Analyzing Christianity
How a deconstruction goes wrong in ‘Before You Lose Your Faith’
This book’s second chapter perfectly illustrates what happens when a deconstruction fails to go far enough.
Analyzing Christianity
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ review: Evangelicals really, REALLY want to set the terms for deconstruction
It’s been very interesting to see how dysfunctional authoritarians approach deconstruction in other Christians, especially with regard to how they’ve dealt with doubt over the past 10 or 12 years.
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Hocus Pocus 2: Why Christians are getting hung up on the Satanic Panic again
Last week, a Texas mother named Jamie Gooch tried to beat the Satanic Panic drum over a silly movie called Hocus Pocus 2. In a now-iconic interview, she told her Troy, Texas news affiliate KWTX all about it: “A worst case scenario is: you unleash hell on your kids and Read more
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Authenticity, and how TRUE CHRISTIANITY™ destroys it
We’re going to look at how Christians market themselves as the only place to find authenticity, and then we’ll see how their tribe tramples it to the ground.
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How to tell if you’re a TRUE CHRISTIAN™, according to TRUE CHRISTIANS™
The simple truth of the matter is that every Christian is a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ — because none of them really are.
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The many red flags Gracepoint Church waved
In a very real sense, Gracepoint weaponized the deepest yearnings and aches of its prey, then played upon their deepest fears to gain their ongoing compliance.
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Gracepoint: Yet another ‘discipleship’ church turns out to be abusive
Discipleship might be the answer to the prayers of authoritarian evangelical pastors, but it all too often becomes a total nightmare for their followers.
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The Southern Baptist Convention still seems quite reluctant to discuss their 2022 Annual Report
Something was nibbling away at me over the past couple of weeks, ever since I wrote about this topic originally, but it’s really come to a head lately. And it has to do with the 2022 Annual Report of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Why did the denomination’s leaders seem Read more
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‘Invisible evidence’: How Christians get faith so wrong (and why)
I can see, then, why so many TRUE CHRISTIANS™ want to turn faith into a feeling rather than measuring it through compliance. This move eliminates compliance as a tangible measurement of faith. That’s good, since most Christians could never qualify as faithful that way.
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Certainty about uncertainty: The surefire solution to deconstruction
‘Is God even real?’ I cried aloud with a cracking voice. ‘Or is that, too, just a lie?’ And the ceiling answered as it always had: with silence.