They're so cute, he wants them around anytime anything bad happens to him, he says.

Or, consider that the 'real' reason that bunnies are associated with Easter is that Jesus gets hammered at the Cana wedding (you know, the one where he changes water to wine) and is drunkenly fascinated by the cuteness of a nearby bunny. 'Thanks for sinning for me, Biff,' he says. As one example, Biff spends the better part of two weeks sexing prostitutes as a 'favor' to the Christ, so he can better understand the sin of lust. Each wise man - Balthasar, Gaspar and Melchior - represents a different religious tradition (mysticism, Buddhism and Hinduism), and Jesus learns everything from how to multiply food to the idea of the Divine Spark, which he and Biff re-brand as the Holy Ghost.īut the real genius of this book is its humor a delicious mixture of slapstick, wordplay, and inside joke (thank goodness for those 12 years of Catholic education!). So, just short of his teenage years, he decides to travel with his buddy Biff to find the three wise men who were in attendance at his birth to see if they can clue him in.

The hinge for the plot of the book (again, written by the rather vulgar, dimwitted Biff) is that Jesus knows he's the Messiah, but has no clue how to be a Messiah. No doubt a sarcastic, occasional-F-bomb-dropping rendition of Jesus may tick off more than a few religious folk, but if you're not of that persuasion, then Lamb, by Christopher Moore is a whole damn (and possibly damning?) lot of fun! All you have to do is read the novel's subtitle - The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal - to understand that this is satire of the richest variety.

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