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AXUS Moondy Welcome to it's in the code.

This is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.

I am your host, Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought

at Landmark College. Please as always to be with you. And as always, I want to begin by saying

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I want to dive in here. We're continuing an ongoing discussion that we're calling

Who's Afraid of Deconstruction? Basically looking at negative responses within high-control

Christianity to so-called faith deconstruction. And again, these responses represent efforts

on the part of those who practice high-control religion.

It's their effort to gaslight those who are experiencing faith deconstruction.

It is their effort to discredit those people and the kinds of claims and concerns that they're raising.

And it is their effort, you know, really first and foremost, to insulate high-control Christianity from the criticisms and critiques that they raise.

And we've been looking at a number of objections.

The last couple episodes, we've looked at the claim that deconstructive critiques don't get at, you know, the heart of high-control Christianity, the core of the tradition.

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