God Made Me Do It: True Stories of the Worst Advice the Lord Has Ever Given His Followers

By Marc Hartzman

Book Overview

Does God, in His infinite wisdom, convince people to get rid of their car insurance? Does He encourage cannibalism? Does the God of more than six billion people actually have time to root for the Minnesota Vikings? According to some, yes. How do they know? God told them. Luckily, God also told Marc Hartzman to write this book, a collection of the most shocking, absurd, and hilarious things people have ever claimed God asked them to do, and to presentthem for your pure reading enjoyment. Including: The man that God told to perform surgery on himself God's generous offer to miraculously fill his believer's gas tank The fateful day God (assumedly feeling nostalgic for his teen years) asked a man to TP a police station The woman God instructed to direct traffic--topless And, sadly, many more

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402236077
• ISBN13: 9781402236075
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

I don't think it'll hold up in court...

God can be pretty talky sometimes, if you go by the number of people who claim to have heard the divine voice. And oddly enough, these days God seems mostly concerned with ordering them to undertake the strangest tasks. Ramming fellow drivers, robbing banks, creating the ultimate barbecue sauce, putting a wedding chapel in a pawn shop, destroying department store Christmas displays (because Santa is the devil, of course) ... God apparently keeps a massive to-do list, and //God Made Me Do It// assembles some of the more curious entries on that list. For the most part, it's a thoroughly enjoyable read. My only issue with the book is that I wish Hartzman had broken the articles up into sections separating lighthearted and less pleasant fare. It's occasionally jarring to switch from the patently ridiculous (directing traffic topless or not paying taxes) to the genuinely disturbing (cannibalism or cult leaders who murder their followers), and it detracts ever-so-slightly from the reading experience. In the beginning, God told Marc Hartzman to write this book. And it was good. Reviewed by Glenn Dallas

Bahahahahahahaha!

Just got this, and so far it's great. Sort of the non-death, religion-oriented version of the Darwin Awards. Stupid people do stupid things for different reasons. Sometimes God's one of them.

God made me write this review

What makes this book so humorous is that all of the stories are true! A bunch of the guys detailed in the book probably were just looking for an excuse for their odd or misbehavior but it seems that most actually believe that they received divine inspiration, suggestion or direction. Books about religion and God may be a delicate topic but this book addresses its tales with intelligence and respect with a good mix of humor and sarcasm. For fans of the Good Book, this is a great book.