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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Funny but seriously disturbing! I found this book as I was thinking of churning something similar out myself and was checking to see if someone had thought it up first. Thankfully Ken Smith saved me the task of ploughing through the strange time which is the Bible! Having been discussing my religious upbringing (ha!) with my wife recently I had questioned my memory of much of the weird and seemingly immoral morality tales that had been espoused to me by my strict upright headteacher of lower school and the ultra-religious,... more info
Points out the simple facts These passages are not take out of context. We see clearly where God calls upon his chosen people to commit genocide over and over again. Whackiness, violence, woman bashing, and other weird things.
It is clear that those who wrote the negitive reviews are of that particuliar type that will believe 2+2=5 no matter what you show them.
It is a great source material for all your judea-christian bashing needs.
Ken's Very Funny Guide to the Bible This book shows you the stuff in the Bible that you would otherwise never have heard of. The dark, bloody, brutal, and unseemly side of the Bible. But unlike many other similar efforts, there is no polemic in Ken's Guide. Smith pokes gentle fun, in as brief a style of writing as I have rarely seen. His approach is of the modern-day, clear-headed, common sense variety - and also very, very funny. The book starts out with a good and very amusing introduction (including, among many other things, a top ten... more info
A truly wonderful book. I can't really add much more to the rest of these reviews except to add a five star vote. I don't agree with some of the comments from the bad reviews about Ken taking the time frame wrong, I have a good understanding of the history of the time and I can't really see too many inconsistencies, excepting for an occasional dig for humour's sake. If you object to people poking fun at the bible, then perhaps you should rethink the whole concept of "faith". Any serious Christian I would think could read this book... more info
