The Bible is teeming with cruelty, atrocity, injustice, wickedness, pain, amputation, sacrifice... who knew it could be so funny, too? Rewritten in its entirety, these ‘blasphemous’ new and old testaments take the Bible book by book, line by line, and edit them for sarcasm, satire, credulity and common sense. The result is some of the funniest, scariest stuff you’ll ever read.
“A means of challenging zealots to read their own holy books and possibly force them to consider the harder questions and contradictions contained therein, the author decided to rewrite the Bible. Years of indefatigable work later, The Blasphemous Bible was created. All the many stories, accounts and ‘facts’ contained in the Bible are here rewritten with no apology for the obvious wickedness, cruelties, atrocities, and unbelievable fallacies it may be said to chronicle.”

CRAIG WELLS was brought up in a strict 7th Day Adventist family in Oshawa, Canada where he began questioning the tenets of his religion at a young age. Confined to the strict rules of a religious household and private religious education, he rebelled. At the precocious age of thirteen, he managed to extricate himself and his sister out of the Adventist school and enroll in the public school system. All the while, his research into God and religion were condemned as blasphemous and sinful in his community. He became agnostic in his twenties while leaning toward atheism. At the age of twenty-five, he decided to critique the Bible himself and as a means of challenging Christians to read the books and possibly force them to consider the harder questions and contradictions contained therein, he decided to rewrite the Bible in its entirety. Years of indefatigable work later, The Blasphemous Bible was created. All the many stories, verses, and ‘facts’ contained in the Bible are here rewritten with no apology for the obvious wickedness, cruelties, atrocities, and overall unbelievable fallacies it may be said to chronicle. Mr. Wells currently resides in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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