Everything You Know About God is Wrong

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Introduction

In the Beginning

Gerin Oil
Richard Dawkins

Everyone's a Skeptic—About Other Religions
James A. Haught

Faith = Illness: Why I've Had It With Religious Tolerance
Douglas Rushkoff

Current Events & Controversies

The US Is a Free Country, Not a Christian Nation
Michael E. Buckner and Edward M. Buckner

Posting the Ten Commandments
Peter Eckstein

Philadelphia Grand Jury Report on Abusive Priests and the Cardinals Who Enabled Them

God Has Left the Building: The Self-Imposed Death of Institutional Judaism
Douglas Rushkoff

Reformation Hymns: Islam, Iran, and Blogs
Nasrin Alavi

Bible Tales

The God From Galilee
Ruth Hurmence Green

Who Wrote the Gospels?: (Hint: It Wasn't Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John)
Gary Greenberg

Bridging the Leap of Faith
Bobbie Kirkhart

Journey to Bethlehem
Neil Gaiman and Steve Gibson

I Was There! (True Encounters With Religion)

With the Sword: Attending a Muslim Students' Conference
Tasha Fox

Broward County, Florida
Jeff Sharlet and Peter Manseau

My Weekend With Osho
Sam Jordison

Jungle Drums of the Evil I
Earl Kemp

Sacred Spots: Corpses, Thorns, BMW Coffins, a Hymen-Restoring Spring, and Other Religious Relics and Places
Kristan Lawson

Taking Up Serpents: A Photo Gallery of Snake-Handlers
Robert W. Pelton

God-Free Living

The Honesty of Atheism
Dianna Narciso

Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do With God
Greta Christina

Confessions of an Atheist
Paul Krassner

Doing God's Work

"Irish Gulags for Women": The Catholic Church's Magdalene Asylums
Sam Jordison

"End of the World Prophet Found in Error, Not Insane": A Failed Prophet's Survival Handbook
John Gorenfeld

Faith and Curses
Therese Taylor

The Most Popular Sin

Voluptuous Ecstasy on the Temple: Erotic Aspects of Hindu Sculpture
Lawrence E. Gichner

Wanting the Topmost Peach: The Erotic Poetry of the Sixth Dalai Lama
Coleman Barks

"Fondling the Fellows in Folly": In Which God Wonders, Why Be Gay When Straight Sex Is So Great?
Jack Murnighan

The Private Parts on the Pope's Altar
Kristan Lawson

Sounds and Words

It Ain't Necessarily So: The Musical Legacy of Nonbelievers
Dan Barker

Holy Blood, Holy Code
David V. Barrett

"Incomplete Jews" and "International Monetarists": Veiled Anti-Semitism in the Left Behind Series
Michael Standaert

Holy History

Martin Luther Goes Bowling
Bill Brent

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth
Michael Parenti

The God Machine: Building the Mechanical Messiah in 1850s Massachusetts
Robert Damon Schneck

The Verge Extreme: California's Religion of Transformation
Erik Davis

Grab Bag

Jesus of Nazareth Discusses His Failure
H.G. Wells

Holy Shit: Excrement and Religion
John G. Bourke

Legion's Legacy: Possession and Exorcism
Benjamin Radford

Found Religion
FOUND Magazine

Bits and Pieces
Russ Kick

Good Books
Russ Kick

End Matter

Article Histories

Contributors