I call myself #expuritan rather than #exvangelical (following Sarah Vowell’s distinction in The Wordy Shipmates). Evangelical Christianity is, as I understand it, emotional. Puritan Christianity emphasizes a rational relationship with the divine. But one thing exvangelicals and I probably have in common: I internalized the message that I’m a bad person, deserving of never-ending torment. Why did Jesus have to die a horrible death? It was something I did.