On Taking Things Out Of Context Deconstruction depends on finding minute points in a text that seem to say the opposite to the main message . This almost invariably means taking small portions, even individual words or syllables out of context . Moreover, deconstructions are not necessarily coherent with each other. It would be quite possible to produce a Christian reading of a text in conflict with anti-Christian ones. Anyone can take something out of context and making it say what we want.
Deconstruction has a warped way of reading.
To say that real meaning must flow from a divorce between a text and its context, or that real meaning is apparent only at a deconstructive level, or that real meaning must be the opposite to what a text ostensibly says, is not only anti-knowledge but arrogant in the extreme. Deconstruction Denies Humanity Pushed to its logical extreme, deconstruction breaks down ideas of what it means to be human . Many people are now freely saying that there is no such a thing as humanity. Some, however, are also questioning where this leaves human dignity, identity, morality or society . As Christians a vital area to recover in our generation is our doctrine of humanity.