Make Me A God: Jon Atack

A Little Bit Culty

Sarah Edmondson & Anthony “Nippy” Ames

True Crime, Society & Culture, Education

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

A Little Bit Culty – Jon Atack wants to help you protect yourself from the human predators who roam among us, and believes that every bad relationship, every destructive group, and every dangerous government has a human predator at its heart. This conversation was recorded several months ago, but it feels a bit prescient now that Putin is raining hellfire on Kyiv. The author, academic, and former Operating Thetan Section V chats with Sarah and Nippy about why it seems like psychopaths are running the world, and why he still has hope that humanity can turn things around in spite of itself. About Jon Atack: Our guest today is one of the only court-appointed expert witnesses on Scientology, and his book: Let’s Sell These People a Piece of Blue Sky, about the early history of the church, is cited by academics all over the world. Jon was a ‘public’ Scientologist for nine years, trained as a counselor, and even did the secret ‘OT’ levels, but ditched it when he discovered appalling, aggressive behavior towards members. In addition to his work podcasting as a Scientology mythbuster and using his Instagram account to help educate people on overcoming things like manipulation, destructive cults, and abusive relationships, he’s written several novels, including Voodoo Child (Slight Return), inspired by the life and downfall of Jimi Hendrix. By the look of all the fair gaming sites out there, he’s also a Marvel-esque villain who deeply hurts Scientology’s feelie weelies. This dastardly fellow lives in a charming village near Nottingham, England where, as Voltaire advised, he cultivates his garden. Exactly what a Marvel villain would do. ~ The views and opinions expressed on A Little Bit Culty do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast. Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization, business individual, anyone or anything. ~ For more information on A Little Bit Culty and co-hosts Sarah Edmondson and Nippy “Anthony” Ames, visit our official website at alittlebitculty.com. Follow us on Instagram & Twitter @alittlebitculty ~ CREDITS: Executive Producers: Sarah Edmondson & Anthony Ames Production Partner: Citizens of Sound Producer: Will Retherford Associate Producer: Jess Tardy Theme Song: “Cultivated” by Jon Bryant co-written with Nygel Asselin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The views and opinions expressed by a little bit culty are those of the hosts
0:04.1	and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the podcast.
0:08.1	Any content provided by our guests, bloggers, sponsors or authors are of their opinion
0:13.2	and are not intended to malign any religion, group, club, organization,
0:17.6	business individual, anyone or anything.
0:19.8	Hey everybody, I'm Sarah Edminton.
0:31.5	And I'm Anthony Ames, aka Nippy.
0:33.9	And we just want to welcome you to season three of a little bit culty.
0:38.4	Once upon a time we were in a cult called Nexium.
0:41.7	We didn't know it was a cult when we joined because as a wise man once said,
0:46.0	nobody joins a cult. They joined a good thing.
0:48.5	For a minute it was a good thing. That's where we met, fell in love, got married,
0:52.4	started a family.
0:53.6	The stuff of story books.
0:55.5	Even the part where we woke up escaped, became whistleblowers and helped bring it all down.
0:59.6	You call that shitcho a story book?
1:01.3	Seeing the mastermind of Nexium get sentenced to 120 years in prison,
1:05.1	that's a story book ending if you ask me.
1:07.2	The whole thing was captured on HBO's Hit Docu series The Vow.
1:11.2	A new season is coming out any moment if it isn't out already by the time you hear this.
1:15.4	And I published a memoir called Scard, which is available anywhere books are sold.
1:19.6	And now we have a podcast.
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