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Or ditches the Christian Faith. Dave Armstrong goes through the minutes of the reasoning. I have never heard of
Audrey Assad. Apparently she is, or was, a big name in music, at least for Christians. She's done with all that God stuff now, concluding that the modern Faith of Science has debunked all that made up folk tale gibberish we call religion. At the end of the day, that's why she left.
For all the unpacking Dave does, and he does an admirable job, I think it's simple. She no longer believes and, most likely, hadn't believed for some time. A great many in our churches likely don't anymore. They can't bring themselves to do what she's done because they don't know where else to go. Thinking of the implications of a religionless world is terrifying. This is all you get, then a feast for maggots and your objectively valueless life is forgotten about in a generation and that's it? So they hang on, not believing it in their gut of guts, until a chance to bolt finally appears.
Oh, we have that secular paganism, that 'heavenly birthday' and 'we pray to something' or such at times of crisis. Just enough fluff to paste over the implications of a truly secular universe. But it's not much, and means less. Therefore many are no doubt where she was. She may give this or that reason, the Church is thus, or the Church judges, or the Church intolerant, or hypocrites as good as always.
But that's all rubbish. From non-religious hypocrites to intolerant atheists, the idea that these problems in the Church aren't found anywhere else is demonstrably false. After a few days in the real world, it isn't difficult to discover in the fields of secular living the same problems.
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Daffey Thoughts: Another one bites the dust
Audrey Assad. Apparently she is, or was, a big name in music, at least for Christians. She's done with all that God stuff now, concluding that the modern Faith of Science has debunked all that made up folk tale gibberish we call religion. At the end of the day, that's why she left.
For all the unpacking Dave does, and he does an admirable job, I think it's simple. She no longer believes and, most likely, hadn't believed for some time. A great many in our churches likely don't anymore. They can't bring themselves to do what she's done because they don't know where else to go. Thinking of the implications of a religionless world is terrifying. This is all you get, then a feast for maggots and your objectively valueless life is forgotten about in a generation and that's it? So they hang on, not believing it in their gut of guts, until a chance to bolt finally appears.
Oh, we have that secular paganism, that 'heavenly birthday' and 'we pray to something' or such at times of crisis. Just enough fluff to paste over the implications of a truly secular universe. But it's not much, and means less. Therefore many are no doubt where she was. She may give this or that reason, the Church is thus, or the Church judges, or the Church intolerant, or hypocrites as good as always.
But that's all rubbish. From non-religious hypocrites to intolerant atheists, the idea that these problems in the Church aren't found anywhere else is demonstrably false. After a few days in the real world, it isn't difficult to discover in the fields of secular living the same problems.
Continued below.
Daffey Thoughts: Another one bites the dust
