On the rave reviews above, I made the mistake of buying this book thinking it could inspire me too. Despite all the talk, this book is NOT inclusive. There is no profile of anyone traditional in their faith, no Max Kolbe (who gave his life to save that of a Jew in Auschwitz), no Bernadette of Lourdes, no Blessed Kateri. But we do get Galileo, who in his spiritual life was sincere but not inspiring. He's included because he's a victim of the evil represented by the traditional Church. The author goes out of his way to stress his perceived narrowmindedness of the church. His bits on Biblical figures are very weak. I am surprised to find Stalin was not in this book. On the whole the thing reads like the manifesto of someone with a particular agenda and is tiresome beyond its trivial biographical detail.