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Good God! (And Other Follies) takes a critical and satirical look at the wave of religiosity now sweeping the country. From faith-based initiatives to bans on stem cell research, from public postings of the Ten Commandments to attacks on evolution, American godliness has apparently never had it so good. Much of this behavior and even more of the God-talk accompanying it, whether fueled by passionate faith, cultural resentment, or political opportunism, is intellectually absurd. This book points out this absurdity and explores the underlying fallacies, contradictions and, at times, sheer nonsense that beset not only Christianity, but Judaism and Islam as well.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Bullish on God
Chapter 2 Speaking of God- But Why Bother?
Chapter 3 All Those Opposed to Morality, Please Raise Your Hand?
Chapter 4 Apologizing for God
Chapter 5 The God of the Dead
Chapter 6 A God with Hair on his Chest
Chapter 7 Thank God Almighty, Free at Last (Not)
Chapter 8 No Discouraging Words, Please
Chapter 9 God Answers Your Questions About Sex
Chapter 10 It Pays to Believe
Chapter 11 Pentateuch's Plan for Proper Penile Poking Imperiled by Perverts
Chapter 12 Intercourse with God
Chapter 13 Oh, Wow, It's a Miracle!
Chapter 14 Soul-Shmole, It's My Body I'm Worried About
Chapter 15 "The Trumpet Shall Sound"-And Then What?
Chapter 16 A God We can Identify With
Chapter 17 Go Figure
Chapter 18 All Praise to the
Ens Realissimum!Chapter 19 Don't Touch Idols: The Guilt Comes Off on Your Hands
Chapter 20 How Sweet the Sound
Chapter 21 Bible? Bible? Who Reads the Bible?
Chapter 22 So
That's What the Snake Meant
Chapter 23 End Game
Chapter 24 And You Thought Jews & Christians Were Crazy
Chapter 25 Conclusion
About the author
Peter Heinegg holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University. He is a professor of English at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. A former Jesuit seminarian, he has published a wide variety of translations, essays, and reviews on the subject of religion, including
Good God! (And Other Follies), Hamilton Books, 2007.
