Forget Frankl! The only meaning of life is God's mission!

Viktor E Frankl's book "Man's Search for Meaning" is a thinly guised Marxist and atheistic tome.

 

Frankl was a psychiatrist locked up in a concentration camp by NAZIs during World War II. His family members were killed.

Typical of a man from the medical sciences, he looked for answers on earth and tried to analyze the situation and the thoughts of those involved. He thinks he know more than those of us who know all we need to know: Jesus is lord. God has a plan. We are but servants.

Somehow this book became one of the most popular and highly regarded of the 20th century. More than 9,000,000 copies of this book were sold. I'm here to tell you that all of those who took part in the push toward that were completely wrong!

Frankl's main point is that man searches for meaning in the shape of an ultimate narative or divine plan. Of course! That's why God created us. But NO! Frankl suggests that each person find their own reason for living. He even suggests that we find meaning in sharing the suffering of those around us. Imagine!

Jesus suffered so that the believers don't have to. I guess no one told him.

The logical conclusion of Frankl's position is that since it is our actual lives here on earth that matter (rather than service to God and entry into heaven after we die) we should struggle to make things better in the here and now, where and when we live. Terrible!

This book is to be avoided at all costs.