For several years now, The Babylon Bee has been recognized as one of Christian satire's loudest voices on the internet. Articles posted almost daily mock what we perceive as norms in modern Christian circles, with culprits from the everyday Christian to Joel Osteen to Tim Tebow to Veggietales. And now, the familiar satirical voice is coming to the world in book form.
For those of you who are not into sarcasm and satire, let me warn you-- this book is absolutely full of it!! There is not a page in this book which does not feature a sarcastic remark. As one progresses through the book, he must realize that by joking about everything that we want, the authors are pointing out the true silliness in some of the arguments that we have as believers. I truly appreciated this. The one thing that I did not appreciate was the author's use of actual parts of Scripture as satire. For example, at one passage the author references the book of Revelation and the letter to the Ephesian church in that book. For my own part, I found these references to God's Word as disrespectful.
But despite these occasional disrespectful parts, I found this book to be hilarious and quite eye-opening about the stupidity of some arguments. For these reasons, I give this book 3.5 stars out of 5.
WHERE TO PURCHASE:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Perfect-Christian-Comprehensive-Spiritual/dp/0735291527/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1516637821&sr=8-1&keywords=how+to+be+a+perfect+christian+the+babylon+bee
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THIS BOOK:
Ford, Adam and Kyle Mann. How to Be a Perfect Christian: Your Comprehensive Guide to Flawless Spiritual Living. New York: Multnomah, 2018.
DISCLOSURE OF MATERIAL: I received a complimentary copy of this book through the Blogging for Books book review program, which requires an honest, though not necessarily positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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