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“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.

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