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“For some time now, Christianity has been on the decline. According to a September 2022 Pew study, people identifying as Christian have decreased from 90% of the U.S. population in 1972 to 64% in 2020. But it’s not just researchers who are talking about this. As of Dec. 6, 2020, the hashtag “#exchristian” had 696.7 million cumulative views on TikTok and was assigned to more than 68,600 posts on Instagram. When looking specifically at evangelicalism, the numbers nearly double. The hashtag “#exvangelical” was viewed 1.1 billion times on TikTok and was assigned to 105,000 posts on Instagram. The behavior of Christians Beyond the issue of LGBTQ inclusion, Stanley did get one thing right: Many people object to the behavior of Christians, and that’s not something new. When writing a letter to C.S. Lewis about potentially converting to Christianity, author Sheldon Vanauken wrestled with this exact thing in his book A Severe Mercy: The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. But the strongest argument against Christianity is also Christians — when they are somber and joyless, when they are self-righteous and smug in complacent consecration, when they are narrow and repressive, then Christianity dies a thousand deaths. Apparently, some things never change — the behavior of Christians is a massive stumbling block for people coming to the religion and walking away. However, instead of dying a thousand deaths, Christianity is dying millions.” I don’t believe in automatic forgiveness when it comes to heavy traumas. Forgiveness should be optional, not a requirement. Some people live healthy lives with forgiveness and some people live healthy lives without forgiveness. Religion doesn’t encourage healthy channeling of emotions. Religion says there are negative emotions (which is a myth.) Religion encourages La-La Land, Fairytale Land, toxic positivity, spiritualizing, spiritual bypassing, gaslighting, sex-obsession, Fantasy Land, peaches and cream, sugar and rainbows, sugar and spice and everything nice, Kumbuya, can we get along and sing a song (let’s be friends), Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy, doing the bare minimum, laziness, cruelty, stupidity, and every negative character trait. A lot of churches are fearful of losing the 501 (c) status so they avoid justice issues. Some churches are glad that The IRS allows them to endorse politicians and political parties to their congregations even though they know that they are not supposed to do according to the IRS. Hellfire doesn’t await those who preach against violent abusers and sex criminals. Any church that is silent and inactive about abuse survivors is Satan’s House. Satan’s Church, and dens of demons. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support