I grew up going to church, attending Bible studies, and generally soaking in Christian culture so I am an expert in warped Christian orthodoxy. For example:

(2 Corinthians 6:14) Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

Without a proper misinterpretation, these verses would put Christians in a dilemma. Paul seems to suggest that believers should not be yoked (partnered, fellowshipped, share portions) with unbelievers. That can’t be right since some unbelievers are wonderful people. They aren’t all lawless Belial worshipers! Heck, some pagans are morally superior to Christians! So what is the proper warped interpretation?

This passage is just talking about marriage. We are free to associate and socialize with God’s enemies as long as we don’t marry them. Marriage, after all, is sacred and our unholy friends don’t respect it.

Of course, sometimes God wants us to date unbelievers so we can convert them to Christianity. The Bible tells us (somewhere) to become all things to all people (or some such). That gives us permission to do—ANYTHING! A properly warped understanding of 1 Corinthians 9:22 allows us to disregard every other scripture in order to ‘share Jesus!’

So the most common warped method of dealing with 2 Corinthians 6:14, is to ignore it. What a relief! We don’t need to give up fraternizing with god-hating friends! We can indulge our fleshly desires and call it witnessing. In fact, yoking ourselves with unbelievers is how we love them!

Warped Christian orthodoxy encourages me during times when I think I know better than God. When the truth hurts, lies are a tremendous comfort.