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Oh I will.. I'll move it up my list. I'm going to read one more fiction book (Hogan and Del Toro's new one) and then I'm back to some non-fiction.
And for the record - I'm very much for being critical of religion. But to be successfully critical of something really entails knowing something about it beyond caricature. This is why Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, et al. fail so miserably at it.
For some good criticism (from atheists) of religion you need people who can do more than create strawmen. I'd suggest (thoroughly, it's one of my favorite books) Walter Kaufmann's Critique of Religion and Philosophy (he was one of the top Nietzsche scholars at Stanford, I believe), many books by Bertrand Russell, and Terry Eagleton wrote an atheist response to the 'New Atheists' called Reason, Faith and Revolution which is very good and does a good job pointing out what the problems are with the New Atheist arguments and why its largely rubbish, while still being critical of religion itself.
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