Most people do not reject God. They renovate Him. This essay traces the cognitive dissonance mechanism behind the renovation, the five-step God Makeover that runs across modern Christian life, and what an honest turn looks like when shuv replaces feeling-as-repentance.
The doctrine of total depravity contains a logical crack nobody in the Reformed tradition wants to name: willful sin requires moral awareness, but total depravity claims that awareness was annihilated.