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Author(s): Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt
ISBN(s): 9780670067244, 0670067245
Edition: 1st
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Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0670067245

ISBN 13: 9780670067244 

Author: Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt 

Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive appeared, to question the role of the world’s three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, French philosopher Michel Onfray starts from the premise that not only is God still very much alive but increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the human race.Documenting the ravages from religious intolerance over the centuries, Onfray makes a strong case against the three religions for their obsession with purity and their contempt for reason and intelligence, individual freedom, desire and the human body, sexuality and pleasure, and for women in general. In their place, all three demand faith and belief, obedience and submission, extol the “next life” to the detriment of the here and now. Tightly argued, this is a work that is sure to stir debate on the role of religion in Australian society–and politics.

Table of contents:

Part One: Atheology

I. Odyssey of the Freethinkers

  1. God is still breathing

  2. Seeking a name for freethinkers

  3. The fruits of antiphilosophy

  4. Theology and its fetishes

  5. Naming infamy

II. Atheism and the Escape from Nihilism

  1. The invention of atheism

  2. Planned obscurity

  3. Philosophical earthquake

  4. Teaching the case for atheism

  5. Plate tectonics

III. Toward an Atheology

  1. Spectrum of nihilism

  2. A Judeo-Christian epistemology

  3. Vestiges of empire

  4. Garden-grown torture

  5. On Christian ignorance

  6. Christian atheism

  7. A postmodern atheism

  8. In Defense of Atheism takes on three challenges

Part Two: Monotheisms

I. The Tyranny of Afterlives

  1. Monotheism’s somber vision

  2. Down with intelligence!

  3. Litany of taboos

  4. Obsession with purity

  5. Respecting the body

II. Bonfires of the Intelligence

  1. Producing the holy books

  2. The book’s bias against books

  3. Hatred of science

  4. Negation of matter

  5. Bakeshop ontology

  6. Epicurus: not an enthusiast for Hosts

  7. Forever missing the boat

III. Seeking the Opposite of the Real

  1. Inventing the afterlife

  2. Birds of Paradise

  3. Seeking the opposite of the real

  4. Solving the woman problem

  5. Celebration of castration

  6. Down with foreskins!

  7. God loves the maimed

Part Three: Christianity

I. The Construction of Jesus

  1. Enter the forgers

  2. Hysteria crystallized

  3. Catalysis of the miraculous

  4. Construction outside history

  5. Tissues of contradictions

II. The Pauline Contamination

  1. Ravings of a hysteric

  2. Infecting the world with neuroses

  3. A weakling’s revenge

  4. In praise of slavery

  5. At war with intelligence

III. The Totalitarian Christian State

  1. Hysteria (continued)

  2. Constantine’s coup d’état

  3. From victims to victimizers

  4. The name of the law

  5. Vandalism, autos-da-fé, and the culture of death

Part Four: Theocracy

I. Selective Exploitation of the Texts

  1. Historical extraterritoriality

  2. Twenty-seven centuries in the making

  3. Monotheistic grab bag

  4. Cherry-picking the scriptures

  5. The whip and the other cheek

  6. Hitler, Saint John’s disciple

  7. Allah’s problems with logic

  8. Roster of contradictions

  9. Everything and its opposite

  10. Contextualization and sophistry

II. In the Service of the Death Fixation

  1. Selective hones of contention

  2. The Jewish invention of holy war

  3. God, Caesar & Co.

  4. Christian anti-Semitism

  5. The Vatican admired Adolf Hitler

  6. Hitler admired the Vatican

  7. Christianity and National Socialism: points in common

  8. Wars, fascisms, and other pursuits

  9. Jesus at Hiroshima

  10. Love of one’s neighbor (continued)

  11. Colonialism, genocide, ethnocide

  12. Repressions and the death fixation

III. Toward a Post-Christian Secular Order

  1. Muslim thirst for blood

  2. The local as universal

  3. Yellow stars and Muslim tattoos

  4. Against the closed society

  5. Muslim fascism

  6. An ayatollah speaks

  7. Islam: structurally archaic

  8. Fascist thematics

  9. Fascism of the fox, fascism of the lion

  10. Against “religious” secularism

  11. Substance and forms of the secular ethic

  12. Toward a post-Christian secularism

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