Dennis, I’m glad you didn’t grow up surrounded by all of this, but this is all an accurate description of evangelical Christianity.

I was even told as a kid that asking questions would result in me going to hell. I just had to believe what I was told and not try to make it make sense.

Learning critical thinking was a LOT harder than it should have been, with that foundation!

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