The Cruelty of Christian Bribes
Stop blackmailing me
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As a post-Christian who continues to engage with the Christian community, I've come across a trend that I'd like to comment upon. This article is not written with animosity but in the spirit of helpful feedback to Christians who care about maintaining neighborly respect towards those outside their faith.
In short, Christians often emotionally blackmail me to believe in their God. I sincerely believe this is not intentional, but the effect is horrendous.
I do not accept creedal Christianity, by which I mean I reject the miraculous and supernatural truth claims that have been central to its creeds for 2000 years.1 Don’t confuse this for hatred of Christianity. Christianity is extraordinary and often beautiful. I am a child of Christendom, and I am grateful for it. I also believe creedal Christianity is flatly wrong in its most important claims about reality: that salvation is found through Jesus Christ, that God is a trinity, that there is an Omni-God at all.
I don’t expect to ever return to faith in Christ, but I also don't completely reject the possibility. Stranger things have happened. After thinking this through, I have decided that there are only three ways I could come to believe in the creedal truth of Christianity.
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