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Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-10-10

Books mentioned on CLASSIC: The Cult of the Garbage Eaters

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In small towns, neglected glades and college campuses across America, small groups of bearded wanderers in homespun clothes are spreading a message -- that the End of Times is upon us, and only the truly righteous shall be saved.

Ben Bowlin discussed The Encyclopedia of American Religions by J. Gordon Melton and Sinners in the hands of an angry God. by Jonathan Edwards.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Encyclopedia of American Religions

    J. Gordon Melton · at 7:21

    Discussed
    “according to Jay Gordon Melton's Encyclopedia of American religions this uh gentleman Jimmy T Roberts was born Bor in Paduka Kentucky on June 5th 1939”
    Ben Bowlin CLASSIC: The Cult of the Garbage Eaters 2023-10-10 Listen at 7:21
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible

  2. Sinners in the hands of an angry God.

    Jonathan Edwards · at 9:37

    Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards is a famous, fire-and-brimstone sermon that epitomizes the terrifying, strict religious atmosphere and Calvinist theology of historical Protestantism in New England.

    Discussed
    “it's uh very much like that early American Works sinners in the hands of an Angry God”
    Ben Bowlin CLASSIC: The Cult of the Garbage Eaters 2023-10-10 Listen at 9:37
    Where to get it
    AmazonListen on Audible
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