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Why are we inserting a random racist quote that doesn’t have anything to do with the main point of the passage, and also agreeing with it?

I have truly, truly been trying to keep an open mind with this book and give the author the benefit of the doubt over passages I disagreed with, but after the author describing actively killing his hamster in the first grade and then somehow trying to equate this to humans being born naturally sinful… I can’t.

“…immorality saturated the city. Brothels, homosexuality, and pornographic mosaics filled the streets.” Amen brother sign me up.

There’s something unsettling about discussing God’s unconditional, irrevocable love in the same breath as “the Christians whom God saves.” Is this love truly unconditional, if salvation is reserved for a select few?

Comforting yourself about your childhood bully not getting into trouble for throwing a basketball at your face by claiming that it’s ok because one day God will judge this world with fire and only the righteous will ascend is certainly… something.

“A prostitute tried to have sex with me once.” Does the author KNOW she was a prostitute? Because he goes on to describe her as a camp counselor on his mission trip with zero indication of her employment history. I’m also not a fan of him describing communicating with her as “frustrating,” “like doing a Sudoku puzzle in the dark.” Sir you’re in HER country and she has to speak YOUR language.

It was a mild red flag to me when the author described God as giving Eve to Adam, but the fact that in the same page he describes himself as making “a risky move but a sexy one” when approaching a woman has cemented the tone for this book in my mind. Thankfully, I think it will err on the side of entertaining at least.

Really liking it;he talks about familiar stuff in fresh ways. E.g. "God created us...to be his mirror...But..., the mirror cracked.

Really liking it...he talks about familiar stuff in fresh ways. E.g. "God created us...to be His mirror...But...the mirror cracked.