Book on so called monotheisms

The sixth button in the menu is clearly not a painting.
It is just a coloured text: a concept for the front page of a yet to be published book. Title of that book is 49:49; Crucial element of the book is the explanation of the title. So, in itself an absolutely meaningless title, hence there is also a subtitle and a motto.

Since the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh in 2004, by a jihadist who grew up in the Netherlands, I have spent many thousands of hours studying the origins of the mohammedan ideology and the history of theory and practice of that peculiar worldview. This led to the publication of several books, many essays and even more short commentaries; mainly, but not exclusively, in Dutch.

This new book is different, very different. The middle part of the book I published in Dutch a few years ago.
However, shortly after I started to prepare for an English version I realised that my farewell to Christianity, did not follow an analysis of the Bible; and certainly not an analysis as thorough and critical as the one I had already carried out on the Quran.

So now the Preface mentions:

… one could label me as a ‘cultural Catholic‘. And now, through this book, I am actually asking ‘cultural Muslims‘ who read it, to critically examine the foundation of their religion. Such a request cannot possibly be well received if I do not also critically discuss the foundation of my parents’ religion. Critically and above all: just as explicitly. After this penny dropped, I delved into the contents of the Bible and oriented myself towards Judaism.

On that basis I did not completely rewrite this book. I made adjustments in Part II. I modified Part I and Part III a little more, but you will find the biggest change in the added, long Postface, entitled: On Monotheisms, Goddesses and Demigods of sorts. In that long Postface (around 40 % of the book) I go deeper into the special concept of ‘god’. I do so on the basis of an exploration of several religions, particularly, but not exclusively, Judaism and Christianity.

That exploration is based in part on my own recollections, in a larger part on studying their basic texts more seriously, and on knowledge of the history of the practice of Christianity that I gained especially in the 21st century. In my re-evaluation, I also compare the religion of the gospels (the life story of Jesus Christ) with the religion of the well-known “apostle” Paul.
The strange practice of cutting in the penises of boy babies, boys and adult men, and the deeply embedded Abrahamic hatred of women, are also discussed.

During the additional study I did for that Postface, many more pennies dropped. That of those (mythological) goddesses from its title was the most important.

Yes: that is the reason I used green, purple and white in the above idea for the cover.