Ep. 1: What Makes a Cult? REMASTERED (Fundamentalism / BITE Model / Life Story / Christianity / Jesus / Religion / Baptist / IFB / First Baptist Church of Hammond / Introduction / Pilot / Pokemon)

Leaving Eden Podcast

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True Crime, Cult, History, Survivor, Theology, Exfundie, Religion, Lgbtq, Christianity, Exvangelical, Documentary, Fundamentalism, Baptist, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Deconstruction, Inspirational Women, Duggars, Inspirational

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the pilot episode of the Leaving Eden Podcast, we meet our hosts, cult survivor and cult expert Sadie Carpenter, and her co-host, Gavriel HaCohen. We get the overview of Sadie's life story and learn about what the difference is between a cult and a religion. Gavri'el introduces the homework section, in which Sadie is assigned media that she missed out on growing up in a cult. This episode's assignment is the first six episodes of Pokemon Indigo League.

This episode has been remixed and remastered.

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0:32.8	This podcast contains discussions of child abuse, sexual repression, and sexual abuse, suicide, racism, misogyny, PTSD, and PTSD symptoms, and spiritual oppression and abuse, including guilt, shame, and fear.
0:49.9	In most episodes, we will be mentioning some of these concepts in a general way without any graphic detail.
0:56.6	If any of these topics or other triggering topics will be mentioned in great detail,
1:01.6	we will let you know at the beginning of each individual episode, as well as in the show notes for that episode.
1:09.9	Hello, and welcome to the first episode of the Leaving Eden podcast.
1:15.6	My name is Gavriel Hockoan, and you're probably here because you want to hear the story of my
1:21.2	best friend, Sadie Carpenter. I met Sadie as a coworker working in the office of a car dealership.
1:29.5	We quickly bonded over our love of music and over our interest in religion.
1:35.3	At this time, I had no idea that Sadie was raised in a cult.
1:39.3	I found her to be a fantastic and engaging person and an extremely analytical thinker, but I had no idea
1:47.4	just how much of her identity she had to build up brick by brick after leaving the cult.
1:55.4	In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic saw us both laid off and quarantined in our respective homes, and we decided to take the opportunity to tell her story in podcast form.
2:09.6	I had a fairly secular Jewish upbringing, and at the point you're hearing this, I have no knowledge of Christian fundamentalism. I barely even
2:19.0	know anything about Christianity outside of the very basics. I am so excited to have my
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