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Review title: Scholarship? Really?
Product review: "Christianity works by a moral accounting system...Immoral deeds are debits; moral deeds are credits...If you have a big enough positive balance of moral credit when you die, you go to heaven; if you have a negative balance, you go to hell. These general notions are shared by most forms of Christianity."Wow. That's one of the grossest mischaracterizations of Christianity I've ever heard, let alone from a professor. One only has to read the Apostles' Creed, or heck, listen to the words of "O Holy Night," to know how wrong Lakoff is. I think I sense a bias. I have no doubt Lakoff is a scholar; just not in any of the areas addressed by this book. I suggest he stick to Cog Sci and Linguistics; and peer-reviewing isn't a bad idea either.
