Hate to say it but Satan has got a point, both for the book because it’s poorly written and horribly outdated, and also for the app that almost certainly collects huge amounts of data from anyone who uses it.
Read the bible and tell me he’s wrong. Poor characterization, wandering plot, endless instructions stuffed into the middle of irrelevant chapters, many cases of the main character “God” supporting and encouraging crimes like rape and murder, and it’s soooooo long. Brevity is the soul of wit, disciples! Get your shit together and learn to edit.
It’s also more of an anthology but the editor clearly didn’t do their job. You’ve got a book of fables right next to a genealogy list. Later on there’s literally 4 versions of the same damn story. And then they jammed some fanfic writers apocalyptic crap at the end.
Seeing it described like this, I wonder if we’ll ever see an edited version that’s organized more like LOTR. Throw the genealogy crap and miscellaneous garbage into a seperate book you can choose to look at if you want, and throw the main stories into their own books.
The Prophet, or There and Back Again, and Back Again. A Jewish Tale by Moses
The King of the Jews
Honestly, I bet a good fiction writer could do this really well and it’d make a lot of money. I don’t know if you aim for actual religious people or make it as a parody though.
The serpent is basically the first teacher within the story, a Prometheus like character freeing mortals from oppression by unjust gods to make their own decisions. Makes me wonder how the Greeks viewed Prometheus in his story (though not enough to actually look it up), to me Prometheus seems the obvious hero of the tale, but did they view him the way people view the serpent?
even today, there’s memes about the first fish leaving the ocean and saying it should’ve gone back/stayed, since it eventually led to the present day with all it’s stresses/etc. So it’s probably a recurring theme throughout history of humans pining for an ignorant but blissful (or at least simple) existance.
another meme example is the meme that’s like “you wake up as a lizard sunning on a rock. “Selling feet pics” to “pay student loans” quickly loses it’s meaning as you lick your eyeball. Time to eat a bug.”
Naah. I don’t use stars, but I use an equivalent on my rating blog, and I can absolutely do zero or even arbitrary fractional values, such as 0.5 or 22/7 or 4.997.
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