God is the Prison

What if the first prison was belief—and God its warden?

Before you learned to speak, you were taught to obey. Before you could wonder, you were handed answers. God Is the Prison is a bold and poetic exploration of how religion is installed into the human psyche—not as choice, but as inheritance.

Zakir Hossain joins a long tradition of radical truth-tellers—from Nietzsche, who declared God dead, to Marx, who named religion the opiate of the masses. But where others argued through reason, Hossa...