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[quote=Anonymous]Reading this thread, a relatively narrow version of Christianity (American evangelical) is mostly what’s being represented. Probably because so many of the questions don’t apply to most mainline or progressive Christian theology and Biblical interpretation. Also because non-evangelicals tend to be less concerned with having a single correct answer.

And so much of evangelical Biblical interpretation involves twisting oneself into knot to justify really awful things (“Yes, God said to kill all of those women and children in the Old Testament and here’s why it was right and holy for him to do it”) because it’s built on a house of cards. I was often told, “if one verse isn’t true, then none of it’s true.” So you’re operating from a place of seeming certainty that’s masking existential fear that if you consider literary or historical context, or just a different understanding, your entire faith will crumble.

The #exvangelical tag on Twitter is an interesting read and includes former evangelicals who are now part of other branches of Christianity or who are now atheist or agnostic.

The Bible for Normal People podcast is a has a varied sampling of non-American fundamentalist biblical interpretation. They often have Jewish scholars on, which has really broadened my understanding of the Hebrew Bible and how differest schools of thought in Judaism have dealt with many of these questions for millennia. (Christians often forget that we share the majority of our scripture with a rigorous intellectual faith tradition from which we could learn a great deal.)

(-former conservative evangelical, now Episcopalian)

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