Why write when I can rant?

Me of Little Faith, is now on shelves and has received great reviews from fans and the press alike. Ferociously funny and potentially offensive to anyone who takes religion too seriously, Me of Little Faith, is Lewis' exploration of the effects of religion and faith on his life. Why tackle religion and faith you ask?

Here's a small excerpt that gives you an idea.....

What am I doing putting my two cents in about religion?

Because I think it’s taken too seriously, and anything that takes itself too seriously is open to ridicule.

But when you write about people's beliefs, you are asking for it. Every page in this book has the potential to offend someone, somewhere, in perpetuity, throughout the universe. That doesn't even count the critics who will say it’s not funny enough. Or serious enough. Or spiritual enough.

Religion, funny? You've got to be kidding. I am kidding, but it's not going to be seen that way by some people, which is why you’ve got to keep poking fun at it. After millennia of religion being used as a club, someone’s got to search for organized religion's funny bone.

To put it as simply as I can: This is a book about my relationship to religion, where my—dare I say it?—spiritual journey has taken me. From the religious dead-ends I have wandered into the pinpricks of light I have seen and barely understood, it’s all here, in its complicated and infuriating glory.

And all of this is just my opinion, the way I look at religion, what it's meant and not meant to me. And why it makes me laugh.

So if religion has taken over your life and you don't want to think about it or laugh about it because it will upset you, do me a favor:

Don't read the goddamn book. Ever.

And ever. Amen.

And here's the official description from the publisher.....

What do we believe? And for God's sake why?

Those are the thorny questions that Lewis Black, the bitingly funny comedian, social critic, and best selling author, tackles in his new book, Me of Little Faith. And he’s come up with some answers. Or at least his answers. In more than two dozen essays that investigate everything from the differences between how Christians and Jews celebrate their holidays, to the politics of faith, to people's individual search for transcendence, Black explores his unique odyssey through religion and belief.

Growing up as a non practicing Jewish kid near Washington, D.C., during the 1950s, Black survived Hebrew school and a bar mitzvah (barely), went to college in the South during the tumultuous 1960s and witnessed firsthand the unsettling parallels between religious rapture and drug-induced visions (even if none of his friends did). He explored the self-actualization movements of the 1970s (and the self-indulgence that they produced), and since then has turned an increasingly skeptical eye toward the politicians and televangelists who don the cloak of religious rectitude to mask their own moral hypocrisy.

What he learned along the way about the inconsistencies and peculiarities of religion infuriated Black, and in Me of Little Faith he gives full vent to his comedic rage. Black explores how the rules and constraints of religion have affected his life and the lives of us all. Hilarious experiences with rabbis, Mormons, gurus, psychics, and even the joy of a perfect round of golf give Black the chance to expound upon what we believe and why —in the language of a shock jock and with the heart of an iconoclast.

"To put it as simply as I can," Black writes, "this is a book about my relationship to religion, where my — dare I say it? -spiritual journey has taken me...what it’s meant and not meant to me, and why it makes me laugh."

By the end of Me of Little Faith, you'll be a convert.

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