Warning against seeking comfort in progressive or unorthodox theology as a false catharsis; such teachers typically demonize biblical Christianity to wedge in their reinterpretations.

Winger warns that people who find conservative Christianity emotionally difficult sometimes seek out heterodox teachers for relief. This comfort can be a false catharsis. A rhetorical pattern he identifies: such teachers spend much of their time demonizing or caricaturing orthodox Christianity so that their radical reinterpretations seem plausible by contrast. He counsels helping doubting friends itemize specific concerns rather than dwelling in diffuse anxiety.