you did a great job in this series! 😊

BRILLIANT!!! so helpful!!

So interesting "musicians at bethel." What religion are you talking about? Jehovah's Witnesses call their headquarters Bethel. It's a book publishing factory. Bethelites are the factory workers. Now it's a televangelism film studio in New York. Tell us more about your bethel.

"Growing up with all eyes on you." We took that feeling serious and put eyeballs on our documentary film poster for Witness Underground - Escaping a Cult.

I was in a shepherd type church in Derby , I think Gerald Coates was the big cheese behind that.

Brilliant content!

We aren’t Christians because we’re trying to avoid hell, just because we believe in hell. We believe in Christ and worshiping Him because we want an eternity with him and a personal relationship with him. This is a bad teaching because it includes no scripture and your ideas exclude completely the scripture. Not one scripture did you use to back up your ideas.

I have stepped away from the "church" and have struggled with loss of community,thanks so much for this

Terri Gross NPR has great interview with him March 2024

I just really enjoyed this whole conversation between the both of you!

Absolute nonsense and falsities. The only source of spiritual truth is the Word of God. There is no “deconstructing” what God clearly declares and commands. Christians are bound by His Word. If you “deconstruct” the key tenants of the faith, you are not a Christian. There is zero logical flow or basis for deconstruction. Why encourage people to turn against the faith that saved them? Why not be a source of encouragement for seeking Biblical answers and pointing back to ultimate truth - the Gospel of Christ? Repent and believe, brother. You will be held accountable for leading people astray with deplorable messages like these.

If we are going to jettison the Bible and Biblical Morality...And consider Abortion perfectly Natural...Then why not put people on the menu? And instead of donating one Organs to Science we could sell our Bodies to McDonald's or Burger King...Giving the saying "How the Sausage is made" A whole new meaning...ATHEISM IS NOT ONLY FALSE...IT IS INSANE...

Eve is a beautiful sinner, but she needs to repent and come back to The Lord. He ❤ her. But He is not mocked. Eve needs to get right with GOD right now ...

I’m so glad you touched on many nuanced points especially around the 1:50 mark regarding psychological/trauma voyeurism, this is so so prevalent and yet so little is discussed about it.

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Dude you out talk your guest.

Why are cats curious?

I thought that as well I think that's why we got the pardon through her why He has not given any other creation that's was perfect and made a mistake to our knowledge that's pardon. Not even the watchers

People say stage red is rare among women. Do you think that's true ? How many teenagers would you say are centered in red.

In fact, I would be a Christian if there was no hell. For me it's the opposite, the concept of Hell prevents me from becoming a Christian since it completely ruins my image of a loving God.

Instead of Hell. Why not purification and restoration? As in making silver and gold and removing the dross. Jesus said everyone will be salted with fire, for purification and restoring them the original design of being exactly like God who IS LOVE.

One God and Father of ALL. End of story.

The Jews can argue passionately and still come together and laugh again, because they know who they are, Christian’s don’t know who they are.

I think the church is intentional in using fear not Love. For control, it doesn’t know the Gospel. The problem is Death. Death is the enemy.

Wow I am autistic too, and I actualy started thinking about (with prompts and feedback from my specialised psychiatrist) that mabye undiagnosed ND is quit often found in high controll groups and cult-ish organisations. It provides many things lots of ND ppl need and activly look for, but it provides it in an unsave and abusive way. I am trying to write a book how elements might help in healthy ways for ppl who do decunstruct.

I only just came across you via Cults to conciousness. Your content is extremly helpfull to me!!! ❤

Hey, loved this episode! i stumbled upon it on on spotify and i’m now wondering if hannah is ok? i wanted to listen to her podcast but i see it and her instagram were deleted.

How can I get in contact with Mo? I am reading his book into the Abyss. I wanted to reach out to him.

Wow , yes.. I love this

Keith, Phil, I went to BIOLA and you’re right about Talbot! What got me about the dispensational stuff is that it could explain part but not all their speculations. When you started speaking on “well, some vengeance must be paid” my mind thought of two things, 1 what did Jesus do on the cross, and 2 think about the land owner that hired the workers throughout the day and they paid them all the same which was what was the agreed amount(Mt20 I think). It’s like the pharisees expected more as they’d been at it the longest, but they got the same as the gentiles, that had only worked an hour. Amazing, pharisees in biblical times are about the same as today’s Mr Fattypants!

Great talk!

It was a great relief to learn that God is not the creator and warden of eternal conscious torment! After learning about God's reconciliation, I learned the eschatological view of preterism. Understanding the original meaning and historical context of the "hell" and the "Lake of fire" phrases/verses was so helpful. Has anyone else found this, too? Thank you so much for this interview!

This explains so much! Cultural growth mimics individual growth. Our cultural evolution is going through this new stage of development. It explains the upheaval we see all around us. Growing pains.

I loved this so much, thank you both! I also, like Phil, have been listening to YMIW for a *long* time and I’m so happy that Val joined the podcast. This interview with her was so helpful for me-I finally understand (and can feel) embodiment now. I just finished watching this video and I honestly might start watching it for a second time right now.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zsl9qMuJ3LSoeXk.html "You're never going to find an evangelical church that's predominantly black". I'm going to give Phil the benefit of the doubt and say this was just a slip of the tongue, but this seems like an absurd assertion. If you define "evangelical" as the white-bread, middle and upper-middle class prosperity theology, then yes, it will be "slim pickings" to find an affluent, upper-middle class black church in America, but it has nothing to do with what version of Christianity is involved. You will be hard-pressed to find affluent, upper-middle class black anything because of the huge wealth disparity. This is a direct result of America's entire history, not the churches themselves or "the church" as a whole.

How do we get in contact with you Phil?

That woke nonsense virtue signaling at the beginning of the interview (colonization, racism, transphobia? 😂) was very repellant. Please refrain from that silliness in future interviews.

Thank you for this conversation. I love the title.

Really great discussion. Loved the ideas your guests were articulating.

Alice was recently given q free thought heroine award. She has been on several atheist call-in shows including being interviewed by Seth Andrews. Not even close to being canceled.

Atheist here. There are some kinds of "God talk" I continue to love, even though I abandoned my faith some 50 years ago. Ollie's "God talk" was wonderful. Loved the interview.

Thank you so much!! Talking to my family is my greatest fear. Your advice gives me a way to approach what I have been putting off and dreading. I also appreciate your empathy on how difficult this is.

Your videos on deconstruction are helping me more than any others I’ve found! Thank you!! Even just calling it “deconstructing” rather than “a faith crisis” is helping me. And then all the other info you share-so good!!

Absolutely loved this conversation. I grew up in the church but lost my faith around the age of 20. However, I've always loved good, intelligent, and provocative 'God talk'. Started listening while on my afternoon stroll. After about 15 minutes I nearly switched to another conversation. However, only a few minutes more went by and I began to enjoy. I particularly liked the story about the soldier, sword drawn, storming into a room and confronting a young pregnant girl, holding the hand of a smaller child. The warrior is thinking about stabbing, then Jesus walks into the room. The image of that scene allowed me to sum up Stephen's theology as one which always asked that old question - "What would Jesus do?" A brilliant illustration I thought. (Naturally, the world is a messy place and often bad things have to be done. For example, Christian Roman soldiers did eventually have to fight the "Just War". If I understand Stephen correctly, he does not appear to necessarily judge this. But he invites people to ask before plunging the sword in, "What would Jesus do?") Many of the theists I engage on forums are very much into Jesus being the same God as described in the OT. Naturally this leads to all kinds of problematical apologetics. Hence I was particularly drawn to Stephen's idea of Jesus showing humans what God really is like. It made sense. Much, much more sense than the apologetics I come across. Apologists really ought to be sorry for many of the arguments they produce. Enjoyed the idea of a travelling theologian. Like a travelling philosopher - go into a pub and start up conversations which take people out of their daily routines and their daily thinking. If Christians are the salt of the earth, then the meal is far, far too salty. Hence I loved the idea of Christians simply keeping their heads down and just working away in the background. Ditto for the kingdom of God being here on earth and not some esoteric meeting place up there, for all good people after they die. It becomes relevant to everyone here and now. In the US context, did politics capture Christianity or did Christians capture politics? Whatever, it's ugly. Perhaps my biggest problem is that some of the books mentioned, sound interesting, even for an old atheist like me. So damnit. Off to the bookshop. More reading to do, and I am running out of time. :)

Uncle Bob will believe Jesus. He just did not believe the one portrayed by churches that push eternal conscience torment. When he says hell, that is what he means.

Most Religions say the all the Wicked and Evil People will go to hell and burn. If that is true, then the way the K.J.V Bible reads that takes in all people. The one verse below proves that would be true from the words of Jesus himself, please read close. The next scripture #3 will prove God is kind to the evil. You can not be kind to the evil and burn them in a hell. The 2 scripture below should tell you 2 things. Please read and think about. #1: Mark 10: 18 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is (NONE) good but one, that is, God. NOW ASK your smart phone what the opposite of good is, and it will tell you! BAD, WICKED. Now if you don't want to believe Google, then you might want to ask Webster as he has been around for some time now, he even throws in evil. So Just where does that leave ALL MANKIND?= BAD, WICKED and EVIL. K.J.V Bible says Jesus was. # 2) 1 Peter 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: #2 should tell you just who Jesus was. If He was without sin and neither was guile found in his mouth: DID THAT MAKE HIM GOOD OR BAD AND WICKED? OR JUST MAYBE HE WAS GOD HIMSELF, WHO CAME TO LIVE HIS LIFE IN THE FLESH OF MANKIND HERE ON EARTH, NOT AS GOD BUT AS A MAN, AND GIVE HIS LIFE FOR ALL CREATION. #3 YOU CAN NOT BE KIND TO THE UNTHANKFUL AND TO THE EVIL AND HAVE THEM BURN AND Torture them in hell. #3 LUKE 6 35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. 36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful Definition of merciful = Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. Opposite of merciless. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious.

Kate, are you also aware of Michael Hutchison's "Megabrain" & "Megabrain Power"? Neither Religion or Philosophy overlook anything, as they are not people, you're personifying, it might be that certain representatives of those disciplines overlook areas, but not the subjects themselves. I've used the term Protopsychology, as there existed psychotechnologies before Janet, Pavlov, Wundt & James, that have been marginalised, mainly in Religions especially but not exclusively Eastern & Philosophy, with people such as Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, the Neo-Platonists, Locke, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Nietzsche, the German Idealists, Kierkegaard etc For traumas look up NLP's Trauma Resolution Pattern. Did you know there are at least three systems that image acupuncture points, & I won't mention the number of Biofield & Chakra electronic detectors out there. Experienced meditators phase lock their brain waves with the first peak of the several peaks of the Schumann resonance at 7.8htz, one could call this Transcendental Physicalism. The frequencies of the peaks are roughly double the number of petals on the chakras. There's a new technology out there, look up "NeRF Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes" Interactive 3D for almost everything will soon be available. I come up with the idea of using Shepard tones combined with cycled panning to hopefully give an experience of going ever inwards or outwards depending on whether ascending or descending tones are used & whether the panning is inwards or outwards. Consciousness expansion techniques are easier than meditation, look up The Wholeness Process. BraIn waves aren't just located in the Brain, but all over the whole body. Regarding smell, the old idea was that a molecules fitted a receptor with a similar shape known as the lock & key theory, later it has been found most aromatic molecules are ring shaped which allows for greater oscillation, which emits radio waves. There's no need to insert electrodes into the brain, Patrick Flanagan invented the Neurophone which could input without invasion, he also invented a chakra detector.

Excellent vid. For me I look at it as a personal journey of analyzing and bringing down some or all of the building blocks of 'faith'. And because things can't exist in a vacuum, we might find those building blocks could be reused to a new model. Like you said there is no limit. For me personally, I found I was acutely aware of that vacuum. Frankly, it was scary facing that. So I was pretty cautious initially 'bringing down the house'. It was only after befriending someone for support, and discovering many things outside the confines of Christianity that I made the move. I didn't find any use for the old building blocks. 40yrs later, those blocks are still around, and I find that maybe a few could be useful. While I experienced complete freedom, I didn't feel any urges to proselytize anyone. I felt I owed them the respect of their beliefs. Anyway thanks for the upload.

I watched this series after it was recommended by Tim Mills after your interview with him. Your views and understanding is something really new. As a deconstructed person, I found this highly palatable. It really made a huge amount of sense. However, I think for the majority of Christians, and orthodox jews, this wouldn't work. I just feel they are stuck in dogma. I'll be exploring your other videos. Big thanks for the upload.

This is so disturbing 😳