Ken’s Guide to the Bible by Ken Smith

Summary: Smith parses down the bible, The Old Testament, The New Testament and some Gospels and other such ancillary texts, showing the bible’s pastiche nature. It is a book that points out (as it says on its cover) the violence, sex, absurdity and weirdness that Christians so heavily rely on and refer to when wanting to answer moral questions… wait, what?

Review: Perfect for the beginner Atheist. This is a book that you can use against your Christian friends in the schoolyard when they quote Corinthians, you can quote right back at them and laugh! I haven’t read the bible, so I was surprised at all the juicy details that they just had to have in there.

Rating: 8 first born sons dead for their father’s sins

Random Sample: “God has a wrestling match with Jacob and loses. To honor the occasion, God changes Jacob’s name to ‘Israel.’ –Genesis 32:24-30”

Wine-pairing: After analyzing a text that is fiction posing as fact, how about a switch? The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown pairs up amazing art artifacts and scientific stories to weave together a very realistic Church conspiracy… yes, the Holy Grail. Is it a chalice?