Losing Our Religion

On this weeks episode, we talk about an article that many of you have sent in. It’s about our brains and what happens to them if stop believing in God. FEATURED ARTICLE: What Happens to Your Brain When You Stop Believing in God Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list. This podcast is prod

Shane, a hardcore, straight edge kid, recruited by a rock idol to join the Hare Krishna. Traveling with a guru and joining the Krishna Temple. Shane, Texas-raised with a KKK member dad and a Baptist mom finds a way to escape the Hare Krishna life. This is one crazy story. WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Nasco Human Body Fat Replica, 5 lb. DO YOU LOVE THE PODCAST? JOIN US WITH SUPPORT. Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. FOLLOW US: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. RECEIVE WEEKLY EMAIL CONTENT: Join our email list. Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Sitar Beat! Indian Style Heavy Funk Vol. 1 by Various Artists. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society.™

On this weeks episode, we talk about suicide, anxiety, depression and losing Anthony Bourdain. He meant a lot to this podcast. We also hear from fellow Loser Simon, who called in from Orlando, Florida. Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list. This podcast is produced by select producers a

We get into the deep. Beginning with small talk about our Hispanic heritage and quickly dive into the discord we see in the world, our frustrations with it, and what we hope our future can be. All the while, wondering where God is? “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” ― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow Us: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. Receive Weekly Email Content: Join our email list. WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Zagone Studios Goosh Pants Music Featured in this Epis

On this weeks episode, I open up about the hauntings of my shadow self and trying to find the balance between embracing it and managing it with positivity and my bullshit frustration with manifesting things. Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other: Zac and your Questions, Confessions, Comments and Meltdowns. Join the Monday Meltdown show with your questions, comments, meltdowns, or confessions. Call 206-395-5608 and leave us a message. E-Mail us zacg@LosingOurReligion.org or message any of our social pages (links below). Do You Love the Podcast and Want to Support It? Support the podcast by leaving us a Rating & Review on iTunes or your podcast app. Do your Amazon shopping through our links. Donate to the Podcast. Join the CounterCulture Society and become a Producer through our Patreon. Follow, Read Blogs, and Hang Out with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LosingOurReligionPodcast.com. Receive Weekly Communication and Encouragement: Join our email list. This podcast is produced by sele

Krystal, frustrated with the social constructs of Christianity, the church, and institutionalized religion, walk away finding what she needed elsewhere. She's a makeup artist, microblade tattooer, part-time bartender, and badass woman. JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Face Slimmer JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Old School My School (Album Version Instrumental) by Cheese N Pot-C. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society.™

On this weeks episode, Fellow Loser Mike Knicely shares with us what he believes after he's stopped believing and I share anonymous confessions from our monthly show The CounterCulture Society Variety Hour. Candid, honest, and therapeutic confessions. Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other. Ask Me Anything. Confessions and Comments. Your thoughts and comments. Our Meltdowns. (Rant, Vent, Yell, Swear!) JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW A.M.A. | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 | zacg@LosingOurReligion.org | @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™.

Josh Black left his home in North Dakota when he was a teenager, in hunt of a bigger, better life. He found it and learned a lot along the way. This is the story of a transient, homeless kid, who found his own way. JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON 55 gal Drum of ClearGlide Lubricant JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Fun Fashion by David Szesztay. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society.™

On this weeks episode, we’re chatting about: What Do We Believe, When We Stop Believing? Far to often it's assumed that when you walk away from religion and ideologies, you move from something to nothing, but is that really true? Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other. Ask Me Anything. Inspiring thoughts for the Loser community. Your thoughts and comments. Our Meltdowns. (Rant, Vent, Yell, Swear!) JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW A.M.A. | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 | zacg@LosingOurReligion.org | @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™.

What would you do if the government came to shut down your art? Your Passion? Josh Black, a.k.a. "Ronald McFondle and his 321 Battle Wrestling partners had to face just that. They engaged the process of legalization, rebelliously, but legally, and won. TICKETS TO MCFONDLE'S BIRTHDAY WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY: Bodyslam: Revenge of the Banana JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Chicken Nugget Novelty Soap - 6 Piece Chicken Nugget JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Circus Bender by The Polish Ambassador. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Societ

On this weeks episode. We discuss how leaving religion isn’t giving up, it’s waking up, it's growing up. If we stop believing in Religion. What do we then believe? Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other. Ask Me Anything. Inspiring thoughts for the Loser community. Your thoughts and comments. Our Meltdowns. (Rant, Vent, Yell, Swear!) JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW A.M.A. | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 | zacg@LosingOurReligion.org | @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™.

Jen and I have been through a lot. We're often wondering. How in the hell are we still married? Together for 18 years and not cheated on each other? Left each other? Divorced each other, or had kids? Well, our story isn't everyone, it's just ours. JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Chambong | 5 Acrylic Chambongs for rapid Champagne consumption. JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and darix togni by Digi G'Alessio. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society.™

On this weeks episode, we receive a confession, and it leads us to a discussion of how to grow through the grief of feeling like we wasted our lives with religion. Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other. Ask Me Anything. Inspiring thoughts for the Loser community. Your thoughts and comments. Our Meltdowns. (Rant, Vent, Yell, Swear!) JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW A.M.A. | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 | zacg@LosingOurReligion.org | @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™.

The story of what shaped Jeff Leonard. Divorced Parents, a single dad, the contemptible stepfather, the streets, and bootlegged television. Here is one of those episodes that are entertaining, informative, and transformative all the way to the end. JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Infant Circumcision Trainer, White JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and China Town by Audiobinger. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society.™

On this weeks episode, I share anonymous confessions from our monthly live show, The CounterCulture Society Variety Hour. Anonymous confessions are everyone's favorite part of the show. They’re candid, honest, and therapeutic. Join us! You're invited! Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other. Ask Me Anything. Inspiring thoughts for the Loser community. Your thoughts and comments. Our Meltdowns. (Rant, Vent, Yell, Swear!) JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW A.M.A. | CONFESSIONS | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 | zacg@LosingOurReligion.org | @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™.

Three Months after I left the church I met Jeff Leonard. That encounter has led to a long-term friendship, family relationships, and a lot of anger and hate. Meet Jeff Leonard, the angriest, most hateful (inclusive) dude I have ever met. SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE Shop through our Amazon Portal  JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Smiffy's Men's Borat Mankini JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Slow Down, Seahorse by Breakmaster Cylinder. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™

On this weeks episode, I share the awakening of my newly found coping technique, avoidance. I make a public commitment to do better for myself, our guests, and the podcast. Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other. Ask Me Anything. Inspiring thoughts for the Loser community. Your thoughts and comments. Our Meltdowns. (Rant, Vent, Yell, Swear!) JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™.

Sarah is so fantastic I've invited her back again. In this installment, we find her most passionate critic of religion, purity culture and the lack of critical thought. We dive down this road with great drinks and high energy. JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 zacg@LosingOurReligion.org @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Everyone Poops - Paperback Book JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Idgaf (Hard Trap) by Makaih Beats. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™

On this weeks episode, we hear a story from fellow Loser David McPhail. He’s had a traumatic life and a trauma-filled religious experience. He feels as though Religion held him back from a genuine love for others. I so resonate with his findings. REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE Predators & Prophets: A Comic History of Pacific Northwest Cults Monday Meltdown is Our Weekly Chat with Each Other. Ask Me Anything. Inspiring thoughts for the Loser community. Your thoughts and comments. Our Meltdowns. (Rant, Vent, Yell, Swear!) JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN 206-395-5608 | zacg@LosingOurReligion.org | @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  JOIN US Join the Email List - Get Emails, Weekly Motivation, Community Conversation and Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™.

Sarah Quinn is a beautiful human with a beautiful misfit soul. We connect amidst the impression that we wasted our lives on our addiction, religion, Christianity in particular. Is our past something to be frustrated about or something that serves us? JOIN THE MONDAY MELTDOWN SHOW ASK ME ANYTHING | PHONE CALLS AND COMMENTS | SHARE YOUR MELTDOWN Call: 206-395-5608 Email: zacg@LosingOurReligion.org Tweet & Follow: @ZacGandara SUPPORT THE PODCAST Rate & Review Become a Producer DONATE SHOP THROUGH OUR Amazon Portal  WEIRD THINGS OF THE AMAZON Westminster Butt Face Soap JOIN US Join the CounterCulture Society - Get Emails & Deals! Website Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Music Featured in this Episode: LOR Theme Song by Rat Queen and Freestyle 39 byBenJamin Banger. This podcast is produced by select producers and created by the CounterCulture Society™