Thou Shalt Find It Impossible to Live Like the Bible Tells You to
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Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. Posted November 17, 2007.
Author A.J. Jacobs spent a year trying to follow the 600+ laws he found proscribed in the Bible, and concluded he's doomed to live in sin.
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The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
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