The Eight Stupidest “Christian” Explanations for Suffering
<p>When I was a 19-year-old youth group leader in a local church, I remember the day that two of my fellow youth group leaders fronted up to confess their sins to the pastor.</p>
<p>My two friends, one guy and one girl, had been dating for quite some time, and well… you know… one thing lead to another, and now they were sitting in the pastor’s office about to announce their unexpected pregnancy. Being unmarried teenagers, they had committed the cardinal sin of the evangelical church world, and now they were bracing for a fresh spray of righteous indignation from the gatekeeper of their faith.</p>
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