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Oh, I made it through! I agree with the supposed premise of this book -- that Christian Nationalism is un-American. Absolutely. Keep religion out of the government. The first and last parts are historical and very informative. But the author is so biased against all religion that he's unobjective and even offensive. It crossed from "I'm an athiest and this is my opinion," which is all good, into "and anything anyone else believes is stupid," which is agonizing to listen to for hours. I'm not a Christian or an athiest (I'm a Buddhist), so I don't have skin in the game, except I don't want people to force their religion on me. However, I think dialogue has to start from a place of mutual respect and the assumption of good faith. Bringing people to a place of understanding, even if there is still strong disagreement, is important in this time of division. The author will turn off every moderate and progressive Christian who attempts to read his book, and how will that help anything? I felt like I accidentally got trapped on angry athiest Twitter and couldn't get out. I felt a lot of empathy for him when he mentioned the terrible things people would write or call in to his Freedom from Religion Foundation. You can see part of where the anger comes from. It's understandable but not helpful.