[Alex Murphy]

Yes, I've read Scripture- you'd be surprised. I continue to do so. But I read other things as well....Another dear favorite: "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl, survivor of a Nazi concentration camp.

How so? I had to read Frankl's book in high school. The more I meditated on it, the more I disagreed with Frankl on an objective level. I thought the reader (like Frankl) would have to be an functional atheist or agnostic to buy into the message.

[Grateful2God]

Did you mean the part about his actual experience, or the logotherapy?

[Grateful2God]

When I read Frankl the first time, I hadn't seen some of the photographs and films of the camps. They were a leveller, stripping people of their identity, and trying to squelch their dignity as human beings. Yet, for some reason, there was a feeling some had inside, a need to survive and somehow get through moment-by- moment. It was a victory of the human spirit over the devil incarnate, to me, anyway. The logotherapy, well, Frankl had been a psychologist, when the science was young. I didn't take psych until college, so I never really connected the two, to be perfectly honest.

Father Walter Cizek was imprisoned in Siberia for 20 years; he wrote a book called, "He Leadeth Me" where he described his experiences before and after he simply found acceptance and peace in the fact that nothing happens in this universe that is either permitted or ordained by God. I admit, his attitude was more edifying than logotherapy. Yet Frankl used his experience to help others, as well. Similar experiences, different points of view- an interesting contrast...