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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.
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Bad Ideas: Biblical Inerrancy
Some seem to believe that if the scriptures were composed under the guidance of a perfect being, they must themselves be perfect. Yet is that really the case?
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Bad Ideas: The Mark of the Beast
Patty vs. The Minions of the Antichrist t’s a Wednesday evening, around the time of the Gulf War. I’m in a narrow rectangular room with around fifteen other boys, members of our church’s Boy’s Brigade group (a Christian version of the Boy Scouts). A television and VCR are positioned at one end of the room…
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Confronting Christian nationalism (and other bad ideas)