Okay, so I just finished the most AMAZING book I have ever read in all my life. FOR SERIOUS. The book is called Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christoher Moore. Its about the life of Jesus, or Joshua, as he is called in the book. You soo, Jesus is Greek for Joshua, and Joshua is the equivelent of the Hebrew name Yeshua, which would have been Jesus's given name. Cool, eh?
But the book isn't just about his birth and crucifiction. Jesus was a Buddist monk and a kung fu master. NO JOKES!
Read the book, even if you're not a religious person, its a great laugh with an excellent moral. Beware, theres lots of sex and not-so-polite words in there. Also, the theme pissed off my religion teacher, which I thought was pretty hilarious. I mean, this is what now? 2009? Why can't Jesus be a kung fu Buddhist master with knowledge of the divine spark and eastern religions, which he based all his lessons on? Why the fuck not?!?
I get excited just thinking about the amzingness of this book.
Here's a summary of all Jesus's teachings, taken form the Gospel According to Biff:

Be nice to people, even creeps.
And if you:
a) beleived he wa the son of God
b) beleived he had come to save you from sin
c) acknowledged the Holy Spirit within you
d) didn't blaspheme the Holy Ghost
Then you would:
e) live forever
f) someplace nice
g) probably heaven
However, if you:
h) sinned
i) were a hypocrite
j) valued things over people
k) didn't do a, b, c, and d
Then you were:
l) fucked.

No word of a lie, that came stright from the bible (well, my bible anyway). But please, read the book. I have this thing where I find something I find amazing, then I get this idea that ecveryone should know about it and then I set out to fullfill that until something new comes along.
SO READ