It's Time to Declare War on Christian Deconstruction | Alisa Childers

Let's talk about your heart in addressing this. You say, we feel like we are writing with both tears in our eyes and a sword in our hand.

One comparison I could make is when there's some sort of a, like a pandemic, you wanna fight that disease because you care about the people who could be hurt by it.

So you have tears in your eyes for the people who might be harmed by it, but you're gonna throw everything you have at curing it, stopping it, you know, that kind of thing.

So I think deconstruction is kind of like that disease. You're gonna pull out your sword and do everything you can do to stop it from robbing people of their faith.

But at the same time, you have tears in your eyes for the people who are so confused by the deconstructionists online and the propaganda machine that the social media space is.

So I think that was really kind of what we meant. And it also, that was springboarded off of some pushback we would get when we would talk in war language.

So this was, we kind of start the book with this now viral statement that skillet front man,

John Cooper made at Winter Jam, when he said, it's time to declare war on the idolatrous deconstructing

Christian movement. And what I think that revealed at the time was that Christians were defining deconstruction in really different ways.

Because for those of us who understood it, like John understood it as this thing that robs your faith, we were like, yes,

John, that's great. But then for people who were defining it just as simply engaging your doubts or asking hard questions, they were like, why are you so mad at me?

I'm asking questions, I wanna know what's true. So I think that's where we were trying to explain, we're not mad at people who are confused, we're mad at the lie.

Yeah, you're like a surgeon who's aggressively removing any signs of cancer.

That's right. You're not doing it to hurt the patient, you're doing it because you wanna help the patient. Right, if you cut somebody's chest open and you're not a doctor and there's no purpose, then you're harming that person.

But if you're a doctor and you have a scalpel and you're trying to remove disease, then it's still the same instrument, but it's used for good or evil.