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‘I prayed about it’: Why Christians use prayer as an excuse
If Jesus himself told them in prayer not to take the assignment, then what kind of Christian would the request-maker be to try to jump that chain of command?
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‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ retrospective: Who’s its intended audience?
Before You Lose Your Faith is a bunch of answers endlessly searching for a question. It’s a bunch of solutions looking for a problem. It’s a bunch of evangelicals chasing the wind.
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What ‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ doesn’t understand about community
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ keeps pushing a vision of community that categorically does not exist and can’t ever exist in their flavor of Christianity.
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‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ loses all illusions of good-faith acting
Toxic Christians love encountering honest, vulnerable people. You know how they see those people? As prey.
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‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ hates its strawman of individualism
The fact that so many Christian groups require metaphorical mask-wearing and inauthentic presentation has nothing to do with evil ickie individualistic Western life. Rather, it has everything to do with the exact kind of tribalism that his flavor of Christianity most often embodies.
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How ‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ fails to solve the Problem of Hell
We’re now on Chapter 12 of Before You Lose Your Faith. In this chapter, Joshua Ryan Butler tries—and utterly fails—to solve the eternal thorn in Hell-believing Christians’ side: The Problem of Hell. There’s a good reason why these thorns get capitalized names, of course. No Hell-believer has ever managed to Read more
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Before You Lose Your Faith: Ch11 finally makes good, sorta
As a bookmark-carrying bibliophile, I might be required to like this chapter more than usual. We’re now on Chapter 11 of Before You Lose Your Faith. And for whatever it’s worth, this chapter isn’t bad at all. That’s not a huge surprise, given who wrote it: Karen Swallow Prior, now Read more
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‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ appeals to morality, fails Unicorn Test
Utu, the Sumerian sun god and lord of justice, would NEVER.
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‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ slings scientism accusations to destroy marks’ trust in reality
Oh, the face when a Christian confidently attacks science as a means of evaluating religious claims, but does it in a way that indicates he doesn’t understand it at all!
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‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ demands that we read all of their side’s testimonies too
This time around, we will be told that we’re not allowed to entertain doubts or form opinions without hearing all the testimonies that Thaddeus Williams thinks demonstrate the validity of his tribe’s culture wars. Unfortunately for him, they’re nowhere near as persuasive as he thinks they are.