Ep. 150: Keep Your Word And Obey Your Father: Deconstructing The Story of Jepthah

Leaving Eden Podcast

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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

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we deconstruct the story of Jepthah and his daughter. This is a bible story that was used to great effect during Sadie's fundamentalist upbringing as a tool to control people and as a tool to demand obedience. The details of the story, however, vary quite dramatically from the way Sadie remembers it being told when she was growing up. By looking at different interpretations, we are able to uncover a serious hypocrisy that exists within fundamentalist teaching.

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion. there'll be no pollution.
0:21.6	I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways.
0:28.6	Welcome back to the Leaving Eden podcast.
0:32.6	My name is Gavriel Hakoen.
0:35.6	And I am cult survivor, cult expert, Sadie Carpenter. How are you doing today,
0:41.2	Sadie? How's life? Right at this minute. So we're recording during the first nap that my two and a half
0:49.0	year old has not skipped in almost a week. So I am overjoyed at this particular moment.
0:57.2	Sadie texted me, she's like, bad news, Chuck won't nap. And I'm like, this is a problem,
1:02.4	this is like an existential threat to like, we joke about this, but like this is true. Like if
1:07.9	there's no naps, then we can't record.
1:16.5	And it's... Either we can't record or I will never sleep again.
1:24.0	Yeah. And... Because that's just, that's just like, you know, seven and a half to ten hours out of my work week,
1:32.3	which I feel like would be upsetting to anybody who has a job. I mean, then again, you did make the decision to never sleep again by having children. But thank you for victim blaming.
1:35.3	Yeah, that's what I'm doing, victim blaming right here. That's what we do on the show.
1:39.3	This is the victim blaming podcast.
1:41.3	No, it's not. We try not to do that.
1:44.4	This is the episode that comes out after Jill Dugger's book.
1:48.3	And now we've lost not only all the new listeners from that book, but also all of our
1:53.3	old listeners as well.
1:54.3	Thank you so much.
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