Monte Mader

You're getting it from your pastor.

You're getting it from your teacher.

You're getting it from your best friend's dad.

And when you're a kid and you're growing up, you think you can trust the adults.

And it's all of the adults telling you the same thing.

So you grow up, there's that aspect of it.

Plus, I was not allowed to listen to secular music.

What I could watch in movies and films was highly policed.

Who I could hang out with was highly policed.

And you have the other side, the religious aspect of it, that from the time you're very, very small, there's the threat of hell.

There's this ingrained belief that you're broken, you're sinful, you're evil, you can't do anything right.

Don't question God.

But God's word comes to you through God-ordained male authority.

It comes from your pastor.

It comes from your dad.

And if you ask questions and you rebuff that, then you're sinning.

So you end up with this huge overlap of everyone in your life is telling you this exact same idea about the political structure.

And also those same people are the people that are supposed to be giving you God's word.

And any kind of question against them is rebellion.

So that was the hybrid that I grew up in.