Read a review of a silly little book, the Twible, I can't imagine ever reading or recommending. The marketing hook for the Twible is that is a summary of the entire Bible in 1,189 tweets of 140 characters or less. The reviewer loved the book, even though he admits it's almost pure snark.

The review confirmed I have no need to buy the book (although the reviewer thinks I should). Nevertheless, the reviewer did swerve into truth at one point:

The fact is, as much as we might try to fight it, the Word of God is a dangerous thing. In various places, it describes itself as “like fire . . . and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces” (Jer. 23:29) and “sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow” (Heb. 4:12). When the God of the Universe speaks, no one is safe, nor should anyone expect to be, given the source—how can the profane stand in the presence of the holy? “‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts . . .’ declares the Lord” (Is. 55:8), so is it any surprise that so many find the Bible confusing, frustrating, frightening, and—worst of all—boring?
No wonder so few have read the whole thing. Polls show that while about 80% of Americans consider themselves Christian or Jewish, 80% of Americans (the same 80%?) haven’t read the Bible, because who would choose to struggle through 2,000 pages of troubling ideas when they could be playing Xbox instead? Making things worse, Christian communities that both take Scripture seriously and encourage people to wrestle with it honestly are few and far between.

That last line echoes something that frustrates and saddens me to no end, and of which I think about daily. May God forgive his people for how thoughtlessly we have squandered his treasures.