I guess I am just so puzzled about this person who did write a preety good book — or so I hear. I have not read it.
It was more a self-help book than anything else.
Whether Warrnen’s “Purpose Driven” books(s) are any good depends on whether you want your flesh to be puffed up or, on contrast, you (a believer) want your soul nourished, or you (a lost person) are being called by God and want to know Him.
Purpose Driven is mainly good for puffing up the flesh, with very little nourishment for the soul - clinging tightly to bones of deception.
I’ve read both and critiqued them - here http://menofhonorministry.org/Discipleship/ThePurposeDrivenLife.htm and here http://brogdensmuse.menofhonorministry.org/Apologetics/PDC.htm
As for the AIDS propaganda, there is not yet scientific consensus, much less proof, as to what causes AIDs - or what AIDS is (the government changes the definition from time to time). Interesting reading here - http://www.duesberg.com/
It wasn’t pretty good. It was fluff and ego stroking self-help, as irishtenor says. I read it and was like “huh? WHY is this so popular?” I didn’t think anything of it because I had filled in the blanks unconsciously in what he LEFT OUT — e.g pretty much the whole gospel!