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Title: Disappointing Pablum
Review: I am a Christian and had high hopes when I purchased this book, but have been quite disappointed. I was hoping for more insightful and inspired discussion about the ways Christ's teachings can change our lives. What we get is simplistic and superficial. The underlying logic is often contradictory. Also, it seems that every other paragraph has a sentence that starts "The Bible says.....". Then these biblical passages are ruined by the use of a variety of new age tranlations that try oh-so-hard to sound "hip" and relevant to our times. And the author even admits he takes artistic liberty with THESE translations to get his point across. No substance. Son of Oprah. Then the last part of the book is him trying to sell you stuff. I'm all for wanting to see Christian books succeed, but if a non-Christian would pick up this book out of curiosity, he would walk away thinking "they're non-thinking lemmings".
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