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“Scholars tell us that apocalypticism tends to flourish in extreme historical circumstances. In such times, everyday history is so awful that the human mind and spirit move to another plane. …the justice that so urgently needs to be enacted is eagerly, imminently, envisioned; the few and the good are given hope of mercy, and the tyrants, evildoers, and compromisers are given warnings of doom.”

“Mine is not a God who needs our theological explanations for the suffering that people experience. Like Job’s friends, we generally botch those explanations.”

“Evil things happen to innocent people in this world. There is no adequate explanation. Most attempted explanations fail, even the theological ones. Some are obscene. And God can feel so distant. In such a world, Jews and Christians can cry out against evil. …Live a life that seeks to redress as many human evils as possible.”

“Distrust of higher education has been an enduring feature of fundamentalism and evangelicalism. This distrust has led some to steer away from any kind of higher education.”

"It is curious that the evangelical movement in the United States is so oppressive that it can claim even those who do not want to belong to it." D. G. Hart

"One of the most profound ironies facing post-evangelicals is coming to terms with the invented nature of the religious identity that so many of us had embraced, as well as the relatively short history of the religious community that the neo-evangelicals created and we came to join."

“…adults who had been raised evangelical but who had either switched to another religious tradition or no longer identified with any religious tradition comprised roughly 8 percent of the total US population. That’s about 25 million people.”
Pew Research, 2014