The Book of Yeezus replaces every mention of God with Kanye or Yeezus.

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By Tim ChesterUK2015-04-07 10:22:06 UTC

In the beginning Kanye created the heaven and the earth And Kanye said, Let there be light: and there was light.

So begins The Book of Yeezus, a comic and gleefully sacrilegious tome on sale on Etsy that promises spiritual enlightenment for a celebrity-saturated age.

The text, described by its creators as "an interventionist art, coffee table novelty," takes the Book of Genesis and replaces every mention of God with "Kanye" or Yeezus", attempting to answer some big questions along the way.

"What if the Bible, the most singularly significant publication in the ancient canon of Western tradition, were updated to reflect our modern society? What would it look like?"

The Book of Yeezus, which is bound in a black, gold leaf-imprinted hard cover, also contains a foreword that ruminates on the "religion and spectacle of media icons in the 21st century" and attempts to dissect the significance of all things Kanye.

"In a sense, Kanyes awesome and orchestrated spectacle is truly a religious experience," they say. Word.

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The Book of Yeezus replaces every mention of God in The Bible with Kanye