"Don't Be Like the Hypocrites!" (and more listener calls)

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  • @danettelewis8002
    @danettelewis8002 5 місяців тому +33

    OMG!! This woman sounds sooo self righteous. My blood was beginning to boil. Great control Seth. Thanks for holding back, so proud to be an atheist at this moment 😊

    • @bladerunner3314
      @bladerunner3314 5 місяців тому

      You talking about Hans?
      Funny enough, that's a male name, but I was "Huh? Must be trans but WTAF?"

    • @pfflyer3381
      @pfflyer3381 5 місяців тому

      ​@@bladerunner3314 ever ask yourself why you have nipples?
      You think you have the same level of testosterone as say ..,WHO..
      LINDSAY gramcracker?
      Or closer to the rock?, bet you'd pick the rock! Because of your egotistical male god wannabe FELLINGS! as republican do!,
      Everything is about YOUR FEELINGS!
      THE TROPHY ME CHILD!?
      NON THINKING brat!
      Who needs a god to be a man!?
      You rather believe in the TWO virgin god boy, ( jesus) who can't write himself!?
      In fear of the true birth givers!?
      Like all republicans males!
      The only animal that kills for sex!
      Just THINK of all the questions I put to you!! Can you?.. Think?

  • @davidwatson8118
    @davidwatson8118 5 місяців тому +19

    Seth
    Your past indoctrination is absolute.
    I am glad you are fighting it.👍

  • @justincredible.
    @justincredible. 5 місяців тому +38

    Man, I'm so glad I don't have to live in the USA! I live in a mostly SECULAR the Netherlands. Watching this all happen (incl. trump and his minions) is scary, and very infuriating!

    • @JonO387
      @JonO387 5 місяців тому

      Trump is the last hope of saving America. I'm glad you don't live in the USA because you seem to hate freedom.

    • @gtl4492
      @gtl4492 5 місяців тому

      Unfortunately, it seems the religious Dutch Calvinists all moved to Canada and the USA where they are a giant pain in the ass. Good for you. Not good for us.

    • @airenmoonwolf2520
      @airenmoonwolf2520 5 місяців тому +5

      Being smack dab in the middle of it all is bewildering, scary and yet there's a feeling like we are on the precipice of something truly world changing....all while just trying to live life everyday.

    • @kayanneyoung9788
      @kayanneyoung9788 5 місяців тому +11

      A lot of us in the US envy you, believe me.

    • @alanhilder1883
      @alanhilder1883 5 місяців тому

      Here in Australia, it is mostly "Don't care about your religion, we will take you as you are". ( if you are an a-hole, you will be treated as an a-hole )
      BUT, we have, in the last few decades had the politicians wanting to go more like the US. ( examples:- Howard, pushed his 'religious morals' onto everyone, brought it laws to block 'Gay marriage'. Abbott, well, his science minister was George Pell, who ran away to the vatican when a royal commission into pedophile behavior in the churches got a little close. Morison, spent most of his time protecting his church { Hill song } from the troubles caused by their own actions ).

  • @LynnWinx
    @LynnWinx 5 місяців тому +27

    Speaking about PragerU. I just saw an ad on Instagram about Jordan Peterson's new "university". It's going to be such a dumpster fire.

  • @tulpas93
    @tulpas93 5 місяців тому +3

    Seth, you are a breath of fresh air! Always appreciate your insight and candor. Good health to you good man! ❤

  • @gordonfarley8142
    @gordonfarley8142 5 місяців тому +3

    Of course the only RUDE caller was the Christian. Ridiculous but to be expected.

  • @Giantfloatingballoonhead
    @Giantfloatingballoonhead 5 місяців тому +1

    The kindness in your voice. Thank you. I didn't expect to be ostracised and the hurt hit me like a ton of bricks. Very glad your voice exists on UA-cam.

  • @vls3771
    @vls3771 5 місяців тому +6

    Walking out the church doors for the last time 20 years ago .. it was like coming up for air after having your head held underwater .

  • @manuelbaez7148
    @manuelbaez7148 5 місяців тому +10

    never ceases to amaze how so many want sharia law in the good ole U.S. of A

    • @beantoes9627
      @beantoes9627 5 місяців тому

      Only for thee, not for me

  • @laurajarrell6187
    @laurajarrell6187 5 місяців тому +4

    Seth, this was one of the Best!I'm not sure if you understand just how important you are to so many of us! 👍🏼🌊💙💙💙🌊🥰✌🏽

  • @airenmoonwolf2520
    @airenmoonwolf2520 5 місяців тому +7

    After 30 years of freedom from the Catholic business of life control I can say that the anger does mellow with time and self compassion. I was always a bit of a rebel and I am possessed of (sometimes by) a questioning mind. When authorities tell me to stop asking, "Why?" I ask them to explain how not questioning benefits me, since I can clearly see what the benefits are to them.
    You won't always feel the fire of righteousness but those embers will be there to remind you that in a world where control is the aphrodisiac you must remain ready to question everything and blindly accept nothing.
    Life is complicated and the simple answers almost always leads to bondage...and not the safe, sane and consensual form!

  • @eljison
    @eljison 5 місяців тому +4

    My family was less religious than me. I went fundamentalist at the age of 17 and tried to convert my Catholic parents who barely went to church twice a year. It did not go over well. I got thrown out of my home and have since then reconciled mostly, but also deconstructed and became an atheist. Some of my friends and family, who were never nearly as serious about religion than I was, were very uncomfortable with me not believing in a god and some of them became more religious around me. I got more flack for professing non-belief than for anything else.

  • @simonkoster
    @simonkoster 5 місяців тому +5

    Seth, when you are finally fed up with life under the TaliGOP, come over to the Netherlands. We have stroopwafels.

  • @janiceculp4570
    @janiceculp4570 4 місяці тому +1

    I do feel what you're taking about. I am a blue dot in red Missouri.

  • @BarbaraBylow
    @BarbaraBylow 5 місяців тому +8

    I'm in a Blue City/Red State as well.
    Those new red coats haven't been able to raise a mayoral candidate in decades. Our girl Marcy might now be in the top three for length of office time in Washington. Personally I'm proud of our Toledo!

    • @ODoyleIYourFamilysGoingDown
      @ODoyleIYourFamilysGoingDown 5 місяців тому

      What has your mayor done to make life better for the people who suffer most in our backwards, gerrymandered State? My guess is that they are doing the same garbage that the mayor in our capital city has been doing, just like the democratic mayor who preceded the current. Decade plus tax abatements for corporations to bring a few hundred jobs, building expensive 5+1s using TIF funding scams that nobody on minimum wage can afford to live in, boosting charter schools (aka "community schools") which are syphoning funds away from our already struggling public schools, increasing already bloated police budgets, reducing social services to the people that need them the most...The list goes on...

  • @Burtimus02
    @Burtimus02 5 місяців тому +11

    Regarding being a “joiner” I follow Groucho’s Law: I would never join any group that would accept someone like me as a member. I have standards, you know. 😁

    • @simonkoster
      @simonkoster 5 місяців тому +2

      "I have standards. If you don't like them I have others." Also Groucho Marx.

  • @kenlangley2460
    @kenlangley2460 5 місяців тому +7

    Seth: You are a great and humble human being. You are the only living atheist thinker I still follow, though I have been an atheist since I was born 68 years ago. (I DO miss Hitch!). But I thank you for your mind and your work. -Ken.

  • @gekkeroph9276
    @gekkeroph9276 5 місяців тому +2

    I've had a crazy dream like that. I kept "waking up" in my dream over and over. Each time I "woke up" I was in a different themed bedroom. I finally woke up into the real world and I momentarily thought I was still dreaming.

  • @tomboughan2718
    @tomboughan2718 5 місяців тому +11

    i like to think Prager U.'s initials is P.U. and that is apt name for it.

  • @camwyn256
    @camwyn256 5 місяців тому +5

    Not that long ago, PragerU, on their website, used to teach the earth is flat. You can still see the entries using the Way Back Machine

  • @patobrien235
    @patobrien235 5 місяців тому +58

    As a non American I have 2 things to say,education is so important, USA stands for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, nothing divides more than religion

    • @JonO387
      @JonO387 5 місяців тому +1

      As an American atheist I have 2 responses. Proper education is extremely important and the USA needs Christianity now more than ever.

    • @patobrien235
      @patobrien235 5 місяців тому +3

      @@JonO387 is that to decide the country more??

    • @curious_atoms
      @curious_atoms 5 місяців тому

      ​@JonO387 Which species of "Christianity" is needed by "USA". No genus of Christianity exists, yet. But that's your penultimate point, right? Government approved Christianity, only.

    • @riparianlife97701
      @riparianlife97701 5 місяців тому +9

      NON-religious person: Religion is bad.
      Religious person: RIGHT! The wrong religions are bad. TRY MINE!

    • @patobrien235
      @patobrien235 5 місяців тому

      @@riparianlife97701 a confusing answer, 99% of religions are bad,really bad,power hungry,controlling etc

  • @tcov22
    @tcov22 5 місяців тому +1

    Hi Seth, glad to find your UA-cam channel since I’ve enjoyed your appearances on The Line. Keep it up.

  • @DRayL_
    @DRayL_ 5 місяців тому +9

    On the "troll" call. IF that person was being serious, he doesn't realize that his level of hyper indoctrination, and due to that, his level of being so thoroughly fooled by a system, that doesn't mean his system is factual, or that someone who left wasn't entirely sincere about their past [Christian] life. It is a VERY silly form of arrogance they exude.

    • @jeremysmetana8583
      @jeremysmetana8583 5 місяців тому +4

      I mean, really, it's one of the oldest and lamest (and most revealing) arguments. "You just didn't believe enough/do it right." It's reflexive. Hans is just trying to crap on Seth's authenticity so they can feel "heroic" and "true" by comparison.

    • @DRayL_
      @DRayL_ 5 місяців тому +3

      @@jeremysmetana8583 Agreed!

    • @almejri
      @almejri 5 місяців тому

      "Hans from Germany" is a total troll. He called one of the Line's shows a couple weeks ago, claiming to be from Germany, using the same voice changer, and asking one of the hosts (was it Matt Dillahunty?) "did you ever read your Bible you fucking idiot?" in a total deadpan voice. The moment I heard him speak here I knew exactly what we were gonna get.

  • @hjelsethak
    @hjelsethak 5 місяців тому +8

    Man, "Hans" from "Germany" sure was "cool." He probably should stop dragging Germany down with him. They don't need that.

    • @neuroticplays
      @neuroticplays 5 місяців тому +2

      It's always nice to see someone stand up for my home country. History has dragged us down enough

    • @SidonZeklar
      @SidonZeklar 5 місяців тому +3

      Well I (also a German) was imidiately skeptical about "Hans".
      The thing is: Hans is a stereotipical German name which is quite out of fashion today. So most Hanses are older people.
      I'm glad Seth caught on to him.

    • @BartVenneker
      @BartVenneker 5 місяців тому +3

      Comming from the Netherlands, I think we are fortunate to have Germany as a neighboor. Germany is beautiful, the people are nice and Germany is the technological engine of the EU. Also a financial power player in the EU. Please never Gexit !

  • @The_Other_Ghost
    @The_Other_Ghost 5 місяців тому +1

    Then he woke up again and he wasn't an innkeeper in Vermont.

  • @vilmareynoso7343
    @vilmareynoso7343 5 місяців тому +1

    Appreciate that you are a blue dot in a red state! I couldn't do it. Thank you!

  • @AndyColglazier
    @AndyColglazier 5 місяців тому +22

    I'm a scientific materialist who is sick to death of the ideological bundling brought to us by blue/red politics. Choice is freedom!

    • @ominous-omnipresent-they
      @ominous-omnipresent-they 5 місяців тому +1

      Red politics is exponentially much worse.

    • @ODoyleIYourFamilysGoingDown
      @ODoyleIYourFamilysGoingDown 5 місяців тому +2

      *_bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe BaD oRaNgE mAn?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!!!!_*

    • @ODoyleIYourFamilysGoingDown
      @ODoyleIYourFamilysGoingDown 5 місяців тому

      @@ominous-omnipresent-they Just keep pointing your finger at your neighbor while some multi-national corporation laughs all the way to the bank after they stole your retirement funds... #BlueAnon

  • @somersetcace1
    @somersetcace1 5 місяців тому +4

    Basically advertising their religion like a cheap used car salesman.

  • @eminence_front6043
    @eminence_front6043 5 місяців тому +4

    Love your shows Seth. I have listened to everything i could find from you and I'm always looking for more .

  • @jamesspencer9586
    @jamesspencer9586 5 місяців тому +2

    The sandstorm? An emotional state of confusion and turmoil..The cave? A safe haven from the storm.The people? A welcoming community of like minded sandstorm survivors.. Possibly a metaphor for your finding shelter in the rationality community..What better example of the Power Of Love?

  • @c.merritt7884
    @c.merritt7884 5 місяців тому +7

    I have also thought that all religions are cults; it is just a matter of degree. Heard this joke years ago: What is the difference between a cult and a religion? Answer: About a hundred years.

  • @DY2784
    @DY2784 5 місяців тому +2

    👋🏼Seth!❤ Thanks!👍🏼

  • @kaiserschnitzel89
    @kaiserschnitzel89 5 місяців тому +6

    This caller telling you that you didn't follow Jesus properly is ridiculous

  • @txdeadhead
    @txdeadhead 5 місяців тому +5

    The Lord's Prayer performed by Sister Janet Mead was released in 1973 as a pop song. Charted on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 4.

    • @Luubelaar
      @Luubelaar 5 місяців тому +1

      I remember singing this at public school in Sydney, Australia, back in the early 1980s.

    • @voxpopuli348
      @voxpopuli348 5 місяців тому +1

      It was on the radio.

    • @txdeadhead
      @txdeadhead 5 місяців тому +1

      Seth mentioned singing the Lords Prayer at church and I immediately started singing that version in my head.

  • @papaver5
    @papaver5 5 місяців тому +3

    Sorry, this is off-topic, but there are moments where the cadence of your voice makes you sound like Paul Lynde sometimes. It makes me smile, love your work.

  • @lindapendleton9176
    @lindapendleton9176 5 місяців тому +2

    Some times I think we who have embraced atheist/ nonbelief wish for some form of justice. Good luck with that.😊

  • @jasoncarpp7742
    @jasoncarpp7742 5 місяців тому +3

    I can relate to coming out as Gay. Even with the most supportive of people, it's not easy to *"come out"* to family members. Some of them are crazy *"Evangelical"* Christian, who would rather see me *"burn in Hell"* for my *"sin of Homosexuality".* It's never made sense to me.

  • @Lambert1386
    @Lambert1386 5 місяців тому +2

    Hans is our nutty caller.

  • @inkwizytor1104
    @inkwizytor1104 5 місяців тому +1

    The more people gets hooked by religious crooks the less is interested how sausage is being made.

    • @watchnascar4717
      @watchnascar4717 5 місяців тому

      This is great! Don't be offended when I repeat it!!!

  • @p2va73xc6j3
    @p2va73xc6j3 5 місяців тому +1

    Looks like someone lost a contact lense.

  • @JadedzUzi
    @JadedzUzi 5 місяців тому +2

    Thank you for what you do Seth! I'm on a mission to teach my parents that being LGBT isn't a choice, as I am pan. I truly believe that if I can prove that to them then they will accept me fully. They aren't the typical messianic jews, they are vaccinated, they believe in a evolution an a certain level, but also creationists? SIGH Wish me luck! And any tips would be amazing!

    • @jimdawson5299
      @jimdawson5299 5 місяців тому

      Pan … is a choice. You are normally either male or female. Any other “gender” is in your mind.

  • @fablerat3
    @fablerat3 5 місяців тому +4

    I'm finally the first to comment love what you do seth keep it up

  • @mdevilden
    @mdevilden 5 місяців тому

    when someone claims 'christian' they are suggesting what they think and say is God-breathed or God-infused, and therefore should not, may not be questioned or challenged.

  • @pfflyer3381
    @pfflyer3381 5 місяців тому

    12:25 exactly, they don't want "thinking"!
    They want subservience.
    I like the TWO virgins story, ANNE! and this odd "40" days obsession?
    The puzzled look of the believer is most satisfying! WHO'S READING? Atheist!! SINCE WE'VE ALL BEEN INDOCTRINATED SINCE 1492!! NOT THE SCAPEGOAT COLUMBUS, Christianity!
    My favorite is the trump like story as told via Luke,...14-26!,
    Expresses.
    This is their good guy?
    TWO of many gems!

  • @larryjohnson9737
    @larryjohnson9737 3 місяці тому

    Your anger will go away, it turns into boundaries. Anger is a defensive mechanism, boundaries are an offensive mechanism. Your boundaries will be respected by your friends or it will invoke anger in the christian community.

  • @BoneySkylord
    @BoneySkylord 5 місяців тому +6

    I once woke up due to a noise. I got out of bed, walked across the room, looked back at my wife then opened the door to find a man right outside the bedroom door. I screamed with shock then woke up again, back in bed with my wife beside me. I checked the landing. All completely clear. Weird feeling. 😳

  • @camwyn256
    @camwyn256 5 місяців тому +2

    To paraphrase Jesus in Matthew chapter 6:
    Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself

  • @stevenmclaughlin7073
    @stevenmclaughlin7073 5 місяців тому +2

    "Hans" called the last time, during the last show. He pulled the same stupid crap last time.

  • @seandonahue8464
    @seandonahue8464 5 місяців тому

    I get the Ugh all the time. Everytime I hear stupid stuff about God this or that it makes me, ugh! It’s like stepping in dog poo. It’s ok to notice it that way you can clean off your shoes.

  • @camwyn256
    @camwyn256 5 місяців тому

    One of my coworkers is a JW. We discuss the Bible. It's fascinating. Neither of us really trying to convert the other, just pleasant, calm, friendly discussions

  • @dongeonmaster8547
    @dongeonmaster8547 5 місяців тому +1

    👍

  • @panpsychism_
    @panpsychism_ 5 місяців тому

    That was “Hanz” from an insane asylum…

  • @Godless_Doc
    @Godless_Doc 5 місяців тому +1

    Seth, run for a public office in OK as a progressive, nonreligious candidate.

  • @thefreeBrain
    @thefreeBrain 5 місяців тому +1

    Buddhism is the house cat the atheist the tiger the nihilist the lion this is what I pixel when someone says cats

  • @decay79
    @decay79 5 місяців тому +3

    Not a hint of a german accent on Hans..

  • @moknbyrd
    @moknbyrd 5 місяців тому

    Infinite inception. Scary. :)

  • @jonmeador8637
    @jonmeador8637 5 місяців тому

    Jesus says don’t pray in public with other people and what do they do? Pray in public with other people.
    They do it, of course, to show how pious and humble they are.
    James Wilson, one of the Founding Fathers and one of the first 6 Supreme Court judges, said, “You should never expect genuine Christian conviction from a man who makes a public display of his piety.”

  • @feedingravens
    @feedingravens 5 місяців тому +4

    I am german, Hans absolutely does not sound like a german, he speaks too fast, uses atypical words for a geman would use

    • @jackmabel6067
      @jackmabel6067 5 місяців тому

      Perhaps a US Army dude based in Germany.

  • @eerohorila1109
    @eerohorila1109 5 місяців тому +1

    Oh. With that story about your dream. After that try to convince people that Matrix is imbossible. "Have you ever had a dream so real, it felt like reality? Imagine you can't wake up from that dream. How do you know the difference between the real world and the dream world?"🤯

  • @normanwolfe7639
    @normanwolfe7639 5 місяців тому

    I know a man who came out as gay to his fundamentalist family but they were more angry at his converting to Judaism 😂

  • @thunderridge4830
    @thunderridge4830 5 місяців тому

    7:38 It is home. Don't leave.

  • @jamessharp4494
    @jamessharp4494 5 місяців тому

    Are you sure is was Celine Dion, I thought it was Jennifer Rush but I could be wrong

  • @rsnickster363
    @rsnickster363 5 місяців тому

    Matt should take the advice of the title of this video.

  • @rehabwales
    @rehabwales 4 місяці тому

    The power of love is a Jennifer Rush song not a Celine Dion song. I guess that shows my age.

  • @nothereforit.605
    @nothereforit.605 5 місяців тому

    I have a random question. If humans travel space and find other life that looks exactly like us with the same creation myths 1 for 1, would that make you believe in a god? Me personally, I would like to say evolution just favored the human form but wouldn’t be able to explain why the myths are the same with the same gods

  • @pamelamaddox1547
    @pamelamaddox1547 5 місяців тому

    And what if their own Christian beliefs are twisted and are proporting false claims?

  • @TychanDK
    @TychanDK 5 місяців тому

    Can't really be a humanist, as I dislike human centrism.

  • @strezztechnoid
    @strezztechnoid 5 місяців тому +1

    Wow Seth, had a second level dream experience. Came out of a dream I was having while staying at a friends's (first level dream state), but I had entered another dream set around a cousin (second level dream state). I had suddenly unrolled one dream after another, woke in a hot sweat, covered in my own sweat I was freaking out. Hope this isn't a sign of some psychological problem...

  • @orlandoruizrivera
    @orlandoruizrivera 5 місяців тому +1

    That "hans" is pretty stupid

  • @alexcwagner
    @alexcwagner 5 місяців тому

    9:55 I wouldn't touch that stuff with a 10-foot pole. I don't believe God and Satan literally exist outside of being anthropomorphic symbols of good and evil, but even as symbols, why would I want to associate with a symbol of evil? I know Satanists don't believe in any of it, either. I think their only reason to bother with it is to antagonize Christians so they can feel superior to them. If it were some other primitive and ignorant group, we wouldn't look at it so kindly if someone intentionally tried to terrorize them by pretending to worship whatever they thought was evil, and just took the attitude, "Yeah, they're ignorant, so fuck 'em! It's their own fault for not being smart like us!" Somehow, Christians aren't granted the same charity and kindness.
    I will grant this, though. If I were an outspoken atheist who attracted as many hateful comments from Christians as I'm sure Seth does, I'm sure I would get pretty jaded and find it hard to be sympathetic, too. That's how it seems to work in the world in general, anyway. Like in politics, most of anyone I liked ten years ago that I thought was pretty centrist and reasonable has become radicalized to one extreme or the other. It's hard to have a balanced take on anything, because then you're a target for both sides.

  • @thefreeBrain
    @thefreeBrain 5 місяців тому

    I want to leave the gods of the old extraterrestrial now when someone speaks of the gods all I see are humans who's someone somehow said this human is a God and other humans said it afterwards now when we look at Zeus or maybe Anubis these are not gods but man

  • @robinhood20253
    @robinhood20253 5 місяців тому

    It wa all uour fault Seth, not the god who never shows up .

  • @riparianlife97701
    @riparianlife97701 5 місяців тому +3

    Ever fly in a plane? Did the pilot believe in the same god as you? You didn't ask??? Weird. It's like you only pretend that matters. Seems like it would be pretty important.

  • @larrygreen262
    @larrygreen262 5 місяців тому

    What's going on in that thumbnail? Did someone drop a quarter and the rest are looking for it? Or, are they having a farternity meeting to decide who is the next one who has to kiss Don-Old Dump's ass?

  • @KrwiomoczBogurodzicy
    @KrwiomoczBogurodzicy 5 місяців тому

    01:00:12

  • @no_sht_sherlock4663
    @no_sht_sherlock4663 5 місяців тому +1

    Logic > Faith

  • @eunhinged
    @eunhinged 5 місяців тому

    Seth, you silly man....don't cha know that was Hanz from Hanz and Franz and she was just there to "pump you up!" LOL. I am not doubting she lives in Germany but as an ESL teacher, I know the German accent "Prost!" ('cheers' in German).