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Title: A fast read, fortunately.
Review: This book is to literature what McDonald's is to haute cuisine; it goes a long way in showing how fundamentalists are blazing new paths in the 'dumbing-down' phenomena so prevalent in our culture. Was it written for 6th graders? Its cream-puff triteness and juvenile character development makes one wonder how it could have come from the same planet once graced by Sophocles and Dostoevsky. Even its theology is questionable. For Peretti, human evil seems not to be something inherent in human nature but rather a residual product of some cosmic spiritual struggle looming invisibly over everyone's heads. It amazes me how fundamentalists are so ignorant of the theological and cosmological implications of the biblical narratives they so militantly claim to be taken literally (e.g., the fall of man into sin.)
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