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The 40 Reasons I’m No Longer an Evangelical Christian
Why I walked away from the faith of my youth
I sat in my counselor’s office.
“I don’t think I believe in Hell anymore?” I mused as I lay on a couch staring at his ceiling. I ran through the implications of that thought in my mind, and as I did, I felt a wave of panic rise up through my chest.
I bolted upright.
“Does that mean I’m not a Christian anymore?” I blurted out.
“Well,” came his sagely reply, “It means you’re not an Evangelical Christian anymore — that’s for sure.”
He was right.
There is no way that I’m an evangelical Christian anymore. This realization was terrifying because evangelicalism was the entire belief system I was brought up with, the bedrock of my faith, and the moral and spiritual foundation of my universe.
Now it had all changed.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m still following Jesus — well… as best I can. But, let’s just say if the Evangelicals are right, I’m not gonna be in Heaven with them. I’m too much of a heretic now. But I have reasons — forty of them, in fact. I sat down and started writing them down, and well… one reason led to another, and before I knew it, I had a long, long list.
