Bonnie A. (Mizzou) - reviewed The Funny Side of Faith on 8/28/2008 + 27 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 8

This book may be catergorized as a "Humor" book, but reading it you will learn a LOT about the various faiths followed by modern folks, about some of the really strange "rules" in the Bible, and about the even stranger ways scriptures have been 'interpreted' down through the ages. The author is scholarly at the same time he uses the current American vernacular at relate his thoughts and experiences as he tries to follow the biblical teachings on how to live a pious life. The deeper into his "project' he gets, his alter ego, whom he dubs "Jacob" begins to take a stronger and stronger hold on his thoughts and emotions. Don't miss reading this very HUMAN book, no matter whether you hold with anything from "atheist" to "Zoroastrian" and all between. Need I say that this book is NOT irreverent?

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