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To gay Christians,

You are loved so much more than you know. No one loves like God.

You are valid, you are beautiful, you are divinely cherished for He made you the way that you are for joy, and joy alone. And He died so that you can have life enduring both here and in the world to come.

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Talking with Christians and asking them the question, “why do you stay? What compels you to stay?” makes me want to write, to find words, for why I have done the opposite.

My deconstruction took a year, just a year, yet it was slow and methodical. The question of whether God was good or not made me ask, what would it mean for God to be good?

The logical conclusion I reached was universalism. That God was strong enough, compassionate enough, merciful enough to forgive all, to heal all, to bring all home. If the good shepherd had 99 sheep and went out for the 1, then how can that not show that none would perish?

And that gave me permission to ask what are we being saved from? And realizing the inherent abusiveness of the gospel. Of telling children they were inherently evil and in need of saving. Of the shame thrust upon us. Of telling us we have a sickness we don’t have and selling us a solution that costs our life, our joy.

We all find stories that give meaning to us. I know progressive universalist Christians who find meaning in a Brown anticapitalist Christ. They see Christianity as worth saving. But as for me, I have washed my hands of the gospel. I have washed my hands of the story that drown me in shame. That has been used to justify wars, colonization, and white supremacy.

Tomorrow's is "The Waters of Life" by Rev. Patricia Hatch.

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