Of God the Devil and the Jews

Dagobert D. Runes

• Publisher: Philosophical Library/Open Road
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9781504085670
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

The noted philosopher shares a far-ranging meditation on the necessity of faith and the many misuses of religion through history.

In this volume, Dagobert D. Runes illuminates the history of Western culture in the light of Christian ethics. By exposing the lies and contradictions of the self-proclaimed followers and defenders of faith, he presents a profound indictment of the Western world, and a call to act in accord with our professed ideals. Speaking from his deep knowledge of history as well as religious and philosophical thought, Runes weaves a personal testament that is both emotionally powerful and intellectually rigorous.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• The Good God and God
• Prayers that Never Reach the Heavens
• Christ Stopped at Georgia
• God at the Crossroads
• Forgotten Religions
• The Devil Who Came to Stay
• The Devil in the Tongue
• Amor Apostolorum
• Jew-baiting and the Holy Ghost
• Learning of the Heart
• Science off the Tracks
• The Crime of Punishment
• History in Full Dress
• Humility, the Devil’s Grace
• Convert Jews and Convex Christians
• Literature as Merchandise
• Glands and the Heavens
• Proverbs and Profits
• Objectors Without Conscience
• The School of Submission
• The Orators and the Yoke
• Schadenfreude
• You Can’t Catch Up with the Past
• The Angels Don’t Keep Pets
• Sin, Sex and Sanity
• Biology and Biography
• The Arts and the Nothing
• Hearsay and Heartsay
• The Jealous, the Envious and the Fisheyed
• Fame Wearies the Hunter
• The Heinzelmaennchen of Psychology
• Syntax and Sense
• Death is not a Sudden Guest
• The Nobodies and the Somebodies
• Index
• Copyright