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Summary: Forget the other reviews
Review: If you've got a brain in your head you'll notice that all the other reviewers/ reviews of this product (as is the case with most product related to Christianity) are done by either, 1.)intellects selected from the church to specifically dive into sites just like this and discredit books just like this with so-called intelligent banter and bullcrap arguments to save themselves but who always seem to end up sounding like 2) stupid, 6th grade level educated (or lack thereof) morons with closed minds who've been born and bred in a house of Christ to believe that everything in the Bible is factual and - uh-hm - literal and think that sunrays shine out of the churches rear holes. These people are the end of the world. Pity them. They can't even see past the hypocrosy of their own sodomising priests, cardinals & leaders (if you can call them that) because they're so blinded by the conditioning and fairytale-like faith in the world. One shouldn't expect them to even touch on the intended tones and intentions of a book like this. You get the point. You've got brains. Read the book and compare the chapters and all their offensive & gratuitous contents to other offensive, gratiutous product that the churches seem to not want the world to have access to. The HYPOCROSY, BWAHAAHAAHAAHA
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Summary: Another Skeptic Who Thinks He Thinks!
Review: It is interesting to me to read books like this. Having a degree from a Bible College, I love to read people's books who want to make fun of the Bible and supposedly offer "insight" into the supposed "mistakes" in the Bible. But, the problem with books like this, is that the people writing them are already convinced the Bible is not accurate or true. Therefore, they do not look for reasons on how things could logically be explained, they simply want to question them. For example, this author constantly refers to the Bible as a fable or myth. If so, what difference does it make to him if the story lines don't match up! It's all a fable anyway! But, when you believe the Bible is the Word of God, inspired but the Creator of the World, you can believe that some things which seem extraordinary are indeed possible. So again, we have someone starting with the assumption that the Bible is false and yet using it to prove it is false. It provides for some interesting reading, but certainly does not make me challenge my faith, only increases it!
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Summary: Another Skeptic Who Thinks He Thinks!
Review: It is interesting to me to read books like this. Having a degree from a Bible College, I love to read people's books who want to make fun of the Bible and supposedly offer "insight" into the supposed "mistakes" in the Bible. But, the problem with books like this, is that the people writing them are already convinced the Bible is not accurate or true. Therefore, they do not look for reasons on how things could logically be explained, they simply want to question them. For example, this author constantly refers to the Bible as a fable or myth. If so, what difference does it make to him if the story lines don't match up! It's all a fable anyway! But, when you believe the Bible is the Word of God, inspired but the Creator of the World, you can believe that some things which seem extraordinary are indeed possible. So again, we have someone starting with the assumption that the Bible is false and yet using it to prove it is false. It provides for some interesting reading, but certainly does not make me challenge my faith, only increases it!
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Summary: Somewhat accurate but missing the point
Review: Mr. Akerley accurately records the "X-Rated" verses in the Bible but he fails to miss the point of the Bible as a whole: all humans have fallen from their created state of grace and are in need of salvation from their sins and restoration to a right relationship with God. Yes, even the "great patriarchs" and heroes of Scripture are human and flawed...surprise, surprise. Sometimes those flaws are revealed in a sexual context, other times in a different manner: note that Noah was a drunk and Moses was a murderer.
Akerley consolidates in his book the sexual perversions described in the Bible and quotes various historical figures in pursuing his agenda. He takes the typical secular world view and condemns the Bible and those who follow it and does one thing that the Bible, itself, does not: sensationalize the sexual perversion and obscenity it describes.
The Bible is what it is: a no-holds-barred look at people across several thousand years and how they continually screw things up. It also shows God's patience, love, kindness, and grace in using those same screwed-up individuals in trying to make the world a better place... on God's terms. Akerley conveniently leaves out those parts of the Bible which are more significant that the sexual perversions he focuses upon.
Akerley's "The X-Rated Bible" follows a simple formula: cut-and-paste bits and pieces out of the Bible and offer up more of the same bitter and angry rhetoric leveled against the Bible, Jews, and Christians seen around the world. As such, it offers nothing new: one star.
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Summary: Lots here
Review: The author could have just quoted X-rated scripture and left it at that. He didn't. By adding historical information and his own thoughts, The X-Rated Bible is a very worthwhile study. An excellent, thorough, and thoughtful book. One of the best!
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Summary: It's not what you think
Review: This book is merely an attempt to discredit the Bible because it contains some passages that refer to sexual activities of some kind or another. Mowever, the author's tone in the book is atrocious--he jumps from one conclusion to the next, complete with vulgar and slanderous language, without giving any context in which the passages are interpreted or what their potential meaning is. He doesn't recognize who the ancient Hebrews are, except that he calls them an ignorant, mysogynist, illeterate desert tribe who liked to boot goats around and had ridiculous superstitions regarding blood and spirits. He also blames them of being homophobic barbarians, because it was necessary for the tribe to engage in heterosexual activity in order to propagate more children for its patriarchial ruling structure. But the Bible itself says the Israelites frequently engaged in perverse sexual practices, which is why the laws were made to combat homosexual relations, bestiality and incest. Scroll down and read ROBERT'S review too. This book does contain a large amount of stories and information that the reader will find amusing and titillating, but it is not a serious scholarly refutation or exposition of lurid Biblical passages. Some of the passages the author writes about here are allegories, because Israel was written about as a symbolic bride of God (they had an intimate covenant realationship, this is not literal, but an abstraction). This book is more of a subjective rant against what the author considers ignorant, unenlightened, barbarian and unsophisticated because it doesn't agree with his beliefs or idealogy.
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Summary: Pink Propaganda
Review: This book is merely an attempt to discredit the Bible because it contains some passages that refer to sexual activities of some kind or another. Mowever, the author's tone in the book is atrocious--he jumps from one conclusion to the next, complete with vulgar and slanderous language, without giving any context in which the passages are interpreted or what their potential meaning is. He doesn't recognize who the ancient Hebrews are, except that he calls them an ignorant, mysogynist, illeterate desert tribe who liked to boot goats around and had ridiculous superstitions regarding blood and spirits. He also blames them of being homophobic barbarians, because it was necessary for the tribe to engage in heterosexual activity in order to propagate more children for its patriarchial ruling structure. But the Bible itself says the Israelites frequently engaged in perverse sexual practices, which is why the laws were made to combat homosexual relations, bestiality and incest. Scroll down and read ROBERT'S review too. This book does contain a large amount of stories and information that the reader will find amusing and titillating, but it is not a serious scholarly refutation or exposition of lurid Biblical passages. Some of the passages the author writes about here are allegories, because Israel was written about as a symbolic bride of God (they had an intimate covenant realationship, this is not literal, but an abstraction). This book is more of a subjective rant against what the author considers ignorant, unenlightened, barbarian and unsophisticated because it doesn't agree with his beliefs or idealogy.
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Summary: Serious, in-depth analysis. Not for those who want erotica
Review: Those who have given this book negative reviews just by "coincidence" happen to be either religious fanatics or disappointed people who were looking for erotic literature, but instead saw that this work was all about showing that the Bible is not as "good" a book as the Church wants us to think it is. This book offers a detailed account of the many lewd actions described and, what's worse, praised in the Bible; it's food for thought. And thought requires an open mind. That said, if you're one of those people who adore televangelists, forget it. Also, forget it if you're looking for a piece of erotic literature or for a set of pornographic novels with a religious twist. I really wonder when someone will write a survey of the pro-racist, bigot and fascist messages of the Bible, though.
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Summary: Why is the Good Book so bizarre, sexual and violent?
Review: When first published in 1985 by Madalyn Murray O'Hair (who has since mysteriously disappeared) and her Atheist Foundation, The X-Rated Bible caused a national furor, complete with scathing newspaper editorials, talk show outrage and praise from publications like Playboy. Now that we approach the millennium, Ben Akerley's controversial book has been enlarged and revised, and its new printing deserves a more considered reassessment from the national press. Is it, as Playboy wrote, "a witty but scholarly examination and analysis of all the sexual activity that fundamentalists tend to overlook in the King James Bible." Or are the weird and steamy actions that occur in the bible always righteously "mentioned as evil and usually punished as evil," as propounded by the outraged right-wing organization, Morality in Media? In its first incarnation, no major book distributor agreed to carry The X-Rated Bible. But today, the chains have gotten a little bolder, and all have agreed to carry a book an editorial in the Tulsa World wished would "wind up on the back shelves of a dark warehouse." Advance Praise for the new, Feral House edition of The X-Rated Bible: "Everything you wanted to know about the holiness-horniness nexus, but they wouldn't tell you." - George Carlin "Not since God exposed his rear parts to Moses has the Bible reared its exposed parts to such raunchy scrutiny." - Paul Krassner, The Realist
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