You Got To Be Kidding A Radical Satire Of The Bible

Author : Joe Wenke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781310634246
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Got to Be Kidding! a Radical Satire of the Bible written by Joe Wenke and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did God turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt? Were there no other seasonings available? Why don't we know anything about the early years of Jesus? Did someone lose his baby book? Who reported the desert encounter between Jesus and Satan? Jesus-or Satan? And why does the Holy Spirit like to show up as a bird? As irreverent as the musical The Book of Mormon, Dr. Joe Wenke's YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING: A Radical Satire of The Bible is an engaging, provocative and hilarious investigation into the bestselling book of all time. Written to "cause trouble" cultural arsonist Dr. Wenke, a keen observer of human gullibility, tempts readers to more closely examine the stories they think they know about the Bible. Drawing upon the same pool of incendiary and cerebral humor as Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and the late, great George Carlin, YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING is a call for humor to restore our sanity and our ability to think for ourselves. Just as it was written in the Bible-or was it?

Author : Joe Wenke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985900229
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Got to Be Kidding! written by Joe Wenke and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did God turn Lot's wife into a pillar of salt? Were there no other seasonings available? How come no one noticed when Samson's hair grew back? Who lost Jesus's baby book? If no one was around, just who reported the desert encounter between Jesus and the Devil? And why does the Holy Spirit like to show up as a bird? As irreverent and funny as the musical The Book of Mormon, Dr. Joe Wenke's YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING: THE CULTURAL ARSONIST'S SATIRICAL READING OF THE BIBLE, is an engaging, provocative and hilarious investigation into the bestselling book of all time. Writing to "cause trouble," cultural arsonist Dr. Wenke--a keen observer of human gullibility--forces readers to reexamine the stories they think they know about the Bible. Drawing upon the same pool of incendiary and cerebral humor as Bill Maher, Jon Stewart and the late, great George Carlin, YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING is a call for humor to restore our sanity and our ability to think for ourselves.

Author : Joseph Wenke
Publisher : Trans Uber LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780985900250
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papal Bull written by Joseph Wenke and published by Trans Uber LLC. This book was released on 2013 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Joe Wenke, disciple of such brilliant and provocative social critics as Christopher Hitchens, Bill Maher and George Carlin, has taken on the Catholic Church with PAPAL BULL: An Ex-Catholic Calls Out the Catholic Church. Wenke bares the scars of his Catholic childhood and exposes the bizarre, absurd and downright frightening skeletons lingering in the Vatican closet. Following in the same hilarious, intellectual vein as YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING! A Radical Satire of the Bible, Wenke confronts the epic hypocrisy of the Catholic Church in a no-holds-barred examination of its history, practices and beliefs. Equal parts revelation, inquisition and humor, PAPAL BULL will make you rethink what you thought you knew about the Catholic Church.

Author : Douglas Wilson
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
ISBN 13 : 1591280109
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Serrated Edge written by Douglas Wilson and published by Canon Press & Book Service. This book was released on 2003 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire is a kind of preaching. Satire pervades Scripture. Satire treats the foibles of sinners with a less than perfect tenderness. But, if a Christian employs satire today, he is almost immediately called to account for his "unbiblical" behavior. Yet Scripture shows that the central point of some religious controversies is to give offense. When Christ was confronted with ecclesiastical obstinacy and other forms of arrogance, he showed us a godly pattern for giving offense. In every controversy, godliness and wisdom (or the lack of them) are to be determined by careful appeal to the Scriptures and not to the fact of someone having taken offense. Perhaps they ought to have taken offense, and perhaps someone ought to have endeavored to give it.

Author : DR JOE. WENKE
Publisher : Trans Uber LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780990702214
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Air written by DR JOE. WENKE and published by Trans Uber LLC. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry by Joe Wenke. Joe has written several books including: Mailer's America, You Got to Be Kidding! A Radical Satire of The Bible, Papal Bull: An Ex-Catholic Calls Out the Catholic Church, The Talk Show, a Novel (October 2014) and The Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (January 2015)

Author : Joe Wenke
Publisher : Trans Uber LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780986337918
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for Potholes written by Joe Wenke and published by Trans Uber LLC. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry by Joe Wenke. Joe has written several books including: Human Agenda: Conversations about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (January 2015), The Talk Show: a Novel, Free Air: poems, Papal Bull: An Ex-Catholic Calls Out the Catholic Church, You Got Be Kidding! A Radical Satire of The Bible and Mailer's America.

Author : Zeev Weisman
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Satire in the Bible written by Zeev Weisman and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From epigrams and name calling to sophisticated proverbs, fables and taunt-songs, Weisman provides a nuanced introduction to this multifaceted and fascinating subject. The author spends equal time looking at the historical (political) and literary (satirical) aspects of the subject, well aware that context matters and that sometimes "you have to be there" to get the joke. An excellent contribution to the emerging interest in biblical humor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Joe Wenke
Publisher : Trans Uber LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780985900274
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mailer's America written by Joe Wenke and published by Trans Uber LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reissue of Joseph Wenke?s thoughtful study, Mailer?s America, provides renewed hope for a deeper understanding of Mailer?s work. No other commentator has focused so relentlessly on the deepest purpose of Mailer?s hugely varied oeuvre, namely to ?clarify a nation?s vision of itself.? Wenke?s examination inhabits, patrols and maps the territory between the millennial promise of America and its often dispiriting actuality. His study contains probing, nuanced and careful examinations of all Mailer?s work though the mid-1980s, including one of the first major examinations of Mailer?s most demanding novel, Ancient Evenings. Wenke?s book deserves a wide audience, and is essential reading for all who have enjoyed Mailer?s work. J. Michael Lennon, author of the authorized biography, Norman Mailer: A Double Life

Author : Wanda Sykes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416505571
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Yeah, I Said It written by Wanda Sykes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-09-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanda Sykes reduces people to tears -- tears of laughter. She's done so as a stand-up comic, a sitcom star, and a sports commentator for years now, and in the process she's gained a huge fan base nationwide. Now that she's conquered television, she's applying her genius to her first book, Yeah, I Said It. Here, Wanda presents hilarious and uncensored commentary on sex, family, politics, celebrities, and much more than she could ever say in a sound bite. But then again, she's a genius with a sound bite too. Here's what she says about men and football. "I used to think that football took place in this overbearing male-only environment that bled masculine domination. But the more I attend, the more I realize these football fans could actually be experiencing the straight man's gay pride parade. You see men painting each other's faces in bright colors. You see men proud to wear another man's last name on their shirt. You see some men wear no shirt at all....Hot wieners on every corner as you walk up to the main competition. Men open the back of their trunks for a little tailgating." Here's what she says about women: "Women are taking stripper classes in hopes their men will stop going to strip clubs....You can't compete with those strippers....You gotta have...the stripper mentality. In other words, the ability to lie like a dog for a measly buck. A stripper will tell your man anything for a dollar. 'Oow, I thought you were Brad Pitt.' " An uproarious and irreverent collection from one of today's foremost comedic talents, Yeah, I Said It is Wanda Sykes at her uncensored best. Here, she channels her sharp wit into funny bits on the truth as she sees it from the halls of government in Washington, D.C., to the red carpets and boardrooms of Hollywood. Imbued with her razor-sharp voice, these essays showcase Sykes's sidesplitting candor and her trademark brand of comedy.

Author : Soner Cagaptay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722364
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Sultan written by Soner Cagaptay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre. And at the heart of Turkey is its right-wing populist president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Since 2002, Erdo?an has consolidated his hold on domestic politics while using military and diplomatic means to solidify Turkey as a regional power. His crackdown has been brutal and consistent - scores of journalists arrested, academics officially banned from leaving the country, university deans fired and many of the highest-ranking military officers arrested. In some senses, the nefarious and failed 2016 coup has given Erdo?an the licence to make good on his repeated promise to bring order and stability under a 'strongman'. Here, leading Turkish expert Soner Cagaptay will look at Erdo?an's roots in Turkish history, what he believes in and how he has cemented his rule, as well as what this means for the world. The book will also unpick the 'threats' Erdogan has worked to combat - from the liberal Turks to the Gulen movement, from coup plotters to Kurdish nationalists - all of which have culminated in the crisis of modern Turkey.