Your Religion Is False
Joel Grus (Brightwalton LLC: Jun 6, 2009), 258 pages.Contents
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- Preface xiii
- The Fundamentals of Why Your Religion is False 1
- 1 The basics of religion 2
- 2 The origins of religion 4
- 3 A few words about religious language 7
- 4 A few words about the inheritance of religion 8
- 5 A few words about religious stories 10
- Things that Cleanliness is Next to (and that are False) 12
- 6 Godliness is false 13
- 7 Souliness is false 19
- 8 Heavenliness is false 21
- 9 Angelness is false 24
- Religions that You Think Nobody Practices Anymore But Some People Still Do 26
- 10 Religions involving the worship of giant sonte heads are false 27
- 11 Indigenous religions of Africa are false 30
- 12 Greek mythology is flase 32
- 13 Religions involving totem poles, peyote, or casinos are false 36
- Religions Practiced Primarily by Asians and Asian Fetishists 38
- 14 Hinduism is false 39
- 15 Buddhism is false 42
- 16 Sikhism is false 48
- 17 Jainism is false 51
- 18 Zoroastrianism is false 53
- 19 Bahá’í is false 56
- 20 Feng Shui is false 58
- 21 Toism is false 60
- 22 Confucianism is false 62
- 23 Shinto is false 63
- Religions of the Jews 65
- 24 The story of the Jews 66
- 25 Judaism is false 73
- 26 Orthodox Judaism is false 75
- 27 Reform Judaism is false 77
- 28 Kabbalah is false 79
- 29 JuBu is false 81
- Religions that Everyone Agrees are Types of Christianity 82
- 30 The story of Jesus 83
- 31 Christianity is false 89
- 32 Catholicism is false 94
- 33 Orthodoxy is false 101
- 34 Conservative Protestantism is false 103
- 35 Liberal Protestantism is false 106
- 36 Dispensational Premillenialism is false 108
- 37 Snake-handling is false 111
- 38 "Cool" Christianity is false 114
- 39 Some obligatory words about Thomas Kinkade and Joel Osteen 116
- Religions Founded by Mohammed 118
- 40 Mohammed and the mountain 119
- 41 Sunni and Shi’a 122
- 42 Islam is false 124
- 43 Salafism is false 130
- 44 Sufism is false 132
- Religions that May or May Not Be Christianity, Depending on Whom You Ask 134
- 45 Messianic Judaism is false 135
- 46 Religions that claim to be science are false 137
- 47 Religions that leave tracts in the laundromat on 12th Avenue are false 139
- 48 Twelve-step programs are false 141
- 49 Seventh-Day Adventism is false 143
- 50 Quakerism is false 145
- 51 Amishness is false 147
- 52 Mormonism is false 148
- Religions Popular with Flakey Californians and Rebellious Teenagers 151
- 53 Jediism is false 152
- 54 Thelema is false 153
- 55 Vodou is false 155
- 56 Wicca is false 157
- 57 Environmentalism is false 159
- 58 New Age is false 161
- 59 Astrology is false 164
- 60 Objectivism is false 167
- 61 Scientology is false 169
- 62 Other cults are false 172
- Religions That Were Made Up Very Recently 176
- 63 Intelligent Design is false 177
- 64 Falun Gong is false 180
- 65 Choprism is false 183
- 66 Rastafari is false 185
- 67 Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do is false 187
- 68 Cheondoism is false 189
- 69 Clapton-worship is false 191
- 70 Dungeons and Dragons is false 192
- 71 Singularitarianism is false 194
- 72 Hooliganism is false 196
- 73 Juche is false 197
- 74 Pastafarianism is false 199
- Religions That Are Barely Religions But Are Still Religion Enough To Be False 200
- 75 Deism is false 201
- 76 Unitarian Universalism is false 202
- 77 Pantheism is false 204
- 78 Agnosticism is false 206
- 79 "Non-religious spirituality" is false 208
- 80 Apatheism is false 209
- Odds and Ends 210
- 81 "What about my religion?" 211
- 82 Moderation as a virtue? 212
- 83 Non-overlapping magisteria? 214
- 84 Isn’t atheism a religion? 216
- 85 "But without religion…" 217
- 86 "What about all the good things religion did?" 219
- 87 "But religion is what gives my life meaning…" 221
- 88 Religious freedom and religious tolerance 223
- 89 Separation of church and state 226
- 90 Hot-button issues, A to Z 228
- 91 Conclusion 238