"Toxic Christianity" & Its Damaging Claims (#45)

Religion on the Mind

Religion, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 18 November 2019

⏱️ 102 minutes

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“Human beings are primarily intrinsically sinful and evil.”“God’s truth can only be found in the Biblical text.”“The body and its desires are inherently wicked.”“Emotions are not to be honored and listened to; only God’s truth should be valued.”Mark Karris (author, therapist, professor at Point Loma Nazarene University) lists these among a group of claims that he believes are a part of “Toxic Christianity.” Mark and Dan talk through a number of these (false) claims, ask why it is that they get in the way of our relationship to God and our neighbors, and consider alternate options.Mark’s Original Post - https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10162264853155694&set=pb.740175693.-2207520000.1571761815.&type=3&theaterMark’s website: http://markgregorykarris.com/Mark’s Amazon author page: https://smile.amazon.com/Mark-Gregory-Karris/e/B01MZZLNV5?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1573700786&sr=8-1Deconversion Article Mark mentioned: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2v12uksryiwvscz/Breaking%20up%20with%20Jesus-%20a%20phenomenological%20exploration%20of%20the%20experience%20of%20deconversion%20from%20an%20Evangelical%20Christian%20faith%20to%20Atheism.pdf?dl=0Edited by Scott CangemiJoin the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankochYHP Patron-only FB group: https://tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98Website: youhavepermissionpod.comJoin Dan's email list: dankochwords.comArtwork by http://sprungle.co/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Sherlock Holmes.
0:01.8	It's an unusual name.
0:03.5	Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series.
0:07.3	What game are we playing today?
0:08.8	Discover the origins.
0:10.1	It's leaving.
0:10.7	Those days are surely behind me.
0:12.3	Of crime's most iconic mind.
0:14.4	There has been a break-in.
0:16.7	Astoned.
0:17.6	You should be a detective.
0:18.8	Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth.
0:22.5	If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. Young Sherlock, new original
0:27.4	series. Watch now only on Prime Video. My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:40.9	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.
0:48.2	I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as former Christians and non-religious
0:55.0	folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions about God, science, prayer,
1:03.4	fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good
1:10.6	questions, often by people with pure intentions.
1:14.3	I want to say that you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very seriously.
1:21.9	And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions
1:29.6	in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening.
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