A.R. Moxon notes that he grew up a missionary kid, "which is sort of heavenly platinum status in christian communities." Despite his upbringing as the son of evangelical missionaries, he can no longer do church. He explains why: the "beautiful story" told by the Christian gospels, which is compelling, is belied by the behavior many churches and church folks.

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"Also, the Republican Party had already been a hate group for many years prior to that, and the church had been the enthusiastic, sustaining, energizing force behind that organization, as part of its overall capture by authoritarian state power, which had offered it relevance and influence in the form of enforced cultural domination over others."

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"So the church took the offer, and didn't even get a golden fiddle in exchange for its soul. And here, at last, we were. ...

Think of what made me leave my church. It wasn't somebody welcoming me into the new thing. It was the fact that I actually believed the truths I had learned and couldn't handle the lies any more."

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At a point in history at which more than half of white Christians have voted for Trump three times, this last time setting off an orgy of chaos, destruction, and cruelty through which we're now beginning to live, the church itself offers the most glaring counterwitness imaginable to the gospel it prodlaims.

One can keep believing only by leaving the church behind.

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