AWAY WITH ALL GODS! – Table of Contents

Part One: WHERE DID GOD COME FROM…AND WHO SAYS WE NEED GOD?

  • “God Works in Mysterious Ways”
  • A Cruel and Truly Monstrous God
  • The Bible, Taken Literally, Is a Horror
  • Christian Fundamentalists, Christian Fascists
  • Seeing Jesus in a True Light
  • What About the Ten Commandments?
  • No New Testament Without the Old
  • Fundamentalist and “Salad Bar” Christianity
  • Religion and Oppressive Ruling Classes
  • Evolution, the Scientific Method—and Religious Obscurantism
  • If Gods Do Not Exist, Why Do People Believe in Them?
  • Why Do People Believe in Different Gods?

Part Two: CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, AND ISLAM—ROOTED IN THE PAST, STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE FUTURE

  • The Historical Development and Role of Christianity: Doctrines and Power Politics
  • Christianity As a New Religion: The Pivotal Role and Influence of Paul
  • Demystifying Jesus and Christianity
  • Islam Is No Better (and No Worse) Than Christianity
  • Religious Fundamentalism, Imperialism, and the “War on Terror”
  • Why Is Religious Fundamentalism Growing in Today’s World?
  • Rejecting the “Smug Arrogance of the Enlightened”
  • The Growth of Religion and Religious Fundamentalism: A Peculiar Expression of a Fundamental Contradiction

Part Three: RELIGION—A HEAVY, HEAVY CHAIN

  • Religion, Patriarchy, Male Supremacy and Sexual Repression
  • The Bible Belt Is the Lynching Belt: Slavery, White Supremacy and Religion in America
  • Christian Fascism and Genocide
  • Religion, Fundamentalism, and the Slave Mentality

Part Four: GOD DOES NOT EXIST—WE NEED LIBERATION WITHOUT GODS

  • The “Left Hand of God”—And the Right Way to Go About Winning Liberation
  • The Myth of the Truthfulness and Positive Role of Religious Myth
  • Reason Has Not “Failed Us”—Reason Is Absolutely Necessary—Though, In Itself, It Is Not Enough
  • Religious “Faith”—Let’s Call It What It Is: Irrational
  • God Does Not Exist—And There Is No Good Reason to Believe In God
  • Religion as an Opiate of the People—And an Obstacle to Emancipation
  • There Is No Such Thing As Unchanging, and Unchangeable, Human Nature
  • Liberation Without Gods
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