Cultish Deconstruction: Understanding the "Ex-Evangelical" movement with Alisa Childers
Jan 17, 2023
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Word Salad and Deconstruction
- "Live your truth" leads to word salads where words lose objective meaning.
- Deconstruction continuously questions everything, hindering a stable truth.
Double Speak and Newspeak
- Modern "double speak" in media and culture mirrors Orwellian newspeak.
- Examples include redefining abortion as "reproductive justice" and renaming abortion centers as "women's health care centers".
Exvangelical Defined
- The "exvangelical" label describes rejecting specific doctrines, not simply leaving evangelicalism.
- This includes beliefs about original sin, hell, biblical authority, and complementarianism.