دانلود کتاب The Politically Incorrect Guide to Christianity (The Politically Incorrect Guides)

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Cover Page
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
A Note to the Politically Correct Reader
Introduction
Chapter One: About the Big Guy
Yes, Virginia, There Is a God
Positive Attributes
A Note on Evil
The Trinity: God’s a Party
Feminist Objections
Glory Be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit
The Incarnation: What If God Were One of Us?
Just in Time
Only Another Myth?
Atonement: The Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension of the God-Man
Not Attuned to the Atonement
The Resurrection and Ascension
Chapter Two: High-Proof Spirits
Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
Your Guardian Angel—and Your Local Feminist
The Devil Is in the Details
The Devil and All His Friends
There Are Limits
The First Radical
A Note on Dualism
Chapter Three: About Us
The Restless Animal: Seven Options
Stoic Resignation
Sisyphean Illusion
Buddhist Self-Annihilation
Consumerism
Diversion
Sedation
The Religious Animal
Spiritual but Not Religious
The Sinful but Redeemed Animal
The Nuptial Animal
LGBT
Can We Talk?
Chapter Four: The Rest of Creation
Nature: Mother or Kid Sister?
Christianity and Global Warming
Politics: Composting the Dung of Romulus
Unholy Alliances
Christianity and Other Cultures: Honey Badger or Honey Bee?
Love of Neighbor: Nobody Does It Better
Christians and Government Programs for the Poor
Chapter Five: It’s the End of the World as We Know It
The Particular Judgment
Heaven
Hell
Purgatory
A Note on Ghosts
Is Limbo in Limbo?
The End of Days and the Second Coming
The Resurrection of the Body and the General Judgment
Heaven and Earth 2.0
Signs of the Times
Chapter Six: How Do We Know? Christian Sources and Confirmations
The Bible
Misconception #1: “The Bible is a product of its times.”
Misconception #2: “The Bible is myth.”
Misconception #3: “The Bible is full of errors.”
Ten Commandments for Reading the Bible
The Church
Miracles
So Great a Cloud of Witnesses
The Rays of Beauty
Reason Nods and Shrugs
Chapter Seven: The Battle of the Sexes
Christian “Gender Relations”—Backwards or Upwards?
Nuptial Meaning
Subject versus Inferior
Sacred versus Holy
The Emancipation of Women
Chapter Eight: Intolerance
The Jews
The Holocaust
Slandering Pius XII
The Crusades
Imperialist Colonization versus Self-Defense
Just Cause versus Just Conduct
Holy War versus Jihad
Memories Then and Now
The Spanish Inquisition
“The Black Legend”
Chapter Nine: Christianity and Science
Galileo—and a Side Note on Columbus and Magellan
Evolution
Christianity: The Enemy of Science or the Reason for It?
Chapter Ten: The War against Common Sense, or the Seven Deadly Sins of Modern Thought
The First Deadly Sin of Modernity: Attacks on Truth Itself—Subjectivism, Scientism, and Materialism
The Second Deadly Sin of Modernity: Moral Relativism
The Third Deadly Sin of Modernity: The Cult of the Ugly and the Cheap
The Fourth Deadly Sin of Modernity: The Myth of Progress
The Fifth Deadly Sin of Modernity: The Idol of Equality
The Sixth Deadly Sin of Modernity: The Abolition of Man
The Seventh Deadly Sin of Modernity: Victimhood Culture
Christianity and Victimhood Culture
Acknowledgments
Bibliography