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I am an ex-fundamentalist Christian who deconverted and returned to the Unitarian Universalist Association. When I was in the fundie world, I encountered a lot of the extreme psuedo-intellectualism, think apologetics societies online. There were so many of us studying dumb things like how many angels could dance on the head of a pin, will Jesus return midtrib-or post trib, what about millennialism, etc. Sometimes I do deal with a level of anger that my mind was wasted on these distractions, for so many years.

I was an adult convert in and so happy to be free of the Kool-Aid, I don't even know how to express that joy.

One thing I remember in the independent fundamentalist baptist church is how many preachers would call themselves doctors and would award themselves with phony "doctorates" as to assure us of their extreme learned status. The growing arrogance of pastors is one reason I left all the churches even a few years before, I left the entire religion.

Jeremy reminds me of them. I noticed this trend seem worse among the Calvinist leaning Baptists. I wasn't Calvinist but knew a few online. Traditionalist/conservative Christianity is essentially anti-intellectual. I am not an academic, but have intellectual interests. My time was shorter as an adult convert, because I had read Carl Sagan books in my 20s, and the absurdity of my trauma fueled faith conversion was growing bigger and bigger in my mind.

The faith wasn't measuring up to reality nor the reading I continued born again Christian or not. In fact I was a reader, and visited the library weekly and reading this book, realized without a doubt Christianity was essentially WRONG about the science and reality of this world.

https://www.amazon.com/Ends-World-Apocalypses-Understand-Extinctions-ebook/dp/B01LZ6RXS6

I had to face intellect and reality and get out. If Jeremy truly is an intellectual, his sojourn in fundamentalist Christianity will be short. I don't like his new nickname, "Books" used in a negative fashion, because if he truly does love Books, he won't last long in the Christian world.

There's only so much pseudo-intellectual Christian books out there. I read a lot of them. Problem is I was reading real books too, and the faith cracked.

So if Jeremy is a real intellectual he will deconvert or compromise into a more liberal branch of Christianity.

However he could just be a poser pretending to be smart, and coming up with his Harry Potter inspired school logo for Christian wizards instead of Hogwart ones.

True that stranger things inhabited the planet... many only to perish.