Hemant Mehta’s Ten Reasons Why People are Abandoning Christianity

Hemant Mehta published a video explaining why people are walking away from Christianity. Its a list of ten items that should come as no surprise. Many of these help explain why people have pushed back and walked away from faith. The one that should be on the list that is not is that Christianity does not provide a satisfactory answer to the problem of evil. 

EFCA Pastor Benjamin Vrbicek on Pornography and the COVID-19 Pandemic

In the COVID-19 pandemic some evangelicals are talking about pornography. 9 Marks pastor Garrett Kell has as has EFCA Pastor Benjamin Vrbicek at Community Evangelical Free in Harrisburg. The writer of this blog is a burned out evangelical who is mostly done. This post is some thoughts about evangelicals, pornography and sex. 

How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Going to Reveal the Dark Flaws and Systemic Issues of Evangelical Christianity

The COVID-19 pandemic is going to reveal the dark problems and systemic issues of evangelicalism. In the next couple of years some of the ordinary problems inside evangelicalism are going to be magnified as the system reacts to stress. Narcissism that puts people’s health in jeopardy and obsession with money will be an issue. Also expect to see many church plants be disrupted and closed. In a couple of years I would like to re-visit this post and re-examine some of the claims I am making today.

How Michael Holm a Former NSA Mathmatician Who Works at PicNix Inc. Helped Covenant Eyes Become More Like Oceania

Mike Holm is a mathematician who once worked for the National Security Agency in Fort Meade, Maryland. He left the intelligence community and worked for Covenant Eyes in Michigan to help create a far more controlling software program that would have shocked George Orwell. This post is about how Covenant Eyes is becoming more like Oceania and how the sexual purity software is allegedly being used in an abusive way to control and manipulate people as sensitive information is weaponized. While Mike Holm thinks he is serving God the reality is that he is serving the Christian industrial complex.

When Religion is so Suffocating and Controlling that the Healthy Option is to Leave

Religion is often described as an affirming belief system that helps people in their life. The question must be asked, what do you do when it is controlling, destructive and harmful? Some of this I learned in a faith crisis years ago. But what do you do when religion harms and leaves hubris? For your mental and physical health you leave and walk away.  

Christine Emba in the Washington Post on Why Millennials Are Leaving Church and Not Coming Back

In the Washington Post there is a column on why millennials are walking away from religion for good. Many are finding that they do not need church or religion. After all do you need church for community? Millennials would say no. This is a thought provoking column that adds some thoughts to the discussion about the dones. 

From Mark Driscoll to Jerry Falwell Jr. Why the Explicit Sex Talk? Are a Number of Evangelical Leaders Sociopaths?

A number of celebrity evangelical leaders have said some disturbing things about sex from their platforms. Mark Driscoll taught that women are penis homes and preached about the Biblical basis for blow jobs. C.J. Mahaney boasted of demanding sex from his pregnant wife who was vomiting. Now according to Politico comes Jerry Falwell Jr who boasts about the size of his penis and how his wife Becki can’t handle it. Why all the crude talk? Are we dealing with sociopaths in the end who just want to control people?