This week I have the longest interview I’ve done in one go with Binah (Bree) Mood, a woman who only just escaped from Scientology’s Sea Organization in October of 2018. We discuss her entire history with plenty of anecdotes and segues as various aspects of Scientology’s abuses come to light.
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This week I’m joined by Jonathan Streeter (former Morman) and Lloyd Evans (fomer JW) who together with me are the Three Apostates! We each scored our respective groups on a “cult danger evaluation” and in this episode we compare and contrast our scores and ideas for each. Enjoy!
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Seth Andrews joins me this week to discuss politics, religion, atheism and the big problems with the “purity testing” across social media platforms. A little Scientology is also thrown in to round out the inoffensive subject matter. Enjoy!
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In this end of the year review, I talk about what we saw happen in the world of Scientology (and without) as well as some thoughts about what this channel is and where it’s going. Enjoy!
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This week I am taking on some of the controversies surrounding free speech. Instead of arguing over what words are and aren’t acceptable or offensive, I’m going right to the core of the argument and review what free expression is as a right, what are its limits and discuss the recent de-platforming of content creators.
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This week, and coincidentally with the timing of Leah’s show on the Nation of Islam, I am covering the improbable alliance between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam. I discuss what I learned in looking into this, including the real history of the NOI, its racist nature and undeniable fact it is a destructive cult.
Sources:
“The Supreme Wisdom Lessons by Master Fard Muhammad to his Servant, the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad for the Lost-Found Nation of Islam in North America” by Master Fard Muhammad
The Voodoo Cult Among Negro Migrants in Detroit by Kidmann Doane Beynon, American Journal of Sociology, 1938
Scientology and the Nation of Islam have formed a Bizarre and Dangerous Alliance, The Federalist, 26 Nov 2018
Louis Farrakhan warns against “Satanic Jews” in Chicago speech, The Times of Israel, 5 June 2018
The Troubling Connections between Scientology and the Nation of Islam, Bethany Mandel, National Review, 2 Apr 2018
What Makes Islam So Different – The Quran’s Verses of Violence
Wallace Fard Muhammad Wikipedia page
Elijah Muhammad Wikipedia page
Nation of Islam Wikipedia page
Beliefs and theology of the Nation of Islam Wikipedia page
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This week, I do my first live interview in my new studio with Mark Horowitz, Professor of Sociology. We talk about the enormous majority of left-wing leaning academics in the “soft” sciences and how this has affected the quality and views of these sciences. Our far reaching conversation also touches on extremist thinking, social justice and evolutionary biology. Enjoy!
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This week, I tell the entire story of how I was a Scientologist and ended up in the Sea Org and what factors and events made me realize I needed to leave. I’ve told parts of this before but never the whole story. Enjoy!
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