Hosea, Can You See?

Rating:
Summary: Very Religious
Review: In our comic society, in which everybody is supposed to be used to how bad things are, unless they want to impeach the president for political reasons or something, what people notice most about the book of Hosea in the Bible is that he is complaining about his wife, a kind of complaint that is usually left to comedians in this modern day and age. But having Hosea in the Bible might be a sign that the pious feel that they are entitled to complain about this kind of thing, regardless of the kind of vicious attacks or circumstances which might really be troubling people. It shouldn't be surprising that a tape with this kind of commentary would be produced by someone who was religious. The tension which an in depth study of Hosea ought to produce arises from the realization of how common the condemnations which he brought into the Bible are in a lot of places that aren't churches. The danger of this kind of sermon is that it will mention something which would not normally be brought up in polite society. I would have rated this higher if it was less typical, but it was about what I expected.