They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but the title of David Dark's latest book, "The Sacredness of Questioning Everything", was just too alluring for me to pass up. Can a title get any better than that? The rest of the book is living up to the catchy title. I highly recommend this book for its unique combination of theological inquiry, political satire, and provocative cultural humor. How many books can you think of that link quotes from Augustine to Jon Stewart, Aquinas to Stephen Colbert, and a Muslim imam to South Park?

I probably wouldn't agree with all of David Dark's answers, but I love his questions. If I have to pick between answers and questions, I'll take good questions every time. If there's a skeptical side to your personality, or if you get frustrated when answers just seem to easy to be true, then you'll like this book too. If you enjoy a good theology discussion and Comedy Central is on your favorite channel list, then this book is likely to become one of your all time favorites. Here are a few of my favorite lines...

“This is how religions work. Devastating criticism of religion is always part of religion. The religiously faithful aren’t just permitted to critique and complain and reform; they’re bound to do as much by religion. Without it, there is no faithfulness.

Of course, when religion won’t tolerate questions, objections, or differences of opinion and all it can do is threaten excommunication, violence, and hellfire, it has an unfortunate habit of producing some of the most hateful people to ever walk the earth.”

"To be conned, after all, is human. To confess to having been conned is an act of awareness. To believe ourselves impervious to cons is to be in denial, to be dangerous, to perhaps have an especially telegenic personality, and in our day, to be uniquely electable to public office."

"If we’re more opposed, for instance, to what we take to be bad language and nude scenes and films about gay people than we are to people being blown up, starved to death, deprived of life-saving medicine, or tortured, our offendedness is out of whack. We have yet to understand the nature of real perversion. We aren’t as deeply acquainted with our religion as we might think."

HT: Zondervan publishing (thanks for sending me a copy of this book to review)