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Title: Optimistic in concept, poor in execution
Review: I read this book at a time in my life where I was struggling with my perception of God and trying to find answers to the many contradictions I was coming across in my beliefs. The overall theme of this book sat well with me at the time - it presents God as a reasonable chap who, when asked about suffering or Biblical atrocities, replies with a wink and a "now what do you think huh?" kind of attitude.I've since come to realise that my premises were wrong from the start and that this book was in effect a mini-reformation in my contradictory world-views. In fact, it's quite lazy. It doesn't really try to justify the contradictions, it merely says "you know in your heart that God is a nice guy and you see that there are nasty things attributed to God so just go with your heart on this one".As far as quality of writing goes it's a total mess. Probably one of the worst written books I've ever read.
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