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Spiritually Dysfunctional: Being the True and Amazing Story of How a Confirmed Jewish Atheist and His Seriously Catholic Wife Explore the Meaning of ... and their Own Relationship
Here It Is . . . The Answer to Too Much Soul-Searching
Humorist and Jewish atheist history professor Fred Singer and his Catholic theologian wife Becky have been arguing over Life’s Big Questions during their thirty theologically stormy years of marriage. Now Fred has put it all together in this imaginative, offbeat, yet thoughtful and endearing tribute to love and man’s search for answers. Fred will take you on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey––combining humor, satire, tragedy, memoir, history, psychology and some very human characters.
OR . . . to put it succinctly, Spiritually Dysfunctional is Tuesdays With Morrie riding a Zen Motorcycle on The Road Less Traveled to discover why Bad Things Happen to Good People .
Whether you agree with Fred or not, Spiritually Dysfunctional will keep you up at night reading, thinking, laughing, crying and arguing over . . .
· What do people want out of life?
· How can we go on if we don’t believe in God?
· Why does God allow suffering?
· Do things happen for a reason?
· What is the relationship between death and immortality?
· How do the spiritually dysfunctional hurt themselves and others?
· What mistakes do we make in pursuing meaning, salvation and immortality?
· Does the size of the universe confirm or deny God?
· What are the non-religious forms of spirituality?
· Why are Fred and Becky still married?
Humorist and Jewish atheist history professor Fred Singer and his Catholic theologian wife Becky have been arguing over Life’s Big Questions during their thirty theologically stormy years of marriage. Now Fred has put it all together in this imaginative, offbeat, yet thoughtful and endearing tribute to love and man’s search for answers. Fred will take you on a thought-provoking and entertaining journey––combining humor, satire, tragedy, memoir, history, psychology and some very human characters.
OR . . . to put it succinctly, Spiritually Dysfunctional is Tuesdays With Morrie riding a Zen Motorcycle on The Road Less Traveled to discover why Bad Things Happen to Good People .
Whether you agree with Fred or not, Spiritually Dysfunctional will keep you up at night reading, thinking, laughing, crying and arguing over . . .
· What do people want out of life?
· How can we go on if we don’t believe in God?
· Why does God allow suffering?
· Do things happen for a reason?
· What is the relationship between death and immortality?
· How do the spiritually dysfunctional hurt themselves and others?
· What mistakes do we make in pursuing meaning, salvation and immortality?
· Does the size of the universe confirm or deny God?
· What are the non-religious forms of spirituality?
· Why are Fred and Becky still married?
288 pages, Paperback
First published November 29, 2006
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March 31, 2012
If you are searching for "answers," this is definitely not going to give them to you. I did enjoy reading this book and could relate to several of the people the author wrote about, and I also could relate to him on many levels too, to my surprise. This book is what I would call "Food for Thought!" It gives a broad spectrum of individuals (spiritual, not so spiritual, atheist, catholic, christian, jew, tree huggers, artists, etc...) with different beliefs, and it is just as I stated before..... Food for thought.
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