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#4: The Doctrine of Elections
This was a collective dark night of the soul for my youth group compatriots and me. And it was all thanks to an election.
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#3: Under the Christian Nationalist Tent (or, Finding Empathy)
You’d be forgiven for thinking that if this kid was what a soldier in the Lord’s army looked like, you didn’t love our chances. Nonetheless, we all thought we were doing the Lord’s work.
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#2: A Christian Nationalist Deserter
At the vertex of my turn away from Christian nationalism stood a shit-stirring seaside woodworker named Jesus.
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#1: We Were Christian Nationalists Once, and Young
I was so angry at those villains, those godless and underhanded liberal evildoers that the thought of waging war against them was bait to a bloodthirsty soul… Until I went AWOL.
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Bad Ideas: A Curse is Upon You!
by Adam and Renée Benner For each of his years at Hogwarts, Harry Potter had a different Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher. There was the conniving Quirrell, the haughty Gilderoy Lockhart, the sinister Barty Crouch (disguised as Mad-Eye Moody), the poisonous Delores Umbridge, even Professor Snape. But the one I always felt sorry for…
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Good Ideas: Holy Lit, Not Holy Writ
There might be a better way to read the Bible than as a set of useful memory and life verses.
Ex-Patriot
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