![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Putting it mildly - Religion kills - A short digression on the pig, or, Why Heaven hates ham - A note on health, to which religion can be hazardous - The metaphysical claims of religion are false - Arguments from design - Revelation : the nightmare of the Old Testament - The New Testament exceeds the evil of the Old one - The Koran is borrowed from both Jewish and Christian myths - The tawdriness of the miraculous and the decline of Hell - "The lowly stamp of their origin" : religion's corrupt beginnings - A coda : how religions end - Does religion make people behave better? - There is no "Eastern" solution - Religion as an original sin - Is religion child abuse? - An objection anticipated : the last-ditch "case" against secularism - A finer tradition : the resistance of the rational - In conclusion : the need for a new Enlightenment Includes bibliographical references and index ![]()
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