Thread by @micahjmurray

there's a lot of reasons why I can't be a Christian anymore, but the one on my mind these days is its utter failure to deliver on its core premises.

if God defeated sin on the cross / resurrection, why is there still so much fuckin sin?

no theological answer satisfies that.

Christianity has had 2000 years to prove that it is uniquely able to reduce sin and spread justice. It has failed.

i see no evidence that where Christianity has gone, sin has decreased and justice has increased.

in fact, i see a lot of the opposite reality: where there is Christianity there is oppression, colonizing, abuse.

the excuse is all the same: the church is made of imperfect people.

i don’t give a shit.

Christianity claims that it has something better to offer: not only a slight advantage over normal rates of human fuckery, but an actual supernatural defeat of the power of sin!

the medicine doesn't outperform the placebo.

Christianity has shown itself absolutely unable to overcome sin in the world.

indeed, the Spirit of God has not even been able to save the Church from being assimilated into the sinful power structures it was supposed to disrupt.

if Christianity can’t save itself from sin in this world, why the fuck would I trust it to save ME from sin in the next?

and for the record, i am not lost or sad or disillusioned about any of this.

recognizing and naming the complete failure of my religion has freed me to explore different (better?) ways of being in the world without needing to shoehorn it into the Bible or the Jesus narrative.