It was continuing conversation in which i have been engaged in most of my life. If you want examples. If you want immediate instances of the kind of encounters that led inevitably to putting down notes on the subject matter of the book, which tries to cover quite a bit of range. Lets just take the religious side. With newly i saw on the wall a poster, titled announcing a lecture and the title is the greatest show on earth. And above i saw, and the god illusion. Now, very strange to think that in certain parts of the world today, for daring to put up such a poster, much less admitting to be in the author of such a book, the god dilution, delusion, you might be stoned to death or put to death for blasphemy. The second incident. I was speaking to a young lady, and she was telling me about her experience. Shed obviously was lamenting the prejudice, extremist, very intolerant prejudices that were taking place among the various religions of the world, she said, i grew up in an environment wh