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CBS Airs Documentary Featuring the Stories of Ex-Evangelical Christians
By Hemant Mehta, December 6, 2018
CBS recently aired a short documentary called Deconstructing My Religion, focused on people who left their faith and how it may have traumatized them. While a subject like that could take much, much longer to explore, the focus here was on evangelical purity culture with the main voice being Linda Kay Klein, the former abstinence-only believer whose book Pure details the problems with the Purity Movement.
Get Religion, a website whose writers get upset whenever the media says harmful Christian beliefs are harmful, suggests the documentary is unfair because its somehow anti-evangelical and didnt cover the full spectrum of Christianity in 26 minutes.But after sitting through the presentation and re-watching parts of it, I realized it wasnt news, it was simply a diatribe with three talking heads talking about how they left white evangelicalism. I say white, because no ethnic minorities are featured. Theres the requisite academic patched in near the end and a few snatches from people at conferences and panels.
A narrator intones:Sex outside of heterosexual marriage in evangelical culture is considered a sin. In the 1990s, an entire industry was created to support this message and it continues today.
Lord, are they kvetching about purity-themed Bibles, purity pledges and the like again? That complaint was run into the ground some time ago. The True Love Waits Bible was published in 1996, 22 years ago. Get over it.
Thats the sound of people who think culture war issues are only relevant when theyre personally affected.
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CBS Airs Documentary Featuring the Stories of Ex-Evangelical Christians (Original Post)
NeoGreen
Dec 2018
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Runningdawg
(4,613 posts)1. Sadly all they did
was hand foder to the evangelicals to prove their "war on christians". Only those of us that lived the life and got out understand. The others will say "all churches aren't like that". Maybe they have a point but until they speak out against the cults, their silence makes them complicit.
progressoid
(50,743 posts)2. SEE!!!1! Christianity is under attack by the Godless librul media.
Buzz cook
(2,586 posts)3. It took 22 years to run this story.
That just shows how lily livered the media is when it comes to xtianity.
Major Nikon
(36,900 posts)4. Not to mention the purity movement is alive and well
You find it almost everywhere in Christianity. Evangelicals just take it to an additional level of creepy.