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Deconversion Therapy

Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, and Jesus H. Christ

Deconversion Therapy

deconversiontherapy

Religion & Spirituality, Documentary, Religion, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9585 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we reveal who we are: REALLY BIG CELEBRITIES. Or perhaps we discuss some real ones who are showing up as trendy Christians on social media—Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, Sherilyn Fenn, Kendall Kardashian. We kick off the show by telling you about a great podcast that takes on the more serious issues of deconverting from religion: Out of the Fold. They aim to unite all apostates in a supportive atmosphere. Check them out. *Plus, we just opened a Facebook Page and Facebook discussion group. Please like, join, share. There’s a meme contest going on right now. If we choose yours, you get a podcast shout-out and a heathen prophecy. Our discussion group is private, so your mom won’t know a thing! Karen gives a shout out to her soulmate David Spade before we introduce our new segment, “Quest to Not Be a Whiny Asshole.” Basically, it is something that made us happy from the previous week. Bonnie proves nicer and more intelligent than Karen by bringing up Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs diagram and brags that she’s NOT severely lactose intolerant like Karen but still is in love with a creamer called Nut Pods (which Karen says reminds her of gonads). Bonnie also brings back the convo to tennis and Rafa Nadal as she talks about her friend Brewster asking her about a perfect day and recounts enjoying the US Open tennis Fan Week. Karen reads a letter from listener Eloise talking about how she, like Karen, was a tiny Bible scholar of the Bible. So much so that 7 or 8-year-old Eloise corrected her pastor during a sermon! She wishes her head had been filled with helpful information like the periodic table of contents. Me, too, child. Me, too. Yet, it was that study of the Bible that led me, Karen, right out the ass end of Christianity. Karen’s QN2BWA (Quest Not to be a Whiny Asshole) was about schooling a super Christian on the fact that Paul never met Jesus. Again, Bonnie is the nicer of us, obviously. Bonnie paraphrases an article from VOX about the new wave of Christianity being popularized by celebs like Chris Pratt, Justin Bieber, etc. The spin is about how the “new” church like Zoe, Hillsong, and whatnot. But Ellen Page slaps back on social media and talk shows that Chris Pratt’s church is anti-LGBT and how it leads to self-hate and worse among youth. We give free publicity to more celebs when Bonnie reveals she might be the same person as Sherilyn Fenn from Twin Peaks. And a story where Burt Reynolds would rather drown than be witnessed to. (Also in this episode: Eckhart Tolle, Russell Brand, Blair from Facts of Life, and Farrah Fawcett).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, welcome to Deconversion Therapy podcast.

0:16.9

This is Karen.

0:18.2

And this is Bonnie.

0:19.5

And it's a humorous look at growing up in the evangelical religion or just leaving religion and comparing and contrasting life before and after.

0:32.8

Yes.

0:33.5

It's a hodgepodge, sort of a retro look into what it was like being a Christian, especially Southern Baptist, in the 80s.

0:45.6

And then now as adults, as we have quickly or slowly worked our way out of religion.

0:53.0

Yeah.

0:53.3

And as I'm going to read you this piece that you sent me from Colin, your husband, and I say that because I know you know who he is, but they don't. Yeah. I don't think the church is the same now. No, I don't think so either. But anyway, we'll get to that later. Yeah, yeah. I agree. I think some are the same.

1:11.2

Yeah.

1:21.8

So I'm Karen, and I just wanted to say, yeah, we're humorous and we're sarcastic, but there are actually professionals who can help you with any kind of trauma.

1:27.4

And there's also some really fucking great podcasts out

1:30.6

there who deal with serious topics of people who are deconverting one of them is our friends

1:37.9

at out of the fold podcast and we really love them they've been very supportive of us and us of them and they take a more

1:46.7

serious bent. So their goal is to unite the apostate in each community. So no matter what religion

1:55.9

you've left and create something that we all wish we had available to us when we came up with all

2:04.9

these questions about our own faith. So please go ahead and go check them out. And while you're

2:13.1

checking out, out of the Fold podcast, we just started a Facebook page and group.

2:20.5

So our Instagram is going pretty well,

2:23.3

but we now have a page called Deconversion Therapy Podcasts.

2:28.6

Please like it on Facebook.

2:30.5

And we also have a group called Deconversion Therapy.

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