Losing Our Religion

Zac Gandara | A CounterCulture Society™ Production

Losing Our Religion with host Zac Gandara is a wild often comedic ride alongside a community of diverse humans each seeking their desired life and ideal experience away from the dogma and exclusivities they may have been raised to believe.

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MONDAY MELTDOWN: An Ideological Savior Complex is Killing Us: Zac Gandara

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05/28/19 • 17 min

An Ideological Savior Complex is killing us. Why do we keep trying to save each other from each other? When can we just let each other live our lives without each other's input?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

@ZacGandara Instagram Conversation About Saviors.

SHOW NOTES:

MONDAY MELTDOWN: An Ideological Savior Complex is Killing Us: Zac Gandara

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott

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EPISODE 228: White People Need Homework: Tori Glass

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04/22/20 • 74 min

Tori is an anti-racist educator, writer, content creator, and prolific tweeter. She is teaching the folks Dr. King called, “People of Goodwill,” how to do the work that is theirs, in their communities. Anyone who aspires to allyship and accountability is welcome to join her.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: COACHING WITH ZAC GANDARA:

I help you work through the Grief of Past Lives. Empowering YOU to let go and create your desired future. It functions much like talk therapy but with poignant salient goals and techniques to help YOU reprogram yourself for healing and growth.

WHITE HOMEWORK

CONTACT THE GUEST: TORI GLASS

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Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Manager by Digi G'Alessio .

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SPECIAL: To Punch Or Not To Punch a Nazi?: Chad Mummert

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08/16/17 • 83 min

Due to the tragic and violent events taking place in Charlottesville Virginia this past weekend. We are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming to address a conversation around hate, dealing with it, and growing past it.

We all are expressing our anger, grief, pain, remorse, and disappointment differently. It's important to feel those emotions. Expression of our emotions is extremely healthy for us all. But how should we express our distaste for the beliefs of others and our disgust with hate, indifference, white supremacy, the KKK, and Nazi's?

Is violence the answer? Is punching a Nazi justified? Is it helpful? Some would say yes. Some would say it doesn’t matter. Some would say no.

This is a conversation condemning hate, white supremacy, Nazism, and the KKK, all the while asking ourselves, how should we suppress hate and defend human rights?

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EPISODE 036: Hyperdrive Jew: Grace Strachman

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03/30/16 • 77 min

This is a pun-filled joy ride of laughter and conversation about how we grew up in Jewish and Christian religious homes. Our first Losing Our Religion episode with Tequila, well, mezcal. In cocktail form of course, since we were recording at the posh Hotel Vintage in downtown Portland Oregon. The cocktail was called Up In Smoke, and we had the best time.

My wife Jen joins us again in this episode and uses her Peanut Gallery powers to draw us back into more important things rather than our happy rabbit trails. Grace's story of being Jewish but not Jewish enough to be accepted by some Jews is a story relatable to many of us.

We spend some time trying to talk out what we're going to do when each of us has kids. Cause both our parents made us go to the church building and synagog, and we learned some great life lessons there.

Grace and I share an affection for Daniel Johnston, so we highlight some of his work in this episode. As well as Slayer, which is hilarious to me that Grace likes Slayer.

We finish this episode hoping to do a part 2, but I got swamped with work and Grace moved to Chicago before we could make it happen. We will have to set up another time to have Grace on the show again to talk about the different Messiah's of Judaism and Christianity.

True Love Will Find You In The End By Daniel Johnston

True love will find you in the endYou'll find out just who was your friendDon't be sad, I know you will,But don't give up untilTrue love will find you in the endThis is a promise with a catchOnly if you're looking can it find you'Cause true love is searching tooBut how can it recognize youUnless you step out into the light?Don't be sad I know you willBut don't give up untilTrue love finds you in the end.

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THINKING THURSDAY: My Inner Child?: Zac Gandara

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10/24/19 • 12 min

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.

Do you believe in an inner child? Does it need to be healed? Dr. Nicole LePera says children have three core desires: to be seen, heard, and fully expressed as the unique individuals they are. Do you still feel that as an adult?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: INNER CHILD BY @the.holistic.psychologist BOOK: THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE

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Thinking Thursday: Thinking Thursday is about learning how to think. We live in a world where people like to tell us what to think, but has anyone taught us how to think? Examining the worlds greatest thinkers is a great place to start. Send us thinkers you'd like us to feature. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us [email protected] or message any of our social pages (links below).

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MONDAY MELTDOWN: Boundaries are a Self-Healing Practice: Zac Gandara: Dr. Nicole LePera

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05/07/19 • 11 min

Creating boundaries are one of the fundamental elements of healing ourselves. Dr. Nicole LePera posts some wonderfully helpful thoughts on this subject, and we discuss it.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Dr. Nicole LePera

Boundary Examples

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MONDAY MELTDOWN: Boundaries are a Self-Healing Practice: Zac Gandara: Dr. Nicole LePera

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better." - Anne Lamott

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THINKING THURSDAY: The Satanic Temple Has the Moral High Ground: Zac Gandara

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12/06/18 • 17 min

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we can live this life together.

Living a life of inclusivity means we have to consistently get outside of our comfort zones to engage the stories, lives, and ideologies of others. How do we get over the fear of doing this? How do we engage others we don't understand. When we do, we will often we will find that their view is more beautiful than ours.

REFERENCES FOR THIS EPISODE :

Satanic Temple’s Seven Tenets Are Morally Superior To Ten Commandments

The Seven Fundamental Tenets of the Satanic Temple.

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THINKING THURSDAY: Questioning Western Philosophy: Martin Heidegger

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08/16/18 • 16 min

On this weeks episode, we talk about Martin Heidegger. Heidegger made a practice of questioning Western Philosophers. Wondering whether or not we even understood what it means to exist. He believed humanity needed a savior, or a group to save them. Was he a Nazi? Why were his thoughts challenging?

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: BOOK: Being and Time From Martin Heidegger

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EPISODE 048: Religious Deconversion: Part One: Lori Fazzino, M.A.

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06/22/16 • 64 min

Lori Fazzino M.A. is a Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Instructor with the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Lori and I have church past together. Meeting in the megachurch fresh out of high school, in different ways, we pursued the hype within the machine together, and now both find solace outside of religion.

Her studies and research are fascinating. This will be a pair of episodes that will encourage those leaving religion and fascinate those in or outside of it. Lori is an agnostic but takes the time to explain why she has taken on a more atheist identity. She feels strongly about being a humanist, in which I too am finding great joy.

Lori has an amazing story of being kicked out the church, and now a present and future as a college professor and soon to be Ph.D. in Evangelical Deconversion. She currently teaches Sociology of Religion at UNLV.

WE TALK ABOUT:

Our Common experience in the same mega-church and interaction with Casey & Wendy Treat at Christian Faith Center.
Lori’s conversion story through a mega-church, Covenant Celebration Church, Champions Centre in Tacoma, WA.
Losing Religion.
Her labeling me a “none” as far as my religious beliefs go.
Her doctoral dissertation on the atheist community of Las Vegas. How atheists navigate Las Vegas and the tension she found between religious and non-religious communities.
The commonality between the religious community and atheist community.
What is truth?
Why many unbelievers stay in religion.

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THINKING THURSDAY: Jumping Boats, Compassion, Getting Better: Zac Gandara: Pete Holmes: Nadia Bolz-Weber: Lance Armstrong

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04/25/19 • 13 min

Thinking Thursday’s are about critically thinking, breaking out of boxes, and discussing new ways we could live this life together.

When we leave a religion, tribe, or team are we really growing and changing or are we just jumping into another? Call out culture, politics, our need to be better than others, and scapegoating, heaping all the negative onto others, so we don't have to look at ourselves.

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You Made It Weird with Pete Holmes: Nadia Bolz-Weber

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