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[TheOneWhoFell]

:D That's Great, Steam :D

[edonil]

Uh huh...sorry, that one I didn't read, lol. Honestly, while I have no problem with people poking fun at religions as a rule (the stuff I could tell you about my own that makes me laugh...) I tend to avoid those kinds of books/ shows, because they're usually heavily biased and present a lot of strawmen stuff. (shrug)

Or, the short version, I tend not to laugh at it...

[LonelyPath]

I still think Small Gods is the best book for poking fun at organised religion, it did it very cleverly :D

I have to many other books to read right now though, but I do want to read Small Gods again (read it loads of times already over the years, lol).

[edonil]

Hm. Mayhaps I'll check that out sometime. Right now, I'm so involved in writing a novel I have little time to read one...and yes, I will be posting a section today

[TheOneWhoFell]

tbh, Lamb is... cheeky...

in the historical sense, we know about Jesus's life from birth till about... 4.... then from 30 to dead.... and thats it.

Moore uses the name Joshua, to... remove him slightly from the religion... and then shows the reader an interpretation of what Joshua might have done with his life from the age of 4-30. And of course, Josh's best friend is Biff... Biff is like us... he's crass, he learns to cheat at gambling, is a lover of many woman, and he fights... a lot... because Josh wont.

There's a scene in the book where Josh is trying to understand the Sin of knowing a woman (which he is forbidden to by a rather stupid angel), so Biff convinces Josh to pay for Harlots so Biff can describe sin to him...

It's cheeky... it's not meant to be a crack at Christianity... it's meant to get people to think outside the box... I like to think of it as looking at the more Human side of Joshua... *shrugs*

[MunkeyKungFu]

Gah looks like I need to drop my prices again. Can't believe I can't shift the miss demeanor, nightmare teddy or my painted rasputina crew :(

[edonil]

Honestly, I don't find that to be offensive or anything, so I hope you didn't take it that way, Fell. I've read some books like that which didn't offend me, they just weren't all that entertaining either.

[Absolution Black]

Think it was your work address. It should be there it went first class recorded

ok, not turned up yet..or at least they haven't told me..will probably be here tomorrow...after all it is wales!

And I currently have a post count of 666...(snicker)

Evil...evil I tells you! ;)

3082 posts for me... in here...

although, when we first started, they counted... I think I hit my 2000 mark in here before they closed that down... so... maybe... 500-1000 of the 3082 are already in my grand total.... *thinks* I don't recall now...

Yeah, god knows how many I'd actually have now, about 5,000? I need to expand my field of posting a bit more!

*looks outside thread*

Nah, its scary.....

Boo

I got it XP

cheat! I wasn't here so it doesn't count!

[LonelyPath]

Well, we know a lot about Jesus until he's about 11 or 12, than it jumps over all the good stuff, lol.

[TheOneWhoFell]

Path: Basically... it picks up at age... six? Goes through him teaching in the temple in Jerusalem... and then it picks up it's own... thing... he goes off to learn how to be the messiah... then he returns to pick up where the Gospels pick up his ministry.... and it follows through to his death...

the concept is neat because it goes between Biff writing in first person Omnicient (Joshua and I) and first person present (as he's writing he's telling about what's going on around him). The book is meant to be... light hearted...