I just read a fascinating interview with A.J. Jacobs, a “Jewish” agnostic who decided to live the bible quite literally for a year, then write a book about it. Here are just a couple excerpts from the interview:
Trying to follow the Bible, you learn how much you sin during a day. It’s really quite shocking. You tell so many lies just trying to keep a conversation going….As a parent, I couldn’t believe how much I lied: “Oh, Oh, the toy store’s closed today, we can’t go there,” or, “The TV’s broken.”
Here’s another…
The bible is really focused on giving thanks, and that was a huge lesson for me. By the end, I was an extreme thanker–I was thanking when the elevator came on time. It’s a great way to live, to focus on the hundreds of things that go right during the day rather than the three or four things that went wrong.
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