Surviving Fundamentalism

Whew! This one gets heavy in several spots. In this episode, I discuss the intersections of poverty, educational racism, ableism, homophobia, and much more. We are also getting deep into the value of human life as it pertains to the god of the bible, especially Black lives. Tune in. Tap In.

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In this episode, I speak about reading the bible like a book and not as a religious text so that you can see the many contradictions and how this can strengthen one's faith and NOT kill it. The key to this is accepting that the Judeo-Christian text is, in fact, not inerrant and should not be taken literally. The sad thing is many people NEED the text to be literal. They need it to be precisely what they have been taught because if there is an error in the text, then there is undoubtedly an error in the doctrines people have allowed to govern them for centuries. Get Free.

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This episode is part 2 of my episode about God being a monster. After I thought about it, I realized that the version of God built and handed to me in fundamentalism wasn't the end all be all when it comes to all things god. Maybe none of us know what the FK we are talking about is and are just figuring things out. Either is cool with me. 

This week, I'm dealing with springboarding off a meme I saw, which read, "You will never look into the eyes of someone that god does not love." Of course, my immediate reaction was that this god I came to know did not love me--he shamed and abused me through the fundamentalist Christian church—so many stumbling blocks in my path that destroyed my faith. So now, I help other people find light outside Plato's Cave. 

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This week, we are having a very important conversation about what the church has taught us about women, and how we can overcome the sexist, misogynistic culture that so many of us have been raised in. The church as an institution must be challenged to decolonize and deconstruct every aspect of it's belief systems, especially those which aid in the the oppression of those who stand and several different intersections. 

This week on Surviving Fundamentalism, we lock in with special guests Anna Dawahare and April Little from Reclaiming The Garden Podcast for a more in-depth discussion about the ways we each fought to reconstruct the ways we saw ourselves in the light of God's true love that we have had to realize has always been present with us. We also discuss identity politics, radical self-love, and neurodivergence. 

As always, we hope that our stories can be a light to you wherever you are in your faith journey.  

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Sorry it's been so long, but I'm back with a new show about how the Christian Evangelical church is rebranding for a rebuild. There is a revival brewing, and they're currently preparing for a whole new bunch of scared folks to come in so that they can rebuild their dying churches. Here's why I believe it's going to work... 

This episode is all about the y8 supremacist male patriarchy is well aware of what it is doing--they have planned and orchestrated this for decades and finally they have been successful and at least overturning Roe v. Wade. This is not, nor has it ever been an issue of "saving innocent unborn"; it has always been a battle for the control of women. It's a huge move to show women and liberals that they'd do better to learn their places and stop trying to override and dismiss the white man. Hope you enjoy

THis episode is all about losing the fear of hell, Carlton Pearson, and the ways the church has used the doctrine of hell to control and manipulate.