It's in the Code Ep 135: “Why Do You Always Focus On the Negative?”

Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 800-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ “Why do you always focus on the negative?” “Why are you so negative all the time?” If you have posed hard questions about high-control religion, or if you have undergone (or are undergoing) “faith deconstruction,” it is a virtual guarantee that you have been confronted by questions like these. But why? Why is that questioning dismissed or judged as being “negative”? Why does honest questioning provoke such visceral negative reactions? How does all of this relate to the toxic positivity of high-control religion? Check out this week’s episode as Dan considers these questions. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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