God Is Disappointed In You Author: Mark Russell Shannon Wheeler | Language: English | ISBN:
B00D4DOKKG | Format: EPUB
God Is Disappointed In You Description
God Is Disappointed in You is for people who would like to read the Bible...if it would just cut to the chase. Stripped of its arcane language and interminable passages, every book of the Bible is condensed down to its core message, in no more than a few pages each.
Written by Mark Russell with cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, God Is Disappointed in You is a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but always accurate retelling of the Bible, including the parts selectively left out by Sunday School teachers and church sermons.
Irreverent yet faithful, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to see past the fog of religious agendas and cultural debates to discover what the Bible really says.
- File Size: 7534 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Publisher: Top Shelf Productions (July 24, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00D4DOKKG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Quote from book: "What do we call it?" After a few abortive suggestions, all of which I'm glad we turned down, we started to focus in on "God is Disappointed in You," which is the perfect title for this book, because if I had to condense the entire Bible down to a single phrase, that would be it.
God is Disappointed in You took me significantly longer to read than I had initially assumed. The Bible can be quite dull subject matter, especially for a non-Christian. That being said, I truly did enjoy this book. Religion can be such a serious, touchy subject for many people, so I don't know that this book is for everyone, as I can see the more devout being offended at the language and seemingly lackadaisical attitude expressed towards one of the worlds most "holy" of books.
Most of the Old Testament is about land battles and genealogies (or as Russell states, God's attempt at scrap-booking) and God smiting or promising to smite people. And there is a reason that a lot of Christians (at least the ones that I personally know) have never actually read the entire Bible. It's dull. I think Leviticus is my favorite example of this, but Russell was able to even make that chapter interesting to me.
God is Disappointed in You's setup is basically that each chapter of the Bible has a corresponding chapter in there. They are not always just straight prose either. For example, Psalms was written in the form of a "Greatest Hits" album, several books followed the form of emails or memos, Habakkuk was a Q&A, Hebrews was in FAQ form, etc. Having read the majority of the Old Testament, I can speak to the veracity of that particular section, and the humor that Russell brought to it was very amusing.
I also learned several things I didn't know before.
Via NetGalley, Top Shelf Productions supplied me with a copy of this eGalley for the purposes of reading and reviewing it. While it was provided at no cost to me, I am under no obligation to give a positive review.
I was raised Catholic. There. It's out in the open. Judge me now or judge me later.
Catholics don't usually have Vacation Bible School, so I invariably went with friends to whatever VBS they were attending that week. It was a surefire way for my parents to keep my brother and I out of trouble. Well, you can't blame them for trying.
I remember that during one of them there was a contest to memorize scriptures. I have always had outstanding recall, so this was right up my alley. Add in that the first place prize was a one pound bag of peanut M&Ms, and I had all the motivation I needed. I won that contest easily. Good thing I don't have a peanut allergy. And that bag of M&Ms was gone within the hour when I got home. My stomach still hurts.
This book had no chocolate and candy shell-covered nuts as a reward at the end, but it was certainly equally as fun. In this hilarious offering, the authors (one the writer, the other the artist) take each book of the Bible (as I type this, "Born Again" by Black Sabbath is playing in the background. Ironic.) and summarize it in succinct and humorous ways. There are gems such as:
Here it is, the entire Jewish religion in a nutshell:
1. Build a just society where the rich and powerful don't get to treat the rest of us like livestock.
2. Don't get all too cool for school whenever God tries to tell you something. Be humble. You're never so holy that you can't improve a little.
And finally,
3. For gravy's sake, help each other out once in a while.
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