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  • It's Jason

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  • Brandon: Tell me about a

  • religious experience of yours, something profound.

  • Chance: Something profound; I saw an angel once when I was like nine years old.

  • B: Really? C: Yeah.

  • [INTRO MUSIC]

  • Narrator: We brought together seven Christians

  • - I'm a Christian.

  • - I am a Christian.

  • - I am a Christian.

  • - I am a Christian.

  • - I am Christian.

  • - I am a Christian.

  • - I am a Christian.

  • One is a liar.

  • If the group discovers who the liar is,

  • they'll split a cash prize.

  • If the liar survives, he or she wins the entire prize.

  • - Oh boy, okay. - All right, here we go. [chuckles]

  • Andrew: Do you go to a church? [chuckles]

  • Ciara: Yes I do.

  • Tony: That's a great question.

  • A: I don't know where to even start.

  • C: I was going into it thinking about myself and how I present myself.

  • I thought people would be like, "Oh, she's not a Christian."

  • Brandon: Hey Chance, tell me about a religious experience of yours.

  • Chance: A religious experience of mine? B: Yeah, something profound.

  • Something profound; I saw an angel once when I was like 9 years old.

  • B: Really? Ch: Yeah.

  • A: What was that like?

  • Chance: It was really cool.

  • It was creepy,

  • but like in the moment like it was just like

  • stillness and like really awesome.

  • T: In the Bible when they talk about what angels look like,

  • it's a very scary looking picture.

  • I was like, I don't know if I'd believe

  • someone being happy to see a disfigured human being.

  • A: I had a really similar experience when my father passed away.

  • Ch: Really. A: Yeah.

  • Ch: Wow A: Yeah.

  • A: Do you wanna hear about it?

  • [Laughter overlapping unclear speech]

  • Ch: Oh no, ok.

  • [Bell rings]

  • A: The speed round was pretty horrifying.

  • I didn't even know what to ask.

  • I didn't even know where to start.

  • T: So much pressure.

  • Ch: Don't worry, we're not watching

  • T: First person I trusted was Brandon.

  • B: In the very beginning him and I were talking and I was just like,

  • alright, manyou and I packed till the end.

  • We're just gonna keep voting the same person.

  • Rommie: Aw man, you guys, you guys... [crosstalk]

  • You guys really messed up.

  • [Laughter]

  • I'm telling you right now.

  • R: I'm feeling disappointed because I feel like

  • I was based off my overall look.

  • I didn't even say anything, I was voted off, you know,

  • Ch: Grace was standing right next to me and she was really freaked out.

  • She was just like, you know, I hope they don't think it's me cause X, Y, and Z

  • And I was like, okay, then it's not Grace.

  • I didn't think it was Rommie either, but I just knew it wasn't Grace.

  • A: I wanted to ask you, is your church queer friendly, LGBTQ friendly?

  • C: Yes actually, there's two pastors and one is a biracial lesbian so...

  • A: Wow. Ch: Why did you choose a non-denominational Church?

  • Grace: I mean, I was just born into it, so... My dad's a pastor.

  • Ch: Anyone else a PK?

  • A: No. Ch: I am.

  • T: Yeah, what's a PK?

  • G: Pastor's kid. Ch: Yeah, pastor's kid. T: Oh, pastor's kid.

  • I've never even heard that.

  • Ch: Yeah, they usually the bad kids at your school so...

  • [Laughter]

  • C: There's like certain terms...

  • I think a lot of people just know.

  • I assumed his lack of knowledge meant he wasn't a Christian

  • and he was trying to like pick up on things as we said them.

  • Ch: How long have you been a Lutheran?

  • A: My whole life.

  • Ch: Yeah? A: Yeah.

  • I grew up in Scandia, Minnesota

  • and like a big part of the town was the church,

  • so I was baptized there.

  • Do you go to a church?

  • B: Yeah, I go to this one out in Riverside.

  • I just started going there about two months ago now,

  • 'cause I grew up going to more of like a

  • strict church and then I kind of branched away from it and then went back.

  • A: What do you mean a strict church?

  • B: So I grew up Mormon.

  • [All] Oh...

  • [Laughter]

  • G: No it's strict, it's strict.

  • B: You know, I kind of had to take my own path and figure out what worked best for me.

  • Ch: I've definitely, I've stepped away from church,

  • because it's hard for me to find a church,

  • especially a Baptist Church, that's accepting of the queer community

  • so I stopped going.

  • C: Are you looking for something, are you just kind of... Ch: Not actively.

  • Halfway through my answer I realized I probably shouldn't have said that

  • 'cause everyone else was like, "Oh, yeah,"

  • they all actively go to church,

  • and I was the only one like, "I don't go to church now,"

  • and that's when I thought, Maybe I should have kept that to myself.

  • T: Well when I switched churches, like people were taking it beyond judging

  • and were making a big like

  • they were like condemning me— [Bell rings]

  • B: Can you read that? I have really bad handwriting.

  • He mentioned that he hadn't been to church in over three years

  • and I was just like, okay.

  • A: I felt like his story about being a PK and coming in and out of his faith could have been an alibi.

  • G: He wanted to hear everyone else talk, like he kept asking them questions, like he didn't want to talk about his own experience.

  • G: I'm so sorry.

  • Producer: Thanks Chance.

  • Ch: [sighs, then laughs] T: Sorry bud.

  • T: So I think a good question were to be like: how'd you find your faith?

  • A: Hmm! C: Alright.

  • T: So I was actually an atheist before I was Christian,

  • like I was a hardcore atheist

  • and I was like super depressed,

  • Like I was like burdened by like my own life, I'd say.

  • And then, coming into the life where like,

  • you're just kind of getting abundantly filled up with like love from other people

  • and from God, especially...

  • B: So what made me go back in the church,

  • what really like pushed me, is I had a really bad breakup.

  • And it was like at this moment where I was at work and

  • I watched this kid die because I work in the ER...

  • So watching the kid die in the family,

  • kind of go through those emotions of like trying to let go,

  • And I was like, Man...

  • Like there's got to be something like that can, you know,

  • make me feel full and make me feel whole.

  • A: I believe that there there has to be this higher power and...

  • otherwise the ego takes us over, and God allows me to realize that...

  • there's there's more than just me.

  • As an artist, I think there's messages coming to me that

  • I'm supposed to communicate through my art.

  • C: The way I grew up, I was really into church. It was my safe space.

  • I had a hard home life and it was where I felt like I could be myself.

  • And then I realized I was gay and that was really hard.

  • And then I took a step back and then have come back to it as an adult.

  • It's been...a struggle,

  • Um, but something that I want to have.

  • G: Um, I am a PK, so I was just born into it.

  • It was like summer after fourth grade. My parents got divorced,

  • and so I was kind of like straying away.

  • You know, and especially divorce in the church is like a huge thing, so...

  • that was really hard, but I feel like that whole situation

  • kind of like solidified my relationship,

  • just so I knew, you know, there was always someone there for me.

  • And my church was there for me too. You know?

  • [Bell rings]

  • B: I have no idea who I'm gonna vote off. [laughs] C: Me neither.

  • B: I'll follow your lead man. T: Yeah.

  • T: She's a PK, like she knows exactly how to answer, like knows the perfect part to play...

  • B: In the back she kind of mentioned her stance on premarital sex.

  • So that kind of like was like a red flag...

  • C: Bye Grace. G: Bye.

  • See you later

  • A: You had a good question, right? B: Yeah.

  • B: So you were talking about how like you kind of express yourself through art,

  • like I want to just like have you elaborate on that.

  • When he mentioned art as like his form of everything,

  • I was just like it doesn't really make too much sense.

  • A: Cool, well, like one thing I love about the church is I love to sing.

  • B: Okay. A: And, um,

  • growing up, I, like, my best memories of church

  • were just singing in the choir.

  • And when I moved out here, one of the hardest things was not having a church.

  • Think that like through my voice, through the hymns and everything, that's...

  • that's the biggest thing.

  • C: We were just talking about this,

  • how a lot of the people that go to my church have had similar backgrounds to me,

  • which is they've been hurt by the church.

  • Maybe a song like, "Oh how He loves us," in the past was great for you,

  • and then you were hurt by the church.

  • Having those memories attached can actually make worship really hard.

  • B: There was this song that like it was a big song in my church, the Mormon Church, growing up...

  • It was like it's called I want to say like, "Families Can Be Together Forever."

  • Man, like my parents they got divorced, you know,

  • and since that time like I can't even like listen

  • can't even look at the lyrics of that song.

  • C: Yeah.

  • B: So...

  • What about you?

  • How was like your experience kind of moving across the states and...?

  • A: So hard.

  • I grew up in a town of like five hundred people,

  • and so the church was everything and...

  • coming out here and starting that hunt for one that's like LGBTQ friendly

  • and the right kind of like chemistry of people

  • and the right kind of sermons and

  • I started looking and actually hearing about yours

  • I'm kind of like, Wait a minute...

  • A: But... C: I'll give you the info. A: yeah. [laughs]

  • [Bell rings]

  • T: I'ma be shook if one of these people are the moles.

  • B: What?

  • C: Bye guys

  • B: Wow.

  • B: My mind's gonna be...what if they go red? T: Oh, I'ma be hurt.

  • T: 'Cause I'm gonna feel really dumb.

  • Producer: 3...2...1

  • A: Hi I'm the mole.

  • - Ah, man!

  • B: Hey, you know what? I did vote for him.

  • I did vote for him.

  • T: I was gonna... I was... yeah.

  • I felt betrayed a little bit.

  • I definitely was kind of feeling Andrew was like a Christian for sure.

  • R: I was shocked because Andrew...

  • he talks like a lot of youth pastors at my church, you know?

  • C: Because I'm gay, if anyone else was gay,

  • I like wanted to be their friend.

  • Then I was like, Oh, he's my friend,

  • I'm not gonna vote for him because I really believe him,

  • and then I was wrong. But that's okay.

  • [Laughs]

  • A: Oh!

  • Oh my gosh!

  • I really became an atheist right after I got baptized.

  • I think when I got baptized,

  • I thought something magical would happen,

  • and nothing did and nothing changed,

  • and I still felt really hated by the church.

  • The things that brought them into the church

  • and into the religion were things that I found on my own

  • without religion.

  • C: Personal experience, I think, is...

  • huge in the way that we experience religion.

  • Ch: I would say that a lot of times we look at Christianity as like a monolithic kind of thing

  • and that everyone does the same thing, you know,

  • even like if you say the word "evangelical," that usually means one thing,

  • but that's not that doesn't usually represent all Christians.

  • Even the word Christian barely represents all Christians.

  • A: I feel relieved that that is over,

  • but I also feel a lot of love and compassion from that group of people.

  • I was kind of worried how this would go but I realized that...

  • these were all really good people today. They're all amazing.

  • Ien: I got a question for you:

  • so was there a time in your life where

  • you had a judgment about someone where you turned out to be like

  • completely like flat wrong?

  • Erin: I think that's like...

  • probably

  • every other month every year.

  • I think we'd all be a lot better...

  • I: The self-honesty. E: ...if we were honest about that,

  • 'cause we're always making assumptions and letting our bias come into play.

  • I: And you don't know you have that bias until you get to the other side right?

  • E: Until you step outside of yourself and ask like,

  • Well why did I feel that way?

  • And I thought this show would help us like explore that,

  • and how our biases can come into conflict with the truth.

  • I: Stick around for the other episodes,

  • they're coming soon, and uh

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  • E: Bye guys!

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