Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Preface
I The Hermeneutics of Suspicion
1 Atheism for Lent
2 On Learning When Not to Refute Atheism
3 Help from Gilbert and Sullivan
4 Religious Fictions Too?
II Freud and the Psychoanalysis of the Believing Soul
5 Freud's Pessimism
6 Freud's Scientism
7 Freud's Suspicion I: Dreams and Wish Fulllment
8 Freud's Suspicion II: Doctrines and Wish Fulfillment
9 On Remembering When Not to Refute Atheism
10 Freud's Suspicion III: Doctrines and Distortion
11 The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Victim
12 The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Redeemer
13 The Atheist Dr. Freud as Theologian of Original Sin
14 Ceremonial as Defense
15 Ceremonial as Compromise
16 They Know Not What They Do
17 Of Savages and Salieri
18 Of Obedience and Sacrifice
19 Willful Renunciation and the One-Way Covenant
III Marx and the Critique of Religion as Ideology
20 Feuerbach' s Bourgeois Atheism
21 Feuerbach's Radical Atheism
22 Marx's Radical Atheism
23 Religion and the Christian State
24 Religion and the Secular State
25 Marxian Materialism
26 Religion as Ideology
27 Religion as Critique
28 Techniques of Neutralization
29 More Techniques of Neutralization
30 One Last Technique of Neutralization
31 Mixing Religion and Politics
32 Who Is the God of the Bible? Ask Pharaoh!
33 Third Commandment Idolatry
34 A "Marxist" Sermon Against the Baalization of Yahweh
IV Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion as Resentment
35 Squintingly Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche
36 Distinctively Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche
37 The Big Lie
38 Jews and Priests
39 Glittering Vices
40 Justice and the Fascists
41 Pity and the Pharisees
42 Jesus and the Pharisees I: The Sinners
43 Jesus and the Pharisees II: Sabbath
44 In Conclusion: Dangers of Suspicion
Index