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This is going to be direct. Not because I enjoy provocation, but because clarity sometimes feels like aggression to those invested in the status quo.

I have participated in several conversations recently where I was told that I am “bashing Christians.” That there is too much criticism. Too much edge. Too much confrontation. That the posts land as attacks, and the emotional response becomes the verdict, rather than the argument.

I understand that impulse. No one enjoys seeing something they love interrogated. But critique is not hatred. Critique is what you do when institutions of influence systematise harm, excuse indifference, or protect themselves from accountability. It is the necessary scrutiny applied to a system that claims existential authority.

Christianity does not present itself as a private hobby. It does not say, “Here is a path you can try if it helps you.” It makes public truth-claims about reality. It claims to reveal the structure of existence. It claims to define human worth. It claims to speak on behalf of God. It claims to offer salvation not only as personal comfort but as ultimate judgement on what counts as true, good, and meaningful. When a tradition makes claims of that magnitude, it forfeits the right to be treated as fragile. If Christianity can announce eternal destinies with certainty, it can survive scrutiny about what it produces in the world. If it cannot, then perhaps that fragility is not a sign of persecution, but an admission of its own insecurity.

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