Monday, November 17, 2008

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes.

Don't Sleep, There are Snakes seems to be an Interesting book, and I think I want to read it. From the review:
Daniel Everett came to the Pirahã as a Christian missionary. Thirty years later, he left an atheist. The indigenous Brazilian tribe had no need for his Jesus, just as they had no need for numbers, colors, rituals, sound sleep, daily meals, permanent shelter, the concept of God or stories about things that happened in the past.
Everett is a professor of linguistics, and his studies in themselves seem to be fascinating. But the question that I want to hear him answer is what led him to reject his profession of faith, not sure he will, but I want to see what the book says about his relationship with Christ before his journey, during his journey... faithlessness is never sudden.