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In The Beginning: A Secular and Satirical Reading of the Best-Selling Book of All Time
In The Beginning A Secular and Satirical Reading of the BestSelling Book of All Time Author:William Bennett There's a certain old book lurking on the forgotten shelves of many of our homes. Most of us have at least a passing familiarity with a few of the more famous stories found within that book. The majority of us are aware of its tales of two naked people in a garden, of a big boat full of animals, and of the birth of a special baby. But only th... more »e odd person, scattered here and there, has actually read it cover to cover. In The Beginning is for the people who really don't want to. The central character is a being who exists outside of space and time as we perceive it, who is orders of magnitude more intelligent that any human, who is so different from us that we cannot even begin to imagine his greatness, and who configured our planet and our entire cosmos in just six days of epic creativity. He is known as Tom, and he is an irresponsible youth living in a star system known as Ko, in a parallel universe. Well, who did you think I was talking about? The universe that Tom designs turns our far from perfect, but he does make an honest effort to do the right thing. Sadly, he just can't seem get any cooperation whatsoever from the dominant species on the one little planet that he decided to infuse with the miracle of life. In The Beginning presents a satirical interpretation of the best-selling book in history, one which is just very, very slightly more plausible than the original. It is a fictionalization of an ancient fiction. Sometimes irreverent, sometimes willfully naïve, and sometimes just a bit serious, it strives to direct the thoughts of the reader on a course somewhat different from that plotted by priests and rabbis throughout the millennia.« less