{"id":418,"date":"2020-12-13T14:19:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T18:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abdullahsameer.com\/podcast\/?p=418"},"modified":"2021-07-12T14:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:52:05","slug":"077-interview-with-ex-fundamentalist-christian-tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/077-interview-with-ex-fundamentalist-christian-tim\/","title":{"rendered":"077 &#8211; Interview with Ex-Fundamentalist Christian Tim"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tim is originally from Seattle, Washington, where he was raised in poverty in the very conservative and extremist Independent Fundamental Baptist sect of protestant Christianity. Due to the fundamentalist sect he had no formal education at all, and was almost entirely self-taught. He left home and the religion at the age of 17, and worked to educate himself, and obtained his GED secondary school qualifications, joined the Navy and later obtained his BA in International Affairs and Political Science. He lived for about ten years in Japan, and learned Japanese as well, and is currently in the American Midwest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7685\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-418-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/077-Interview_with_Ex-Fundamentalist_Christian_Tim.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/077-Interview_with_Ex-Fundamentalist_Christian_Tim.mp3\">http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/077-Interview_with_Ex-Fundamentalist_Christian_Tim.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/077-Interview_with_Ex-Fundamentalist_Christian_Tim.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=418-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.abdullahsameer.com\/episodes\/077-Interview_with_Ex-Fundamentalist_Christian_Tim.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"077-Interview_with_Ex-Fundamentalist_Christian_Tim.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/list\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim is originally from Seattle, Washington, where he was raised in poverty in the very conservative and extremist Independent Fundamental Baptist sect of protestant Christianity. Due to the fundamentalist sect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendlyexmuslim.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}