The Cult of Youth Groups

Sounds Like A Cult

Studio71

Comedy, Education, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to our life-changing, missional, intentional ministry for young people from all walks of life to strengthen their faith in Christ while having soooo much fun!! Evangelical youth groups (think: Young Life, Teen Mania Ministries, etc.) love-bomb vulnerable adolescent recruits into joining the Christian “cool” kids—a place where they’re promised to find both earthly acceptance and heavenly salvation—only to manipulate and indoctrinate them with oppressive, homophobic, legitimately terrifying dogma and providing zero exit strategy. Sounds. Like. A. Damn. Cult!!! This week, Amanda and Isa chat with former youth group kid turned TikTok comedy sensation Kevin James Thornton to unpack the cult-like tactics and ideology of Christian youth organizations. (Don’t worry, culties, a Jewish youth groups episode is coming l8er!!)

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0:00.0	We talk about a lot of really fun subjects on this podcast, but I do think something we always do is kind of slip into a British accent when we feel uncomfortable.
0:07.3	That's so true, babes!
0:09.7	And that's what we're gonna do all week when we're in London town.
0:15.0	Dude, I am so fucking excited. We're doing our first ever London show on Friday, May 26th at 6.30pm, at the Lester Square Theatre in London.
0:26.4	It's going to be fucking lit.
0:28.1	Which by the way, why is Lester Square Theatre spelled like that?
0:31.3	That was like like heistor.
0:32.8	We are so excited for the stamp show.
0:36.2	We're gonna have games.
0:37.4	We're gonna have audience participation.
0:39.3	And of course, we're gonna have our juicy analysis while diving into a much requested and never before discussed top secret cult.
0:48.4	You cannot hear this cult subject matter on any episode because it's what we do for our live show,
0:54.0	so you really have to be there and then meet us after the show by some merch.
0:58.8	We're there to chat with you babes.
1:00.5	Tickets are on sale now at SoundsLikeAkult.com and at the link in our IG bio.
1:06.3	Again, that's Friday, May 26th, 2023, aka this year.
1:10.4	At 6.30pm, we will see you there at Lester Square Theatre in London.
1:15.2	See you there babes.
1:16.4	The views expressed in this episode, as with all episodes of SoundsLikeAkult,
1:20.4	our solely host opinions and quoted allegations.
1:23.5	The content here should not be taken as indisputable.
1:26.3	This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.
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