It's in the Code ep 142: “Cherry-Picking the Bible”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 800-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ When those undergoing faith deconstruction appeal to the Bible to raise questions or level critiques against high-control Christianity, they are often dismissed as “cherry-picking” particular Bible verses to suit their purposes. What exactly does this accusation mean? And how does it relate to the ways in which the practitioners of high-control Christianity appeal to the Bible? In what ways does this accusation against deconstructionists amount to extreme gaslighting? Listen to this week’s episode as Dan explores these issues. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AXIS Moondy
0:07.0	AXUS Moondy As always, I want to say welcome to What's in the Code.
0:32.4	A series is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.
0:34.9	And as always, my name is Dan Miller. I am your host. I'm
0:39.5	the professor of religion and social thought at Lamarck College. Pleased to be with you. As always,
0:45.7	this series, I think maybe more than anything we do on Straight White American Jesus,
0:49.6	is driven by you, and so invite you to reach out, Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, SWAJ at gmail.com,
0:58.4	thoughts, comments, ideas for upcoming episodes, questions, things that you want me to bring up
1:03.1	in supplemental episodes, et cetera.
1:04.6	I welcome them all.
1:06.2	I want to dive in here.
1:07.3	We are continuing the series that I've been calling Who's Afraid of Deconstruction.
1:11.8	Again, an ongoing discussion of negative responses within high-control Christianity to
1:17.1	what has come to be known as faith deconstruction. And again, just to reiterate,
1:22.1	these are responses that they all in different ways reflect efforts on the part of the
1:27.1	practitioners of high
1:28.2	control religion to gaslight those undergoing deconstruction, to discredit them, and thereby
1:35.1	by doing that to insulate high control religion, high control Christianity, from the criticisms
1:40.9	and critiques that they raise. And this week, what I want to talk about is the accusation
1:46.3	that people who are undergoing faith deconstruction
1:48.9	are basically cherry-picking the Bible.
1:51.7	Okay?
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