Now it's personal

[downbeatplumb]

I hadn't heard 'deconstructing' as a term for losing religious faith before; I have heard it referred to as 'deconverting'.

Deconstructing basically amounts to examining the infrastructure of your religious belief system and critically analyzing it for coherence and consistency. The parts that fail get tossed. For many, deconverting is the end result of deconstructing. But not all: My deconstruction resulted in a more coherent and self-consistent biblical world-view.

There is another term for this. We call it "cherry picking". (I'm not trying to be confrontational just pointing out a fact)