Pondering Bibles and trains
I can't help feeling slightly disturbed by people who read the Bible
on the train. Obviously people are free to read whatever they like but
a two thousand year old religious text drafted by ignorant goat
herders and wandering loonies strikes me as a strange choice; are
there no modern novels about mad prophets, genocidal gods, murderous
kings, implausible healings, bizarre rituals, crazy laws, deserts,
zombies and lost tribes?
