"The Kid We Spanked the Most" | Surviving the Abusive World of IBLP (ft. Chad Harris)

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[@thecultchronicles]

Yay!!!! The BOYS are together!!! Omg! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@PreacherBoys]

😎😎😎

[@4mamamel]

We question because we want JUSTICE!! We are the ones who fight for the underdogs, we care, and in OUR GOD GIVEN MAKE UP, we can feel, see, etc when things are not right!!!! You two young men are incredible people!! I am so proud of you!!! Thank you for fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves!!!

[@aaronroberts5102]

Wow! Can't believe I finally found people with a similar background to me! Thanks guys for sharing your stories. Ex IFB ,by way of People's Baptist Church in Mansfield Ohio. CW Fisk, associate at First Baptist of Hammond was pastor. CW Fisk split the church because he was sleeping with a lady from another church while his wife lie suffering with cancer. They married and she wanted $$$$$ home improvements, etc.....life went on. Thanks again. I have stories 😂

[@thebluefrog951]

Whoa, I left the church CW was attending just last year. We were in the IFB for 2.5 years and it was crazy. We started putting two and two together a year before we left. I would interested to hear your stories in order to try and finish painting the hyles/Fisk picture

[@HellsFurby]

I’m so glad to hear more from him. His story from the docuseries stuck with me, as did others, but I’m happy to see this and get to hear from him again 😊 great episode as usual thank you both ❤

[@Schu0086]

Eric, you have got to see Marjoe! I am always recommending this movie to people in the deconstruction space. You’ll hear a baby doing preacher voice. He was trained by his abusive parents to be a child preacher and they have recordings of a 4 year old doing a wedding ceremony, etc. He trains the crew how to interact with the church members and tells them what to expect from the preachers. He talks about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. It’s an incredible documentary, one of the first of its kind, it’s right up your alley.

[@berkeleythompson]

Eric, Abeka was excellent in English fundamentals. Other than that, all I got out of the education was how to balance my checkbook. My real education started in my late 20s when I tried to argue young earth creationism with an actual scientist. I discovered an entire world that had been hidden from me. Needless to say I felt cheated. Thankfully, I have left all that behind while still being able to maintain my faith. I never bought into the IFB even though I was raised in it. I think that helped me to discern between what the scriptures actually say compared to what I was told they said. I never stopped questioning and if it was illogical to me I didn’t believe it. Not that it didn’t affect me negatively. It took me 4 years of therapy to work through my upbringing and deal with my unspoken belief system. And there are generations of people going through the same thing. Love what you do and the light you bring to this incredible darkness. If there is a negative it is the fact that fundamentalism has completely destroyed your faith; but, hey, it’s your journey. Please don’t stop.

[@savedbyGrace1234]

Not only major horrific physical abuse but psychological torture

[@kkietzerow]

Being raised fundamentalist Baptist has been so negative in my life. My counselor asked me to think about how my background and my parents affect my adult life. My first thought was not knowing how to make true friends. I am learning to say no. Long ways to go.

[@kathryn653]

I love this episode! I feel seen. The main church we went to when I was a kid was SBC, but the homeschool group that met at another church was entirely led by IBLP members. Our own church had staff members who went to IFB seminary and/or had previously served at IFB churches. Our lead pastor preached the umbrella diagram from the pulpit. My mom absolutely denies any involvement in anything "fundamentalist," even though she was in this environment every time the doors opened. She even attended summer state wide conferences every year, and she would borrow tons of cassette tapes of conferences she couldn't attend in person. She thought Micheal and Debbie Pearl were the best parenting experts of all time. My mom wouldn't allow star wars because of the force. Harry potter was obviously a no no. She even tried to take the chronicles of Narnia from me because her friend freaked out that she let me read a book with a witch in it. I am the kid my family who left. I am the one who was not broken. After years of therapy and healing, I can say that I have grieved the loss of who I wish my parents were, but I'm not upset that I don't have a relationship with them now. I have my kids to protect. This ideology is so dangerous. I don't want to see it disappear quietly. I want to see it dismantled.

[@kdholden]

Love how you guys geeked out at the end

[@PreacherBoys]

Me too!!! 🤓🤓🤓

[@KB13-hc6kt]

Hitting a small child shows might is right,So the child hits siblings to get own way. Breaking a childs will is a disgraceful loss of an adults self-control. Im glad ,in a way, we can come forward now, but also we can try to raise the next generation in love and understanding,i hope.

[@BramptonAnglican]

Thank you for this great interview

[@druidgurl]

This is the best episode ever. PLEASE DO an episode on theology and Star Trek!!!

[@kimalonzo3363]

Marjo was on a Phil Donahue episode. My mom was there and asked him a question.

[@susangraff259]

I'd like to see you do an episode of " the transformed wife", lori Alexander. She teaches women submission to their husband, don't work outside the home, she doesn't even think women should vote!

[@ashlieleavelle]

She is a Michael Pearl disciple. She is ridiculous.....even for most Christian women who love the Lord. She even teaches that widows with young children are not to work outside of the home. She acts like a woman working is equal to murder. A video on her would be awesome.

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

most siblings play fight/wrestle with each other growing up weather they are spanked by parents or not. my parents didn't spank myself and younger brother because both had grown up in strict discipline households though my mums was a bit more strict due to grandpa being a Boston police detective and later a detective sergeant who used to use his gun belt to discipline her and her older brother when they got in trouble

[@robasiansensation3118]

HUGE firefly fan! We should hang :) Great interview, Eric.

[@PreacherBoys]

Thank you! I personally was not a huge fan of Firefly when I watched it, but did enjoy Serenity.

[@robasiansensation3118]

@@PreacherBoys well I had the hots for Nathan Fillion, so there is that...

[@MaidMirawyn]

Nathan Fillon is hilarious in panels. Alan Tudyk as Wash was always my favorite. CURSE YOUR SUDDEN YET INEVITABLE BETRAYAL!

[@robasiansensation3118]

@@MaidMirawyn HA! It really was a great ensemble! Great chemistry, tight cast. A line I repeat often in times of stress and chaos "I'm a leaf on the wind" . imagining myself as wash navigating a near crashing ship.

[@frugalmomofmany]

I couldn't watch Wizard of Oz, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Care Bears, Scooby Doo, etc. 😂 I watched The Wizard of Oz after I got married, and I could not help but laugh that they thought that was bad. It's unbelievable the restrictions these groups have. I believe in protecting my kids, but from what? A tin man and a girl having a funny dream? I think not.

[@ErinPourcho]

Also a nerd and thats how i got out. I was allowed CS lewis but had to read the Hobbit for school and Tolkien became my greatest life line. It gave me a space to question and explore because "middle earth isnt real". Its more real than you realize

[@thelitlady774]

I LOVE Firefly and Serenity!

[@Schu0086]

Same, we named our son Malcolm 😂

[@joannabooth8440]

Same! Before that it was Stargate SG1. Suppressed nerd here!

[@MaidMirawyn]

Stay shiny!

[@Autum-MrsPinkHairedChristian]

Would love an episode on theology and Star Trek…. I’ve seen that connection for a long time.

[@emma2884]

My mom said she realized spanking was wrong (evangelical and told by community she was supposed to yada yada) was when my brother was hitting me and she told him to stop. He asked "why can't I hit her when she does something I don't like if you get to hit me?" She realized that her natural guilty feeling about spanking was correct and the culture was wrong.

[@katwitanruna]

Break the silence. Break the cycle.

[@nancyparker8363]

What, the welts I got on my backside might have been too much? It seemed to hurt me more than it hurt my dad?? He used Bible verses to defend his punishment?? Confusing???

[@KB13-hc6kt]

Sorry, Nancy. You did nothing wrong. He did. I was hit with an electrical cord in high school, and all could see the marks in my summer tunics, and no one said anything. No bible, just a horrid man.

[@Сохранено1]

They should have used a 2 X 4 per Jonathan Shelley. Don't miss Steven Anderson's latest sermon on corporal punishment. It's based.

[@saschamayer4050]

How about "The Free People"? "The Deprogram"? "The Immodest"? "The Heretics"? The "HotWUn"? (=Heretics of the world united) 🤔

[@ezbody]

Do you know what I love more than my comments being blocked? Having my comments not being blocked. 😋

[@MaidMirawyn]

What? Chad is a Dragon Con guy? Okay, Chad, Carpet or Jon? The ONLY harmless cults!

[@MaidMirawyn]

Honestly, an impromptu rendition of Rainbow Connection in the badge pickup line won't even crack the top five weirdest things to happen at Dragon Con… And we'll give you a pass on watching Serenity before Firefly. You were in a cult, after all, and you did love it.

[@captainc1985]

I do, in fact, cosplay as a Monty Pythonesque Cult of Jon monk.

[@druidgurl]

Omg MST3K saves the world again 😂💚🦴