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Leaving Eden Podcast

Ep. 253: Eugenics and Fundamentalism

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

4.5709 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

n this episode, we discuss the history of the eugenics movement, and its influence on fundamentalism through the unlikely source of Paul Popenoe.


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0:00.0

No rolling river of time.

0:07.0

You've healed me in too many days.

0:13.0

No regrets, no confusion.

0:18.0

There'll be no pollution. I'm so thankful i've decided to change my ways

0:30.9

welcome back to the leaving eden podcast i am cult survivor cult expert sadieenter. I am here with my BFF, Gavi.

0:39.1

Hi Gavi, how are you doing today?

0:41.3

I'm having a terrific day.

0:43.3

Today, we record this episode a bit in advance.

0:47.4

If you're listening to this on release day, I'm in France right now.

0:50.4

Yeah.

0:50.7

That's what I'm doing.

0:51.6

And I'm having a marvelous time, probably.

0:53.8

I hope so.

0:56.0

But the day we're recording this is a day when we just put out our episode with Amy Dugger.

1:04.5

And that's going.

1:05.8

Went out a few hours ago.

1:07.1

So far so good.

1:08.3

How's your day going?

1:09.3

How are you doing?

1:10.7

I'm doing great i'm not

1:12.7

you know the big thing that has been going on in my life like this last the big exciting thing i'm not

1:18.3

ready to talk about it on the podcast yet but hopefully soon uh yeah better not do that thing

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