Simon & Schuster announced today that they have acquired God’s 2011 untitled memoir.
It was announced today that they acquired the rights to a new memoir by God – Supreme Being, wellspring of existence, quintessence of glory, and source of everlasting life – have been acquired by Simon & Schuster.
“We are pleased and honored to add the Lord Almighty to our list of notable authors,”
said Executive Vice President and Publisher Jonathan Karp.The as-yet-untitled testament which Karp says he plans to publish in late 2011—in time
Read the entire press release here
for the busy pre-Armageddon retail season—will be semi-autobiographical in nature.
Senior editor Sarah Knight says this time around God “very much wants His words to be
clearly understood, as opposed to ‘interpreted,’ which has gotten people into trouble in
the past. To that end He will be abandoning his familiar ‘thee and thou’ format for a
folksier, ‘thee and you’ approach that I and everyone in marketing believe will highlight
his omniscience without making him seem like a know-it-all.”
I won’t share my opinion here, instead I want to know your thoughts. Is this just good humor or borderline sacrilege?
3 comments:
blech, I won't be reading it, but I guess I support the idea of people approaching the subject of God how they want.
Gee, the whole idea behind a "memoir" is that the person writing it is basically DONE with whatever it is they do or did ... and now are going to write about the experience. The first thing i thought about when I read this post was that "our God is not done!" I guess it's a decent PR ploy but it is bound to offend and upset as many as it reaches I think.
Bottom line, I don't think God is interested in writing His memoir because ... the story isn't over yet. And when that comes to me personally and my life, I am so very thankful for that!
I agree. God is not done. I don't like it, either.
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