EP:81 Conversations with Cole Suttle on THE FAMILY + Multitudes of Religious Scams💫

ALLWays Another Way

“The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to pigeonhole it once and for all so that we never had to reevaluate it. With hammers of cant and spikes of dogma, we crucified and crucified again, trying to nail to our stationary altars the migratory light of the world. Thus, since religion bore false witness to the Divine, religion was blasphemy. And once it entered into its unholy alliance with politics, it became the most dangerous and repressive force that the world has ever known.” - Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins My guest is Cole Suttle - President of the Helping Friendly Book Club http://www.helpingfriendly.com/ and we are talking about The Family on Netflix and how people use religion to scam, brainwash, control and do evil things. Who gets the ultimate pass in trust? Is anyone above the law? Are there no checks and balances for certain people? The Catholic Church has hidden pedophiles for YEARS!!!!!! So that children could continue being assaulted!!!! Not to mention every other religion with laundry lists of scandals of abuse. Here is just ONE example of fleecing in the name of the Lord --> Ephren Taylor, who fleeced some $16 million from members of church flocks in 43 states by preaching so-called "prosperity gospel." (from CNBC) Why should anyone get a pass of complete trust for uttering key phrases? Especially since fraud is RAMPANT in this area! Religion becomes a taboo topic -- when you question faith. However -- if you can't question something -- RED FLAG! If you've got nothing to hide. You've got nothing to hide. What if there is something even deeper than just scamming your neighbor.... Cole Suttle - posted about "The Family" on Netflix - and WHOA! - We are going to talk about it - and dive into what I touched on above. Cole was born to high school sweethearts and grew up in Pasedena California. He attended SMU and majored in religious studies with a double minor in Philosophy and English and is currently working on a Master of Arts in Design and Innovation at SMU. He began working for the Ritz Carlton in Aspen and returned to Dallas to build the Guest Relations department from scratch for the newly opened Dallas Ritz Carlton. He loved working for The Ritz-Carlton, they have a great philosophy and it felt like a giant laboratory for studying Human Behavior, focusing especially on the art of blowing people’s minds. He was fascinated to better understand what the difference between a 4 and a 5 star hotel was, and this led him to develop something he likes to call the Metaphysics of Hospitality. He was awarded The Ritz-Carlton Gold Standard Award (given annually to only 5 Ladies and Gentlemen worldwide) before switching from operations to Business and Executive Sales to further test out his theories. Concurrently he’s been working on his passion project, The Helping Friendly Book Club, which started in 2013 “to search for the Secrets to Eternal Joy and Never Ending Splendor” with his friends. More than anything the book club was a way for him to keep exploring the universe, to keep searching for the truth, and to keep following his curiosity with a community people instead of just on his own. Little did he know that almost 7 years and 32 books later the club would still be going strong, and is now grown into The Helping Friendly Foundation, a non profit 501c3 on a mission “to help elevate the public conversation and connect people through books in convivial ways.” Positioning ourselves at the confluence of the placemaking and the Little Free Library movements, the goal is to elevate the free-public book exchange to the level of an artform in three phases. (See www.helpingfriendly.com/theplan for more). www.allwaysanotherway.com