I appreciate the honest thought in this piece. I won't approach it in any kind of usual dialectical mode. My approach is to look at how any person seriously raised Christian (as I was) might evaluate the accumulation of teaching he or she received. Every thinking Christian realizes they have to separate the wheat from the chaff. I can imagine every thinking Christian has a unique process for doing this separation. This process includes "how do I avoid throwing out the baby with the bath water?" Every thinking Christian has to come to terms with the merits of the process and the merits of where they end up. All I can say is any person who got no religious instruction in childhood, had an otherwise healthy childhood, and was exposed to religion at say 30 would shake their head in bemusement. I don't see how the case made in this article or any other would cure their bemusement. In short, it's one thing to remodel Christianity, it's another build it from scratch, from "cogito ergo sum." If you think you can do that, I look forward to reading your attempt.