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The only thing demonic here is the idea that a text is more important than the suffering of billions. God is a person, not a text. Not self-pity. Pity for others. Others exist. How many actual people are you willing to sacrifice in your own head for a consistent system? How many people have...

What about those not falling under “us”? The world is every man for himself, a sinking ship. The Titanic wasn’t a successful cruise because some passengers made it. Most ended up in the icy darkness of an abyssal plain. When do the damned stop being my neighbor? Better to scrape sores with...

This is no abstraction for me. I’m 50 years old, and at 25 was a very active traditional evangelical. Saved in the conservative Protestant sense. One night back then, I came down with some serious respiratory problems. High fever, coughing up bloody foam, weakness, a bluish tint to my lips and...