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The Batshit Crazy Bible
At a time when Christian nationalism has taken root in the Trump Regime now controlling the US government, the literal interpretation of scripture is no longer merely a theological curiosity—it is shaping policy, justifying exclusion, and wielding genuine power over millions of lives. The Batshit Crazy Bible meets this moment head-on.
Robert Ragnar—lawyer by training, reluctant theologian by necessity—has done what most believers and non-believers alike have never read the Bible in its entirety, cover to cover, every verse. His work defies the sanitized Sunday School narrative to reveal something far stranger, more violent, and more a text of talking donkeys, weaponized foreskins, and divine temper tantrums that simultaneously endorses genocide, sexual coercion, and Bronze Age tribalism. A contradictory Holy Book that has been selectively weaponized to justify authoritarianism for centuries while also presenting a manual for resistance.
This book does not mock faith. It interrogates power. Through sharp wit, rigorous historical context, and a refusal to look away from scripture's most disturbing passages—dubbed "BC Moments"—Ragnar exposes the gap between what the Bible actually says and what we've been told it means. Interludes on lost translations, polytheistic source material, and the political editing of sacred texts reveal a far more complex and human document than orthodoxy admits.
This biblical history comes with illustrations by Matthew Lin and a tone that is equal parts irreverent and urgent. The Batshit Crazy Bible is for critical thinkers, skeptics, the spiritually curious, believers, lapsed believers, ex-evangelicals, secular humanists, atheists and anyone who believes that in dangerous times, humor and honesty are acts of resistance.
If the “word of God” is being used to govern you, the least you can do is read it.
Robert Ragnar—lawyer by training, reluctant theologian by necessity—has done what most believers and non-believers alike have never read the Bible in its entirety, cover to cover, every verse. His work defies the sanitized Sunday School narrative to reveal something far stranger, more violent, and more a text of talking donkeys, weaponized foreskins, and divine temper tantrums that simultaneously endorses genocide, sexual coercion, and Bronze Age tribalism. A contradictory Holy Book that has been selectively weaponized to justify authoritarianism for centuries while also presenting a manual for resistance.
This book does not mock faith. It interrogates power. Through sharp wit, rigorous historical context, and a refusal to look away from scripture's most disturbing passages—dubbed "BC Moments"—Ragnar exposes the gap between what the Bible actually says and what we've been told it means. Interludes on lost translations, polytheistic source material, and the political editing of sacred texts reveal a far more complex and human document than orthodoxy admits.
This biblical history comes with illustrations by Matthew Lin and a tone that is equal parts irreverent and urgent. The Batshit Crazy Bible is for critical thinkers, skeptics, the spiritually curious, believers, lapsed believers, ex-evangelicals, secular humanists, atheists and anyone who believes that in dangerous times, humor and honesty are acts of resistance.
If the “word of God” is being used to govern you, the least you can do is read it.
394 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 5, 2025
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May 24, 2025
This Bible is questionable. It gives you a different perspective of the Bible. Its satirical and makes you want to learn more. Lots of crazy observations.
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