◉ An apostate’s tips on keeping the Gospel respectable.

It began with a simple Facebook post—one question shared in a group called Christian Apologetics, a community filled with believers who pride themselves on defending the truth of Christianity.

Would a truly compassionate God condemn honest seekers—or only those who reject faith?

Sixty-four Christians, many claiming familiarity with apologetic reasoning, responded. They ranged from pastors and theology graduates to everyday believers confident that “the evidence for Christianity is overwhelming.” What followed was a revealing case study—not in the strength of Christian arguments, but in the frailty of Christian reasoning.

The results were sobering.
Across the responses, familiar fallacies repeated like a hymn: evasions in place of answers, appeals to mystery in place of logic, certainty without clarity. Most participants, when pressed, could not explain how a just and loving God could fairly judge those raised in equally devout but non-Christian cultures. The problem was not faith—it was incoherence.

This book uses that exchange as a lens.
It is written for apologetics coaches, pastors, and educators who want to train the next generation of defenders of the faith to argue without contradiction, to reason without fear, and to represent Christianity in ways that are intellectually honest.

From that case study emerges a diagnostic of today’s apologetic climate: a movement that has learned rhetoric faster than reflection. Yet the cure is simple—return to a commitment to logical coherence, to intellectual honesty, and to a rational epistemology.

As someone who once believed—and now does not—I offer these pages not as an attack, but as an autopsy and an invitation: to rescue the Gospel from the excesses of its defenders, and to help apologists speak in ways that make the faith at least respectable, even to those who no longer share it.