Showing posts with label deconversion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label deconversion. Show all posts
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Monday, February 23, 2026
Thursday, January 1, 2026
Ex-Evangelical Apologetics: Are Leavers Broken and/or Just Giving Up? (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)
Brad revisits the idea that exvangelicals are just broke and giving up on faith. He responds to an interview at the Remnant Radio with Skillet's John Cooper.
Topics discussed:
Topics discussed:
- Do non-Evangelicals allow culture to shape them, while Evangelicals allow Scripture to be the formative influence?
- Is Truth all or nothing?
- Why are Evangelicals so upset when exvies "share the Gospel" of their deconstruction?
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
“You’re Just Being Selfish” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) (It's in the Code, episode #145)
“You’re just being selfish.” This accusation represents both the last-ditch effort and the overarching them of the partisans of high-control Christianity to discredit faith deconstructionists.
How does this accusation work?
What are its aims?
What do the partisans of high-control religion hope to gain by accusing their opponents of selfishness?
And how does this accusation reveal the deep-seated efforts at control and coercion that lie at the heart of high-control Christianity?
Join Dan as he explores these issues in this week’s episode.
Interview:
https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/its-in-the-code-ep-145-youre-just-being-selfish/
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
“Cherry-Picking the Bible” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) It’s in the Code ep #142
When those undergoing faith deconstruction appeal to the Bible to raise questions or level critiques against high-control Christianity, they are often dismissed as “cherry-picking” particular Bible verses to suit their purposes.
What exactly does this accusation mean? And how does it relate to the ways in which the practitioners of high-control Christianity appeal to the Bible? In what ways does this accusation against deconstructionists amount to extreme gaslighting?
Listen to this week’s episode as Dan explores these issues.
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Monday, April 21, 2025
“Deconstructing Some ‘Core Teachings’” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) It’s in the Code Ep 141
Partisans of high-control Christianity attempt to insulate their version of the Christian tradition from criticism by arguing that the questions and challenged posed by those experiencing faith deconstruction do not apply to the “core teachings” of the tradition.
But even a cursory look at some of the most basic theological tenets of high-control Christianity show this not to be the case. In this episode, Dan looks at two of the “core teachings” within high-control Christianity to show hoe faith deconstruction does, indeed, fundamentally challenge high-control religion.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
“Doctrinal Love-Bombing” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) (It’s in the Code ep 139)
What is “love-bombing,” and how does it operate to reinforce high-control Christianity?
How is it used in an attempt to discredit those undergoing faith deconstruction, whose questions and critiques threaten to undue high-control religion? And how does it operate to insulate preserve the institutions and practices of high-control religion?
Listen to this week’s episode to here Dan’s answers to these and other questions.
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Sunday, March 30, 2025
Paula White’s Pay-To-Pray Scam (Hemant Mehta and Jessica Bluemke, The Friendly Atheist podast #576)
— Paula White’s pay-to-pray scam: Trump’s faith advisor wants your cash. (0:32)
— Columbus school district bans candy bribes used to lure kids to Bible classes. (15:00)
— Catholic college faces backlash for inviting former Irish president Mary McAleese to speak at graduation. (24:33)
— South Dakota governor gives employees time off to “celebrate the resurrection” of Jesus. (39:55)
— The global religious exodus: Why people are switching—and ditching—faith. (44:15)
— Utah law now allows religious franchise owners to remain closed on Sundays. (1:00:25)
Interview:
— Columbus school district bans candy bribes used to lure kids to Bible classes. (15:00)
— Catholic college faces backlash for inviting former Irish president Mary McAleese to speak at graduation. (24:33)
— South Dakota governor gives employees time off to “celebrate the resurrection” of Jesus. (39:55)
— The global religious exodus: Why people are switching—and ditching—faith. (44:15)
— Utah law now allows religious franchise owners to remain closed on Sundays. (1:00:25)
Interview:
Sunday, March 23, 2025
“Are you mad at God?” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) (It's in the Code, episode #138)
“Are you mad at God?”
This is a question that will almost certainly be posed to anyone undergoing faith deconstruction.
It might come from someone who means well and who cares about the person deconstructing. Or it might come from a partisan advocate of high-control religion.
What is happening when someone poses this question? Even if it comes from a place of care, how does it express the dynamics of high-control religion?
And why, if it’s a question, does it so often feel like an attack, like a dismissal?
Check out this week’s episode to hear Dan’s reflections on these and other issues related to this question.
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Sunday, March 16, 2025
“You’re Confusing Christians With Christianity” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) (It’s in the Code Ep 137)
“You’re confusing Christians with Christianity.”
This is another response that those undergoing “faith deconstruction” often receive when engaging with the partisans of high-control religion.
This response reflects widespread cultural understandings of religion, so it has a ring of plausibility. But is it? Listen to this week’s episode as Dan discusses why this response is not only implausible, but is weaponized by the partisans of high-control religion to coerce and control those who would challenge it.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025
“You Need to be Open to Other Perspectives” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)(It’s in the Code Ep 136)
If someone is working through faith deconstruction, it’s a virtual guarantee that they will be confronted with this dismissal of their questions and critiques at some point.
But what exactly is going on when a partisan of high-control Christianity says this?
What response are they trying to bring about from the person deconstructing? And how is this response intended to insulate high-control religion from criticism and honest questioning?
Join Dan this week for answers to these and other questions.
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Sunday, March 2, 2025
Divorcing Religion: a Survival Guide Through Doubt and Non-Belief (with Janice Selbie)
Many people experience post-religion trauma. Author and religious trauma coach Janice Selbie has some tools to help.
“Why Do You Always Focus On the Negative?” (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast) (It’s in the Code Ep #135)
“Why do you always focus on the negative?”
“Why are you so negative all the time?”
If you have posed hard questions about high-control religion, or if you have undergone (or are undergoing) “faith deconstruction,” it is a virtual guarantee that you have been confronted by questions like these. But why?
Why is that questioning dismissed or judged as being “negative”? Why does honest questioning provoke such visceral negative reactions? How does all of this relate to the toxic positivity of high-control religion? Check out this week’s episode as Dan considers these questions.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Monday, March 11, 2024
Friday, April 1, 2022
Who Deconstructs the Deconstructors? (feat Jon Steingard) (Stand to Reason response)
Jon Noyes and Tim Barnett talk about recent public deconversion stories, including that of one Jon Steingard (formerly of Hawk Nelson) who joins Paulogia to react.
Responding to Deconversion Stories | Stand to Reason Podcast with Jon Noyes and Tim Barnett
Responding to Deconversion Stories | Stand to Reason Podcast with Jon Noyes and Tim Barnett
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Sunday, March 1, 2020
Why I Am No Longer a Christian
I explain my life as a born-again Christian, my deconversion, and my life as an atheist.
In the deconversion section, I show how evidence, reason, and experiences related to prayer, morality, deconverted Christians, the Bible, and my relationship with God Himself all lead to my eventual inability to believe anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA0C3C1D163BE880A
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA0C3C1D163BE880A
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