0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to making the argument. If you've been following for a while, you know that
0:04.1	we did an episode not too long ago talking about the concept of, is Christianity reasonable?
0:09.5	And I know a lot of times I talk about topics on everything from being a husband, a father,
0:15.0	the concept of masculinity. And a lot of times I will talk about why my Christian faith is
0:19.9	essential to that. And inevitably, I will get people in the comments going, Nick, I love what you have to say about masculinity. can't. Maybe somebody else could, but I can't because it is a foundation of that worldview. And I
0:38.5	started to look at it. Why is this something that seems to be bringing offense? Right? It's one thing for
0:44.1	people to say, I don't agree with you, but, you know, I agree to disagree and let's continue talking.
0:48.9	But more and more, there's this like hostility toward Christianity. more and more I'm watching as people that I
0:57.5	used to really associate with or maybe listen to their music or respect as pastors have been going
1:03.9	through this process of deconstructing the faith. And this is a, this is a philosophy,
1:10.1	which if you look at deconstructionism and you look
1:12.3	up definitions for it, it tends to be something of a critical analysis of text and the idea of
1:17.5	whether or not text has objective meaning. And all of that sounds very, very philosophical and a little
1:22.1	bit esoteric, but it manifests itself in very real ways with the way people study a variety of topics.
1:29.6	But the church has always been something that hasn't seen it, at least not happening from within the church as it is now.
1:35.4	And my next guest, Alisa Childers, is someone that kind of went through her own crisis of faith.
1:43.2	And instead of going off the deep end and rejecting everything, she decided to really lean into this and take her own faith through the intellectual ringer to try to figure out whether or not this was something that she believed was true.
1:56.9	Because what you're going to find with deconstructionism, it's not just textual analysis.
2:00.6	A lot of it has to do with whether or not there even is such a thing is objective truth.
2:05.2	And so, Elisa Childers is not only a very accomplished author.
2:08.3	She's a wife.
2:09.0	She's a mother.
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