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Robin Thinks! Deconstructing Books That Wrecked Us
by Robin Thinks
Too many Christians are taught to not question religious authority, which means they are also taught to not question what they are being taught about their faith. Over the years, however, we are often given conflicting messages, which can lead to something called cognitive dissonance. We can't actually alleviate this cognitive dissonance until we pull apart and question what we've been taught. In this podcast, I will deconstruct some of the most popular books in Christianity to expose some of the most harmful messages they actually contain. If you haven't read the book, that's okay!
Episodes
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Yellowstone Ranch and the American Church Episode 1: The Ranch
Welcome to my new limited Podcast series, available to my Patreon supporters and Substack subscribers. The Yellowstone Ranch is a perfect analogy of the American church. In the show, the fictional Yellowstone Dutton Ranch is mentioned as being “larger than Rhode Island”, which means it covers...
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The Circle Maker Part 5: Spiritual Abuse
Recently, I lost several hundred Christian followers on Twitter when I accused a well-liked member of the Twitter community of spiritual abuse and refused to bow to repeated demands that I take it back and apologize. Although many books have been written on the topic of spiritual abuse, they…
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The Circle Maker Part 4: Power, Control and Colonization
Recently I have seen several Person of Color on Twitter insist that deconstruction has to involve decolonization in order to be “real”. Although I am of the opinion that no one has the right to tell anyone else how they “should” be doing something (most of raised in churches have already been...
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The Circle Maker Part 3: How Should We Really Pray?
Mark Batterson claims that it is very important to pray very specific prayers. Jesus, on the other hand, gave us a very different model of how to pray. This is why it is so important to always be holding the messages of “Christian” books up to scripture - and not just to a single verse here or...
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The Circle Maker Part 2: More Red Flags
In Part 2 of my series on Love & Respect, I talked about some of the red flag language that Emmerson Eggerichs’ used that we should all learn to pay attention to. In this episode I talk about some of the details Mark Batterson shares early in the book that should also be pretty big red flags....
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The Circle Maker Part 1: Counting the Cost
In The Circle Maker, Mark Batterson reaches deep into an ancient Jewish Book of Legends to extract the story of Honi, an eccentric sage who lived outside the walls of Jerusalem just prior to the birth of Jesus. Batterson introduces Honi after his homeland has experienced a year-long drought. He...
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Love & Respect Part 9: Adam & Eve
Whether its your favorite Marvel characters or your own family tree, origin stories matter. One of the many reason slavery was so incredibly destructive is that it cut millions of people off entirely from their roots, leaving them completely incapable of knowing, understanding or exploring their...
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Love & Respect Part 8: The 49/51 Principle
Men will often defend hierarchy as good and necessary and they are not entirely wrong. Sometimes, decisions just need to be made quickly and if there is no clearly designated decision maker, catastrophe can ensue. In some cases, lives may even be lost. Militaries, police & fire departments and...
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Love & Respect Part 7: Submission Part 2
After I recorded this podcast, I started promoting it on Instagram and an IG follower left this comment. soliloquy72 There was a D/S convention for men in Florida. One speaker recommended men have their women read "Love and Respect" by Eggerichs as a gateway to lure them into D/S against their...
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Love & Respect Part 6: Submission Part 1
I was a missionary for ten years in a Christian theater ministry, ministering to churches in America. I spent those ten years performing plays that were specifically written to address many of the issues that so many people are just now starting to see on a larger scale. These are not new issues,...
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Love & Respect Part 5: Power & Authority
Religious leaders love to talk about "God given" authority, but does God really give men authority? The truth is, authority is the direct outcome of responsibility. No one is meant to have authority over something that they do not also take responsibility for, which is also called accountability....
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Love & Respect Part 4: What's The Harm?
Since Love & Respect is a marriage book, it can be easy to assume that the only damage it might cause is to someone’s marriage. The problem with any book that says “men need this and women need that,” however, is that no one is going to just apply these principles strictly to their own marriage....
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Love & Respect Part 3: The Kernel of Truth
The reason religion is so damaging is because men take a kernel of truth and wrap it in a bunch of rules that are designed to give themselves power and authority. All the way back in Leviticus when God first give Moses the 10 Commandments, it wasn't long before men had wrapped a gift God gave His...
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Love & Respect Part 2: Red Flag Language
We’ve probably all heard the term “red flags” when it comes to recognizing narcissists and abusers, but many people are unaware of how to recognize those red flags when they see them - or hear them. This is complicated by the fact that our culture tends to value certain qualities and traits that...
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Love & Respect Part 1: Do Men & Women Really Have Different Needs?
Dr. Emerson Eggerichs wrote an entire book on the idea that men need respect and women need love. A premise that he based on a single verse in the Bible. That, to me, is already problematic because the Bible is a compilation of books that cover a time span of several thousand years and is written...
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 8: Healing From Purity Culture
What has been called “purity culture” should actually be much more accurately labeled “virginity culture.” Like so many Evangelical and religious teachings, virginity culture has far less to do with God’s will, pleasure or approval than man’s pleasure and approval. When we “come to know Jesus” in...
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 7: My Story
Today, I share with you my story and why this podcast is so important to me. I decided to do almost no editing today (except for when Siri decided to butt in!) so it’s pretty raw. Also, since I’m talking bout sex and sexuality, probably NSFW! Follow me on Twitter // Follow me on IG // Visit my...
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 6: Between Two Extremes
Christianity likes to present itself as being not just opposed to “worldly values” but superior to them. The truth is, however, that Evangelical Christian views on sex and sexuality (like those of many other fundamentalist religions) are actually every bit as damaging as secular views. The truth…
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 5: Relational Integrity
In Chapter Five of I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Joshua Harris asserts that girls would be shocked to find out the lengths that guys go to create relational situations that they can capitalize on for their own gain. In Chapter Seven, Harris tells a story of a youth pastor, directing them to commodify...
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 4: What Is Love?
There may be few topics that are more widely discussed and hotly debated than what it means to love, particularly in relationship to sexuality. Popular culture obviously paints or presents one image of love as it relates to sex that often clashes fiercely with religious views. In my opinion,...
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 3: Friendship Matters
Too often, the only dating advice given in churches is simply “don’t have sex until you are married” and “avoid putting yourself in situations where you might have sex.” Generally the only advice you find outside of religion is “do what makes you feel good.” The truth is, however, there are ways…
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 2: Sex Is Not Intimacy
At 18 years old, Josh Harris believed that intimacy is the byproduct of committed relationships and that it's not appropriate to engage in intimate relationships until or unless you are ready to make a life-long commitment. Like so many Evangelical Christians, Josh believed that sex and intimacy...
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I Kissed Dating Goodbye Part 1: Relationship Practice
Joshua Harris wrote I Kissed Dating Goodbye when he was just a teenager. It quickly became the tentpole around which purity culture was built. Purity culture left a massive swath of destruction in its wake, and much of the blame was laid (I believe wrongly) at the feet of Harris. Since then…
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Too many Christians are taught to not question religious authority, which means they are also taught to not question what they are being taught about their faith. Over the years, however, we are often given conflicting messages, which can lead to something called cognitive dissonance. We can't actually alleviate this cognitive dissonance until we pull apart and question what we've been taught. In this podcast, I will deconstruct some of the most popular books in Christianity to expose some of the most harmful messages they actually contain. If you haven't read the book, that's okay!
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Robin Thinks
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