Losing My Religion and How I Found My Relationship | After Hours With Amanda Ep. 16

After Hours With Amanda

Parenting, Kids & Family

5.0 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of After Hours With Amanda, I’m sharing my relationship with Jesus and how I lost my religion but found relationship.

This is not me trying to convert or convince anyone. It is my story of growing up around Christianity, feeling hurt by hypocrisy, walking away from faith, carrying shame, and slowly finding my way back through people who loved me without trying to fix me.

I talk about church hurt, purity culture, college, grief, my brother’s addiction, and why I never want anyone to feel unlovable.

This one is tender, personal, faith-forward, and rooted in love.

00:01 Welcome Back To After Hours

00:26 My Relationship With Jesus

00:55 This Is Not To Convert You

01:49 Losing My Religion

02:49 Faith As My Anchor

03:49 Am I Indoctrinating My Kids?

05:14 When People Misrepresent Jesus

06:25 Walking Away From Christianity

09:15 College, Dating, And Leaving The Rules

12:15 The Playboy Mansion Story

14:02 Choosing Disneyland Instead

18:39 Meeting Christians Who Felt Real

20:16 If They Really Knew Me

24:00 Writing My Way Into APU

25:41 Rules, Questions, And Relationship

26:38 The Church Should Feel Like A Hospital

29:25 Love, Guardrails, And Parenting

31:01 Purity Culture And Shame

34:06 What I Teach My Girls About Jesus

34:40 My Brother, Addiction, And Feeling Unlovable

37:06 Stop Judging Jesus By People

40:28 Bible, Worship, And Staying Close

44:07 Shame Does Not Define Me

47:06 To Anyone Hurt By Faith

Transcript

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0:00.0	we are another week into the podcast welcome back we're going to start profess you guys i tell
0:06.3	you i'm ready i'm revving i'm right on track welcome to after hours of amanda the podcast that
0:12.7	is about parenting but literally basically about everything in life and relationships um
0:18.2	we chat all things i am happy you're here. If this is your first visit,
0:22.7	get ready for, I don't even know how to explain it, buckle up buttercup. We bounce around,
0:29.4	we chat, but hopefully we land in a place that leaves you feeling encouraged and refreshed.
0:35.8	Today we are going to talk about my relationship with Jesus. And the crowd goes silent.
0:43.5	Can I just tell you guys how many requests I have gotten for me to share about my faith and for me to share about my belief and my religion and how that impacts me daily and how to deal with that daily and things
0:55.3	like that. And I want a disclaimer on this episode, okay? This episode is not me telling you
1:03.1	I'm right, you're wrong. This episode is in no way to convert or convince you of Christianity or
1:10.4	Jesus. It is simply me sharing my experience.
1:14.3	I want another disclaimer on this episode. There are a lot of people in the world, myself included,
1:20.7	who have been hurt by people that use Christianity as a reason for their actions. And to you, I say I'm sorry because I've been on the
1:30.8	other side of that when somebody is treating you some way that is absolutely in no way justifiable,
1:35.5	but they're using Christianity as the reason for that. Or they're using Christianity as the way
1:42.4	to tell you your worth.
1:45.9	Because that's not what it's about.
1:47.8	And that's not what it's about for me.
1:50.2	So we are going to call this episode losing my religion.
1:56.2	And why do I call it losing my religion?
1:59.4	Well, I mean, you guys could probably guess.
2:03.2	But if you want to Webster Dictionary it, right?
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