Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. I The Hermeneutics of Suspicion
6. 1 Atheism for Lent 1
7. 2 On Learning When Not to Refute Atheism 10
8. 3 Help from Gilbert and Sullivan 18
9. 4 Religious Fictions Too? 25
10. II Freud and the Psychoanalysis of the Believing Soul
11. 5 Freud's Pessimism 31
12. 6 Freud's Scientism 38
13. 7 Freud's Suspicion I: Dreams and Wish Fulllment 43
14. 8 Freud's Suspicion II: Doctrines and Wish Fulfillment 50
15. 9 On Remembering When Not to Refute Atheism 55
16. 10 Freud's Suspicion III: Doctrines and Distortion 61
17. 11 The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Victim 65
18. 12 The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Redeemer 71
19. 13 The Atheist Dr. Freud as Theologian of Original Sin 77
20. 14 Ceremonial as Defense 83
21. 15 Ceremonial as Compromise 89
22. 16 They Know Not What They Do 96
23. 17 Of Savages and Salieri 103
24. 18 Of Obedience and Sacrifice 110
25. 19 Willful Renunciation and the One-Way Covenant 115
26. III Marx and the Critique of Religion as Ideology
27. 20 Feuerbach' s Bourgeois Atheism 121
28. 21 Feuerbach's Radical Atheism 130
29. 22 Marx's Radical Atheism 134
30. 23 Religion and the Christian State 141
31. 24 Religion and the Secular State 147
32. 25 Marxian Materialism 154
33. 26 Religion as Ideology 159
34. 27 Religion as Critique 166
35. 28 Techniques of Neutralization 172
36. 29 More Techniques of Neutralization 180
37. 30 One Last Technique of Neutralization 186
38. 31 Mixing Religion and Politics 193
39. 32 Who Is the God of the Bible? Ask Pharaoh! 199
40. 33 Third Commandment Idolatry 205
41. 34 A "Marxist" Sermon Against the Baalization of Yahweh 210
42. IV Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion as Resentment
43. 35 Squintingly Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche 217
44. 36 Distinctively Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche 225
45. 37 The Big Lie 232
46. 38 Jews and Priests 238
47. 39 Glittering Vices 246
48. 40 Justice and the Fascists 252
49. 41 Pity and the Pharisees 259
50. 42 Jesus and the Pharisees I: The Sinners 265
51. 43 Jesus and the Pharisees II: Sabbath 275
52. 44 In Conclusion: Dangers of Suspicion 283
53. Index 291