Shiny Happy People: Did Bill Gothard Create Pedophiles? (#198)

Religion on the Mind

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

4.7 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Welcome to Part 1 of this highly-requested series of response episodes to the Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People. For these response episodes, Dan is joined by former Bill Gothard-ite Mark Scandrette. Much like the Duggar family of TLC reality series fame (“16 and Counting”), Mark was raised in the homeschool culture described in the SHP series and began his family life under Gothard’s teachings. Over the next few weeks, Dan and Mark will release four episodes, each in response to an episode of the Amazon series. This week, the two set up the context for the SHP and discuss episode one specifics, including the cultural influence and mindset of the Duggars (birth control does not cause miscarriages!), authority structures, the prosperity gospel, and homeschool culture. Dan also addresses some of the psychological realities at play: binary thinking, the fragility of purity culture, and healing through dialogue. Dan includes a "PSA" to address factual inaccuracies and misconceptions presented in the episode. Register for Theology Beer Camp: Theologybeer.camp Use code: YHPGODPOD at checkout! Mark's Website: http://www.markscandrette.com/ Shiny Happy People Doc: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TR2QV5?ref=DVM_US_DL_SL_GO_AST_SHPL23_mkw_s-dc&mrntrk=pcrid_661333345146_slid__pgrid_148685833846_pgeo_9060341_x__adext__ptid_kwd-2080177786042&gclid=Cj0KCQjwqs6lBhCxARIsAG8YcDjOR_JowUp4AIO6X1sdtfQVa1WHUoPgwpQv5ZkaXx4jODFvd3kpNP0aArlJEALw_wcB ___________________________________________ Follow Dan on IG: www.instagram.com/dancoke/ Or Twitter: twitter.com/DanKoch Faith deconstruction resources: www.soyouredeconstructing.com/ Edited by Josh Gilbert (joshgilbertmedia.com -- he is accepting more work!) Join the Patreon for exclusive episodes (and more) every month: patreon.com/dankoch Email about the "sliding scale" for the Patreon: youhavepermissionpodcast@gmail.com YHP Patron-only FB group: tinyurl.com/ycvbbf98 Website: www.dankochwords.com/yhp.html Join Dan's email list: www.dankochwords.com/ Artwork by sprungle.co/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Dan Koch. Like many of you, I've been on a complicated faith journey for a number of years now.
0:10.8	And while I tend to find myself on the progressive side of Christianity, my goal is not to make liberal converts.
0:18.0	I want this show to be a resource for Christians to my right and to my left, as well as
0:23.0	former Christians and non-religious folks, anyone who finds themselves asking difficult questions
0:29.2	about God, science, prayer, fate, suffering, evangelism, and more. So many of us have been given bad answers to those good questions, often by people with
0:42.6	pure intentions.
0:44.1	I want to say that you have permission to take both Christianity and the modern world very
0:50.5	seriously.
0:51.7	And I hope to facilitate that by introducing you to people seeking God across
0:56.5	the Christian spectrum, engaging hard questions in a multitude of ways. Thanks for listening.
1:06.7	Mark Skandrette, thank you for joining me here today, man. We are embarking on a four-episode journey
1:13.7	here responding and reacting to shiny happy people, the Amazon Prime docu-series, and I'm grateful to have you here.
1:22.9	Yeah, I'm glad to be talking with you, Dan. We're going to get a little bit of your story and
1:27.0	connection to this project in a minute,
1:29.2	but let me just kind of set up what people can expect for these episodes.
1:33.4	There are four episodes of the shiny happy people docuseries.
1:36.7	It is, I believe, the most popular documentary that Prime Video has released.
1:42.7	I saw some headline.
1:43.9	It's gotten the most downloads or streams or whatever.
1:46.7	I've gotten a ton of requests or questions.
1:50.7	You know, are you covering this?
1:52.1	Could you cover this?
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