Insightful and entertaining
I attended southern baptist churches as a child, in Texas and Oklahoma. I knew that the things I was taught were harmful to my mental and emotional health, but the way it’s presented to a child is so covert that it took me listening to this podcast to realize how very insidious the messaging was. I am shocked every day, hearing Sadie tell about concepts and practices that I did grow up with in the “mainstream” baptist church, and realizing, as Gave says, that the venn diagram of our baptist upbringing is almost a circle. Undoubtedly, the experience of being raised in a cult was more traumatic and rigid than my own secular church experience, but I relate, and find myself in tears at the brainwashing techniques that did slip through my own awareness, as a child, as a very intelligent teenager, as an adult who eschews religion, and as a parent, raising my own young children without a religious belief system. Thank you for this show. I’m making my way through the episodes from the beginning, and it’s very healing for my inner child.
BKQmofo via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 05/20/23
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I really enjoy this podcast. Very interesting sect of the world I had no idea about! I listen to it in my car driving to work and feel like i’m listening to 2 of my friends talk about an interesting topic.
djdkrorovidoskrjxiswoeodoxos via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 01/20/22
I really enjoy the topics and Sadie’s unique and thoughtful perspective. I wish Gav would stop interrupting Sadie to go on weird goofy tangents. (Or to re-explain her point back to her, while missing the point entirely??) He’s a bit immature and a lot of his commentary seems performative (lots of...Read full review »
Desiree Dillon via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 04/05/22
So I absolutely love this podcast and enjoy the content and hearing about this crazy cult next door. Though I really wish Gav would stop interrupting Sadie, he will interrupt her and then when he does let her speak and she gets to say something he will then summarize her statement but come to...Read full review »
Z-FOX#🐲🐉!!!!!!!!!!!! via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 02/09/22
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