kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 11 2008 | weird, religion
Wow. A manga bible ...
Quoted: Artist Ajinbayo Akinsiku’s Son of God is here to shake things up in a new, much-abridged version of the Bible rooted in manga, the Japanese form of graphic novels.
In a blurb for the Manga Bible, which is published by Doubleday, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, is quoted as saying, “It will convey the shock and freshness of the Bible in a unique way.”
No doubt. In the Manga Bible, whose heroes look and sound like skateboarders in Bedouin gear, Noah gets tripped up counting the animals in the Ark: “That’s 11,344 animals? Arggh! I’ve lost count again. I’m going to have to start from scratch!”
- kristen | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 20 2007 | weird, religion
Just five?
Quoted: No central authority controls doctrine in Islam, one of the world’s great religions. The result? A proliferation of bizarre religious edicts against targets ranging from ...
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