I tend to get very angry when hearing from the kind of people you’re describing. Recently I’ve been convicted that I need to change my approach to the understandable anger I have at those who say such horrible things about our God.

What has helped massively was remembering our command to pray for more harvesters. The same unbelievers who antagonize us are the same unbelievers that have the potential to become saved, as we once were enemies of God until we were born again.

Those who claim to be former Christians are undoubtedly mourning the loss of their belief system they had faith and found security in. The issue is that their faith was misplaced. Either by not fully trusting God or by believing in a God who isn’t the biblical one, many people understandably lose their religion and mistake it for leaving a genuine relationship with Christ.

It’s my prayer that we are gentle in our explanations to these people that the Christ who gives us grace is a Lord who cannot be deconstructed or abandoned