from Scott H. Bowerman, Dancing With God:
The theologian Leonard Sweet underwent what he describes as a "deconversion" when he was nineteen. He writes,
"What ignited my deconversion was the church’s funereal spirit, its fussy, buttoned-upness. Christians’ stay-at-home-and-pickle-in-their-own-juices personalities, their vinegary countenances, drained me emotionally, incapacitated me intellectually, and shut me down spiritually. The best I could say was this: by and large, Christians were kind people in a bad mood."
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