The Imprudence of ‘Dump Them’

It solves every problem with an elegant, unified simplicity of which physicists can only dream: Just dump them. Whether it’s your mother failing to respect your child-rearing rules, your boyfriend who said something hurtful, or your friend who flaked on you twice in a row, you know what you need to do: Dump them. Cut them off. “Dump them” conversations online are rarely about the church, but the church—universal, if not always a specific local congregation—is a highly dump-able target.