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A review by c2pizza
The Bhagavad Gita by Simon Brodbeck, Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
3.0
It's a fun game of mine to jot done the clearly immoral and the not so obviously moral things every religious book says. The bhagavad-Gita did surprisingly well, on the same level as the Tao te Ching in that it said nearly as many good things as wicked things. However, it is still a long way behind the Gathas in this subjective evaluation.
When it isn't justifying war, murder, a fear of sex, a brutal caste system, large donations to temples and (worst of all) faith; some of the passages were incredibly moving and displayed a complex and compassionate moral compass one never finds in religious texts. I think that of all the religious texts I've read, this one had the most content worth remembering, albeit within a sizable scrapheap.
When it isn't justifying war, murder, a fear of sex, a brutal caste system, large donations to temples and (worst of all) faith; some of the passages were incredibly moving and displayed a complex and compassionate moral compass one never finds in religious texts. I think that of all the religious texts I've read, this one had the most content worth remembering, albeit within a sizable scrapheap.