I Escaped the Nuwaubian Cult

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🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Hanna was once a member of The Nuwaubian Nation, an American cult founded and led by a Dwight York, a self-anointed god figure who dominated the lives and attitudes of his followers, and who is now serving a life sentence in federal prison.

Hanna speaks candidly about her years inside the cult, her liberation, and her personal journey as a (now) atheist and skeptic.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go, the standby.
0:02.0	Three, two, one.
0:05.0	The thinking atheist, it's not a person.
0:08.0	It's a symbol, an idea.
0:10.0	The population of atheists in this country is going through the roof.
0:14.0	Rejecting faith, pursuing knowledge,
0:17.0	challenging the sacred.
0:19.0	If I tell the truth, it's because I tell the truth.
0:22.0	Not because I put my hand on a book and made a wish
0:25.0	and working together.
0:27.0	For a more rational world.
0:29.0	Take the risk of thinking, feel so.
0:31.0	Much more happiness, true fusion wisdom will come to you that way.
0:35.0	Assume nothing.
0:37.0	Question everything.
0:39.0	And start thinking.
0:42.0	This is the thinking atheist podcast hosted by South Andrews.
0:54.0	This broadcast is about stories, about personal stories.
0:58.0	Often having to do with people who have escaped fundamentalism,
1:03.0	escaped kind of a totalitarian religious model, aka cult.
1:08.0	And today is one of those stories I have on the line,
1:12.0	a special guest, her name is Hannah.
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