Losing Our Religion with host Zac Gandara is a wild often comedic ride alongside a community of diverse humans each seeking their desired life and ideal experience away from the dogma and exclusivities they may have been raised to believe.
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EPISODE 025: A Felon's "Conviction": Part 2: C.J. Smith
CJ continues to share his transparent life journey of a drug user, why he lived that way, what motivated him, and learning to know himself and love himself through it all. Beginning in the Assemblies of God Denomination (Evangelical Pentecostal) CJ's indoctrination through the culture of the institutional church is where he learned the religion of wearing masks to fit the molds of other people.
As an ex-con, CJ lived in the American prison system under a 6 and then 18-month sentence. In many ways, prison gave him the opportunity of finally seeing himself as he really was. A sober awakening for sure. But he also got to see how problematic the American Prison system is. It's not so much like the movies. CJ refers to it as, "The most lonely place on earth." He has left his prison time, now living life as an ex-con with a great desire to change the system and make reducing recidivism a real thing.
Ever heard of the American School to Prison Pipeline? Is it brought on by white privilege? What can we do about it? Tune in!
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