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On the Prospects of Christianity

by George Bernard Shaw

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  1. 1Why Not Give Christianity a Trial?
  2. 2Why Jesus More Than Another?
  3. 3Was Jesus a Coward?
  4. 4Was Jesus a Martyr?
  5. 5The Gospels Without Prejudice
  6. 6The Gospels Now Unintelligible to Novices
  7. 7Worldliness of the Majority
  8. 8Religion of the Minority. Salvationism
  9. 9The Difference Between Atonement and Punishment
  10. 10Salvation at First a Class Privilege; and the Remedy
  11. 11Retrospective Atonement, and the Expectation of the Redeemer
  12. 12Completion of the Scheme by Luther and Calvin
  13. 13John Barleycorn
  14. 14Looking for the End of the World
  15. 15The Honor of Divine Parentage
  16. 16Matthew
  17. 17John the Baptist
  18. 18Jesus Joins the Baptists
  19. 19The Savage John and the Civilized Jesus
  20. 20Jesus Not a Prosletyst
  21. 21The Teachings of Jesus
  22. 22The Miracles
  23. 23Matthew Imputes Dignity to Jesus
  24. 24The Great Change
  25. 25Jerusalem and the Mystical Sacrifice
  26. 26Not This Man but Barrabas
  27. 27The Resurrection
  28. 28Date of Matthew’s Narrative
  29. 29Class Type of Matthew’s Jesus
  30. 30Mark — The Women Disciples and the Ascension
  31. 31Luke
  32. 32The Charm of Luke’s Narrative
  33. 33The Touch of Parisian Romance
  34. 34Waiting for the Messiah
  35. 35John
  36. 36John the Immortal Eyewitness
  37. 37The Peculiar Theology of Jesus
  38. 38John Agreed as to the Trial and Crucifixion
  39. 39Credibility of the Gospels
  40. 40Fashions of Belief
  41. 41Credibility and Truth
  42. 42Christian Iconolatry and the Perils of the Iconoclast
  43. 43The Alternative to Barrabas
  44. 44The Reduction to Modern Practice of Christianity
  45. 45Modern Communism
  46. 46Redistribution
  47. 47Shall He Who Makes, Own
  48. 48Labor Time
  49. 49The Dream of Distribution According to Merit
  50. 50Vital Distribution
  51. 51Equal Distribution
  52. 52The Captain and the Cabin Boy
  53. 53The Political and Biological Objections to Inequality
  54. 54Jesus as Economist
  55. 55Jesus as Biologist
  56. 56Money the Midwife of Scientific Communism
  57. 57Judge Not
  58. 58Limits to Free Will
  59. 59Jesus on Marriage and the Family
  60. 60Why Jesus Did Not Marry
  61. 61Inconsistency of the Sex Instinct
  62. 62For Better or Worse
  63. 63The Case for Marriage
  64. 64Celibacy No Remedy
  65. 65After the Crucifixion
  66. 66The Vindictive Miracles and the Stoning of Stephen
  67. 67Paul
  68. 68The Confusion of Christendom
  69. 69The Secret of Paul’s Success
  70. 70Paul’s Qualities
  71. 71The Acts of the Apostles
  72. 72The Controversies on Baptism and Transubstantiation
  73. 73The Alternative Christs
  74. 74Credulity No Criterion
  75. 75Belief in Personal Immortality No Criterion
  76. 76The Secular View Natural, Not Rational, Therefore Inevitable
  77. 77“The Higher Criticism”
  78. 78The Perils of Salvationism
  79. 79The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme
  80. 80The Right to Refuse Atonement
  81. 81The Teaching of Christianity
  82. 82Christianity and the Empire

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