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Apr 02 2009 1:38pm EDT

Duly Quoted: Slate's David Plotz on the Apocalypse

Wacky books about the bible: They're everywhere(ish)! Robert Crumb is working on an illustrated Genesis, while Jonathan Goldstein remixes Scripture in the new Ladies & Gentlemen: The Bible! And last night, employees and friends of Slate gathered to toast the publication of editor David Plotz's Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible.

I asked Plotz, who began his book as a blog, what's up with all the Pentateuch-inspired literature out there.

"We're in an apocalyptic moment, and in an apocalyptic moment I think people perhaps turn to the Bible for some kind of comfort or distraction or thrill," he said. "We will probably see a revival of really serious weird religious movements. Maybe facial hair. Snake-handling. Huge mass-migrations to strange places to wait for the end of the world."

You heard it here first: The Bible is a source of cheap thrills, and snake-handling is about to get hot.

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