Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism
Marx, Nietzche, and Freud are among the most influential of modern atheists. The distinctive feature of their challenge to theistic and specifically Christian belief is expressed by Paul Ricoeur when he calls them the masters of suspicion.While skepticism directs its critique to the truth or evidential basis of belief, suspicion asks two different, intimately intertwined questions: what are the motives that lead to this belief? and what function does it play, what work does it do for the...
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"An illuminating and powerful reading of three of the most important contemporary professedly antireligious thinkers... stinging critiques of Freud, Marx, and Nietzsche."-C. Stephen Evans, Society of Christian Philosophers
ForewordPrefaceIThe Hermeneutics of Suspicion1Atheism for Lent32On Learning When Not to Refute Atheism103Help from Gilbert and Sullivan184Religious Fictions Too?25IIFreud and the Psychoanalysis of the Believing Soul5Freud's Pessimism336Freud's Scientism387Freud's Suspicion I: Dreams and Wish Fulfillment438Freud's Suspicion II: Doctrines and Wish Fulfillment509On Remembering When Not to Refute Atheism5510Freud's Suspicion III: Doctrines and Distortion6111The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Victim6512The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Redeemer7113The Atheist Dr. Freud as Theologian of Original Sin7714Ceremonial as Defense8315Ceremonial as Compromise8916They Know Not What They Do9617Of Savages and Salieri10318Of Obedience and Sacrifice11019Willful Renunciation and the One-Way Covenant115IIIMarx and the Critique of Religion as Ideology20Feuerbach's Bourgeois Atheism12321Feuerbach's Radical Atheism13022Marx's Radical Atheism13423Religion and the Christian State14124Religion and the Secular State14725Marxian Materialism15426Religion as Ideology15927Religion as Critique16628Techniques of Neutralization17229More Techniques of Neutralization18030One Last Technique of Neutralization18631Mixing Religion and Politics19332Who Is the God of the Bible? Ask Pharaoh!19933Third Commandment Idolatry20534A "Marxist" Sermon Against the Baalization of Yahweh210IVNietzsche and the Critique of Religion as Resentment35Squintingly Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche21936Distinctively Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche22537The Big Lie23238Jews and Priests23839Glittering Vices24640Justice and the Fascists25241Pity and the Pharisees25942Jesus and the Pharisees I: The Sinners26543Jesus and the Pharisees II: The Sabbath27544In Conclusion: The Dangers of Suspicion283Index291
