Religious Delusions, American Style: Manipulations of the Public's Mind

Abstract

Intro -- cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Quotes over the Centuries -- Introduction -- The CONSTRUCTION of a DELUSION -- A NEED for DECEPTION? -- A WORD ABOUT the WORD "CONSPIRACY" -- FORMAT of the BOOK with ALLUSIONS to METHOD -- RESEARCH and EMPATHY -- REFERENCES -- Books/Essays -- Natives, Puritans, Voodoo, and Founding Fathers: Religious Freedom in God's Own Country -- PAST MEETS PRESENT, or PRESENT is PAST -- A NEW WORLD for GOD'S OWN COUNTRY -- "PARADISE, WE'VE got a PROBLEM" -- MANAGING the HEATHENS -- The FOUNDERS' VIEWS: BENIGN MONOTHEISM with a FREEMASONIC TWIST -- REFERENCES -- Books/Essays: -- Government Documents -- Evolution vs Creation, the Battle for the Country's Body and Soul -- Quotes -- DARWINISM or SOCIAL DARWINISM? THAT is the QUESTION -- A CRUEL WORLD at the TURN of the PREVIOUS CENTURY -- NECESSITY and the MOTHERS of INVENTION -- The POWER of COINCIDING EVENTS -- The WARNING FROM the PAST -- REFERENCES -- Books/Essays -- The Cold War Rhetoric of Atheism -- Quotes -- NO RELIGION (and RELIGION) As CULTURAL MEANS of COERCION -- SELLING an EXPENSIVE THREAT to the AMERICAN PEOPLE -- SEEKING a BETTER UNDERSTANDING of RELIGION for the SAKE of CIVIL SOCIETY: the CRITICAL THEORY of RELIGION -- NAVIGATING the BIPOLAR WORLD of RELIGION and NO RELIGION in a MOSTLY-FREE COUNTRY, WHAT is the CITIZEN to do? -- UNITED THEY (elites) STAND, DIVIDED WE (civil society and culture) FALL -- REFERENCES -- Books/Essays -- Films, Documentaries, Internet Discussions -- Jesus and the Palestinians: Christian Zionism -- Quotes -- The 1988 COUNTDOWN -- A WORLD of WINNERS and LOSERS: ISRAEL/U.S. WINNERS, PALESTINIANS, WELL... -- REGARDING SIGNS of THINGS to COME (a): WE'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE -- REGARDING SIGNS of THINGS to COME (b): WE DON'T HAVE to GO THERE AGAIN.