Ep. 130: Peter Ruckman (Steven Anderson / NIFB / Racism / White Supremacy / Fundamentalism / Prophecy)

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True Crime, Cult, History, Survivor, Theology, Exfundie, Religion, Lgbtq, Christianity, Exvangelical, Documentary, Fundamentalism, Baptist, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Deconstruction, Inspirational Women, Duggars, Inspirational

4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, Sadie and Gavi take a deep dive into fundamentalist hate preacher Peter Ruckman, his bizarre autobiography, his multiple marriages, and his theology, which was extreme even for IFB standards.

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TW: In general we talk about a lot of potentially triggering topics on this show, including but not limited to suicide and mental health, racism, misogyny, PTSD and PTSD symptoms, child abuse, mental, physical, and sexual abuse, and spiritual abuse including guilt, shame, and fear. In most episodes we’ll mention at least a few of these topics, but we try very hard to avoid graphic detail unless it’s relevant to the story we’re telling, and we do our best to give the audience a heads-up before going into detail on any of these topics. This episode will contain SO MUCH RACISM. Most of the time, I’ve chosen not to include direct quotes, because it’s honestly that bad. There’s one section where I’m going to read some lightly censored quotes, and I’ll give you the heads up before I do. There’s also some generalized misogyny, victim blaming of ex-wives, and Ruckman describes two different suicide attempts very callously. We won’t read his exact words to attempt to mitigate harm for listeners.

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0:00.0	Roll, rolling river of time, you've healed me in too many days.
0:15.3	No regrets, no confusion.
0:19.4	There'll be no pollution.
0:21.6	I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways.
0:29.6	Welcome back to the Leaving Eden podcast.
0:32.6	My name is Gabrielle Ha Cohen.
0:34.6	And I'm cult survivor and cult expert, Sadie Carpenter.
0:39.1	How are you doing today, Sadie? How's your life?
0:41.5	Life is okay. This episode is extremely exciting and terrible and exciting.
0:51.0	This episode is going to be really exciting.
0:53.8	Today's episode is about a man named Peter Ruckman, a very controversial figure within fundamentalism.
1:01.0	Sadie, do you want to tell us a little bit about this guy?
1:04.0	Actually, I'd like to let him introduce himself in his own words.
1:09.0	I do need to start with a pre-TWTW here because this very short
1:16.2	eight-second clip that I want to play for you condones racism and explicitly supports the KKK.
1:23.4	So here's that clip.
1:25.6	I'll tell you why I never joined the Ku Klux Klan is because they're anti-Semitic.
1:30.4	And that's the only reason I didn't join.
1:34.4	I mean, I agree with everything else they say.
1:38.3	So if...
1:39.3	I would like to further caution you that the racism is not really going to let up.
1:48.1	Okay.
	...

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