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I've published a review of the New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. There you'll also see a very clever rebuttal to my review IN ALL CAPS no less.
What are your thoughts on my summary? I'll put the text below.
This is actually a collection of books put together by the Catholic church about 300 years after the last characters in the stories had died. It's in 2 major parts.
Part 1: The Old Testament
This consists of myths mostly copied from the myths of other primitive cultures. The original versions of these stories had many gods, but these had been edited out for the most part in an effort to rewrite history by people who were embarrassed by their polytheistic past. I think this is a shame since the polytheistic stories are more entertaining. The main god who made the cut was "Jehovah" or "Yahweh" who in the original versions was the character of the God of War. This character like similar god characters is jealous and cruel. He delights in death and has no problem with genocide. One part that makes these stories hard to read is that women basically had about as much rights as animals, and the characters were not at all bothered by the death of women.
Part 2: The New Testament
This section is mostly about one main character - a half-human demigod who claims to be the son of the god of war from part 1. These stories were written by a few different authors agree very little on the actual details of the story. This demigod character shares some of his father's traits, but is much milder tempered. I think the worst attribute he shares with his father is his racism. He would only share his message of salvation with people of his own nation (Jews). He felt that people from other nations were beneath him. But after he died, a man who had not previously met him came along and decided to make a franchise out of this demigod story, and he spread it to non-Jews (claiming that the ghost of the demigod told him this was OK). Part 2 is not nearly as gruesome as part one, but the stories aren't very entertaining either. Mostly squabbles between the demigod's followers. The only highlight is the trial and execution of the main character and subsequent zombie invasion of the city (this part is sadly glossed over for the most part). And there's some apparently drug induced hallucinations at the end which have disturbing imagery, but no substance.
I find it funny that most people who love this book, and there are many, have never actually read it. Having an old fart tell you what a book is about does not count as reading it.