Pulling Back the Curtain w/ Claudine, ex-Mormon - S4E7pt2

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🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

When Claudine began to feel that she no longer believed the teachings, she realized that part of Mormon testimony was to avoid "anti-Mormon" literature. Passing up their guilt, Claudine and her husband uncovered original documents and their church's history. Rachel helps Claudine unpack this and other techniques including attributing critical thinking to sin or negative energy. The church has also made several changes to homophobic policies and demanding practices to accommodate its members, which the two discuss. Ultimately Claudine's family chose to leave the Latter Day Saints feeling that there was a lack of transparency and intense social pressures built into their testimonies. Stay tuned, Before You Go: The FLDS, or Former Latter Day Saints, are a cultic offshoot of Mormonism made popular by Warren Jeffs. Rachel shares her story of being asked to come to Texas and offer assistance after the raid on the FLDS compound was carried out, and offers her feedback on how the survivors were helped to assimilate in society. View a copy of the letter Rachel received from the commissioner's office in Texas as a Patreon subscriber! Visit Claudine's website, for post Mormon mental health resources: https://www.postmormonmentalhealth.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Welcome to indoctrination, a weekly conversation series about protecting yourself from systems of control.
0:11.2	I'm your host, Rachel Bernstein.
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1:17.7	And so now, on today's show, we have the second part of my conversation with Claudine.
1:24.2	She had been involved in the Mormon church for 27 years, and it had given her a sense of community
1:30.3	and safety and connection, and had given her so many of the answers that she was looking for.
1:36.5	But then something shifted, and she wanted to be able to tell her story and the story of her
1:41.6	family. And I want to make sure that people are aware that when I share a
1:48.1	story about a particular religion or my guest does, they're speaking from their experience. And I'm
1:54.8	speaking from what I've heard within my experience. So we're not speaking for the entire organization or everyone in it.
2:03.4	What is important, though, is that sometimes people will have a different kind of experience
2:08.4	than others, and they want to be able to say it out loud. They want to be able to use their
2:13.6	experience to assist other people who might be having some of the same struggles and some
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