I am halfway thru @kkdumez's Jesus and John Wayne. Still processing all the things I had NO idea about. Years ago, as I was rediscovering what Christ meant to me, I felt this desire to disassociate from the church(mostly the evangelicals that I had grown up with). I couldnt 1/

Quite put my finger on what it was that made me have such a distaste towards it. I mean, i know that God loves the ones that fall into that evangelical bubble, and they too deserve grace. I just knew that some kind of power, some kind of empirical system laid embedded within 2/

it's system that i could feel was anti-christ. My god, she got right to the heart of the matter. If we needed to invoke the oft-misappropriated "turn from our wicked ways and God will heal our lands" trope, this is it.