Provocations is a collection of Chaz Bufe's writings on anarchism, atheism, religion, Alcoholics Anonymous, political and religious cults, new age nuttiness, political and social repression in the United States, the phoniness of contemporary "libertarianism," and roads to change. The tone ranges from the serious and analytical to the sarcastic and darkly humorous in this wide-ranging exercise in critical thinking.--Publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references (page 181) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- You Call This Freedom? -- Anarchism: What It Is and What It Isn't -- It's Pretty Damn Simple: Basic Economics -- The Military: Are They All Heroes? -- Convenient Pessimism -- The Second Most Offensive Question -- Don't Call Them Libertarians -- Why Religion Always Lags -- Astrology: Fraud or Superstition? -- 20 Reasons to Abandon Christianity -- Door-to-Door God Peddlers -- AA Lies -- A Future Worth Living -- Means to Change -- The American Heretic's Dictionary (excerpts).
