I am currently reading "The Year of Living Biblically" and it is hilarious! A. J. Jacobs is the author and as the title suggests, he tries to follow the Bible as literally as he can for one year.
The book has parts that make me laugh out loud, most of which are his wife's reactions to his undertakings. Jacobs also visits various religious groups to find out how they respond to certain teachings in the Bible.
What I think the book points out is that the Bible is not to be taken literally. It is a teaching tool that was written many, many years ago, which means there is room for interpretation and in my opinion, room for reevaluation. What was the law of the land thousands of years ago should not necessarily be the law of the land now. If there is a God, I think God expects us to be intelligent enough to question what any person or book states and if a person or book is wrong, to be willing to stand up to it.
No matter what a person's religious views are, I think they'd like Jacobs's descriptions of the reactions of New Yorkers as he attempts to live Biblically for one year.
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