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Flawed Theology

Flawed Theology

A podcast about the logical, ethical, and emotional flaws in Christianity for Exvangelicals, current believers, and anyone in between.

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01:11:58

S3E11_The One with the Real Boy (and His Family)

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2024/11/24

In this episode, Phil and Susie catch up and discuss the US election results and what went wrong for Democrats, how religious beliefs are correlated with being susceptible to disinformation, Project 2025, how we both felt upon learning the results, and how we move forward over the next 4 years. The main part of the episode is Susie's conversation with our favorite expert on everything, Lars and his family. She got the chance to sit down with them at her home over the summer on their way back from

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S3E10 The One That's Been A Long Time Coming

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2024/11/03

After an excessively long break, Phil and Suzie return for a little catch up chat. We talk about our summer breaks, where we both are now in our journeys away from faith and what the future might look like as we continue to move forward and what it means for the podcast and our lives in general. The episode concludes with some random podcast recommendation and a little discussion about religious trauma. We are looking forward to getting back into the groove as we wrap up the year and Season 3

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01:03:25

S3E9: The One with Laura

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2024/06/09

In this episode, Phil and Susie talk with Laura, a nurse, originally from WV who now lives in CA with her husband, 3 cats and a special needs stepson. She has taken a circuitous journey from Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, and Southern Baptist to eventual agnostic, humanistic atheism. She has a Bachelor’s in Marketing from Johnson & Wales University in Providence and did advertising stuff for a few years. She switched gears after her mom’s death and went to nursing school. She has

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01:21:09

S3E8 The One with the False Prophets

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2024/05/26

In this episode, Phil and Susie explore the topic of prophecy. We discuss what prophecy is, what criteria something needs to meet in order to be considered "fulfilled" prophecy, examples of "fulfilled" prophecy from the bible and determining if they meet the criteria, modern false prophets, and how the gift of prophecy has changed over the centuries. Be warned, there is a lot of bible in this episode and we compare the biblical text to historical data to help us determine if the bible really does

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01:09:08

S3E7 The One with Diane

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2024/05/12

In this episode, airing on Mother's Day (which we didn't realize at the time of recording), Phil and Suzie chat with Diane, who is a long-time Virginia resident, a mom to a brilliant nearly-25-year-old, and completely owned by a big, goofy black lab and two cats – one perfect angel and one complete ass. She adores them all. She also loves to swim, write, and travel, and she’s fascinated by architecture, especially old churches. Some have said that’s God reaching out to her, but that just makes her

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01:00:55

S3E6: The One with Sarah

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2024/04/28

In this episode, Phil and Suzie talk with Sarah Miller Mott, a former preacher/leader under the Foursquare Denomination. She is a published author of poetry and working on getting her novels that she has written over the years published. She tells us all about her very interesting story, growing up Lutheran in North Dakota, how she deconstructed, became an atheist, and then went back to Xtianity in a whole new way, and then after being misled and manipulated by the church, deconstructed and

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01:31:43

S3E5: The One with Ex-Pastor Darante'

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2024/04/14

In this episode, Phil and Suzie talk with Darante' Lamar in an incredible, wide-ranging, and passionate discussion about his faith background, his life in ministry, what lead to his deconversion, and the impact of faith and the journey away from faith on him as an Black man and the black community. Bio: Darante’ LaMar's journey from serving as a leader in both charismatic megachurches and hyper spiritual storefront churches, to embracing a life of secularism and reason, offers a unique

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01:09:42

S3E4: The One Where Christians Love Dictators

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2024/03/31

In this episode, Phil and Susie discuss the correlation between religious ideology and the ideologies of authoritarianism. This was suggested to us as a It’s a Feature, not a Bug” idea, but we decided to expand it to a full episode topic, because there’s a lot of interesting things to talk about! Thanks to one of our listeners who suggested the topic.Data Nuggets Segment: Is there intelligent life on other planets? Opinions of the religious and

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01:00:21

S3E3: The One with Helen

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2024/03/17

In this episode, Phil and Suzie talk with Helen Greene, Ambassador and Fundraising Coordinator for Recovering from Religion. In this wide-ranging conversation, Helen talks with us about her interesting journey away from faith from her Catholic upbringing, discovery of paganism, and eventual deconstruction to skepticism and atheism. Helen comes from a diverse background of beliefs. Raised Roman Catholic, then rejecting the church to move into paganism, she was a pagan high priestess for 10 years

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08:32

Flawed Theology in Real Life: Did God Create Evil

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2024/03/10

In our first standalone Flawed Theology in Real Life segment, Phil and Susie analyze a clip where the concept of God creating evil is compared to the realities of cold and darkness. See if you think this theology is flawed and why? Source Material: https://www.facebook.com/reel/3477048449227507

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01:00:28

S3E2: The One with the Deconstruction Myths

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2024/03/03

As deconstruction and deconversion are becoming more prevalent in our world, the institutions of Xtianity are flailing to craft a response that will attempt to stem the tide of people leaving the faith, the church, and god himself. The “explanations” of why people are leaving, of course, they are not based in reality or facts, because most have never spoken with anyone who’s actually left to find out their real reasons. In this episode, Phil and Suzie debunk many of these common “myths” that the

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05:56

S3E1- BONUS Material | Cat Theology

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2024/02/24

In this bonus segment from episode 1, Phil and Susie talk about her cat, a fatal illness, and how it all relates to flawed theology. Enjoy!

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01:09:06

S3E1: Season 3 Premiere | The One with Apostacie

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2024/02/18

We are back for Season 3 and we are excited to be here! In this premiere episode, Phil and Susie catch on things since we took a break for the holidays and talk about what's to come in Season 3! We will introduce two new segments for this season, "Data Nuggets" and "It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature!"Data Nuggets Link: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226371734/religious-nones-are-now-the-largest-single-group-in-the-u-s It's not a bug, it's a feature

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01:26:04

S2E20: The One With All The Questions (Season 2 Finale)

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2023/11/19

In this episode, Phil and Susie wrap up the season with another Ask Us Anything session. We are excited to have a guest cohost, Arline from the Graceful Atheist Podcast!! We really had a blast with Arline and are so honored that she spent some time with us. Her insights and answers to your questions are just fantastic!! We received a lot of great questions, which are listed below with timestamps: 8:40: Can you help me understand what the apologists think about verses such as “Happy is the one who

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01:12:36

S2E19 The One with No Soul

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2023/11/05

In this episode, we will discuss the idea of “the soul” and how it relates to the afterlife. Is there evidence for the existence of the soul? If the soul doesn’t exist, then what does this mean for the idea of the “afterlife”. Follow this thread further to make the point that basing one’s life on the potential eternality of our existence after death is flawed and how and why to make the most of this life, if it’s truly the only one we have. Show Notes and

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01:03:15

S2E18 The One with the Real Jesus

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2023/10/22

In this episode, Phil and Susie attempt to tackle a really broad subject, the historical Jesus. We want to be clear that we are not biblical scholars and that there is no way in the course of this episode that we are going to provide definitive answers to the questions we will be asking today. Biblical scholars have dedicated their whole lives to this topic and we hope to spark your interest in the topic, just as we have been fascinated by it. We are going to try to address 3 main questions about

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01:04:02

S2E17: The One with Caitlin

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2023/10/08

In this episode, Phil and Susie talk with Caitlin, owner of Atheist Aesthetic. Caitlin is from Texas and she shares a lot of wisdom about her journey away from faith, her thoughts on being an "angry atheist" and how she moved forward from that stage to being happy, fulfilled, and confident in who she is and how she can live a good and moral life without the overwatch of a deity. She is passionate about many non-profit organizations and she shares a ton of good resources for anyone on a path of

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S2E16 The One from the Mile High Club

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2023/09/24

In this episode, Phil and Susie talk with Todd "YoyoFox" Rollenhagen. Phil met Todd through the yoyo community and discovered that he was an exBaptist agnostic with a big heart and some interesting life experiences. Todd tells his story of how and why he left church, doesn't believe in a god, but still remains spiritual and open to other experiences. He also has some thoughts about the church and how it's causing damage to humanity. We hope you enjoy this wide ranging conversation. Please

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01:00:11

S2E15: The One with the Three Chords

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2023/09/10

In this episode, Phil and Susie "dig" into the power of music. Harlan Howard in the 50’s used the phrase “3 chords and the truth” to describe his genre of country music and many other artists have used this phrase and allowed it to be their philosophy of songwriting. This phrase is funny because most worship songs are 3 chords and purports to be truth, but what is the truth that is actually being conveyed? How does music actually work to affect our emotions and how is this exploited in

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01:25:00

S2E14 The One with the Roundtable

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2023/07/16

One of the most challenging aspects of deconversion for many of us was the decision to reveal our leaving the faith to our family and close friends and making it public, etc. Since many of us come from Xtian households and have still believing parents, there can be some serious anxiety around the decision to tell our parents that we can’t believe what they brought us up to believe. We want to discuss the why and how of these difficult conversations and hopefully provide some semblance of

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