Welcome back to Shemus Popery. I'm Joe Heschmar, and I want to do something a little bit different today.

If you're like me, there's a good chance that in the good old days of YouTube, you watched a fair amount of Rett and Link.

And one of the things about Rett and Link is that both of them, they kind of oozed evangelical Christianity.

It was pretty obvious, even though they weren't super open about it,

that these were people who came from a Christian background. And sure enough, they not only were

evangelicals, their former missionaries. We were all in. We were on staff at Campos Crusade for Christ.

We were missionaries for a couple of years. We trained people in evangelism.

But today, neither of those gentlemen identify with Christianity at all.

They're both ex-Christians and they've been pretty open about their deconversion. And a lot of

people have responded within the broader Christian YouTube world of pointing out areas that we

disagree. And understandably, I think there are plenty of things that you could critique in their

stories. But I want to do something different today.

I want to focus on three areas that I agree with.

Three areas I think we as Christians need to actually take to heart and need to actually learn from.

So what kind of things?

I would start with this.

This is a broad point.

I'll all kind of explain as we go. Number one, we need to stop binding heavy burdens. Now, in the particular case of Rett, and his is the journey

I'm going to focus on, he talks a lot about the role of evolution for both himself and by extension also for his wife in sort of the

crisis of faith that this caused as they came to see that evolution was true. When I told my wife

that I thought evolution had happened, she burst into tears. I just want to give you an idea of

where we come from. So yes, he is talking to Howie Mandel from Bobby's World, again, if you're of the right age

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