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Index
Cover
Title
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by JP Sears
Welcome to the Kali Yuga by Swami Vas iz Das
Introduction
Part I: The Mind of a Rascal: An Unauthorized Autobiography
1. Prologue: A Holy Rascal Manifesto
2. Interview with a Rascal: AltGuru Talks with Rabbi Rami
3. The Making of a Holy Rascal
Part II: Religion Unveiled: The Tao of Toto
4. Religion and Language
5. Religions—Healthy and Unhealthy
6. Religiosity and Religion
7. Saints and Scoundrels
8. Few Want to Be Free
9. First There Is Religion, Then There Is No Religion, Then There Is
10. Religions Are Made Up
11. Branded by the Light
12. Endless Curiosity and Boundless Compassion
13. Snake or Belt?
14. Our Motto, Our Guide, Our Mantra, Our Goal
15. No Clinging
16. One Aim
17. Truth Is What’s Common to All
18. Piety and Homicide
19. What Is Exclusive Is Not True; What Is True Is Not Exclusive
20. All Is God
21. You Can Know God Directly
22. Knowing God, Acting Godly
23. This Is Why You Are Here
24. God Doesn’t Exist; God Is Existing
25. Maya
26. God Is Dead; Long Live Goding
27. The Ice Cream That Cannot Be Flavored
28. Brand-Name Gods
29. Without God All Things Are Permitted
30. The Greatest Fundraising Gimmick of All Time
31. Father Knows Best
32. Free Will
33. God’s Ultimate Escape Hatch
34. Functional Free Will
35. We’ve Got the Power
36. God, the Eternal I
37. Liar, Lunatic, or Lord?
38. Confirmation Bias
39. No Gap
40. Et Tu, Krishna?
41. Sacred Dis-Ease
42. Religious Dis-Eases Are Iatrogenic
43. Religion as Munchausen Syndrome
44. Teach Your Children Well: Religion as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
45. Doom of the Rock
46. What If Nothing’s Wrong?
47. Here’s What’s Really Wrong with You
48. Ordinary Holiness and Everyday Perfection
49. It Takes a Universe
50. Why Are You Here?
51. Creative Bacteria
52. Religion Noir
53. Dangerous Story
54. Story Denial
55. Drop the Story, Kill the God
56. Reclaiming Metaphor and Parable
57. Parables, Not Proofs
58. Mining a Parable
59. No First, No Last
60. Belief versus Faith
61. Two Kinds of Doubt—Cheap and Costly
62. Alright, Mr. DeMille, I’m Ready for My Close-Up
63. Climb Every Mountain
64. Moses’s Ten Suggestions
65. Take Two Tablets and Climb Back Up to Me in a Few Chapters
66. The Two Most Dangerous Ideas
67. The Work of the Holy Rascal
68. Free Prize Inside
69. FTTT
70. Pascal’s Wager
71. What Happens to You When You Die?
72. Is There Life after Beach?
73. To Be or Knot to Be
74. Enjoy the Strawberries
75. Being Zusha
76. After Me
77. I’ll Be Back
78. Enlightenment
79. Enlightenment Is in the I of the Beholder
80. Zeno’s Enlightenment
81. Life One, Phase One
82. Life One, Phase Two
83. It’s All about Me
84. Life One, Phase Two: Confession
85. Life Two: Reality and All That Jazz
86. All Is One and One Is All
87. Möbius World
88. Acceptance
89. Einstein Is Wrong
90. Don’t Detach—Engage
91. Don’t Ask
92. Do Ask
93. Relativism
94. Play
95. Not-Knowing
Part III: Hacking the Holy
96. Spiritual Culture Jamming
97. Mockery versus Satire
98. Memes to an End
99. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
100. The Religion That Cannot Be Branded
101. The Art of the Aphorism
102. Five Laws of a Successful Aphorism
103. Jaded Wisdom
104. Thou Hast Mail
105. A Card-Carrying Holy Rascal
106. When All Is Said and Done
107. How to Avoid the Cross, the Stake, Stoning, and Beheading
108. Epilogue: There’s a God at the End of This Book!
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Sounds True
Copyright
Praise for Holy Rascals
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