The Year Of Living Faggily

Loyal followers, please stop trying to assassinate me for at least as long as it takes you to read this hilarious dialogue in Slate about A.J. Jacobs's new book The Year of Living Biblically, in which Jacobs, and agnostic man of Jewish descent, tries to live by all the Bible's various rules for a year. He dialogues with Matt Labash, a Christian and a senior writer for the conservative Weekly Standard.

I fully expected this to be awful and cringey, and perhaps to feature Ann Coulteresque calls by Labash to "perfect" Jacobs. Perhaps this is just because I know nothing about Labash other than his affiliation with an odious periodical. Perhaps it's because I don't have very high expectation for people who believe in ridiculous, if gruesome, fairy tales. In any event, I was wrong.

Shit, my friends, this is hilarious stuff. Labash does mock the Jews, and Catholics and Pentecostals and anyone else he can get his hands on. Even himself. The thing is too funny to quote at length, but I think this is my favorite part, about God's plans for him:

I am what is called a "lukewarm Christian," which does not bode well for me. For as the Lord spake unto the church of Laodicea in the Book of Revelation: "Because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.

My time, then, is short. I have days, maybe hours, before I get blown out as God-chunks. So, I must work quickly.