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Trust in pastors is dropping, and Southern Baptists think they know why
Misplaced trust makes Christians say “Oh no, my pastor would never do that!” It grants pastors a shield they do not deserve.
Analyzing Christianity
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ makes one last Hail Mary pass
Our last writer throws a Hail Mary with his chapter, which asks doubters to direct their gazes to Jesus himself. As if anyone could!
Analyzing Christianity
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ has no clue why people believe (or disbelieve)
Every time I’ve said I’ve seen the worst thing evangelicals have ever done, one of them has turned up in short order with a backhoe and asked me to hold their Bible. So of course it’d happen with a book they’ve written!
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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.
Analyzing Christianity
‘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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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
Analyzing Christianity
‘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!
Analyzing Christianity
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ calls forth True Scotsmen to battle white evangelical racism
In a lot of ways, this chapter really exemplifies evangelicals’ inability to engage meaningfully with the dealbreaking flaws in their flavor of Christianity—like the Bible’s amazing ability to twist and contort to fully support any opinion that any Christian could ever possibly have.
Analyzing Christianity
Reframing evangelicals’ bigotry-for-Jesus in ‘Before You Lose Your Faith’
Something in Rachel Gilson’s childhood led her straight to the worst, cruelest, most evil and inhuman flavor of Christianity in the entire shit-tastic Christian rainbow. Through sheer necessity, she’s figured out a way to reframe her tribe’s infamous bigotry-for-Jesus. But it doesn’t have to fool anybody else, and I don’t think it even fools her at times.
Analyzing Christianity
‘Before You Lose Your Faith’ actually seriously asks if we’ve ever tried TRUE CHRISTIANITY™
This book has been unparalleled entertainment for me ever since I started it. But this chapter in particular felt like revisiting a great 80s comedy film.