21/08/2023
Today I spoke with Deborah Grace, who grew up in an evangelical church environment and then got involved with the Hebrew Roots movement, before ultimately facing the discrepancies of the Bible and its origins, which led her to deconvert from Christianity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WaPvS_eD8E
As we talked through her story and her recent book, Crucifying the Bible, we touched on many topics, including:
• Being concerned about the validity of our earlier professions of faith, so much that we felt the need to re-confess our faith in the Jesus character and even to get re-baptized, repeatedly, because there is so much at stake.
• How our trust of our parents -- especially if they are exceptionally honest and good people -- leads us to believe that their worldview must be accurate.
• How the Christian worldview becomes pervasive and all-encompassing.
• The Christian push to outbreed the pagans through a Quiverfull mentality.
• The selective supremacy of certain people in the Bible and Christendom.
• How Christianity sets you up to never remotely question the ultimate truth of that worldview.
• The bizarre dynamic of thinking the Yahweh character is not a god of confusion, and that the holy spirit character is leading people into truth, and yet there are endless interpretations of every single verse and theological point.
• How the end times and Apocalypse/Rapture/Tribulation concepts are used to scare people into believing, and how those fear tactics often create immense trauma in people.
• The strange experience of realizing that Christianity is a cult, just as bizarre as all the other groups we previously called a "cult."
• The experience of getting pulled into the Hebrew Roots movement, as a means of experiencing being "grafted in" to Israel, to honor the eternal Levitical priesthood, and to see the Bible as more of a single cohesive message from god.
• The strange mindset of the Yahweh character, who is made to focus on what kind of clothes his people wear and what kind of food they eat, but he is silent about genocide, child r**e, etc.
• How Christians treat you as a traitor, both when you switch denominations, and much more so when you claim the Yahweh and Jesus characters aren't real and that the Bible is not divine.
• The traumatic experience and true grieving process of deconstruction and deconversion, as you realize reality has nothing to do with the worldview espoused by Christianity or the Bible.
• How Christians will often mistreat or shun you if you deconvert, as they brand you a severe traitor and live out the saying, "There's no hate like Christian love," demonstrating how shallow the relationship really was since it was based on mythology.
• The urgency of exposing the discrepancies and mythology of Judaism and Christianity, especially in light of Christian nationalism.
• How Christianity causes you to "second guess" yourself constantly.
• The bizarre and disgusting dynamics of blood magic that are woven into the core of Judaism and Christianity.
• How Christianity teaches you to not trust yourself and to not see yourself as your own, but as belonging to the Yahweh and Jesus characters.
• How the Bible employs psychological and mind control tactics to ensure submission, conformity, and fear.
• How Christians refuse to share with their congregations the origins and evolution of the Yahweh character, along with his wife Asherah and father Elyon.
• The frightening power of brainwashing to totally overwhelm the thought processes of Christians.
• How terrorizing it is to Christians to admit the huge cracks in their worldview, exposing why they cannot honestly face the facts about the origins of their cult.
• The absurd arguments and wrangling Christians use to try to defend their worldview.
• The bizarre dynamics of church councils taking hundreds of years to vote on the canon, and books floating in and out of favor with the church councils.
• How the peace after deconversion is much greater than the pretend peace of Christianity.
Thanks to Deborah for sharing her story and for all the research and deep thought she put into her book.
