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Brief but hopefully insightful, The Imaginary Lifeboat applies the Lead, Follow and Get out of the way usability approach to religion, religious belief, and the meaning of life. Religion is viewed as a tool constructed by humans for its practical use in day-to-day life. As a tool, it can be analyzed and understood in terms of its usability. In addition to the lifeboat metaphor, the maiden voyage of the Titanic is used to illustrate the crisis that humanity faces, and why religious belief is so appealing in the face of the failure of technology in the hands of mortals. The Imaginary Lifeboat is easy to read, easy to understand, and one hopes, easy to use to illustrate what usability, religion, and atheism are all about. The book ends with a message that is part tongue in cheek, part serious, part challenge, and part eternal truth. Hopefully it is one that both people of faith and people who are non-theist, empiricist, naturist, humanist, or agnostic can all agree on.