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FireDragon stated it better in a single paragraph than I probably would have in several.
At one time in my life I was in a place of despair, so I can understand where the motivation is from.
This reminds me of a discussion I had years ago with an atheist here on the forum, when I was more stubborn and though I was a mainline Protestant, I was not at the same mature place I am now. He pointed out to me that my attitude was itself nihilistic, because I was attached to a mode of being in the world that was dead. And he was right.
Like the Col. Sartoris stories of William Faulkner, many Christians are sleeping with a corpse and living out a delusional fantasy. However, it is time to give up on the fantasy of a Christendom and find better ways to follow Jesus. He may lead us through the valley of the shadow of death, but that is not an excuse to believe in a counterfeit Gospel of empty glories. There is no profit in gaining the whole world and losing your own soul.
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