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Guest: Dr. Marlene Winell , author of \u201cLeaving the Fold,\u201d and founder of journeyfree.org.\xa0 Marlene was the daughter of Christian missionaries in China with the Assemblies of God.\xa0 She left Christianity later in life due to the sexism, the notion of original sin, the dichotomy of saved and damned, and the broken promises within scripture. \xa0She now counsels people and leads retreats for those damaged by religion.\xa0 She calls it Religious Trauma Syndrome or RTS.\xa0\xa0

Leaving one's religion can be\xa0a difficult, painful and lonely pilgrimage, but the payoffs are great.\xa0\xa0As Marlene writes in her book, \u201c\u2026there was no turning back. The mental and emotional doors to the future had been opened. The honesty and gut-level confrontation with my humanness - the good, the bad, and the ugly - was delicious.\u201d\xa0\xa0

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\n"Towering Mountain of Ignorance" introduction by Hank Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3v3S82TuxU\n"Never Know" by Jack Johnson\n\u201cFix You\u201d by Coldplay\n\xa0\nWe discussed: \nReligious Trauma Syndrome \nChristian Fundementalism \nThe Jesus Movement \nCalvary Chapel \nThe perpetual urgency of the return of Christ \n(aka Bad Prom Date) \nThe pain of leaving religion is correlated to the degree in which one was invested in it \nShattered Assumption Theory \nWalt Whitman \u2013 Song of Myself \nQuote from Charles Eliot Norton: \u201cOne may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion\u2026but the new irreligion is the humaner, honester, and simpler thing, and a affords a better theory of life and a more solid basis for morality.\u201d\xa0 \n8 Logical Fallacies That Fuel Anti-Science Sentiments\nexchristian.net\njourneyfree.org\n\xa0\nextra: \nMarlene\u2019s open letter to Sarah Palin 2008\n