I grew up in the Christian world. My wife in the Muslim world. We both had given up on our respective faiths just in time to find each other. Praise God we did, and life got great. How that happened for both of us would be a very long book. It would probably be very similar to this one. The culture that best represents my wife and I is freedom. Which is to say we don't need walls around us to "defend our culture." Toward the end of Dennett's book you might get my point.

Approaching religion as a meme was a great premise... Sadly the book doesn't deliver. There isn't much concrete in it. Mostly a lot of waffle. I accept that he's trying to establish the definitions and conditions before he addresses the question of why religion, and why belief in belief in god, but he eventually doesn't get around to it in a substantial way.

Maybe a book that is better suited to academics and those studying religion's place in human history from a philosophical point of view.

Dennett’s approach is very different than most who write about religion, in that (I believe) he is quite genuine in his ‘I don’t know, and neither do you, so let’s discuss it’ stance. He poses very important questions and admits that he doesn’t have answers; questions like: does religion do more harm or more good? His main recommendation is that we remove the taboo from asking questions about belief, and remove the stigma from researchers attempting to ask the important questions. He goes further to say that we should openly discuss and educate all children in the historical facts, beliefs, and practices of all world religions so that every person can make an informed decision for their own life. Any person who truly seeks a better world should have no objection to this. As he says (paraphrased): ‘Any truly good faith should easily withstand scrutiny due to the strength of the inherent values. If your belief requires hoodwinking and deceit and restricted education to convince children to accept it, then it should die out.’

Molto interessante e ben argomentato.
Niente affatto fumoso o farraginoso.