Indoctrination is one very essential topic that sort of permeates everything we talk about on this show, but so far we haven’t really addressed it directly. It is so pervasive within religious systems that its almost impossible to talk about anything on this show without it looming in the background.
That makes it difficult to really define and nail down. OED defines it as “The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.” What you end up with is a long line of dominoes, each domino is one of the things you have to believe to in order for your religious system to remain whole. Indoctrination is the insistence that you don’t poke, prod, remove, or even too closely observe the any of the dominoes because what happens if you knock one over? The whole system is exposed.
Host Brady and Chuck sat down their friends, Tim Warzel and Jamie Lee Finch, to discuss the ever-present ghost called indoctrination.
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WHO WE AREThe LIFE AFTER Podcast is hosted by Brady Hardin (excommunicated Reformed Southern Baptist and gay dad) and Chuck Parson (former theology nerd and former Christian Mystic).
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WHAT WE DOWe provide two resources for renegades renouncing Christian Fundamentalism, God-questioners who are coming up short for evidence, resilient or struggling fighters experiencing religious trauma syndrome symptoms, and many who have reason to feel angry at “God” or the church:
1) A PODCAST of cathartic conversations exploring the freedoms of loosening Christian Fundamentalism’s oppressive grip, featuring guests from diverse backgrounds and the show’s hosts, Brady Hardin (excommunicated Reformed Southern Baptist) and Chuck Parson (former theology nerd and Christian Mystic).
2 ) An