Mentally Diseased

Adam Van Wirdum - who recently appeared on the Four Corners special in Australia: Bearing Witness - sits down to chat with me about his experience as a closeted gay man among Jehovah's Witnesses. After getting married and having children, but still being told he's not doing enough, he finally reaches a breaking point for his faith. Find Adam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FadetoEx_AdamvW Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/fadetoex ******************************************** HELP IS AVAILABLE ********************************************

Watchtower's advice to gay people struggling with their sexuality is this: Pray it away, devote yourself more to Jehovah, pioneer, go to Bethel, and just... don't do it. Easy, right? Shawn Smith did it all exactly the way he was supposed to. Here's his story. FIND SHAWN ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/shawnsjournie​ LA TIMES Article on Police Entrapment: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-gay-stings-police-20160527-snap-story.html ******************************************** SOURCES & CREDITS ********************************************

Altworldly was the model of an exemplary youth for Jehovah's Witnesses. A ministerial servant, pioneer, and part of their construction efforts. Now he's writing the *real* answers to FAQs from the JWORG website, and launched a YouTube channel doing introspective, essay-style content. We talk about how that sudden change happened, the challenges of doing it all PIMO, bisexuality, and much more.

In 2013, John started a new channel. His plan was to combat "apostate misinformation", and bring Jehovah's Witness propaganda to countries where it is not available. And then... Lloyd Evans found him. Seven years later, he's left the Jehovah's Witnesses and started a new channel: JW Review with John Maple. Today, we're chatting about what his experience was as an apologist, how he finally woke up, and what he's doing differently with YouTube on the second time around.