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TSL-Deconstruction- What Flavor of Christianity are people walking away from?

“A friend dug up this email I wrote a few months before leaving Christianity. I share it here as a forensic milestone on the way to my deconversion. —— Apostasy I've seen many leave the faith. I'm sure you have too. Sometimes it's abrupt and unexpected, sometimes it's a slow acid-drip that ends with corrosion and breaking. The response is often some stoic head-shaking with vague promises to "pray for them". There's rarely an examination of what led to it; rarely some collective self-reflection. It's just assumed that "they were never really converted" and "their sin won". After all, it's what sinners do. But there's Apostasy and apostasy. And, for a moment, I want to think about the latter, lowercase "a" apostasy. Because the world has turned out to be overwhelmingly complex, Christianity has been evolving for two millennia, and it's at least healthy to ask what "flavor" a person abandoned before we start lamenting that they left "the Faith". Instead, they might have just walked away from... ...the kind of Christianity that lures you in with a promise of "faith alone" and then buries you under "necessary works" to prove that your faith was genuine to begin with. ...the kind of Christianity where Christ's yoke and burden are easy and light only before you convert. ...the kind of Christianity that prays for the brokenhearted but can't stand to listen to them for more than five minutes. ...the kind of Christianity where bearing each others' burdens is limited to survival needs and sees anything beyond that as a luxury. ...the kind of Christianity that claims sanctification is "in the power of the Spirit" but is practically and functionally placed squarely on you. ...the kind of Christianity that doesn't know how to deal with negative emotion, so it sweeps it under the rug with a Psalm. ...the kind of Christianity that can only function in a previous century. ...the kind of Christianity that praises Christ as the friend of sinners, but has no idea how to engage with them. ...the kind of Christianity that spits on the same sinners that Christ ate with. ...the kind of Christianity where faith is abstract intellectual assent to prepackaged doctrine. ...the kind of Christianity that obsesses with hunting and rooting out sin instead of focusing on the promises and the power of the gospel that can break its grip. ...the kind of Christianity that confuses sanctification with moralizing. ...the kind of Christianity that thinks that listening is compromise. ...the kind of Christianity that thinks "I don't know" means defeat. ...the kind of Christianity where you're supposed to both celebrate and lament the fact that you're not enough. ...the kind of Christianity where "sinner" is the extent of psychology it's comfortable with. ...the kind of Christianity where repentance is a panacea that fixes everything. ...the kind of Christianity where mental health problems are just concealed sin that needs repenting of. ...the kind of Christianity where Christians can't have mental health problems, except maybe when they are "under spiritual attack". ...the kind of Christianity that sets up straw-men, knocks them down, pats itself on its back for "upholding the truth", and calls it "apologetics". ...the kind of Christianity that calls Scripture "the word of God", but treats it like a spell book. ...the kind of Christianity where parsing biblical text means understanding biblical text. ...the kind of Christianity where understanding theology equals spiritual growth. ...the kind of Christianity that thinks that "the renewal of your mind" just means "learn more". ...the kind of Christianity that masks its insecurity with anti-intellectualism, and calls its anti-intellectualism "steadfastness". ...the kind of Christianity that invites questions, but only the right kinds of questions. ...the kind of Christianity that shuts down any criticism by labelling it an "attack" or "grumbling". ...the kind of Christianity that holds up cultural tick-boxes as "biblical standards". ...the kind of Christianity that proclaims God as the creator of the world, but its default posture to the world is suspicion and hostility. ...the kind of Christianity that calls its pathological hatred of the world "discernment". ...the kind of Christianity that abuses people under the guise of "truth". ...the kind of Christianity that is so obsessed with the death of Christ, it neglects his resurrection and ascension. ...the kind of Christianity that justifies its lack of humility and compassion, its dismissiveness, cowardice, and self-righteousness as "standing firm". ...the kind of Christianity that cares about winning more than it cares about truth and wisdom. ...the kind of Christianity that is functionally devoid of Christ. I wonder sometimes. Because I'm guilty of all of that. “ Nick Papageorgiou