ABOUT THE BOOK
The psychological and religious application
A confrontation with spiritual pressure, inherited images of God, and the ego that learns to speak in sacred language. The book turns religious critique into a demand for self-examination, asking what faith actually makes of the person who professes it.
Read the opening
Why This Book Had to Be Written Some books are written because an author has an idea. This book was written because I had a wound. Not the kind of wound that disappears because time passes. Not the kind of wound that becomes smaller because people tell you to move on. Not the kind of wound that can be prayed away by the same kind of voices that helped create it. This wound came from watching people speak about God with certainty while carrying very little understanding. It came from hearing people talk about salvation as if it gave them permission to look down on the souls of others. It came from seeing Jesus used as a weapon by people who seemed less interested in becoming like him than in making others bow to the version of him they inherited. It came from family. It came from pressure. It came from watching people I love be treated as spiritually incomplete by people who had never deeply examined the faith they were using to judge them. That is where this book begins. Not in hatred. Not in rebellion for the sake of rebellion. Not in some shallow desire to attack Christianity. This book begins with a question: Do you actually understand what you are asking another soul to become?
The God They Inherited, manuscript p. 5. Transcribed from the supplied manuscript; line breaks normalized.