Towing Jehovah
Recently, I finished reading Towing Jehovah. The book is a satire, and a thought provoking one. It deals with the concept of God dying. A sullied oil tanker captain is signed up by the Vatican to tow the giant corpse of God from Sao Tome and Principe off the coast of Africa to his arctic tomb.
The story investigates what would happen to mankind if the concept that God is watching us went away. In the story, it's called the problem of the corpse. What happened was that people went crazy. They became carnally focused, but only those who knew that God was dead.
The story ends in a pleasant way. God is buried, after an absurd attempt by a WWII reinactement group tried to sink him, and everyone of the story comes to realize that God chose to die so that mankind could move on. He sacrificed himself for mankind again. The people of the Earth ended up being good, just for the sake of being good, not because God was watching them.
All in all, the story was good. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to others. I even found that some of the atheistic ideas in it seemed to come out good in the end.
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Posted by: Renay Slaughter | January 2, 2010 04:30 PM