THE PURPOSE DRIVEN IDIOT

I read the best seller, “The Purpose Driven Life”, and am now officially sick to death of Christians. Well, not all of them. Mainly just the ones who think the Bible is the absolute word of God. Why must they be so arrogant about their religion? They put a fence around “God” and think they have “him” captured for themselves alone. Their ugly little god in their ugly little pen. It’s a very shallow, grotesque and narrow little view of God and Jesus. On page 90 it states you can’t know or love God “without knowing his Word”. And by “his Word” they mean the Bible. That is a statement of true arrogance, ignorance, bigotry and evil.

Religious doctrines that divide believers and nonbelievers into a separate and unequal classes are evil. So is any god that would do so. And that is the very god The Purpose Driven Life’s author, Rick Warren, wants you to believe in and worship. Why? Because the Bible says so! The Bible-centric answer that dooms all discussions with all true believing “word of God” Bible-heads like him. All authority, and “the buck”, is passed on to the Bible while they arrogantly pat themselves on the back for their vast, god-pleasing, buck passing, rational thought stopping faith.

The only way to accept the authority of the Bible is via one’s own authority. Even if tomorrow you magically wake up a total Bible believer without ever consciously deciding to do so, you still must decide whether to trust that event or not. “Am I sane, crazy, delusional, or what?” There is no way around it. Only you can decide if you are correct. No one else, not even a God, can do it for you. That being the case, it’s actually your own authority you’re putting your faith in, not God‘s. Because it’s YOU that decided you are correct to believe the Bible is the actual word of God. So when you tell me to accept the authority of the Bible, you are actually telling me to accept YOUR authority.

It’s a huge kick to think you are part of the special inner circle and can quote the actual words of God. That’s quite a payoff. So it’s no wonder Bible believers don’t want to question their beliefs. There’s just no perceived payoff in it. To humbly see the truth that you are serving your own swelling ego rather than God, is a tough pill to swallow.

My message to these sorts of believers is this - Certainty is not faith, it’s arrogance. And believing doesn’t make you special to God. Please, get over yourself.

The “Purpose” in the title is for us to bring glory to God, which really is fine with me, but this book does the opposite. It belittles God by making “him” a shallow asshole that wishes to be exclusive to Bible believers.

They can have their shallow, creepy god.