577 - Interview with YouTuber Kristi Burke
Friendly Atheist Podcast
Friendly Atheist Podcast
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🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Kristi Burke is an ex-evangelical Christian who began deconstructing her faith at 19. She creates YouTube content that supports others navigating their own deconstruction journeys, offering insight, solidarity, and encouragement.
As the political climate in the U.S. has intensified, her work has expanded to confront the rise of Christian nationalism and authoritarianism. Through a thoughtful, balanced lens rooted in critical thinking, empathy, and a commitment to productive action, she aims to empower others to resist and engage meaningfully with the world around them.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hemet Menta for the Friendly Atheist Podcast. |
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| 0:18.7 | Jess and I will be back next week to talk about the news, |
| 0:21.8 | but for today, I had the chance to talk to a YouTuber I really admire Christy Burke. If you're |
| 0:27.6 | not familiar with her, I hope you check out her channel. I really enjoyed my conversation with her, |
| 0:34.2 | and I hope you do too. So Christy Burke is an ex-evangelical Christian who began |
| 0:39.8 | deconstructing her faith at 19. I love her YouTube videos because they are personal and they |
| 0:46.3 | discuss not just her personal journey while discussing, you know, her insight and offering solidarity |
| 0:52.9 | and encouragement. But I also appreciate that she's |
| 0:55.7 | been making more videos about Christian nationalism and authoritarianism. There are very few |
| 1:02.6 | YouTubers whose videos I really want to watch as soon as they come out. And Christy is one of |
| 1:08.8 | them. And I wanted to talk to her about her own history, |
| 1:11.9 | her YouTube experience and frankly, being a woman in this space that has been dominated by |
| 1:17.2 | men for a really long time, especially in the non-theistic world. So I'm super excited that she |
| 1:23.4 | could join me. Hi, Christy. How are you? Hi, I'm good. How about you? I'm fantastic. |
| 1:29.9 | So for people who are not familiar with you, first of all, tell us your YouTube channel. |
| 1:34.1 | And then I would love to know how you even got into doing YouTube and how you began talking about any of this stuff. |
| 1:40.7 | Well, my YouTube channel is Jezebel vibes. I actually recently underwent a name change to the channel. It was just my full name, but I have been Jezebel Vibes pretty much since I was doing TikTok before I ever got on YouTube. And the reason I started on TikTok was because I had been wanting to make content, you know, |
| 2:04.8 | kind of about my journey and in the deconstruction scene. It's when all the, |
| 2:09.3 | it's when the deconstruction scene really kind of blew up. And I remember I was |
| 2:14.6 | scrolling through Facebook and I saw somebody post, some repost about how it's okay to be an atheist. |
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