Don't F**k With God
The book "Don't F**k With God" by Shawn McCraney aims to dismantle the numerous misconceptions about God's nature, often perpetuated by traditional religious structures. Using the Yeshuan biblical perspective to articulate the ontology and nature of God, it ultimately emphasizes that God's love is unconditional and not contingent on human obedience, countering the portrayal of God as vengeful. The book explores the misuse of God's name, distortions of His nature, and misconceptions about His omnipotence, advocating for a clearer understanding of God beyond the perpetuated myths of modern Christianity.
Sample: Don't F**k With God: A Brief History
Having pursued God since a child, I have naturally had Him explained and described to me in countless ways. Initially I took all of these descriptions seriously but soon discovered that if I added them all up into one creature God would wind up being a giant contradiction.
Along the way people have described Him as someone to fear, someone to obey, someone to love, someone to honor and someone to pursue. When explaining the make-up of this “someone” I’ve been told that He is an it, that He is a she, that He is an alien, a monster, a Trinity, a binity, that He was once a man and that He has many wives. I’ve read that there are millions of God’s and that there is only one. Here in this book I am going to refer to God as a He – not because God is male, but for simplicities sake – and I am also going to assert that there is only one.
God.
If there is a God, it seems to me that getting to understand and follow Him is a pretty important use of our time. After decades of having God described to me, from what He is to what He demands, I got busy and started gathering everything I could get my hands on as a means to arrive at my own answers of who and what God is and what He does and what He demands.
And after nearly forty years of questioning and revising, I have a pretty good idea of what is written about Him. And from this information, who and what He is, what He does, and what He commands. This by no means is to suggest that I have a handle on God – far from it. But what it does suggest is I know pretty quickly when He has been f**ked with, and what that looks like. Hence this short book.
So, while I admit that God may be so much more than what I talk about here, I can assure you that He is not what so many religious (and non-religious) people claim Him to be.
See if you agree.