Actually, Biff quickly explains that Jesus was known as Josh back in the days when they were kids in Nazareth. The story is told by Jesus’s best friend, Biff. So naturally, one of my favorite novels of the last ten years is a funny and touching book about the life of Jesus. Overall, I’d become convinced that humanity was far too stupid to use religion as anything but yet another system to justify telling someone else how to live. When it wasn’t being used as an excuse to murder people who believed different things, then it was being used to deny basic scientific concepts or prevent consenting adults from marriage based on gender. I went from a vague agnostic live-and-let-live attitude to a full blown distrust and dislike of mass worshipping of mysterious deities. The last ten years have mutated my views on religion.
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