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Surviving Fundamentalism
by Richie X
Surviving Fundamentalism is Black Liberation Podcast about a journey through the Black Christian faith to mental decolonization and spiritual deconstruction. On this show, I freely discuss my very long, personal journey with leaving Islam, converting to Christianity, becoming a minister/teacher/evangelist, joining a cult, denouncing the cult, and continuing the never-ending work of radical self-love and liberation. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/survivingfundamentalism/support
Episodes
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Just That Kind of Friend! A Conversation on Love, Loneliness, Friendship, and Autism
In 1999, I heard the legendary gospel queen, Vickie Winans say, "...Good God, a friend when you're friendless" in her rendition of "Long As I Got King Jesus", and I have come to accept that this is the god that I met on the floor of my bedroom who was a friend to this friendless, queer kid when…
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Oh Wretched Man That I Am... The Journey to Redefining Morality
In this week's episode, we discuss the fact that Christian morality is an oxymoron based in illogical fallacies about the pertinence of Jewish laws according to Paul of Tarsus. I do not believe in Christian morality and in fact believe that Christians are historically less moral, because they…
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Unholy Mess: Where God and Neurodivergence Meet (Part Two)
This week, I sit down with my friend DL Mayfield for an in-depth conversation about where our neurodivergence begins and where faith in the evangelical church/fundamentalist god ends. Also included in this episode is a brief discussion about Sam Smith's Grammy performance, Christians who felt…
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We Define Holy Differently: The Plight of Black Women & Femmes
In this season three opener, I discuss Joel Leon's tweet regarding his mother and her will to make ends meet for her children, which he defines as "HOLY". During the episode, we deconstruct together what many of us in fundamentalism have been taught about the terms "holy" and "holiness" and how...
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Free At Last: My First Time Celebrating Christmas!
I didn't grow up celebrating Christmas, and I've had enough experiences over the years that ruined it for me. I was also in a cult that was completely anti-Christmas, and even went as far as to call it a devil's holiday and say that the "Christmas Spirit" is a spirit from Satan sent to make…
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You Don't Have Soul Ties... You Have Attachment Issues!
You don't have Soul Ties; you have attachment and abandonment issues! The Christian church lied to you about your body not belonging to you, because it benefits from you not having Bodily Autonomy. In this episode, I discuss soul ties, the history of women as property in the bible and American...
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Somehow, We Made It Over
In this episode, we're talking about the rise of the "worship" movement within the 21st-century church, the rise of Blue Eyed Gospel, and the role it played in bleaching the Black worship experience while limiting the traditional African parts of our worship. We're talking about how history…
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No Church In The Wild (Part 2)
In this episode, we're having the hard, tough conversation about the condition of the Black church throughout history and how we got to where we are now. We are examining ourselves and the condition of our hearts--how so many people are lost in the sauce of every phobia without even realizing…
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No Church In The Wild
This episode discusses the intersection between Kanye and the evangelical church. How he used the tax-exempt status of his "Sunday Service" style gatherings to get himself out of debt and rebuild his brand, while essentially washing in white American Christian supremacy and using Black gospel...
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Do Black Lives Matter To God? Part 2
In this episode, I wanted to dive further into this topic, because the question "Does Black Lives Matter to God?" had simply never crossed my mind. I always separated my religion from my Blackness, my socialist fight, my queerness, and my disabilities. I viewed them all as things that couldn't be...
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Do Black Lives Matter To God?
Whew! This one gets heavy in several spots. In this episode, I discuss the intersections of poverty, educational racism, ableism, homophobia, and much more. We are also getting deep into the value of human life as it pertains to the god of the bible, especially Black lives. Tune in. Tap In. Visit...
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Skisms, Isms, and Everything In Between: Biblical Contradictions
In this episode, I speak about reading the bible like a book and not as a religious text so that you can see the many contradictions and how this can strengthen one's faith and NOT kill it. The key to this is accepting that the Judeo-Christian text is, in fact, not inerrant and should not be…
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Maybe Love Expressed Is The True Essence of God! Maybe Not. Who Knows?
This episode is part 2 of my episode about God being a monster. After I thought about it, I realized that the version of God built and handed to me in fundamentalism wasn't the end all be all when it comes to all things god. Maybe none of us know what the FK we are talking about is and are just...
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The God I Came To Know Was Nothing Short Of A Monster
This week, I'm dealing with springboarding off a meme I saw, which read, "You will never look into the eyes of someone that god does not love." Of course, my immediate reaction was that this god I came to know did not love me--he shamed and abused me through the fundamentalist Christian church—so...
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It's A Woman's World! The Men Just F*ck It Up
This week, we are having a very important conversation about what the church has taught us about women, and how we can overcome the sexist, misogynistic culture that so many of us have been raised in. The church as an institution must be challenged to decolonize and deconstruct every aspect of…
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Holiness Is Horizontal NOT Vertical
This week, we’re diving into some scriptures and asking some questions about the ways we define holiness and whether it is in alignment with the love we know we should all be experiencing.
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2 Dykes & A Flaming Queen: A Faith Journey Through Queerness to Radical Self-Love
This week on Surviving Fundamentalism, we lock in with special guests Anna Dawahare and April Little from Reclaiming The Garden Podcast for a more in-depth discussion about the ways we each fought to reconstruct the ways we saw ourselves in the light of God's true love that we have had to realize...
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The Evangelical Church Is Rebranding For A Rebuild. Watch & See
Sorry it's been so long, but I'm back with a new show about how the Christian Evangelical church is rebranding for a rebuild. There is a revival brewing, and they're currently preparing for a whole new bunch of scared folks to come in so that they can rebuild their dying churches. Here's why I...
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Fundies Gone Wild: How The Y8 Nationalist Agenda Hides Itself Behind The Cross
This episode is all about the y8 supremacist male patriarchy is well aware of what it is doing--they have planned and orchestrated this for decades and finally they have been successful and at least overturning Roe v. Wade. This is not, nor has it ever been an issue of "saving innocent unborn"…
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Come Sunday, The Myth of Hell, and The Gospel of Inclusion (Part One)
THis episode is all about losing the fear of hell, Carlton Pearson, and the ways the church has used the doctrine of hell to control and manipulate.
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I Can't Go Backwards (Neurodivergence & The Church-Part 2)
This week, I discuss whether or not my diagnoses are fuel to relight my pentecostal fire. I explore why it's difficult to exist as the same person in many of the same spaces, with so much new information about myself and the world. I have deconstructed my fundamentalist, literalist belief system...
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Religion Aint Logical (A Look At Neurodivergence & Fundamentalism)
This week, I give my normal weekly update, while providing a look into what it was like being neurodivergent in the fundamentalist church and what it's like to not understand nuances and colloquialisms. That shit is literal torment for neurodivergent people. That's not even to mention the noise…
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Let Them Rock Your World & Change Your Life (HT Series Part3)
Chiiiiillllleeeee, this week on SF, we discuss the importance of context, history, and perspective when reading the Judeo-Christian text, and how women were viewed as incubators for whom consent, and respect did not matter. However, what did matter was where the men of that tribe put their seed…
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Your Sexuality Is Yours...To Have & To Hold Til Death Do You Part (HT Series Pt2)
Marriage is not the only institution that can contain the union of any two consenting adults. In this episode, we talk about making awareness, autonomy, and consent the starting point for all things sexuality, which, in turn, serves to foster a healthy image of oneself through sexual freedom and...
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It's Yo Body Baby...Rethinking Autonomy, Love, Sex, & Sexuality (Heaux Tales Series Pt1)
This episode is all about how your body is yours. You have full authority and autonomy over your body, not the church. We discuss the ways in which our autonomy is taken from us, with the church believing it has full power and control of us because it believes itself to be a vessel of God. But…
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Sex, Shame, Angst, and The Ego// Replay
This week, we discuss the emotionally manipulative ways in which shame is utilized within fundamentalist Christianity and how it affected me in particular.
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Purity's False Promises, Heaux Tales, and Sweet Surrender (A New Earth-Series Finale)
On this week's episode, we discuss the power that an inner yes has to transition you from a moment of discord or dysfunction into a moment of peace. When you bring an inner yes to whatever situation that is happening in the present moment, that very thing becomes a doorway into the formless, and...
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Holy Survival, Black Women, The Color Purple, & the Intersection of It All
"I think It Pisses God Off When You Walk Past the Color Purple & Don't Acknowledge It!"- Shug Avery (The Color Purple) In this week's episode, we discuss the importance of redefining the term "Holy" with the goal to include the marginalized people who make up all of the intersections, including...
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You Don’t Even Know What Love Is (ANE Series Pt 6)
“Many of us were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected, and were taught to believe we were loved. . . LOVE is a mixture of ingredients: care, affections, recognition, respect, commitment, trust, as well as honest open communication"- bell hooks This week, I discuss...
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Black, Queer, Gifted, & Sick of The Church (featuring Erick Louis)
On this weeks episode of Surviving Fundamentalism, we link up with our friend Erick Louis for an in-depth conversation on the ways white supremacy, misogynoir, homophobia, and ableism have corrupted the Black church, which we believe has come to serve as nothing more than escapism rather than an...
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Beyond The Ego...Into the Deeper Self (ANE Series Part 5)
“The moment you become aware of the ego in yourself, that emerging awareness is who you are beyond ego, the deeper ‘I.’“ This week, we are discussing the power of being present in the moment. I hope you all enjoy. Outro: I Thank You (Live) by Professor Craig Hayes and The United Voices (Album…
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Everything's Gonna Be Alright (ANE Series Part 4)
"If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.“ This week, we discuss how the fire of suffering becomes the light of consciousness. It's always a good time, but this time there is less crying. Thank you for listening. Song Credit: Faith to Believe by Bishop Andrew Merrit (Album: Live…
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Seeking Is The Antithesis Of Happiness (ANE Series Part 3)
In this week's episode, we discuss happiness and unhappiness, and how important it is to step out of the pollution of negative thoughts and stories we've told ourselves. The key to being happy is understanding that life is not about what is happening as much as it is about how you are being--in…
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The Call Is Always Coming From Inside The House-ANE Series Part 2
“To do whatever is required of you in any situation without it becoming a role that you identify with is an essential lesson in the art of living that each one of us is here to learn.“ This episode is about the ways in which we so closely interlock our "selves" with identities that cause to be...
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Sex, Shame, Angst, and The Ego (ANE Series Part One)
This week, we discuss the emotionally manipulative ways in which shame is utilized within fundamentalist Christianity and how it affected me in particular. We also begin our new series on Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth". Hope you enjoy it.
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Their Jesus IS NOT Our Jesus!
On this show, I update you all on what's been going on with me, and what the girls have realized about White Evangelicalism... I been warning yall though. I hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening.
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Oh Wretched Man… Paul’s Guide To Low Self Esteem
Paul was an uptight, legalistic twerp who was obsessed with the idea of spiritual perfection, which he realized could never come. The Christian way literally gave him a freedom that he never felt but he still found himself struggling with his own human lusts. We deal with that slightly.
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Revival Will Not Save Us, but Redefining Faith Can
The church has had many revivals, but very little reformation. Reformation begins with a deep awareness of our humanness, which awakens our need for a wholeness that is only found in love. Once we have redefined the foundation of our negative beliefs about god and self, we can begin the journey…
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Seeing God IS Seeing You
This week, I focus on the part of my journey where realized that it was imperative that I redefine both God and my Faith in order to realign my vision of self with the Spirit of Divine energy and love--a long journey, which requires time, patience, truth, and introspectiveness. I hope this…
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You Can't Save The Soul Of The One You Were Taught To Hate!
How can one save the soul of someone they have been indoctrinated to hate? Many are literally taught weekly, in the fundamentalist church, that those who do not abide by the literal interpretation of the Judeo-Christian text, as per their liking, will burn in hell for all eternity. The…
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Biblical Literalism: A Y8 Supremacists Wet Dream
"Religion is the opiate of the masses; it is the sigh of the oppressed."- Karl Marx. The Evangelical Christian church and the US Government have the same goals, and they protect the same interests--that of the agenda of white male supremacist, capitalist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic...
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It's A Damn Cult: The Journey to Self Love and Liberty
It was love that lifted us, whether from us to us or some other source gave us strength. We got out, and we're grateful forevermore to know freedom. In this third part of our Biblical Literalism series, I discuss the ahistorical John The Baptist character, which is most likely a part of the NT...
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Biblical Literalism: Strange Fruit and Original Sin
On this episode of Surviving Fundamentalism, we discuss the concept of hell and original sin. We also denounce the ideology that Humankind is inherently bad, evil, or fallen--forever in debt to Jesus as an eternal victim of our "sins". We all have the potential to be good...to be cultivated and...
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Biblical Literalism: Prostitutes, Virgin Births, and Pentecostal Preaching
In part one of the Biblical Literalism series, we discuss the importance of examining the Judeo-Christian text with Jewish eyes. We search together for answers surrounding the true meaning of Matthew's ahistorical genealogy; we discuss the reason he decides to add the virgin birth to his…
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From The Mosque to The Pastor's Choir
In this inaugural episode of Surviving Fundamentalism, I go back to being a little bright-eyed, neurodivergent kid who found solace in music and safety in the community that the southern baptist church offered. The vibrations, the power of the hymns, the baptist fits, the washboards, drums, the...
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Introducing Surviving Fundamentalism
Hey, My People! Surviving Fundamentalism is a show where I will freely discuss my very long, personal journey with leaving Islam, converting to Christianity, becoming a minister/teacher/evangelist, joining a cult, denouncing the cult, continuing the never ending work of decolonizing my mind and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Surviving Fundamentalism is Black Liberation Podcast about a journey through the Black Christian faith to mental decolonization and spiritual deconstruction. On this show, I freely discuss my very long, personal journey with leaving Islam, converting to Christianity, becoming a minister/teacher/evangelist, joining a cult, denouncing the cult, and continuing the never-ending work of radical self-love and liberation. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/survivingfundamentalism/support
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