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THE HOLY BIBLE (a book review)
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this was pretty funny reading!
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We came into Moses' story reading The Grapes of Wrath, then wham! Moses finds out he's a Jew and **** goes totally Harry Potter.
I'm off to watch TV now, I'll give this a thorough read tomorrow. I love it.
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Really, there are only a few criticisms I have: The sections where the author obviously forces their own political agenda into the story are rather distracting (at one point the whole story grinds to a halt so the Jesus character can give some sort of "sermon" on this "mount"-like thing that is little more than liberal propaganda extolling the benefits of a welfare state)...
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in what is one of many disturbingly phallic metaphors littered throughout the book, Moses and the Pharaoh's magicians start slinging about their "snakes" and "staffs" to see whose is bigger.
Our protagonist, God, is somehow also a character named Jesus Christ, who is the son of God and... listen, it's never quite clear what the genealogy is, or how God is his own son or anything (and what's up with the ghost?) but a lot of the set-up just has to be taken on faith. Now, the character of Jesus may not be the most original creation (he's kind of amalgam of three other prominent protagonists:
My thoughts exactly.
The Holy Bible kills off supporting characters like horror movies kill black people
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I think that almost anything can be proven or dis-proven by reading the bible. it all seems to relate to how you see life.
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The same could be said of watching Star Trek. 
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