Investigating Ravi Zacharias' Sexual Misconduct and RZIM | Steve Baughman
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ποΈ 10 January 2021
β±οΈ 51 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode, Eric sits down with Steve Baughman βΒ creator of RaviWatch.com. Since 2015, Steve has been investigating famed apologist, Ravi Zacharias, keeping tabs on the growing number of scandals surrounding him.
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Steve's Bio:
My name is Steve Baughman.
I am a part-time lawyer, part-time touring and teaching musician, part-time philosophy student, and full-time dilettante. I am currently registered at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and have done most of my work there with the Dominicans.
I am a religious skeptic but I consider it intellectual cowardice to enroll in schools and programs whose stated purpose is to strengthen your existing religious beliefs.
In my legal practice, I represent Chinese nationals seeking political asylum in the United States. Most of my clients are Christians and Uyghur Muslims fleeing persecution in China.
My educational background is as follows:
University of California at Santa Barbara: BA (History) 1984. Thesis: Canonization of the New Testament.
University of California at Berkeley: MA (Asian Studies) 1987. Thesis: Canβt recall exactly, but something fairly broad on Chinese socialist law.
Santa Clara University: Juris Doctor 1990
Around 2010 I was enrolled in the San Francisco State University Philosophy MA, where I took two graduate seminars in the philosophy of science, one graduate seminar in meta-ethics, and several undergraduate courses.
The Ravi Zacharias project fell into my lap most unexpectedly in 2015 when I was seeking the best and brightest defenders of the Christian religion. I began earnestly to look into his work and quickly found a scoundrel behind the smiling erudition.
People have warned me that Ravi will sue me for the work I have done exposing his career-long deceptions and misconduct. He wonβt. Despite his public persona, Ravi Zacharias is a cowardly man who refuses to debate opponents, daring only to confront them from behind his keyboard or microphone, where he controls the agenda. A lawsuit against me would require Ravi to sit down for a deposition and answer questions without evasion.
Institutional Christianity has responded to the (growing!) mountain of evidence against Ravi Zacharias by sweeping it under the rug. Ravi continues to receive speaking gigs and awards from churches and evangelical groups as well as book contracts from Christian publishers.
This is exactly what my atheist worldview would have predicted.
For more on my life see www.CelticGuitar.com.
I am most easily reached by email at [email protected]
Steve Baughman
December 2019
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. |
| 0:06.0 | Listener discretion is advised. If you care about sex abuse, if you care about integrity, |
| 0:12.5 | if you care about people being honest about their credentials, there's a huge lesson that |
| 0:20.1 | Ravi Zacharias teaches us. |
| 0:21.9 | And it's not about what a nasty, what a naughty boy he was. |
| 0:25.5 | It's about systemic problems in evangelical Christianity. |
| 0:31.0 | It's too easy to call yourself a doctor when you're not. |
| 0:34.4 | It's too easy to abuse women and then blame and have the old boy |
| 0:38.0 | network huddle together and, um, and, and disparage and bully and by the silence of the |
| 0:46.4 | victims. This is just a systemic problem and take it seriously. You are listening to the |
| 0:53.0 | Preacher Boys podcast, a podcast shedding light on decades of mental, |
| 0:57.7 | physical, and sexual abuse within the independent fundamental Baptist movement. |
| 1:03.1 | The testimony shared on this podcast are told from the personal experience and perspective |
| 1:07.8 | of the survivors. Not all legal outcomes are known or final. |
| 1:12.5 | Any suspect is presumed innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. |
| 1:17.5 | To find more information about the Preacher Boys podcast and upcoming documentary, |
| 1:22.4 | visit Preacherboysdoc.com or connect on Facebook, Instagram Instagram or Twitter with a handle at Preacher Boys Dog. |
| 1:31.7 | Now, here's your host, Eric Squarsensky. |
| 1:35.9 | I'm staying down with Steve Boffman, and I've been following Steve pretty close to the last couple weeks, especially, because he's been running a site |
| 1:46.4 | called Raviwatch.com, really focusing in on the scandals surrounding Ravi Zacharias. |
| 1:52.9 | I don't need to really describe who that is to anyone in my audience. Very famous apologist, |
| 1:58.6 | even in Independent Baptist Circles, was very well respected constantly. |
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