This bothers me, less because they no longer believe in the god of their childhoods—I’m not sure I believe in that god, either—than because they didn’t lose their faith so much as have it taken from them. In a denomination that believes in free will, they were stripped of it. They were taught that homosexuality was their key choice, a sinful and eternity-changing choice that put God off-limits to them. The most remarkable thing is that, despite how Harding has insistently preached this anti-gospel to them, they’ve been so forgiving of it. They’ve ended up more easily accepting this
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