Status Quon't: A Woman's Perspective On How Christianity Was Never About God

by Katilyn Pulcher

What if Christianity was never about God? When you’re driving along at 85 mph and see a sign that says your speed is being monitored by drone, you’ll probably slow down, even if you don’t see a drone. The reason you’ll slow down is to avoid punishment (a speeding ticket). What if the reason a person told you that God, like that drone, is up in the sky watching your every move, was actually to get you to do some things that he wanted you to do, even though he told you it’s what God wanted you to do? How powerful might that person’s influence over you be, if he told you that you’ll suffer for all eternity if you don’t do those things? Perhaps that person even gave you a book (the Bible) and told you that it documents the things God wants you to do. But, why do those things, which God supposedly wants you to do, change, in the second half of that book? Do you believe another person when he doesn’t stick to his story, or do you think he’s lying to you? Why don’t you think God is lying to you when He changes His story? Are you sure God won’t change His story again and write a new chapter for the book - perhaps a Third Testament, which tells you to do entirely different things? Are you even sure it was God who wrote the story? Perhaps it was just people who wrote it, without any help or inspiration from a god. These are the types of questions explored in Status Quon’t. Rather than provide answers to them, Katilyn Pulcher asks her readers to think for themselves and help establish a widespread, ever-evolving state of critical thought and personalized belief systems. She does not ask her readers to abandon their beliefs in God. Though she does not believe in the Christian god, she does believe there could be a god or a higher power of some kind somewhere, or maybe even everywhere and within all of us. What do you think?

239 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2017

Reviews

[Megan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I thought, at least for me personally, this was a great read although I’m sure others won’t get what I got out of it. As a hyper obedient child who blindly followed rules and blindly trusted authority, I made myself blue in the face trying to meet everyone’s expectations, even when “winning” was impossible. I had shame, fear, immobility, a life-long risk aversion. I couldn’t whistleblow. Hell, if I’d stayed in gymnastics, it would have happened to me too and I wouldn’t have even known it wasn’t ok. Think for yourself; it’s ok to decide something seems wrong; it’s ok to decide it crosses a boundary. I appreciate someone saying it. I trust myself a heck of a lot more than I used to, and books like this only make it easier.