It's in the Code ep 143: “Don’t Throw Out the Baby”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 23 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/ Advocates of high-control Christianity often admonish those undergoing faith deconstruction not to “throw out the baby with the bath water” as they level their critiques against high-control religion. The suggestion here is that, no matter what it’s faults might be, high-control Christianity offers something so important to its adherents that the cost of giving it up is simply too high consider. What is it that high-control Christianity is thought to offer its adherents? And how do partisans of high-control Christianity leverage this to coerce individuals into remaining within the high-control fold? Check out this week’s episode to find out! 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, welcome to it's in the code.
0:32.2	This is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.
0:34.9	My name is Dan Miller.
0:36.5	Professor of Religion and Social Thought at
0:37.9	Landmark College, delighted to be with you as always. As always, I want to thank you for listening,
0:42.4	for supporting us in all the different ways that you do, especially to the subscribers who help
0:46.6	us keep doing everything that we're doing, putting out the content we're putting out. I thank you.
0:51.0	And as always, with this series in particular, welcome your insights, feedback, comments,
0:56.0	ideas for upcoming episodes, responses to these episodes, sort of on and on.
1:00.0	This is a series that works because of you.
1:02.0	So please reach out.
1:04.0	Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J.
1:06.0	Let me know what you think.
1:08.0	Look forward to hearing from you.
1:09.0	If you're a subscriber, you can also post in the Discord. And I do try to float around there and take a look from time to time.
1:16.5	I want to dive in. We're continuing in the series that I've been calling sort of who's afraid
1:20.8	of deconstruction. And what this is, again, is continuing our ongoing discussion that we've
1:26.0	been having for several episodes now
1:27.5	of negative responses from within high-control Christianity
1:32.0	to so-called faith deconstruction.
1:36.0	And again, these are responses that represent or reflect efforts
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