The most eloquent testimony given this little book is the fact that a second edition is made necessary only a few months after the publication of the first edition. The Tyranny of God is a great religious studies/philosophy text on the subject of atheism by Joseph Lewis. The book contains this passage: Favorable comments and letters of recommendation from men and women eminent in literary and scientific realms, and commendatory reviews in periodicals of high standard are, I think, sufficient cause for the belief that The Tyranny of God forms a necessary cog in the machinery of intellectual thought and progress.