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The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy about Love (and Hate) (2015)

por Chris Matheson

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"Part Kurt Vonnegut, part Douglas Adams, but let's be honest, Matheson had me at 'Based on the Bible.'" --Dana Gould, comedian and writer The Bible offers some clues to God's personality--he's alternately been called vindictive and just, bloodthirsty and caring, all-powerful and impotent, capricious and foresighted, and loving and hateful. But no one has ever fully explored why God might be such a figure of contrasts. Nor has anyone ever satisfactorily explained what guides his relationship not just with angels, the devil, and his son, but also with all of creation. Might he be completely misunderstood, a mystery even to himself? Might his behavior and actions toward humankind tell us much more about him than it does about us? Enter the mind of the creator of the universe, travel with him through the heavenly highs and hellish lows of his story, from Genesis to Revelation, to better understand his burdensome journey: being God isn't easy. After hearing his story--at times troubling and tragic but always hilarious in its absurdity and divine in its comedy--you'll never look at a miracle or catastrophe--or at our place in the universe, or God's--the same way again.… (más)
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A satiric retelling of the Bible, featuring a confused and conflicted God who hates women, hates his people most of the time, and thinks up a lot of ingenious ways to punish them. Satan is the only one who will tell him the truth. It’s a little uneven, but some of it is hilarious. This God deserves Richard Dawkins’s description of him as “arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” ( )
  toniclark | Mar 24, 2016 |
God is just this prissy evil clown -- but he follows the bible to the letter. What could e wrong here. ( )
  jefware | Nov 22, 2015 |
Chris Matheson, the writer of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures tells the story of the Christian God in 142 pages. This is a satirical work, and the author enjoys weaving in those Bible bits that make no sense, are contradictory, or are just downright baffling. You know, all those bits that are met with the non-answer platitudes such as "God's ways are not our ways," "don't think about it, just trust," and "the Lord works in mysterious ways." He devotes the last 24 pages of this short book tell the story of the end times as predicted in the book of Revelations, which is the one part of the Bible that was avoided or ignored in my past evangelical training due to its perplexing craziness.

My mother would have been beside herself at this blasphemy. In her opinion, "laughter," "questions" and "God" should never appear in anyone's brain at the same time. Unfortunately for her, everything here is supported by the text -- he shows all his Biblical references. His interpretations and the story he tells around those verses might not match your thoughts, but he's done his homework. ( )
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"Part Kurt Vonnegut, part Douglas Adams, but let's be honest, Matheson had me at 'Based on the Bible.'" --Dana Gould, comedian and writer The Bible offers some clues to God's personality--he's alternately been called vindictive and just, bloodthirsty and caring, all-powerful and impotent, capricious and foresighted, and loving and hateful. But no one has ever fully explored why God might be such a figure of contrasts. Nor has anyone ever satisfactorily explained what guides his relationship not just with angels, the devil, and his son, but also with all of creation. Might he be completely misunderstood, a mystery even to himself? Might his behavior and actions toward humankind tell us much more about him than it does about us? Enter the mind of the creator of the universe, travel with him through the heavenly highs and hellish lows of his story, from Genesis to Revelation, to better understand his burdensome journey: being God isn't easy. After hearing his story--at times troubling and tragic but always hilarious in its absurdity and divine in its comedy--you'll never look at a miracle or catastrophe--or at our place in the universe, or God's--the same way again.

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