Ex pastor explains how Christianity is fake

[The Grand Nudger]

@Gae Bolga - It's not coincidental at all, people align themselves in their social groups by a sense of belonging, that others share their beliefs. It would follow that groups of people that share specific bigotries would seek out groups that shared in it. You've yet to cite a commonly accepted dogma that teaches to be judgemental. The Carmelite phrase in question "dark night of the soul" is a perfect example that supports my other point that questioning and doubt and fears are commonplace and part of the journey. What having doubts, fears and questions doesn't mean is pretending to be something you're not or lying to yourself and others. I'm glad we can at least agree on that point.

-and when people leave the faith, after experiencing that common dark night of the soul, how do you think they express it?  Could it possibly be "I was trying to fake it till I make it?"

There simply isn't any way to negotiate with reality or me on these articles.  You know damned well what judgementality christianity teaches, or you wouldn't have a conceptual dump to excise it from your private faith.  You know that specific bigotry isn't organic, and you know that your day to day life and experiences as they relate to divinity are precisely the same as my own, and those who leave the faith.

As already described, making assertions that you know aren't true, in the form of an argument that you know is invalid. For what? How difficult would it be, really, to acknowledge that christianity at large has fundamental ideological issues (like any other ideology......), and that there are portions of the faith that conflict with your very modern sensibilities - that you privately grapple with, but that ultimately, with all of that said..you, you personally, and your private christianity, is somehow better.

I could swallow that with ease, lol. The momentum reforming christianity at present is coming from inside the house. It shouldn't be like pulling teeth to have a blunt conversation about the faith, the kind that you can have with other christians in private. You do not personally need to twist your dick into knots to excuse christianity. It won't work anyway....or the whole business would have been washed clean already. The wife is also under the radical non-judgy umbrella. It exists. It's just not the One True Christian Teaching™ even if it's an improved christian teaching. There's another one of those ticks of theism. Every one of you swears up and down on the magical pick your own adventure book that you've got it right and those other fuckers have it wrong. None of you seems to be able to realize, acknowledge, or accept that this just isn't how magic books work, at all.