Identifying and Healing Religious Trauma, with Darren M. Slade, Ph.D.

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In my book, The Cult of Trump, I identify many groups who are deeply involved in politics and influence believers to vote according to the leader’s direction of who is “godly.” Here to discuss his experiences with this and his evolution away from religion is Dr. Darren M. Slade, a graduate of the controversial Liberty University’s seminary and apologetics program. Darren is a professor of history and comparative religion in Denver, Colorado. He specializes in the socio-political development of religious belief systems. He serves as the Director of the North American Committee on Religious Trauma Research. He is also the President of the Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR.org) and Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal Socio-Historical Examination of Religion and Ministry (SHERMjournal.org). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the Influence Continuum.
0:08.4	I've been looking forward to this interview for a really long time with Dr. Darren Slade,
0:15.3	who is a professor of history and comparative religion in Denver, Colorado.
0:20.3	He specializes in socio-political development of religious belief systems.
0:26.2	He is the director of the North American Committee on Religious Trauma Research.
0:33.0	And Darren also serves as the president of the Global Center for Religious Research,
0:39.9	GCRC.org, and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed academic journal,
0:47.5	socio-historical examination of religion and ministry. And it's called the Shirm Journal.
0:55.8	Darren, I have to cite one of your pieces that you wrote,
1:03.1	leaving Liberty University behind my journey toward renouncing the nation's largest Christian university.
1:13.4	And then you say, in a nutshell, this post is simply my explicit and public disavowal
1:19.8	of the ideology and outspoken teachings of Liberty University, particularly the Jerry
1:26.8	Falwell dynasty that still controls it.
1:31.0	And you go on and on as an academic.
1:35.0	You explain that they offered you an inexpensive road to a PhD,
1:41.5	your struggles of integrity versus the indoctrination that you experience there where people
1:48.9	were not allowed to express their own individual thoughts and feelings or their gayness or any
1:56.6	number of other things there. They're politicking. You go on and on. So I really want to hear your
2:05.3	story and share it with my listeners. But before I ask you to start speaking, I have to tell you,
2:13.1	so you know I was in the Moonies and you know that Moon said he was the Messiah and said
2:18.6	that Jesus Christ came to him when he was 16 to finishes, and that Jesus Christ failed his
2:25.0	mission.
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