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Interestingly enough, I started thinking that in my review I would talk about how normally I enjoy the theme of a book but not how it turns out in the writing of it as opposed to this book where I started out enjoying AJ Jacobs writing but finding myself frusterated with the content. Now I really think that I just started reading this book with the wrong idea about what Jacobs was trying to accomplish (I attribute this partly to myself and partly to Jacobs, he named at least 3 goals for his project and the reviews confused this even more). This lead me to missunderstand some of his choices and stories. That being said I think in the end my expectations started to align more closely with his actions (don't mistake this for the other was around that his actions more aligned with my expectations) which led me to appreciate the book a lot more.
I think the best part of the book was the end. Jacob's conclusions align well with my current set of beliefs although they are not entirely in sync. It also felt like a fitting conclusion to his experience. It seemed more genuine than if he had ended as someone who was ultra religious (of course there is no reason why that should not have been the case).
Something he mentioned that struck me was his comment about religious literalism vs constitutional literalism. I'm still collecting thoughts but it is certainly food for thought.
Very curious to me was his insistance on doing everything the Bible mentions... not just laws. For example the bird and the egg thing was very perplexing, from what I gathered at least, the Bible didn't say go out, find a bird, shoo her away and then take an egg just for the sake of taking an egg, it said if you happen to be taking an egg then here is how you do it.
Now that I have written my review I am curious to go back and read other review and see what others thought about it.
I think the best part of the book was the end. Jacob's conclusions align well with my current set of beliefs although they are not entirely in sync. It also felt like a fitting conclusion to his experience. It seemed more genuine than if he had ended as someone who was ultra religious (of course there is no reason why that should not have been the case).
Something he mentioned that struck me was his comment about religious literalism vs constitutional literalism. I'm still collecting thoughts but it is certainly food for thought.
Very curious to me was his insistance on doing everything the Bible mentions... not just laws. For example the bird and the egg thing was very perplexing, from what I gathered at least, the Bible didn't say go out, find a bird, shoo her away and then take an egg just for the sake of taking an egg, it said if you happen to be taking an egg then here is how you do it.
Now that I have written my review I am curious to go back and read other review and see what others thought about it.