Preface | |
The Hermeneutics of Suspicion | |
Atheism for Lent | p. 3 |
On Learning When Not to Refute Atheism | p. 10 |
Help from Gilbert and Sullivan | p. 18 |
Religious Fictions Too? | p. 25 |
Freud and the Psychoanalysis of the Believing Soul | |
Freud's Pessimism | p. 33 |
Freud's Scientism | p. 38 |
Freud's Suspicion I: Dreams and Wish Fulfillment | p. 43 |
Freud's Suspicion II: Doctrines and Wish Fulfillment | p. 50 |
On Remembering When Not to Refute Atheism | p. 55 |
Freud's Suspicion III: Doctrines and Distortion | p. 61 |
The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Victim | p. 65 |
The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Redeemer | p. 71 |
The Atheist Dr. Freud as Theologian of Original Sin | p. 77 |
Ceremonial as Defense | p. 83 |
Ceremonial as Compromise | p. 89 |
They Know Not What They Do | p. 96 |
Of Savages and Salieri | p. 103 |
Of Obedience and Sacrifice | p. 110 |
Willful Renunciation and the One-Way Covenant | p. 115 |
Marx and the Critique of Religion as Ideology | |
Feuerbach's Bourgeois Atheism | p. 123 |
Feuerbach's Radical Atheism | p. 130 |
Marx's Radical Atheism | p. 134 |
Religion and the Christian State | p. 141 |
Religion and the Secular State | p. 147 |
Marxian Materialism | p. 154 |
Religion as Ideology | p. 159 |
Religion as Critique | p. 166 |
Techniques of Neutralization | p. 172 |
More Techniques of Neutralization | p. 180 |
One Last Technique of Neutralization | p. 186 |
Mixing Religion and Politics | p. 193 |
Who Is the God of the Bible? Ask Pharaoh! | p. 199 |
Third Commandment Idolatry | p. 205 |
A "Marxist" Sermon Against the Baalization of Yahweh | p. 210 |
Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion as Resentment | |
Squintingly Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche | p. 219 |
Distinctively Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche | p. 225 |
The Big Lie | p. 232 |
Jews and Priests | p. 238 |
Glittering Vices | p. 246 |
Justice and the Fascists | p. 252 |
Pity and the Pharisees | p. 259 |
Jesus and the Pharisees I: The Sinners | p. 265 |
Jesus and the Pharisees II: The Sabbath | p. 275 |
In Conclusion: The Dangers of Suspicion | p. 283 |
Index | p. 291 |
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