"Evangelicals Scare Me" | Tia Levings Reacts to Comedian's Funny and Horrifying Set
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.6 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Marc Maron’s comedy special, End Times Fun, touches on a very real issue – the way many evangelical Christians view the end of the world. In this clip, which recently went viral on TikTok, Maron breaks down why evangelical end-times beliefs scare him, especially since many of these believers hold political power.
In this episode, Eric and Tia Levings dive deep into this topic, reacting to Maron’s take and discussing Tia’s recent article, Evangelical MAGAs Want an Apocalypse to Wipe Out Unhumans. We explore how end-times theology influences everything from government policy to environmental issues and even personal health choices.
As two ex-fundamentalists, we bring firsthand experience to this conversation, and let’s just say… we have thoughts.
Topics Covered in This Episode:
– Marc Maron’s thoughts on evangelicals and end-times prophecy
– The connection between fundamentalism, politics, and climate denial
– Why some evangelicals want the world to end
– The real-life consequences of end-times theology
🎙 About Our Guest:
Tia Levings (@TiaLevingsWriter) is a writer and speaker who exposes the realities of Christian fundamentalism and evangelical patriarchy. She’s been featured in Salon, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and the Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People. Her upcoming memoir, A Well-Trained Wife, released on August 6, 2024.
👉 Connect with Tia Levings:
📖 A Well-Trained Wife: https://amzn.to/4387CI7
📢 Instagram: instagram.com/tialevingswriter
📢 Substack: https://tialevings.substack.com/p/evangelical-magas-want-an-apocalypse
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. |
| 0:06.1 | Listener discretion is advised. My name is Eric Skrinski. As a former religious fundamentalist, |
| 0:13.0 | I'm shedding light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpit to the pews. But I'm not |
| 0:18.5 | doing it alone. Each week, I'm sitting down with survivors, advocates, authors, and more to uncover the |
| 0:24.8 | inner workings of these abusive religious groups to give tactical tips on how to escape |
| 0:29.8 | and to find out what we can do to take them down. |
| 0:34.3 | You're listening to the Bridge Boys podcast. |
| 0:37.1 | In order for Jesus to come back, the world has to end. |
| 0:41.6 | It has to. So that means there's about 90 to 100 million people that are pretty excited about it. |
| 0:47.3 | That was Mark Marin, and this clip is from his comedy special and times fun. He recently shared it on |
| 0:53.3 | TikTok, and while |
| 0:54.2 | Marin is obviously being humorous, the reality behind this joke is pretty dark. When I watched |
| 0:59.6 | this clip, I immediately thought about reaching out to my friend Tia Levings to help break it down. |
| 1:05.0 | Tia, of course, all of you already know, is the New York Times best-selling author of a well-trained |
| 1:09.7 | wife, which documents her escape from |
| 1:11.8 | Christian patriarchy. She also writes extensively about fundamentalism and its cultural impact |
| 1:17.1 | over on her substack, and lately Tia's been calling yourself an evangelical translator. |
| 1:22.6 | Here's what she means by that. I decided to write my book. A well-trained wife came out in 24. I had been writing it for 10 years, and I decided to go for national distribution because the thing that I had run from was coming from my country. And now we're here. And it's like, laybook 101. It's every single aspect of it is coming true in our headlines. Kind of an evangelical translator these days where I'm taking the headlines and I'm really translating the roots. |
| 1:49.5 | I used to say educating on the abuses of Christian fundamentalism, but we're living those. |
| 1:53.3 | So I don't need to like educate on the abuses of them so much. |
| 1:56.2 | I just need to like tell you why it's happening. |
| 1:58.4 | Why are they so mean? |
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