Publisher Price: $34.99
Publisher: Dr Prabhat Das
Published: Jul 14 2026
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if the beliefs that shaped your childhood, family, morality, and understanding of the world were never truly chosen, tested, or allowed to be questioned?
Religion: The Enemy of Reason is Book 1 in Dr. Prabhat Das's ten-book series, Religion: The Holy Poison. In this compelling, humane, and evidence-based investigation, Dr. Prabhat Das, MD, PhD, FACP, examines how religion feeds superstition, weakens science, protects unsupported claims, and turns honest doubt into fear.
Why do intelligent and highly educated people still trust astrology, miracle stories, sacred rituals, and ancient scriptures without demanding the evidence they would require in medicine, law, science, or everyday life? Why are supernatural claims so often protected from criticism? What happens when those beliefs begin shaping childhood, marriage, illness, grief, and family decisions?
Drawing on psychology, history, science, and more than three decades of experience as a physician, Dr. Das explores how the human mind searches for certainty, meaning, patterns, and control. He shows how fear becomes sacred, how ritual creates the illusion of protection, how miracle stories survive failed evidence, and how even an educated mind can remain divided between reason and inherited belief.
This is not an attack on ordinary believers. It is a challenge to ideas that demand authority without proof and obedience without accountability. With clarity and compassion, Dr. Das separates comfort from truth, faith from evidence, culture from coercion, and sincere belief from harmful consequence.
Religion: The Enemy of Reason asks the questions many people were taught to avoid:
Can a belief be comforting and still be false?
Can billions of sincere people still be mistaken?
Why should sacred claims receive a lower standard of evidence?
Can morality, meaning, wonder, and human dignity survive without supernatural belief?
Written for believers, doubters, atheists, and anyone who has ever been afraid to ask, How do we know this is true?, this book offers a courageous path from inherited certainty to intellectual freedom.
Do not believe Dr. Prabhat Das merely because he wrote it.
Follow the evidence.
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