I was never here. I didn't read this. I'm going to go smoke pot, go back to bed, and when I wake up I will remember nothing.

This actually echoes my thinking on why people are bothered by this cover. It really hits you hard in the gut when the "bad guy" is this:

"Grace University receives federal Title IV funding under the Higher Education Act of 1965. This prohibits them from discriminating against individuals protected by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. However this does not prohibit them from…

Ya wanna think BIG? (Well, as in Humongous, anyways.) I introduce you to "The Culture" books by Iain Banks [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture] or the books of Peter Hamilton [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_F._Hamilton]. (Any bigger and you are into Religion.)