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Deconstruction: Understanding the "Ex-Evangelical" movement with Alisa Childers

Jan 17, 2023
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INSIGHT

Word Salad and Deconstruction

  • "Live your truth" leads to word salads where words lose objective meaning.
  • Deconstruction continuously questions everything, hindering a stable truth.
INSIGHT

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".
ANECDOTE

Exvangelical Defined

  • The "exvangelical" label describes rejecting specific doctrines, not simply leaving evangelicalism.
  • This includes beliefs about original sin, hell, biblical authority, and complementarianism.
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