I have just read this book and the urge to comment on it was stronger than my first desire to throw it in the bin for blasphemy. I was born and raised a Catholic and was nurtured on the New Testament. This book traces the evidence for the Old Testament and seems to suggest that the God of the Old Testament is different from the God of the New Testament, a view which, I guess, many Christians would not have problems with. But, the book goes further than this and claims that God is, in fact, a Goddess! Further, it alleges that the priesthood changed history by a mixture of duplicitous editing and also pure fabrication based on old myths and legends geared to some Breeders? Digest ideas of population growth and land acquisition. It reduces the word of God to the sprit level of an estate agent. It goes even further when the writer claims she was abducted into a spaceship above Belgium some twenty years ago where it was revealed to her that Jesus did not die on the cross and that one of his descendents from his union with Mary Magdalene would travel to Jerusalem around Christmas 2033 on a Harley Davidson motorcycle no less!!! (Is this a reference to Christ, a son of David and a female Second Coming?). The author reveals the name of the descendent as Christina. However, just when I was beginning to think that this was just a load of ?Old Testicles? I began to realise that, perhaps , there was a lot of truth in the book too, particularly concerning how close the Old Testament is to the Koran and the Torah. It seems remarkably well researched. How could one person know all this? I am reminded of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols and their hit ?Never Mind the \*\*\*\*\*\*\*? when Ms Lavigne suggests that life started with a designer vagina. All in all, while the book upset me quite a bit, I must confess it also made me laugh as it is full of feminist jokes that you could tell your mother. Also, there is really no sex and certainly no pornography. It seems to end with the writer expressing faith in Jesus and I just hope I am around in the next 25 odd years to see if this prophecy comes true. The book has made me question my own faith in what I was taught as a little boy by my own church. I do wonder what the world will make of this book. It is certainly an interesting counterpoint to the atheist works of Dawkins and Hitchens. Overall, I feel once they are over the initial shock, the public and tle clergy will find it a thought provoking work though I suspect it will not be so easily embraced by bishops. Last but not least, it should be read with a pinch of salt and copies of the Bible, the Torah and the Koran close to hand.