People Are No Damn Good

“Kierkegaard claimed that at decisive historical junctures, God raises up irritant messengers-gadflies to tell the church its witness in the world has become fundamentally flawed. With both grit and grace, snarky-ness and sublimity, Jimmy Watson’s People Are No Damn Good is affirmation that Pogo was right: we’ve seen the enemy, and it is us. Once we own this truth, the pathway to redemption and forgiveness is ours to travel.”


—Thom Webster, retired Associate Conference Minister, United Church of Christ





“How often can you say you will ROFL your way through a book on ethics, then actually want to end up being a better person? With hilarious storytelling, unrelenting self-ridicule, and incisive intellect, Pastor Jimmy Watson lays bare the world as it is, while making us love it into what it may yet become with our faith and attention.”


—Molly Baskette, author of How to Begin When Your World Is Ending





“Jimmy Watson has given us laypersons an invaluable guide to exploring the perplexing problem of evil. He acts as our learned and amiable docent, dispensing wisdom, originality, and witty bon mots to punctuate his discussion of ‘evilology,’ drawing on insights from Scripture, philosophers, ethicists, genetics, and identity politics. . . . A thought-provoking and pleasurable read. Highly recommended.”


—Robert B. Pettit, Manchester University, Indiana, emeritus