Monte Mader on Christian Nationalism, Project 2025, and the Radicalization of Young Men
Preacher Boys Podcast
Eric Skwarczynski
4.5 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Monte Mader joins the Preacher Boys Podcast to expose the dangerous rise of Christian Nationalism and unpack how movements like Project 2025 are merging faith and politics in ways that threaten freedom and fuel extremism. Raised in a deeply fundamentalist, far-right environment, Monte shares her powerful journey from loyal believer to outspoken critic—revealing the systems of control, misogyny, and hypocrisy that shaped her worldview. In this conversation, we dive into the gender and generational divides tearing through the church, the radicalization of young men through manosphere ideologies, and the mass exodus of Gen Z women rejecting purity culture and patriarchal power.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Preach Boys podcast. People who grow up in fundamentalist religions and fundamentalist cultures are much more susceptible to fall prey to other cults. |
| 0:10.6 | Deconstruction is important because it's important to learn to think for yourself. You know, organized religion allows us to kind of offload building our own faith onto someone else. |
| 0:19.3 | I just want someone to tell me what's right and what's wrong. |
| 0:21.2 | I want someone to tell me what God says. I want someone to tell me how to get to heaven. |
| 0:24.8 | And I think some people that are getting swept up in the deconstruction resistance, which I |
| 0:29.3 | think overall is a great movement. But I do see some people that I worry haven't really broken down |
| 0:37.1 | those thought processes enough. |
| 0:38.7 | And so there's a risk of them getting swept up by someone else and taken advantage of. |
| 0:48.0 | Ain't nobody safe. |
| 0:53.3 | Ain't nobody safe Ain't nobody safe In a Bible moment, oh, in a Bible moment, hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher Boys podcast, |
| 1:19.0 | where a former fundamentalist sheds light on the dark side of the church, from the pulpits to the pews. |
| 1:24.2 | Today, joining me to do just that is my guest, Monty, Mader. I cannot say how many |
| 1:29.4 | times people in my community have sent me clips of Monty have told me I need to have Monty on the show. |
| 1:35.8 | The love for Monty Mader is immense. And I think, honestly, if I said today, this is my last |
| 1:41.9 | episode of the show and she is now stepping in as |
| 1:44.5 | the permanent host nobody would be upset Monty is is a fan favorite for sure and I think for good |
| 1:50.5 | reason she's an amazing communicator a really incredible content creator there's no Epstein list |
| 1:56.0 | the DOJ and the FBI are now saying that there is no Epstein list and not only that but that |
| 2:00.1 | Jeffrey Epstein definitely killed himself she talks out really hot button topics in a way that is |
| 2:05.5 | digestible, but also incredibly intelligent. And I'm so excited to have her on the show today. |
| 2:11.7 | She's a writer. She's a podcaster. She's even a musician. And she went from growing up on a Wyoming |
| 2:17.1 | cattle ranch steeped in Christian fundamentalism and conservative politics to becoming one of the most fearless truth tellers calling out extremism and hypocrisy in American Christianity. |
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