David Gushee's farewell blog post, "After 30 years, a farewell column", is an interesting though inadvertent admission of the innate divisiveness of religion. Part of him still seems to want to latch on to the false premise that it is the specific individuals involved that create the conflicts rather than the ideas being grossly flawed and untenable. His most honest moment in the whole column probably comes in the fourth paragraph where he states:
"After all, there are only so many interesting ways to say what we all know — American Christians are as hopelessly divided as the rest of American culture..."
Sorry David, your frustration and disallusionment was the natural and inevitable outcome of honestly trying to understand religion.
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