For some time, I have had a growing sense of unease about the Christian use of words like "deconstruction," "de-conversion," and the ever-popular polling category, "the nones." I've used the terms myself and have had to make a conscious effort to avoid them when speaking about those who have renounced Christian faith. Such words, I have come to think, owe too much to a secular conception of what happens when a person abandons the faith and rely too little on Scripture’s own witness to the power of the Gospel to transform human lives.
A basic premise of secularism is that our unenlightened forbears viewed reality through the lens of religious myths—myths that must be stripped away in order to see the world for what it is.
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