Eekind’s Reviews > Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds > Status Update

I am a big enough person to admit that the Cocaine Bear (2023) reference in the Elisha story was genuinely funny and his wife was shading him for making him feel stupid about whether two bears could main 42 kids. With the context of Cocaine Bear that story is genuinely hilarious. The Winters Tale by Shakespeare also has a similar joke which I find delightful

This book reads like it’s supposed to be broken up into a bunch of clips you watch on reels…like it really just isn’t using the medium of text effectively. If feels way too all over the place and even as an audiobook I have a hard time keeping track of his insights beyond his big chapter wide thesis statements

Deadass this audiobook is like chewing glass…I feel like I am watching his comedy special having fallen asleep through all of the bona fides section (granted he already said in the intro he has basically none to speak of outside of being raised Catholic but an Ex Brother and Nun) and I am supposed to be amused by all his asides…it’s not clicking in audio form it just feels devoid of a thesis framing his ideas

White Knuckling this introduction because every other sentence is like “My dad was as conservative as any other dad, he hated racism and insisted that there was a difference between the right and wrong kind of abortion” and then immediately following it up with “but my parents were closeted democrats who would never vote against abortion and cried tears of joy at the Camp David accords”…where’s ur thesis?