This book was an absolute hoot -- I haven't laughed out loud so often in quite a while. If you know at least some basics about the Christian faith and actual church history, and didn't have your sense of humor removed along with your tonsils, I don't see how you can resist this book's tongue-in-cheek charm. Examples: (in discussing Christian appropriation of pagan holidays) "...the date itself was chosen by the early church to compete with the Roman Saturnalia; and that Santa Claus was originally a Siberian shaman figure who is said to wear red and white because Siberians would gut reindeer and wear the skins inside out." Or this tidbit about the End Times: "... known as the "rapture," although Paul himself doesn't use that word. He uses the Greek term harpazo, but by common consent, rapture was chosen instead, because it sounds less like the name of a circus clown."

I suspect that those discontent with the book might have been seeking a serious discourse on the junction of Christianity and pop culture. This is anything but. And it's anything but boring. ( )