The Family Part 1: It's about Power, Not Love

Deconversion Therapy

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Religion & Spirituality, Documentary, Religion, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Karen and Bonnie discuss the book, and soon-to be-released Netflix documentary “The Family: An enigmatic conservative Christian group known as the Family wields enormous influence in Washington, D.C., in pursuit of its global ambitions.” The secret group in DC laid low for a long time and only insiders knew of them. Until the shtooping. Always the shtooping. In 2008, when senator Mark Sanford disappeared to go “hiking” but was found out to be hiking on his mistress, people learned he lived in a house in DC on C Street. But it wasn’t/isn’t just a house, it’s a group. And boy, do you need to learn about this group. Read Jeff Sharlett’s The Family or “Jesus Plus Nothing” in Harper’s Magazine. We're proud to be sponsored by Audible. Go to www.audibletrial.com/deconversion for a free book and free 30 day subscription.

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is brought to you by Audible.
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0:23.9	That's slash deconversion.
0:25.8	We have a code word now.
0:28.2	There are over 180,000 titles to choose from,
0:31.5	and you can listen on your iPhone, your Android,
0:33.9	Kindle, or MP3 player.
0:35.7	Welcome to Deconversion Therapy, the podcast.
0:40.1	So I'm Bonnie.
0:42.5	And I'm Karen.
0:43.9	And this is what we're about.
0:46.2	We have to not read our cues.
0:50.7	What?
0:51.3	No.
0:52.1	So we like to talk about the humorous aspect of growing up in the evangelical church. And then that kind of segued into talking about the funnier parts of organized religion and talking about the charlatans out there, which was a word I'm never comfortable using, only
1:11.9	because I never used it.
1:14.3	And the con men and the cults.
1:16.5	I can use all those words.
1:19.1	Basically, whenever you're organized, just funny stuff can come of it.
1:24.1	Not organized.
1:25.9	Not like people who shop at Office Depot, which is my life goal to be organized and have a bunch of school supplies surrounding me.
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