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Contents
One Putting It Mildly I
Two Religion Kills IS
Three A Short Digression on the Pig;
or, Why Heaven Hates Ham 37
Four A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous 43
Five The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False 63
Six Arguments from Design 73
Seven Revelation:
The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament 97
Eight The "New" Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One 109
Nine The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths 123
Ten The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell 139
Eleven "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin":
Religion's Corrupt Beginnings 155
Twelve A Coda: How Religions End 169
Thirteen Does Religion Make People Behave Better? 173
Fourteen There Is No "Eastern" Solution 195
Fifteen Religion as an Original Sin 205
Sixteen Is Religion Child Abuse? 217
Seventeen An Objection Anticipated:
The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism 229
Eighteen A Finer Tradition:
The Resistance of the Rational 253
Nineteen In Conclusion:
The Need for a New Enlightenment 277
Acknowledgments 285
References 287
Index 295