Church after a negative church experience. These victims of “toxic faith” often swing like a pendulum from religious zeal and perhaps legalism to an aversion to spiritual matters because of past pain. There’s also the frightened skeptic, who may be afraid of how God’s interference would change his life. Such a skeptic may (incorrectly) assume that belief in God means switching off one’s brain and blindly embracing a world of unreality. He may be afraid that God will ask him to do something totally out