The Book of Genesis (comics) was brought up Catholic, and thus is familiar with the more common Bible stories, but gave up the Catholic faith when he was 16. He went through a phase when he was 15 where he "[went] to church a lot, receiving communion, saying the Rosary, praying", but when he started to scrutinize it, "it just fell apart so quickly." Crumb says he is spiritual, gnostic, and not an atheist; he is "interested in pursuing and understanding the spiritual nature of things." He believes there is a God, but "I don't believe [the Book of Genesis is] the Word of God.
Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story is presumed to follow. The radio series on which the book was based, also named "The Rest of the Story", was produced from 1976 until 2009, when Paul Harvey died. Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story is a book written by Paul Harvey, Jr. (billed under his birth name, "Paul Aurandt") that chronicles around 80 stories that Paul Harvey told on his regular radio show of the same name. Sample stories include: the birth of Coca-Cola, the insanity of Patrick Henry's wife, and how Franklin Pierce apparently accidentally ran over a woman.