My problems with both Hitchens and Dawkins, though both are good books, is that i feel their books does nothing to diminish the rather aggressive tone in the debate but rather tend to increase that aggressiveness. I prefer Karen Armstrong or someone else that takes both sides seriously. Other Dawkins books where he speak of the same subject but in a less aggressive tone are also preferable to me. Titles like The Greatest Show On Earth or The Ancestors Tale. The conclusion from such books are pretty much the same but are not so confrontation directed as The God Dilusion which makes it more convincing. But it might be im missing some specific american aspect of this. I know of course of the so called creationists and their agenda but I still feel a less aggressive approach is more effectIve in countering that in the long run than what Hitchens and Dawkins sometimes do.