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FIRE AND SMOKE - 2009 - US $15 - INCLUDES STANDARD SHIPPING
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Hardly anyone reads more than a fraction of the largest selling book of all time, for the simple reason that it's too formidable a challenge. The Old Testament of the Holy Bible is a 635,000 word odyssey of savage violence and naked greed, written in a style calculated to suffocate the keenest intelligence. If you've ever made the attempt, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Mercifully, that's all about to change.

Fire and Smoke samples the ten most compelling and significant percent of this ancient anthology of Hebrew scripture, selected to represent its core thematic elements and accompanied by cheerful and occasionally impertinent commentary. If you've ever wanted to know what's really going on in there, now's your chance to find out without having to plow through the whole thing all by yourself.

What you'll discover is that the Old Testament is the greatest shakedown in human history, perpetrated by a predatory handful of iron-age frauds to frighten illiterate sheepherders into providing an elite priesthood with an endless supply of plunder. The hatred and cruelty promulgated by these sociopathic racketeers has spilled an ocean of blood over two millennia of institutionalized murder that continues to this day. If you think the scriptural source of all the sickening violence we see in the Middle East today is Muhammad and the Qur'an, think again. It all emerges from the twisted minds of a tiny sect of Levite priests who use the tribal war god they have invented to demand a continuous parade of tribute and the cold-blooded extinction of anyone who stands in their way. Yahweh is where it all begins. Read Fire and Smoke and let the God of Abraham tell you Himself.

Additional Titles by Dan Manthos - THE AVATAR AND OTHER STORIES - THE DANOMICON