I read a similar article pointed to from Facebook. Unfortunately when I go back to Facebook I don't see the same things, so I don't have a pointer. My reaction was that he was unwilling to face up to the things that had led him to his false conclusions. In that article he hadn't yet said he wasn't a Christian. But it was clear that he was more willing to leave Christianity than to consider that he might have misunderstood Jesus' intention, and to look at what approach to Scripture led him to that mistake.
He made a very telling observation. If he abandoned traditional conservative Christianity, what guarnatee did he have the 100 years from now people wouldn't find even his new understanding wrong? He seemed to think that Christianity was useless if it didn't stay the same forever.
I'm sorry, but even the Catholic church isn't the same now as 100 years ago, in the 16th Cent, in Augustine's time, or in the early church.
To me, it's a real danger if Christians have such an unrealistic concept of human knowledge that when they realize they've made a mistake they leave Christianity rather than trying to see why they made the mistake and fix it.
There were some actual theological problems behind purity culture, starting with the fact that purity was the Pharisees' ideal, and not Jesus'. Jesus' ideal was obedience. They're not the same thing, and they have different pastoral consequences. By simply giving up, he's avoiding facing the mistakes that he made.
