This book presumes the significance of two questions: 1. Why do some human beings - literary artists in particular - feel compelled to challenge belief in the existence of God with such hostility? Why are they so vexed by someone else's choice to place faith in Christianity or in some other religion, as if such a decision were an act of personal effrontery? 2. What can a believing reader - someone for whom such a threat to religious faith is both blasphemous and futile - gain from reading the work of authors who have challenged God for the heavyweight championship of the universe?