Imagine that when you were six your mother ran away to join a religious cult, taking you with her. She did not tell your father where she went, but he eventually found you and fought to reunite the family. He failed, and their marriage collapsed when he rejected the cult and she refused to change her beliefs. "Laughing At The Devil" tells the true story of one such childhood. It also contains the answers David O'Neil found during his thirty-year quest to understand how religion obtained the power to destroy families. That journey helped him blend his intuitions and intellect, and heal his childhood wounds. His search revealed that Western religion is based upon the ancient science of astronomy, and, amazingly, that the biblical story of Samson is created from celestial observations made over four thousand years ago. These discoveries have the potential to help all of us integrate religion and science in a profound new way, and heal the wounds caused by their previous alienation.