Lenka S. reviewed on 10/3/2018 + 829 more book reviews

I bought this book because I read a glowing review. I soon became concerned that much of it seemed to be based on supposition and conjecture, but I continued. At the page 44, where the author says taking trees are referenced in the Bible, specifically in Genesis 12:6 and 18:1. I looked at those verses and they say nothing about talking trees. So the only passages I was able to fact check are clearly erroneous. This destroyed the author's credibility for me. I would say don't buy it.

Mr. Aslan sojourn into finding God is truly not a spiritual experience. He attempts to humanize Christian Jewish scripture and relates his conclusions to felonious, dubious scientific hypothesis (Darwinism). Throughout his book, the author has you believe that man is the creation of his own fears, dreams, illusions; and mans' own need for a God. In reality, the author has revealed nothing more than his prejudices, his own anti-semitism, and secular science to justify his hypothesis. Secular science: data that is not fact; is not irrefutable (not concrete for you layman). Hell? Yes!: ...and Other Outrageous Truths You Can Still Believe No Mr. Aslan, Genesis is true ... perhaps told as a setting in life, but Adam and Eden is true. And no, we are not God. If that were true, we could raise the dead, cure the paralyzed and blind. Or, are you labeling Jesus a fraud too??? If you are attempting to quote Psalms, "we are Gods" when we talk about our souls and destiny in this life/ world. Mr. Aslan got one thing right, "God is the Universe."
Ungrounded conclusions and sloppy scholarship abound. A quick and lazy (and short) survey of Western religion designed to lead to the author's conclusion, that the only religion that makes sense is a tepid, new agey panentheism. Don't bother!

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