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Losing Our Religion

A former megachurch pastor leaves religion behind to rid himself of the exclusivity created by its dogmas in order to open himself up to learn from the lives, stories, and experiences of everyone else. To prove we are more alike than we think and we can all get along no matter what we believe. Topics range via guest's experiences growing up in religious homes, where Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Secularism, Judaism, Hinduism, Tao, Heathenism, Satanism, Wicca and all forms of dogmas and ideologies programmed into the mind of a child. What happens when that child becomes an adult? What good things do they hold onto? What things do they lose? Where are they now, and in what ways are they finding the peace that we all desire, with or apart from the religions they were raised with? Losing Our Religion is a wild ride with a community of diverse humans each seeking their desired life away from dogma and exclusivity.
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Now displaying: December, 2015

Losing Our Religion is a hilarious and candid look at religion and culture, with former pastor, now commune living lover of sinners, Zac Gandara.  As he has drinks with former religious freaks, and others he used to shun.  Gays, Anarchists, Queers, Atheists, Transsexuals, Punk Rockers, and the rest of us that are considered rejects on this island of misfit toys.

Dec 30, 2015

This is part two of our time with Chad discussing fundamentalism and Chad being an atheist. Fundamentalism is something that frustrates us both and is not solely limited to religion. You can be a fundamentalist about anything.

Fundamentalist:
relating to or advocating strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline

Maybe this isn’t so much an episode about atheism as it is a hope that we could end extremism. Although we discuss and sometimes debate the difference between creationism and Darwinism, we find ourselves very near one another in the understanding of these things.

In an information age, when we have abundant access to information we often can find it easier with this information to become fundamentalists. Not to mention Star Wars Nerds!

It's amazing how in the end we understand each other and begin seeing closer to eye to eye on our humanity and understanding.

 

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Dec 23, 2015

Happy Holidays Losers!!!!

Welcome to this year's Christmas Hanukkah Kwanzaa Krampusnacht Krampus Nothingness Every Holiday Special!

Jen and I sit down to discuss our holidays past, present, and future. We know that the holiday season isn't great for everyone, and typically it's been difficult for us as well. But we try to make it fun with Holiday Movie Music fun and games. As well as we continue our tradition of doing Holiday Lottery Scratchers in honor of Jen's late mom.

Hope you enjoy this episode and have as much fun or more as we did.


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Dec 16, 2015

We have had other atheist on the show before, but none like Chad. Chad would be the equivalent of me as a believer, except he’s atheist-agnostic. What I mean by equivalent is that he has spent time researching what he owns. He holds it as truth. After the recording; Chad and I had, even more, discussion. He asked me why I still believe despite the failure of the church and scientific proof. My only answer..."It's the only thing that gives me hope, that one day, our world could be unified, in love with one another, and different."

Every time Chad and I see each other we chat and chat and chat about stuff. He’s a smart man, well read, and has an amazing knack to remember all he’s learned and be able to talk about it. I'm grateful for this time with Chad and looking forward to even more.

 

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Dec 9, 2015

"Sometimes the answer to prayer is us." - Billy Power

This episode is a battle of the sexy voices. Never before have we recorded an episode in the morning, but since Billy is in New York, we had to record early. 6:30 am my time, 9:30 am his time.

We chat about organizational religion and corporate culture. His upbringing, his military experience, some great life lessons, and his music career.

Billy was a part of running Tooth & Nail Records for about ten years. He and I agree the existing institutional church model in America isn't working. But what's the alternative? He attends Hillsong NYC at the request of his wife and has some decent things to say about it.

When he took a trip to Kenya, it changed his life. Getting out of our comfort zones and embracing life outside of ourselves will often do that.

 

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Dec 2, 2015

“We’re so rarely pulled out of the church - it’s all of us who leave and have such specific informed convictions. Church is like a pressure cooker - you either end up buried under the weight of it to the point that you never get out, or the pressure builds up so much that you just get shot out the other side - right into some other form of thinking.”
- Dash López

“I am NEVER, as much as I can control, going to allow any outcome of my life to be determined by fear ever again.”
- Dash López

This is a fascinating episode. No guest has shared more deeply and transparently what the mega-church experience was like at Mars Hill and the Acts 29 Church Network than Dash. Not only was he a valued staff member there, he learned to play the game. His experience with Redemption Group therapy seeking to make him straight left him just as he is, gay, except with religious scars.

I once had a very healing experience with Redemption Group, which just goes to show us that systems and processes are not one size fit all.

Dash is a self-proclaimed ultimate Queer-do, satanic occultist, and is a great conversationalist and gives great hugs. We have so much fun together in this episode laughing and learning about one another.

 

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