The "New Atheist" bandwagon must be getting terribly overloaded, as culture critic Michael Parenti adds to the heap with //God And His Demons//, another attack on religion's many evils. If one wishes to work in such an overloaded category, you should at least have something substantially new to say, least it look like simply a vulgar effort to cash-in. 
 Sadly, Parenti covers little new terrain, often regurgitating others work. Christopher Hitchens' indictment of Mother Teresa is wittier, better written, and has the advantage of having been produced first. Likewise, with the chapter here dealing with the sex abuse in the Catholic Church. the subject having been covered elsewhere in greater detail (though Parenti does make the point that similar crimes have been found among Protestant clergy). Parenti likewise follows Hitchens' lead in launching a vituperative polemic on the Dalai Lama, even if he takes several steps further off the cliff, generally adopting China's narrative with regards to the oppression of Tibet. Like many of his compatriots, Parenti seems less interested in persuasion than in paroxysm and provocation, dishing out anachronistic history and shallow textual analysis. 
 Those in the choir who enjoy the preaching may rush to add Parenti to their pantheon. However, readers interested in a something particularly thoughtful or original should best look elsewhere.