From Anti-Scientologist to “Anti-Mormon” - “TrevAnon” from the Netherlands | Ep. 2155
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 203 minutes
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Summary
We have a very special guest on Mormon Stories today, who some of our live audience may know as "TrevAnon" on YouTube. He has helped out for many years as a moderator for Mormon Stories livestreams, and he is here today to tell us why a Never-Mormon from the Netherlands would find interest in Mormonism.
This episode will begin with Trev's story, and how he developed his interest in cults and other high-demand religions--especially Scientology. Additionally, he has prepared a presentation that will compare and contrast Scientology to Mormonism. Join along as we hash out all the similarities and differences point by point.
We are grateful to TrevAnon (Corry) for sharing his story and expertise with our audience, and hope you find it as interesting as we did.
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| 0:00.0 | Why in the world would a never Mormon atheist or secular person from the Netherlands |
| 0:06.1 | volunteer up to five or more years of their lives supporting Mormon stories podcast |
| 0:12.8 | and watching infinite hours of Mormon-themed and ex-Mormon-themed videos? |
| 0:19.5 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. |
| 0:24.0 | I'm your host, John Dillon. |
| 0:25.4 | It is May 7, 26, and today we're going to be nerding out. |
| 0:32.3 | We're going to be doing an interview with someone who has really played a very important role in the Mormon stories |
| 0:39.2 | podcast community over the past five or more years. On YouTube, he's known as Trevor, but his |
| 0:46.7 | actual name is Corey, and he's never been Mormon, and he lives in the Netherlands. And, yeah, he's been our moderator of our Mormon Stories |
| 0:58.6 | podcast YouTube channel for a long, long time. He co-moderated with Maven and then he took over |
| 1:05.3 | for Maven when Maven started doing other types of things. But most importantly, he has studied Scientology in depth. |
| 1:14.3 | And he was kind of a, a Scientology, I don't know, critic or activist in a way before he got interested in Mormonism. |
| 1:23.3 | And then he started following Mormon stories podcast and ended up as our moderator on our YouTube channel. |
| 1:31.6 | And he's got his own story about what made him interested in cults generally, not to say the Mormon church is a cult, but that's how he would probably might frame his interests. |
| 1:45.0 | So I'll represent the way he would frame it. |
| 1:48.0 | So he was into Scientology before he was into Mormonism, then he got into Mormonism. |
| 1:52.0 | So we're going to be talking about his story. |
| 1:54.0 | He also has done a comparison from his perspective of the Mormon church and Elron Hubbard and David Miskovich. |
| 2:02.2 | He's done an analysis of how the Mormon church, in his view, is similar to and or different |
| 2:08.9 | from Scientology. |
| 2:10.2 | We're going to get to that. |
| 2:11.6 | And then he also, maybe something he's most passionate about is as a citizen of the Netherlands, |
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