Analyzing Christianity
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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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.
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Christians think they don’t change their message—it changes them, except they do and it doesn’t
Out of every bit of Christianese I’ve heard lately, this might be one of the chirpiest and most annoying.
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Not one jot or tittle: How evangelicals constantly change the Bible
Evangelicals have long ago figured out ways to change whatever they want in the Bible.
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Prayer: Why Christians always ‘forget to pray’
If prayer worked even in the bastardized way that Southern Baptists think it works, nobody’d ever need reminding to do it.
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Confuse ’em and lose ’em: Christian thought stoppers
Thought stoppers are super-meaningful-sounding statements that don’t actually say anything substantive—and can’t really even be defined at all. The further into wackadoodlery a flavor of Christianity is, the more thought stoppers we’ll find there, and for good reason.
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Knowledge: Starting from scratch after deconversion
Unlearning all the faulty logic and pseudoscience I’d learned while Christian was tough. But I had a much tougher time with unlearning how I’d learned how to learn and what knowing something actually means. I’d thought I had a handle on how to assess and absorb knowledge, but I was completely wrong.
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The pro-life clinic manual that deconverted me from Christianity
I started reading this CPC manual as a firm, fervent Christian. I ended it weeping, devastated, and windmilling my arms over the ledge of apostasy.
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A ‘ministry’ is just a Jesus-flavored business
While exploring my new hometown, I caught sight of a sign for a churchy-sounding financial-planning ministry. Its name was so vague that I had to get my phone out right then and there to figure out what it really was. And I soon did. They’re a financial ministry, you see, Read more
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Franklin Graham and Naghmeh Panahi: An all-too-common betrayal
Franklin Graham’s behavior is not some aberration, and neither was his bizarre decision to bring Panahi’s abuser to a military ministry shindig. It’s par for the course in evangelical ministry.