Secret 024: I Grew Up in a Cult!

Beyond the Secret

Ace Fanning

Society & Culture

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Secret 024: I Grew Up in a Cult

At a young age, a girl’s family joined a small church led by a man with radical religious beliefs who claimed to be a prophet. She tells Ace about the way the church environment of isolation, control and shame impacted her upbringing, and still affects her today.

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0:00.0	Hey, this podcast is not kid-friendly.
0:05.0	So if you don't want your kid to hear about sex and the word shit and all that other stuff,
0:10.0	you should probably get them out of the room right now.
0:16.0	Everybody has a secret. This is Beyond the Secret, an anonymous podcast where I uncover the truth
0:20.0	behind people's deepest secrets. My name is Ace Fanning and I want to know
0:27.3	what's your secret?
0:30.7	Welcome back to another week of Beyond the Secret. As you can tell from the second
0:36.7	that you downloaded this episode, you know that this is going to be a lengthy one.
0:41.1	So I don't want to waste too much of your time in the beginning, but I want
0:44.8	to come on and say that I don't think there's really that much inappropriateness in this episode. I'm sure I swear here and there and I think we talk about
0:56.0	sex a little bit but it's really not that bad and the reason I'm saying that
1:00.9	is because I really want young girls and boys to hear this episode
1:07.4	because I think it translates to a lot of different topics and I just think it might be an eye-opener for them on certain situations and
1:20.7	I'm rambling. So this week's secret I grew up in a cult.
1:29.2	Tell me about your childhood, your family, your life, and going to church and what all of
1:37.0	that looked like when you were young? When I was younger we always were in like like we would go on and off to church just like little like Baptist
1:47.3	churches and things like that but I guess all of it kind of started when we joined a church. I was probably five years old and it looks like a normal church, like pretty decent sized church. They called it non-denominational Christian
2:07.2	church so it's not like Baptist or they said non-denominational but basically it was a form of Pentecostal Christian I don't know if you know what that is I don't okay
2:19.6	um Pentecostal Christian they believe the Bible for what it is, but they take things extremely literal.
2:26.6	So in the Bible, it says something like, there's a quote where it says,
2:30.4	women shouldn't wear clothes pertaining to a man.
2:33.2	So based off of that, so none of the women can wear pants,
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