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Summary: KEN ROCKS WITH TRUTH!!!
Review: This book is fantastic. If you have an open mind, and like dealing with reality, this is the book for you!!! Gets around much of the Humbo Jumbo and deals some realism in the most contradictory book in the world. Thanks Ken!!!!
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Summary: Good example of "different point of view"
Review: The author gives a thorough guidance through some of the less known passages of The Book as well as those widely known but often misused when taken out of context. Although experienced Bible students may easily smash down about fifty percent of Ken's conclusions but there is still a good portion of those, which are difficult to fight with... Good for all those who can only see one side of the coin. It doesn't ruin your faith if you are a *CONSCIOUS* believer. It mostly exposes many of the misinterpretations being heard all around. Good work.
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Summary: More fun than Sunday school
Review: Ever wanted to get the short, short version of the Bible in a highly humorous fashion? Then this is the book for you. Easily readable in a day, this book gives brief a brief synopsis of all the books in the bible and then proceeds to highlight those passages they probably didn't assign you in Sunday school. All Ken's comments are clearly marked for easy reference with such enjoyable symbols as the sign of the bull for bunk. The best sections are the overviews of the prophets, virtually all of whom are exposed as the insufferable doom-sayers that they were.
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Summary: Baloney
Review: I don't believe for a second that it's not the same Ken Smith. Too many coincidences. And as far as his claim of a "failure to refute" his views on Usenet and a desire to "subsequently punish" him via a book review, it is he that has the mistaken identity here. I have read his posts but I've never posted myself. A lurker.But it really doesn't matter whether it is or isn't the same person, although there are way too many coincidences to make me think otherwise. The fact is that this book attempts to debunk Christianity (which HAS been distorted over the years from Christ's original message, no doubt, and THAT is what needs to be debunked, not Christ's original message), but the book wholly fails because it attempts to debunk without using a historical basis in which to do so. Everything is dragged into the present and analyzed within that context, where actually it makes perfect sense within the historical context. The book is humorous -- but not in the intended fashion.
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Summary: It's time to call a spade a spade!
Review: This is not a book for religious fundamentalists. When I bought it, the clerk warned me not to leave it in the bathroom otherwise I would lose my bathroom and my guest! Needless to say, the overall scope of the book is way too much for it's 143 pages to handle, so the humourous icons and Ken Smith's offhand remarks "lighten the load" a bit. But I don't think that's what Ken Smith had in mind. It's another perspective on Bible study, contrasting with the sanctimonious handling of the Bible a lot of us grew up with. I definitely recommend this book as a starting point for anyone who wants to learn about the hypocrisies, bloodshed, cruelty and debauchery of the God of the Bible. It's small, easy to read, and humanistic: the "put everything in the Bible in it's proper perspective" feeling is there on every page. Also, I recommend this book for anyone who wants to find a voice in the struggle against organized religion. If there ever was a "fix-it" book for Christian cognitive dissonance, this book is it. The best use of it, however, should come with the gradual realization that if we applied the same ratings standard with the Bible that we do for movies and TV, then one could make an almost air-tight case that the Bible should not be given to or read by children. I could definitely see someone trying to have the Bible banned from libraries, bookstores and television using a lot of the examples given in this book as evidence of the Bible's inappropriateness. Not that I advocate censorship, but I think religious-right hypocrites deserve to have some of their Orwellian logic thrown back at them from time to time. It would be a good litmus test for the political beliefs of the "true" believers out there: if you want to censor television, ban books, and censor the internet, then censor or ban the Bible as well. If not, then leave everyone alone!
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Summary: Review and clarification
Review: First off, the comments from "A Reader" are unfounded. He's referring to an entirely different Ken Smith --not the author of the book. This is a cute quick Bible-debunking for beginners. It's not a reference, but it's not intended to be. It'll make you laugh, and it'll make you think
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Summary: A Case of Mistaken Identity.
Review: It is a staggering coincidence. Like the author of this book, I see the Bible for the rank absurdity that it is. And like the author, I wrote a tome debunking it. But unlike the author, I have both a M.S. and a J.D., and my unpublished book was by all accounts better.... And yes, I am involved in writing religious comedy: I run the Bob Larson Fan Club website, an expose of the wacky world of televangelism. It reveals what Christianity REALLY is: The original inspiration for Amway. Obviously, my anonymous critic is frustrated by the substantive criticisms I level against Christianity -- and his inability to refute them. And like the Christian he evidently is, he sought to punish me economically for beating him and/or his views to a bloody pulp on USENET. And like so many of his counterparts before him, he missed. :)
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Summary: Great Book..You Must Buy This
Review: After reading this book I see why I am not a christian because this book points out just a few of the faults the bible has. If you are a christian you need to read this to just see what you have placed your "faith" in, if you are not a christian you need to read this to get a good laugh out of the what the bible "teaches" you.
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Summary: Short, has some merit, but also has a questionable agenda
Review: If you want to get a little feel for the mindset of the author of this book, just do a usenet search for "Ken Smith" or a search for "ranger57." You will find multiple threads in alt.religion.christianity.calvary-chapel and a host of other newsgroups in which Mr. Smith participates (a better term would be "infests"). The book itself is a short little ditty, written in a wholly unprofessional style, with little in the way of cohesiveness and flow, with typos and errors. It does a fair job of debunking much of the Bible's more ambiguous and/or questionable passages. The author, however, is hellbent (pardon the pun) on his crusade to debunk Christianity in every venue possible. For one thing, I do not consider it a noble enterprise to actively thrash other people's beliefs, even if one thinks that he is right in doing so. Take a look at his venomous Usenet posts and judge for yourself whether this guy is worth reading.
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Summary: A fantastic book
Review: I ordered this book with some apprehension, but after spending some time with it my worries are gone. In fact, this is probably the most thorough debunking of the Bible I have ever seen -- and it's all done with immense good humor. .... Among many excellent points made in this very successful book, I'll mention two, to give you an idea of its flavor. First, God has sons who have had sex with human women. Second, in the Old Testament, God openly admits that, while the Israelites were wandering in the Wilderness, He (God) gave them statutes that could not be obeyed, and ordinances that were defective. (A footnote in my Bible comments that "this might seem to contradict the nature of God." Indeed, it might!) That single verse destroys all claims to Biblical inerrancy, just like the paradoxical sentence: "This sentence is not true." I'll omit the chapter-and-verse citations for those two examples, but they are accurate. It might encourage you to get this book!
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