Leaving Eden Podcast

EVERYONE who signs up to my giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with their @bellesaco order! 🌹https://www.shopbboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-yt #bbpartner In this episode, we answer listener questions including "How did Sadie's family become fundie?" "How did Sadie get into social work?" and "Why does Gavi own so many guitars?" Subscribe to Leaving Eden...

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In this episode, we review Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. This episode contains spoilers for the entire book Yesteryear. This episode also contains discussions of physical abuse, sexual abuse, child abuse, and religious abuse. An extended version of this episode is available to patrons at Patreon.com/LeavingEdenPodcast Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel...

In this episode, we discuss the documentary "Death of the Pastor's Wife," which chronicles the story of Mica Miller and the abuse she suffered at her husband, Pastor John-Paul Miller of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This episode contains discussions of sexual, emotional, physical, and spiritual abuse. Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channe...

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod #bbpartner In this episode, Sadie discusses her treatment for OCD, Gavi discusses some comments on why Christian Nationalism will fail, and we make predictions on the future of the fundieverse! Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel...

EVERYONE who signs up to our giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod #bbpartner Today we are joined by Lilly, who runs the Lilly Archive/Fundie Archive content pages! We discuss all things Duggars, Rodrigues, Bates, and other fundies! We hope you enjoy! Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4q94g...

FREE TOYS OR GIFT CARDS FOR TOYS! Everyone who signs up to my giveaway with Bellesa Boutique wins something! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod In this episode, Sadie teaches us about SNAKE HANDLING! The most INSANE and DANGEROUS Christian subculture. Snake Handling, surprisingly, has actual biblical justification behind it. However it is not widespread due to the extreme danger of hand...

EVERYONE who signs up to my giveaway will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with their @bellesaco order! 🌹 https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod #bbpartner In this episode, we discuss some of the reasons why Christian Nationalism is a doomed endeavor, as we view its zenith and believe that its ascendance is inevitable. Our episode about Shiny Happy People season 2 https://shows.acast.com/le...

In this episode, we discuss Sadie's (as of yet unproven but highly promising) Hypothesis about the risk factors between growing up with religious trauma and experiencing domestic violence as an adult. Resources: “Experiencing Child Abuse Increases Risk for IPV in Adulthood” - Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/invisible-bruises/202412/experiencing-child-abuse-increases-risk-f...

CW: This episode is about a domestic violence situation that includes discussion of multiple instances of physical and emotional abuse. Some of this discussion is graphic. Our thoughts are with Heidi, her family, and the Rodrigues children as well as anybody who has suffered intimate partner violence or child abuse under fundamentalism. Please do not mistake the tone of this video for us minimizin...

In this episode, We react to a sermon delivered by Eddie Lapina of First Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana, at their annual Pastors' School event. This sermon also happens to be word-for-word the same sermon delivered by convicted sex criminal and disgraced former FBCH Pastor Jack Schaap nearly 20 years ago. Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4q94gAns...

In this episode, we discuss the dangers of parasocial relationships and how people in parasocial relationships can come under a pseudo-cultlike control in their desire to be seen or noticed by a person they feel a strong connection to. In this episode we discuss parasocial relationships with celebrities like Taylor Swift, political commentators like Rush Limbaugh, and other notable people like Don...

EVERYONE who signs up to my giveaway wins a FREE spicy toy or gift card for toys!  https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod #bbpartner In this episode, we discuss the ongoing schism in the Catholic Church, as Pope Leo excommunicates the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) following their decision to disobey him by consecrating new bishops. SSPX is a faction within Catholicism that considers t...

Over 4th of July Weekend, notorious hate-preacher, abuser, and terminally online bottom feeding degenerate Steven Anderson, pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe Arizona (In the same strip mall as the McDonald's) declared that he intends to stop preaching if god almighty does not punish his four estranged adult children for escaping from his abuse. In a 15-minute sermon, Anderson airs hi...

Everyone who signs up to my giveaway wins either a free WhisperVibe™ or a FREE Rose toy with any WhisperTech™ purchase! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod #bbpartner We are joined by Dee from Umbrella Rebellion to discuss the recent news that Bill Gothard had a heart attack and is currently in a coma. This news comes just months prior to an expected deposition in a lawsuit on behalf of...

In this episode, we read listener stories with our wonderful friend, Dinah House-Fire! Thank you to everyone who wrote in! Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4q94gAnsoW2jME4SvVrrQ Join our Patreon for extended, uncensored, and ad-free versions of most of our episodes, as well as other patron perks and bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/LeavingEdenP...

EVERYONE who signs up wins a FREE toy or gift card! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod In this episode, we discuss the commonalities between searching for a religious (or formerly religious) person during deconstruction and searching searching for an identity as a member of the LGBTQ community. We discuss the pros and cons of labels, as well as the connotations certain labels bring! Nex...

Sadie takes us through the BITE model and discusses how cult control looks in an abusive relationship and how similar it is to Christian Fundamentalism. 00:00 - Intro 08:00 - Why are cults like abusive relationships? 12:27 - Behavior Control 17:30 - Written and unwritten rules 31:03 - Information Control 46:00 - Thought Control 52:48 - Emotion Control 59:00 - Queer Relationships Subscribe to Leavi...

EVERYONE who signs up to my giveaway with @bellesaco will receive a FREE Rose suction toy with their order! https://www.bboutique.co/vibe/leavingeden-pod In this episode, we go through seven major bible verses that are most often used to promote anti-LGBTQ hate within Christianity and alternate (and in some cases more accurate and reasonable) interpretations. Sadie's theory is that in these verses...

In this episode, we discuss the emails sent between Josh and Anna Duggar between Josh's trial and sentencing in late 2021/2022. The extended version of this episode which contains the discussion of NSFW emails sent between Josh and Anna is available at Patreon. Com/LeavingEdenPodcast Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ4q94gAnsoW2jME4SvVrrQ Join our Pat...

In what is potentially the dumbest piece of content we have ever made, we present to you our duggar vehicles tier list. Yes, we made a tier list of every single vehicle mentioned in the Josh Duggar jail emails obtained by Lily Archive (the GOAT) by FOIA request. If you like this type of brainrotted nonsense, please tell us so we can make more of it. Full tier list is located here, along with image...

This past month, Josh Duggar's prison emails sent between his conviction in December of 2021 and his sentencing in June of 2022 were revealed to the public via FOIA request (Thank You Lily Archive). In this episode, we go through the emails sent between Joshua Duggar and his spiritual advisor, LaCount Reber. Joshua stayed with the Reber family when he was out on bail during his trial. These emails...

In this episode, we discuss the mental gymnastics Fundies perform to say that drinking alcohol is a sin, even though Jesus turned water into wine. We go into the history of where the fundie taboo around drinking came from, how a social taboo became integrated into a religious doctrine, and why this makes zero sense. In the Patreon extended edition, Sadie talks about her job working with at risk te...

Chad joins us once again to talk about OTHER bible stories about King David and his family, and what lessons fundamentalists take from them. We examine why King David is seen as such a great king despite the many failures of his rule and the mess that was his family. We discuss Absalom's rebellion, Tamar's assault, and the ??? story that is the story of Abashag. Subscribe to Leaving Eden Podcast o...

In today's episode, Sadie discusses the recent article in Vanity Fair about Hyles-Anderson College, which she attended from the fall of 2011 until the spring of 2013. While this article did a good job of explaining what makes this college so controlling, we felt that this subject would have been better served with a longer-form piece that focused more on the deeper aspects of control rather than J...