You are absolutely right when you say that this seems insane to me. Satan has Telepathy? Having a an imaginary friend is bad enough but an imaginary enemy is paranoid. I could laugh but part of me really wants to cry. This poor fellow is so confused it almost breaks my heart.
Brandon, I can be sure of it because I rightly divide the word of truth as stated in 2 Timothy 2:15. Rightly dividing the word of truth is the key to understanding the bible and that is the clear reason why you get everything wrong in every single video that you have done to date about God and the bible. You are not rightly dividing the word of truth. Before you make another video against God and the bible maybe you should learn what rightly dividing the word of truth is all about. I suggest that you watch the bible teachings of Robert Breaker who actually does rightly divide the word of truth in his teachings. Maybe you should begin with the teaching he has done that shows the differences between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Heaven because you seem to think that they are the same thing when they are not. Here is the link to it: The Kingdom of God vs The Kingdom of Heaven ua-cam.com/video/o-PchAXJufs/v-deo.html
Brandon, you speak of true born again Christians having fear of going to hell, then how come I don't have this fear? Oh...wait I know that the bible has the answer to this... 1 John 4:18 (KJV): There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. A true born again Christian has God's perfect love upon them and as a result they won't have a fear of hell anymore because they are not going to end up in hell as a saved person.
Brandon have you ever heard of the Christian found footage film, The Lock In. It’s about a dirty magazine that opens a demonic portal. GAM did a good episode covering it.
A skit of a person talking to themselves, while also pretending to be God, Lust, the Flesh, Satan is a perfect representation of Christianity. We make our thoughts their thoughts. We are simply having a conversation in our own minds.
That's a great way to put it. I remember back when I was a Christian, I would basically conjure an image in my mind of what I thought god would be in order for me to talk to him. Funny enough, I still talk out loud as I did when I prayed, because it helps me process things. It's just now I know I'm talking to myself, not some being who can hear me.
47 now and an atheist/humanist. In the height of my Christianity, in my 20's, I managed to stop self-gratification for months. But then I started having nocturnal emissions. I came to the realization that it was just a normal body function and that I would rather take care of it while awake than have to clean my sheets every day. The ridiculous things we do to try to please a being that doesn't even exist.
The natural process when we leave any religion behind and we stop accepting things not proven even when they say have faith (a unsure mental belief) as if that’s going to change anything
“Oh no that was just god doing what we call the “Dream Jerk”. One of his many… mysterious… ways… *puts finger on your lip, erotically hushing you*” - Christian
Right. We are supposed to believe that god created a. biological reaction to seeing scores of woman as human nature and yet wants us to abstain from doing anything about said natural reaction. If god is all powerful shouldn’t we only get erect for our “soulmate??” It’s laughable.
I have contamination OCD. I have been grossed out(for lack of a better term) by my bodily emissions. I hate having wet dreams. I did the same things you did,but somehow,I ended up having intrusive thoughts and possibly erotomania. Both those are somewhat opposed to my OCD. I cant blame my problem completely on self gratification,but maybe overdoing it and the fact that I have a family history of mental issues and have a hard time taking care of myself health wise are factors. I agree of course with just taking care of it instead of dealing with wet dreams. So much for intelligent design😂
I am one of those “young Christian men” that rushed into marriage to avoid Sin. I got married at 19 (I’m 22 now) I can honestly say that you hit the nail right on the head. I’m in the process now of deconstructing everything, from my faith to my politics. But she still believes strongly (she’s what you might call a reformed fundamentalist. Believing in a young earth and that the Bible is inerrant . But that you shouldn’t discriminate against homosexuals and women ETC.) and it’s been tough man. She is still one of my closest friends and I don’t want to continue to hurt her, I’m just lost, I don’t know what to do. I realize now that we do have A LOT of different goals, desires and philosophies in life but I feel as though I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. Our families are still very close and all of my friends are close with her as well and by leaving her I would effectively end my relationship with all parties involved. I don’t want to stay just to make our parents happy and I don’t want to hurt her by leaving. She thinks this is just “part of my testimony and God is going to use this one day” I just don’t have the heart to tell her “No, it’s probably not.” I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t. This was very long winded but I just wanted to say thank you Brandon, I’ve been listening to you for quite a while now and you’ve been a tremendous help/comfort to me in my deconstruction journey. I genuinely look forward to your insight you share in your videos every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday (and the occasional Saturday short) if you haven’t done anything else with your channel, you’ve helped me and I’m very grateful for it. keep up the good work!
Hey man, thanks so much for reaching out and sharing that. What a hard spot. I was 10 years and 2 kinds into my marriage before the veil was lifted, and i think that makes my situation pretty different. Theres a real pro and con for figuring it out so young, but if you and your wife love each other and have a healthy relationship despite the differences, my first advice is always to try to make it work. God or no God, I think Marriage is an incredible thing, but again each individual situation is so specific. Wishing you well man!
Lol your poor ex wife is a perfect example of a deeply brainwashed human being. There are billions out there like her, and they are hopeless to reason with
Brother, my story is similar as yours. I can feel the pain of it. Be loving, but be honest, and stay committed to understanding the reality you are in. I hope things workout for your best interest. You’ve got this
@@blakebortles3805 sounds like, even though you rushed into marriage, you really care about her. You only have this one life. Don't sacrifice it for other people.
It is funny how they are saying "the disagreements between denominations are superficial and dont take away from core doctrine" now. Its like they havent ever learned what other denominations think. Or i guess with some they just say they arent christian like mormons, jw, or catholics sometimes.
@@GameTimeWhy Yes, and since they don't like to be questioned, they're not going to question someone else's faith... Most of the time. My ex BIL would jump at every opportunity to show how much he understands what God means. Annoying af lol But most Christians accept the "I'm Christian, too" label.
I know first-hand how this mentality messes with a person. Part of the reason I examined my faith and reasons for belief were because I was worried I was a "lukewarm Christian" and that I'd be spat out. I worried I was going to hell because I wasn't sure if I was saved or not. And I was worried I wasn't the "right" kind of Christian. And that opened the door to me examining why I believed to begin with or how I could know what is true... and long story short I realized I'm an atheist. But there was so much fear and so much self loathing up until realizing I no longer believe. I feel bad for how religion has hurt people and made them feel that they are wicked simply for being human. It is so messed up... I'm thankful for people like you talking about these things. It helps me process them as a former Christian, and maybe... maybe it can help others work through these things, too.
@kintsugi-c6u this is why I chose to walk away from it all as ultimately its sanity over belief which as you deconstruct, you really just how much nonsense we buy into. You can do it, its not easy but it's totally worth it to be happy in yourself x
Amusing about the cussing, the pastor of a church my dad attended admitted to watching porn. I asked if he was going to be removed and my dad said they were going to give him another chance, then he said something that floored me. He said 'it would be different if he had been caught cussing or something'
Gotta wonder how some people, especially people who should be able to do better, get a free pass, while people who never read the bible or "got saved" are condemned for minor offenses that aren't even canonical!
The funny thing is that most of these curse word didn't even exist at the time of Jesus & even for the ones the did, why would the creator of the whole universe care about something like improper grammar? The only "real" curse word in the bible is damn.
Always reminds me of the Tony Campolo story... that he stood before Spring Harvest church in England in the early 1980s and said " I have three things I want to say. First, while you were sleeping last night, 45,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. Third, what’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact I said ‘shit’ than the fact that 45,000 kids died last night.”
Such scary world we used to live in, with demons and pitfalls around every corner, all the time living with the threath that in the end you could still end up getting spit out.
Thank you so much for calling out p@rn addiction, Brandon. I've seen so many young people unable to form healthy relationships because they started watching this at very young ages, and too many people in the atheist community avoid or dismiss the topic because they associate criticism of p@rn with puritanical Christianity. As for immature marriages, I had an Evangelical friend who married at 16 because she didn't want to have sex before marriage and this was preferable to "burning." Very early on, she knew that she and her husband had no sexual chemistry, but her parents and the entire church convinced them that "love was a choice" even though his touch would sometimes make her vomit. Long story short: 10 yrs and 3 kids later, the marriage fell apart, she was abandoned by much of her church community, and these kids have parents who hate each other. Don't get married just to have sex, kiddies.
Oh gosh, that's horrible! I've heard that whole "love is a choice" thing. As if to say any two people can just choose each other and make it work. And force yourself to keep choosing it.
I once went to a church years ago where I was engaged to a guy. Our engagement fell apart when I had a massive mental breakdown. During our breakup. He said something to me that was very telling. He said: "people told me that love was a choice and that I had to choose you so I forced myself to choose to love you when I didn't really love you."
@@Charlotte_Martel I think that porn is a bigger problem if you think that you are doing something wrong. Without that guilt you would have to be doing it a lot for it to be a problem.
This is very common in the Jehovahs Witnesses. If you're not married by age 22 you're gonna be pretty much out of luck and marriage outside the religion is highly frowned upon. Me and all my friends all got married by age 19. I have to say it wasn't until I watched soft porn that I got any idea how to make her at least halfways satisfied.
As the mother of a now adult son, who is Christian; I know how insidious this cycle is. They try so hard to be perfect, but of course they can't and so that brings on guilt and it's a damaging cycle. I always gave grace and told my son that none are perfect and that was why we had a savior. I talked to him regularly about not feeling shame for experiencing normal teenage thoughts and desires. He is now 45, Calvinist and the father of four boys. He is a believer and we just agree to disagree. I recently had a discussion with both my 16 and 14 year old grandsons, and I told them there isn't anything they cannot talk to me about. We are open and I don't hold back on what I know are struggles for young people in general. My son and his wife have no problem with my transparency, and I'm thankful for that! You always do such a nice job in presenting your view, I appreciate you very much!
@Charlotte_Martel He, at one point was going to the Church of God, also the Assembly of God. Both of those denominations are free will churches who stress immediate repentance after sinning. When he was going to these churches he literally thought if he had a bad thought or did something wrong and died before he repented he would go to hell. I was raised Lutheran, which is Catholic light. He was exposed to that denomination but liked going to these other churches and I did not care. I believe what brought him to Calvinism is that it teaches that God is sovereign and therefore he (God) and only he can elect who will and won't be saved. This leaves it in God's hands and basically you can profess your faith without worrying that there is anything you can or cannot do to tip the scale. You're either elected for salvation or you're not. Interestingly this was a turning point for me. He announced this is 2015. I did a deep dive and of course I could see arguments for both sides. It was a slow shift but it was within a year or two after this, that I said to myself " This is mythology, allegory, fables and I don't think I believe it anymore!" My son is a good man, good husband and excellent father. I'm thankful he doesn't disparage me for how I believe or for my exit from the faith.
"tell me that doesn't absolutely break a person who thinks they love this god." one hundred percent. the incredible stress never goes away for anyone that has a shred of self awareness.
14:00 this is what made me think Christianity is a walk into a comic book style life to lay over reality. The cognitive dissonance that slowly eroded away as I applied logic and critical thinking, not taking it literally, and getting therapy and applying what I needed in order to grow worked better than being "more religious". "God is good, you're bad. Try harder " doesn't work. My life feels so much better now that I don't believe.
Plenty of Christians do view gluttony as a major sin, at least the Catholics and Orthodox do. When I was in Catholic school, the sisters actually had a formula for how many years in purgatory one would get for gorging on each meal. It was bizarre, but that's one of the reasons why the saints are characterised by being so pale and thin. Fasting showed ultimate mastery over one's most basic fleshy desires.
"God is supposed to fill you with purpose." (Paraphrased) This is one of the reasons I became an atheist. I was suffering from a deep depression when I was much younger. I went to church with my family like a good Christian, and one day they asked for people to be baptized. I stood up, thinking, "I have to do something. Maybe God's light will burn away the depression." I got baptized, and I was then wet and still deeply depressed. Of course, nothing changed except I started to think differently about my faith. It took me a long time to get the proper help, but by the time I did, my faith was completely dead.
I'm so glad you got the help you need! ❤ I genuinely don't think I'd still be here if I hadn't gotten the real help I actually needed, as quickly as I did, and continue to get every day (daily medications - for bipolar disorder & others). It was already difficult to realize (and then accept) the reality I was naturally unlucky enough to have such mental illnesses. A belief that a loving God created me and had the power to end my suffering would have been crushing...and the time I would've spent attempting to obtain that healing could have genuinely ended me. 😔 Definitely would have made it impossible to have the life I do today (which is solely thanks to my medications)!
15:28 - He was going to “kill” his flesh. There are a lot of churches that teach this concept that you have to “die to your flesh” or even “crucify your flesh.” It’s in the same vein as “carrying your cross” but just more extreme language
very possible what he was going for. I am familiar with the concept, but also pulling a knife out when struggling with the sin of lust....seems to be a bit on the nose for the verses from Jesus about what to do if your lust will put you in hell. Either way, extreme.
@@MindShift-BrandonI was truly concerned with what the young man might cut off as well. Jesus was pretty specific on this issue. A troubled mind could really harm himself.
@@Charlotte_Martel I can't remember the name right offhand but there was a very famous early Christian writer (2nd-3rd centuries?) who actually castrated himself in the name of Jesus. He wasn't the only one . . .
11:08 this section on listening to secular music really hits home. When I was a teenager, I was taught in my youth group that I should only listen to Christian music. I tried and I forced myself to listen to it, even to the songs that were subpar. In college, this idea waned a little because my Christian group listened to all types of music. One of the freedoms I experienced leaving Christianity was the freedom from obligation to listen to Christian music and guilt from listening to secular music.
It's so weird because, in a way, all music will take you to a different place-- and I'm not convinced "Christian" music takes you to places any better than other kinds. Just depends on the music and where you are in relationship to it. You can tell where it's taking you by the way it feels, having rules about it is ridiculous.
The reason Christian music is so bad is that the artists don't put the music first: they put "God" first. They're not true artists, they're Christians "posing" as artists to attract kids to their religion. They don't make music for the love of music, they do it as a means to an end, reducing it to an evangelizing tool; and so the life gets sapped out of it.
@michaelhenry1763 I can't stand the new "christian" music...way back in the 70s, there were a few artists who rocked out (Stryper, Barry McGuire, etc). But today is just boring "praise" songs. Even though I'm deconstructing, I still enjoy the old hymns. Besides, I grew up under the influence of "evil" rock and roll in the late 1950s and up.
If he's being honest I'd say he's 3/4 of the way towards going on a killing spree to "cleanse the world of sin" or somesuch nonsense. More likely he's just a dishonest Christian excusagist grifter like most of them.
Yeah I was going to say the same thing - I really feel sorry for this poor guy. Hope he gets past all this. Hey, I did so maybe he can too. It almost seems like many of us who took it most seriously are the ones who eventually find our way out. Not sure the statistics on that….
My wife and I dated for a few months only before deciding to get married. Because we were both Christians and marriage was seen as the only correct end goal of dating. Now we have a kid together, but we've found so many incompatibilities, and we're trying to figure out how to make the best of it.
As an old man here is my advice to the younger men (not necessarily Christians but ALL young men): it IS very important to love other people. It is SO important that we need to not let religion get in our way. The Bible says (paraphrasing) "we can't serve two masters" and the irony is the Bible is right about this, but fictional characters should not be our "master" - loving & taking care of other humans should be our master. Life/relationships are very complicated, and life doesn't get less complicated as we get older. We will always be on the stage juggling dinner plates, so no sense trying to juggle even more of them at a time. Just my 2 cents!
Current christian here going through the trenches right now of deconstruction. Brandon always has excellent points and he goes about it in a very respectful way. The super high standard and thought of hell, the complete overthinking of every thing I do. Has kept me from sleeping, has given me a huge amount of anxiety and depression, my mental health has been horrible the last year. I have taken hell as a very serious thing because I did/maybe do believe in it. I often wondered why other Christians didn't feel burdened by it, I often have been sad because the "wide path" to destruction is going to take my entire family because most of them aren't believers. It's horrible.
Nothing has changed, just the same, the REALITY remains that RELIGIONS and ATHEISM still bring DISHONOR and ETERNAL DEATHS because Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions are still unbothered and just don't care even if their Satanic LIE and false claim that GOD doesn't exist and Satanic LIES and false teachings and doctrines about "hellfire", "Trinity", "Armageddon", "rapture", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", and "reincarnation" bring them dishonor, disgrace, shame, and cause their own downfall and ETERNAL DEATHS and humiliations, sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and DEATHS to their own families and neighbors. Nothing has changed, just the same, the TRUTH remains that GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 is still NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons but ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are still the guarantee that all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Its incredibly hard to struggle through deconversion and it unfortunately doesnt always heal all wounds associated with living in a belief system that teaches what Christianity does. Keep working through. To quote Van Helsing from Dracula, “we must pass the bitter waters before we reach the sweet.” Wish you all the best in your going forward. Channels like this are tremendous help.
Hey current Christian here I would recommend studying your Bible more and joining a church where they have regular Bible study’s so that you can have more answers for your struggles I wish I could talk to u more about it (if you want to we can ) ,but I will pray for you guys love you all !
Christian here don't join any closed community and do not believe what you read or hear online without a second thought. Read major theologians like CS Lewis and actual history books.
the condemnation of "secular music" part is so funny and hypocritical when you consider the contents of the Scriptures and ancient Hebrew psalms (music)... its not like believers are dashing infants against rocks after all right
One of my brothers said a week ago, "We don't call it a religion, we call it faith." And I got so confused. He must be listening to crap like this. The more "Christian" he becomes, the less sense he makes.
It is very much a cult. The fact that its so wide spread as to be called a “religion “ or a “faith” is optics for those who follow it to think they are somehow different than the 20-30 people living in the hills waiting for ufo’s or whatever.
My former cult leader (aka Christian small group leader) convinced me that I was an addict because of my drinking and my porn addiction. When I left the faith, those addictions went away because I was no longer stressed about having to be perfect just like God is perfect.
I don't know if this guy covers other angles of religion but all of these are fear based. He mentions love, but the gist of his message is fear - of hell, of our own weakness.
@@CatDaddyGuitar But why have an afterlife when the habitability of the universe is still some billions (lower estimate big crunch) and or (100) trillions (upper estimate widely accepted heat death) years away? While I certainly like the idea that we all have an immutable immortal soul but then again why must the vehicle the body have to die when (physical) creation itself is not in the hurry to end anytime soon? It's like being restricted to going on a vacation within the limits of your own city all because of original sin! Total nonsense. I don't think God actually get's why God created such a vast universe of space and time. Oh btw and there is no universe (as how we know the universe) in the bible at all so there's that too.
These clips remind me of Jack Chick tracts I read decades ago. The comic book presentations contained relentless messages of: 1. Most Christians, especially Catholics, were deceived by a false gospel and headed for hell, no matter how kind and loving they were. 2. Satan ruled all aspects of society and was constantly trying to deceive you and get you to sin. 3. You were responsible for your non-Christian family and friends going to hell if you did not preach the true gospel to them. This was the beginning of my severe religious trauma as a teenager.
@kiva2156 We used to get those at our Reformed church. Us teenagers would laugh at the crap stories and would tear them up. Worse, some kids were taken in by that crapola.
7:58 I want to do this so badly. I was immersed in so many denominations growing up, all in the same town. I think it’s what helped my skeptical alarm bells go off at such a young age.
Thank you so much for this video. Truley, I wanted to burst into tears. This was the hell I was in, feeling the lust and thinking i was evil for it. It led to a cycle of torture that I sought help through the church to overcome, only to end up exactly where I started, except with more self-hate. Once the help didn't help, I became unsavable, and now so many people know about that shame. I broke out of religion, thanks partially to this. This video is so powerful. I wish I could save everyone from all that pain I endured, both self-pain, and religious. Thank you so much. You are helping a ton of people who need this message. I know many people hate on you, but you are doing good work. Stay strong and keep fighting!
I think God owes Satan an apology for all of the evil things he intentionally and entirely created and choreographed him to do to people every day, while simultaneously scapegoating him for all of it.
Agreed, but seeing how God in the Old Testament used Babylon to "judge" the Israelites, only to destroy them after they did his dirty work for Him (I don't believe this happened but it's how the Bible story goes), it's only logical that God would use Satan and then destroy him once he's outlived his usefulness. God is the ultimate mob boss- showing no loyalty to anyone but himself.
The porn take really hit home for me. I struggled through this addiction right when i was the most devotional to the faith. I prayed god to help me or to take the urges awaya or to change my desire and have "his" desires since im now a new creation, fasted, read my Bible, everything you can think of but nothing worked i kept relapsing and feel more shame and guilt which just caused to keep relapsing again and again. It wasnt until i left the faith and started realizing that shame and self loathing are the WORST way to approach any addiction im now free of the addiction i dealt with the root cause and im happier and more content with my life than ever. Keep doing what you do Brian after watching your videos it has helped me with my deconstruction and got rid of my fear of hell which used to haunt me . I really appreciate your work 🙏💯
That's why muslims aren't allowed to mention the Satanic Verses (the originals, not the book by Salman Rushdie), it undermines the whole religious narrative.
I had this argument with a christian before. Their answer in how to differentiate between god and satan trying to deceive was "they just feel it". Okay great then every lunatic that goes on a xxx spree and thinks god told them was right, because they also felt it. On second thought, this does sounds like something the bible god would command...
This really hit home with me. Even though I've pretty much given up on Christianity, I still suffer from these types of thoughts. It's absolutely horrible.
Thanks for another great video Brandon, fantastic work once again! The impossibility of being a 'perfect' Christian is the thing that gets me and these shorts show that really well... the message is really - you're struggling with x, well just stop it because God said so and if you don't you better beware. Rather than - you're struggling with x, i know it's really hard to break out of it, i know you're trying your best to do so, here's a toolkit of things that will assist and list of people to go see about it. Good created you one way, He wants to be another way, Orders you to do it under threat, Leaves you to be crushed by finding it hard...unless you manage to master cognative dissonance!
There is no hate like Christian love. It reminds me of something genius I saw somewhere (might have been “shower thoughts” on reddit) about how you always notice that those who deny that the holocaust ever happened, never seem particularly relieved to have supposedly found that out. Because for me, I’ve noticed how the kinds of Christians who are so convinced that my being openly and unapologetically gay (unapologetic on account of me doing nothing wrong to anybody except an infinite being who is more concerned about who he made me interested in sleeping with than helping newborns with malaria) is going to send me to burn in Hell forever, never seem really fearful for me and my well-being. They seem excited a little bit to see me get my comeuppance. Says a lot.
The porn one really hit home. I have struggled with porn- and sadly still do- but when I was a Christian and struggling with porn, the guilt, shame, cognitive dissonance of believing I was a new creation bound for Heaven, yet still falling for the same sin over and over which made me worry that I was actually not saved and headed for Hell was enough to break me mentally. Now that I no longer believe, I still don't like my porn addiction and want to get over it but I at least can see it for what it really is, without the additional guilt, shame and confusion that comes from being Christian. I feel sorry for the guy making the videos, as well as everyone else who is living through what I thankfully escaped. I'm grateful to Brandon for his great work in exposing this.
Atheists are FREE to mock and degrade all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them. Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions are FREE to mock and degrade all Atheists as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them. GOD and Jesus Christ have nothing to do with Atheism and Religions. GOD KNOWS that loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who rejected Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all kinds of Religions as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever and honor and obey Jesus Christ instead as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King will definitely bring themselves honor and his favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 and GOD also KNOWS that the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854 seems like copy pasted that. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the definition to follow or love Jesus is colloquially "Christian". It seems you're positing some "The Way" version. Fine. Here's the central problem: "obey Jesus Christ" What does that really mean? Plain-sense readings of the gospels and epistles can lead you to the exact problems outlined in this video. That platitude you offer is empty of any practical application. It's a vacuous concept with no "how." Pray? How much? Do I make up how much? When do I know I've really opened my heart? Impossible and eventually induces anxiety. I don't think you really listened at all. "Proper time" is the excuse you can give for these supposed promises remaining continually unfulfilled.
I struggle with it too. Combined with OCD and unwanted sexual thoughts,its my personal hell. Would not wish that on anyone. In fact I really would not wish anything bad or unproductive upon anyone. Here is to hoping your problem gets better over time!👍
I love that you used the word "burdened". My heart is also burdened for young people who are trapped in a belief system that makes them hate themselves.
I blame the internet for the increase in porn addiction. Can be very destructive to intimate relationships. Glad you mentioned CBT. 30 years of therapy proved CBT to be only effective method for my family member. Amazing how omnipresent Satan is in many Christian religions. That always bugged me. I never heard a word from God or Satan in 50+ years of “listening” so this is hard for me to relate to.
Watching the clips was like a SNL skit-a parody-a satire. But I have deep sympathy for that very young man-an obvious VICTIM of religious indoctrination. I feel gutted by the trauma inflicted on the innocent by the “LOVING FUCKING GOD.”
as someone who, as a kid was told about how people who didn't believe would go to hell regardless of if they were good or bad, and that "good people go to hell", things like this really help me realize how convoluted each belief in Christianity truly is. it's one thing for different beliefs around the world to conflict with one another, but for different beliefs of the same book, of the same god, to be vastly different from one another, to the point where people constantly question if they're a "lukewarm Christian" or not, clearly speaks volumes to how it all really is. It's interesting, because I grew up without these types of fears of being "lukewarm". I was told by our youth group leaders that God loved you regardless of who you were, that us people were always going to be fundamentally "sinful" as they said, and painted a picture of hell as a sort of oncoming storm, similar to how the flood is toned down to children as being a natural disaster that god foresaw, rather than something he did. I find two things interesting, first of all, as a kid, not only did the idea of fundamentally sinful made my already present self-hate issues worsen, but the idea of even good people going to hell made me get in trouble at school for basically harrasing other students into trying to get them to believe to "save them". even more interesting than this, My Christian mom actually told us that "not all churches taught the same messages", and actually had us move churches after my sibling got bullied over thinking about potentially being LGBTQ back in the day. it's clear that our mom cared enough about our wellbeing to accept that all beliefs were different, and even I as a kid imagined god being above all the bad things people saw of him that they believed to be supposedly just, but it's unfortunate to think that people truly believe these things. while belief can be used to give people comfort, that comfort unfortunately lies in things like the idea of an afterlife and of people still persisting after death. people dislike that bad things happen and that mortality is undeniable, but by creating these comforts in the form of belief, it shields them from having to face the truth and coming to terms with things like passing on. Even worse, it brings people to wish such demise upon others for doing things that aren't harmful or bad, simply different.
As a bisexual... that first one is just horrid. I'm made to be the way i am... just so a big boy can take all the glory for punishing me for what he made me to be? Punishing us all for his choice to make sinners? I see no justice in this god. Bloodshed and Boasting.... Guilt trips and Jealousy. Never was good. I'm glad I know. 👁
I'm wondering why guys like Billy Carson get all the attention... when we've got great intellectuals like yourself who have read the literature (just like myself) and can articulate very accurate arguments based on what's written in the bible. Love this man! Your videos deserve to go viral! 💯💯
13:18 Actually, it’s really up in the air whether porn “addiction” is a real thing. You can go down the rabbit hole on this, but AASECT therapists and educators have vocally opposed the addiction framework for treatment of “problematic” sexual behaviors for years, arguing (with fairly convincing evidence) that it simply makes the problem worse.
The best way to ensure that porn addiction continues is to make a problem out of it at all. When you load the practice of masturbation, especially with porn, with so much guilt and pressure you're just ensuring that the shame cycle endures. What helped me get off that stuff was getting out of Christianity. Not feeling shame anymore about my entirely natural sexual urges allowed me to just go with the flow of my body and accept that there are times where I will masturbate more and times where I will masturbate less. In consequence, my porn consumption and masturbation in general has lessened more than it ever did under christianity. Don't let people or institutions stigmatize you into a shame cycle, they just want to make you more obedient and reliant upon them.
Talk to a believing Seventh Day Adventist. It's amazing how they will insinuate that non-Saturday Sabbath keepers are going to Hell but without actually saying it out right.
@smithgorrilugum4574 Well, except for the going to hell for not worshiping on Saturday, it is correct that the correct day IS Saturday. There was no command from "god" or Jeezis to change to Sunday. That was a man commanded change, from around 352 CE (AD, if you like). I think maybe it was Constantine who implemented it...of course, Protestant churches use the excuse of Jeezis rising from the grave on Sunday as reason. But in some religions (which ones,. I forget) Sunday is known as "The Venerable Day of the Sun." Sun worshipers.
@@johntiggleman4686 Alright then; you tell me;...are the Christians reading this right now going to be damned for not keeping the Saturday Sabbath? Considering that now they understand that the fourth commandment says to keep the seventh day of the week as a sabbath? Are all Catholics, Protestants, and Charismatics going to roast in Hell forever for not keeping the Saturday Sabbath?
@smithgorrilugum4574 Well, god did punish the Israelites for disobeying the "No other gods before me" command...If it's ok to ignore that Sabbath command, might as well remove it and call them The Nine Commandments.
And I also think that the only way ppl believe this shit is the so.called personal experience which is basically just the placebo and Mandela affect combined with your what your brain wants it to look like
Hey Brandon. I can’t wait to get to a place where my mind is serving me properly rather than these Christian theological intrusive thoughts! I suffer with ED and it slowly gets better the more I listen to you. This video was a wrecking ball. With this understanding of what has been going on with me has loosened a lot of pressure and tension. Thanks again for your hard work buddy. Tyree D 😉
(i go to a adventist school) Today's religion class was about 1 Samuel. My teacher was talking about "beliefs" and basically the mentality behind believing something is true. Today was mainly about how King Saul outlawed witchcraft but then he himself went before a witch in order to contact Samuel. I guess it was to show Saul's hypocrisy, which I am not discrediting that, but quite ironic knowing God himself's actions. Really ticked me off when the audiobook reader read about how God had abandoned Saul, to the point they were deemed enemies, and that Saul was trying to escape God's fury, how no one in that room bothers to think about how God really care about the most diplomatic solution does he? The whole reiteration of the Israelites and Palestinians fighting each other over and over, with still everyone in the room I feel desensitized to what they were even listening to! To think of the people in the bible as real human beings makes the stories much more unpleasant. There was, I guess I should say like, interlude where the teacher was talking about the topic Christianity's not so good in my opinion's influence. They revealed about how forcing your beliefs onto other people when they are going through grief and is a horrible thing to do along with just saying someone else's beliefs are wrong is the wrong thing to do. They talked about a show about wizardry and "witchcraft", got them in big trouble with their mother. They talked about how playing uno on Sabbath got her grandma livid. Their family were very devoting 7th day Adventists. The teacher talked about how they had a college friend who firmly believed that when they are dead, they are dirt and know nothing. Yet when their partner died, they believed their partner was watching them down from heaven. This was supposed to be an example of what they said earlier about how the brain can really convince our minds about what is true and what isn't. If that whole class period didn't end with more than 1 doubter in that room, I'd lose it. The saddest part of the whole class period was when it closed with the teacher speaking about cults, beliefs that may not be in your interest, etc, they asked the class if they would be able to avoid a cult when they see it, and all of them said yes. I wish there was more I could do. Also, speaking from experience, as someone who is nearly 2 weeks clean on my journey to quit pornography, I think it's much easier to work your way out of that horrible stuff when you don't have the heavenly and demonic pressures pushing against you, guilt of shaming your creator, guilt of succumbing to your creator's mortal enemy, haha! I give my deepest best wishes for anyone trying to escape this horrible addiction. I apologize for the longer read, I probably should've wrote this down in my journal or something, but pencil just causes too many wrist pains sometimes ok lol. have a great day/night whenever you are reading this Brandon.
I enjoyed reading your long comment, but it would have been much easier with a full line of space between the paragraphs. :) It looks like you did break your comment into paragraphs, with excellent sentence formatting, but you only hit the "enter/return" button once, instead of twice. (IDK, hopefully that makes sense! It's kinda crazy what a difference is made by just a few lines of empty space scattered within a big block of text.)
I usually don't leave comments, but I really enjoyed that video, especially when you mentioned what is God waiting for regarding Jesus' return. It's interesting to think that Jesus could have come back a thousand years ago and saved countless souls.
Your videos really helped me to think for myself and find myself, and am grateful that I no longer suffer from this fear anymore, It breaks my heart that ppl go through this No one should be going though. I'm hoping everyone wakes up from this as well with every other religion system
Some Christians say that all you need to be saved is to believe and trust in Jesus Christ, and they’re right. Some other Christians say that homosexuality is theologically condemned and nobody who engages in it will be allowed into Heaven, and they’re right. There is no theological consistency in Christianity and everybody can just pick and choose whatever their heart, or bigotry, desires
Love the video, Brandon! It reminds me so much of my college days. I would've found this relatable back then (those 5 short years ago) but now it just appears insane. Really appreciate this look back into the problematic psyche of a young Christian man. Brilliant video idea!
Comparing these videos to “1984” is low hanging fruit, but in these TikTok scenarios, “God” is O’Brien, “Satan” is Emmanuel Goldstein, and the Christian is Winston Smith. The only difference is in these TikTok videos, there seems to be no proper way of loving Big Brother.
@@MindShift-Brandon funny how there were christian cults back in the middle ages who's male members castrated themselves in order to overcome lust, only to keep lusting after women afterwards
I would also like to add that these videos are truly insidious in the sense that they plant seeds of fear and doubt into people that are already believers. they make them paranoid that, despite doing what they believe is what god wants from them, that it will not be enough to please him. as someone who's struggled with feeling the need to bend over backwards to go above and beyond in regards to achievement, having struggled with self hate, procrastination, and potential depression, I know the feelings of paranoia about things I'm insecure of. I know the feelings that are being instilled into people through these videos, and it's enraging on the inside to see these things being made.
12:05 This is so upsetting. It implies that God doesn't see him at all. It implies all of his individual self -not just the bad, but the hopes, dreams, the good of him- is erased and replaced completely with the the concept of another being. Or this young man is presenting himself as he is and God is disregarding that entirely, and instead only choosing to see what he wants to see. Either way, this is the kind of thing you see in deeply unhealthy relationships.
Don’t like how there wasn’t any audio for the shorts. I usually listen to, rather than watch. I have vision issues. Maybe in the future you could read out what is on screen? Love your channel, Brandon. Keep up the great work.
Would you ever consider talking about a very descriptive breakdown of your deconversion process? I started this process in June and it's been a challenge to balance how to do this thoroughly especially when deconstructing some genuinely traumatic stuff. So much religious trauma makes it a bit trickier to navigate. Some descript tips and recommendations and how to flow in this would be so helpful
For that last one - If a good Christian, trying their best, can honestly be deceived into thinking that Satan is God...well doesn't that invalidate the whole thing? How could any Christian ever know what the truth is or what God wants from them?
Atheists, Jehovah's Witnesses, SDAs, Mormons, Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions KNOW and are fully aware that GOD and Jesus Christ are opposed and against them because they are not the loving, kind, and submissive Followers of Jesus Christ but the worthless fools and liars on earth and the loving, kind, and merciful GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 is definitely NOT for worthless fools and liars but ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and all the worthless fools and liars on earth will just turn into worthless and useless dusts on earth forever after their deaths while the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
I remember going to a Christian counselor when I was younger to help with my drug addiction. Being taught I was powerless without Jesus only fueled my self destruction! I began to hate my unworthy self more and more because Jesus wasn't taking my addiction away as was promised to me. Eventually, that hate spread to others who I had been told were the Devils little pawns sent to turn me away from Jesus! Christianity can really fuck your head up! Sadest thing is that when I explain why I'm no longer a believer to Christians and share my srories with them I am told I'll come back to him or Jesus is working in my life in ways I don't understand! So, basically, what I hear is, oh you silly sinner, you're pain means nothing to me!
As someone who has come away from Christianity after being fully indoctrinated since birth (my dad was a pastor), I can safely say that you hit the nail on the head with this video, so much so that it triggered me deeply with how these beliefs made me feel. We can argue doctrine all day, whether or not the bible is true but fundamentally, and for me, the constant not knowing if I was in or out, safe or not safe, loved or not loved, constantly feeling I wasn't good enough for this God, never having true security as I was taught both calvanisim and Armenian beliefs - I was traumatised for years, truly traumatised with all kinds of issues that I needed therapy & before anyone judges or thinks I was "sinning" - I wasn't, I was so focused on living right and doing right it made me ill. So everything you are saying here is absolutely spot on. There is no way around this, the bible teaches all of these things & for those who take it very seriously as I did, the only way to deal with it is to come away from it entirely. I've spent the last 6 yrs fully deconstructing. It was hard, my family are still strong believing Christians, but I can honestly say I've never felt so free from the mental anguish and torment I put myself through believing this toxic stuff. I'm happy, free and can love others and myself without any ifs buts or maybes. So thank you for highlighting the truth about the damage this does to people as I was absolutely one of those people & I'm just thankful people like you can expose it for what it is.
ATHEISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, and ALL RELIGIONS are NOT the "Word of GOD" and source of TRUTHS but the "Word of the Enemies of GOD" and sources of the Satanic LIE and deception that GOD doesn't exist and even if existing is cruel, merciless, and will destroy human beings in their fake Armageddon and torture them for eternity in their invented and fictitious Hell. The BIBLE is NOT the Word of the Liars and Deceivers but the "Word of GOD" and source of the TRUTHS that - 1. Loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King in their obedience to what's written in Matthew 28: 18 will definitely be honored and rewarded by loving, kind, and merciful GOD with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 2. The teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Another great take! It is insane when you sit down and realize that everyone is convinced that their mutually exclusive belief is correct, and the implications of everyone else being wrong. So not only are the 70% of people who don’t claim Christianity at all automatically condemned to hell, but so are most Christians according them, and they think that is love or the best plan God could’ve done. Maturing and gaining empathy is realizing that that is a terrible plan and a horrifying story, that has the propensity to result in a myriad of religious traumas and psychological damage. It’s absolutely abusive. You spend your whole life immensely stressed out about something that isn’t real.
Well said! It's so weird how they convince themselves only the people they don't like will go to hell when the story basically says 99.99% of people will - likely including THEM. lol
I would recommend reading the Screwtape Letters by C.S.Lewis. These are letters from a senior demon to his ward, or nephew. I forget which. The pretzel thinking you need to engage to even remain 'safe' as a Christian is truly staggering. No wonder people were self flagellating all the time. I think it was best said by Reverend Lovejoy ala Simpsons: "Marge, have you ever read this thing? (indicates bible). Technically you shouldn't even go to the bathroom."
Always good to know that your deity is gonna set fire to anyone who doesn't show absolute compliance, I guess? Make an error, get set on fire? Forgiveness doesn't exist, it's perfection or immolation? Jesus didn't die for anyone's sins and nobody's going to Heaven, I guess? What a weird version of Christianity.
You are sick, take my medicine. I'm not sick. Take my medicine. Okay, I took the medicine, but I feel worse. It's because you are sick, take more medicine. I am really sick now, thanks for the medicine, may I have more? Yes, you are really sick, now take more medicine.
God tells us don’t judge, but he’s always judging everyone! I feel like no matter what you do God is never satisfied. He created us in perfect , yet it feels like he wants us to be perfect. That’s impossible
HIGHER and SUPERIOR than GOD and JESUS CHRIST Atheists who are mocking and degrading all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions who are mocking and degrading all Atheists as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father. GOD KNOWS that loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who rejected Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all kinds of Religions as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever and honor and obey Jesus Christ instead as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King will definitely bring themselves honor and his favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 and GOD also KNOWS that the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854 "Atheists who are mocking and degrading all" The torah, bible and qur'an all *insult* any god, or gods, that _might_ exist. These books assign not only human attributes, _but the WORST of human attributes._ Their gods are portrayed as ignorant, immature, insecure, inconsistent, incompetent, immoral, illogical, capricious, petty, narcissistic, idiotic, jealous (seriously, what the hell would a *GOD* have to be jealous of? The very notion is ludicrous, to say the least), vengeful, wrathful sadistic, overbearing, overcontrolling, unimaginative, creepy and generally pretty shit. The _claims_ that their gods are in any way good, loving, compassionate, merciful, forgiving, etc are _completely HOLLOW claims,_ made by people with no true understanding of these qualities.
Instead, these gods are clearly merely the reflection of the deeply flawed _men_ who made them up, complete with those flaws.
And they don't even consider claiming that their gods have a sense of humour or compersion.
@@pineapplepenumbra Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions are all FREE to hate GOD and insult JESUS CHRIST as worthless, useless, and undeserving to be honored and respected as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth. GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 is NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons but ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and obey his teachings too about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26. GOD KNOWS that all human beings will just return to dusts after their deaths just like the animals as written in Ecclesiastes 3: 19, 20 but he also KNOWS that he will not let all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others to remain as worthless and useless dusts on earth forever, instead, he will let them all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
"It's not a religion, it's a relationship." One of the of lies and untruths christians come out with so regularly, that many years ago I compiled a list.
Where are you even coming up with pondering as to Christianity being one thing whether it’s a religion or a relationship? It’s been well known for since even the first century that there is more than one Christianity and therefore more than one relationship, and to just lump them all into one category is not an accurate position to take.
@TonyLambregts And all others are not true concerning what? Also, how does one sincerely believe what they.believe concerning Christ means they are not sincere in their Christianity? It’s not about which Christian is real. It’s about which Christian denomination has the most truth. And one can try to ask God in sincere faith if a certain denomination has the fullness of truths.
@@kevinx7015 "Where are you even coming up with pondering as to christianity being one thing whether it’s a religion or a relationship?" I'm not pondering, I know it's not a relationship. "It’s been well known for since even the first century that there is more than one christianity" There's no such thing as christianity, only Paulians, Liarians and Nobodyknowsians. christianity, if it ever existed, died out about 2000 years ago, to be superseded by fan fiction and the words of blatant plagiarists, liars and at least one nutter, none of who had ever met Jesus , some of whom didn't know the area, or Jewish ways at the time, and who didn't write anything until decades after his alleged life and death.
Religions: Creating very real problems for very imaginary reasons. As if life didn't have enough actual challenges already. Hard for me to imagine being under that kind of pressure, but I sure understand I dodged a bullet there by not following that faith. Also let's not forget how toxic and divisive many of those views are against others. Great video!
HIGHER and SUPERIOR than GOD and JESUS CHRIST Atheists who are mocking and degrading all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions who are mocking and degrading all Atheists as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father. GOD KNOWS that loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who rejected Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all kinds of Religions as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever and honor and obey Jesus Christ instead as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King will definitely bring themselves honor and his favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 and GOD also KNOWS that the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee that all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@dasbus9834 Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions are all FREE to hate GOD and insult JESUS CHRIST as worthless, useless, and undeserving to be honored and respected as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth. GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 is NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons but ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and obey his teachings too about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26. GOD KNOWS that all human beings will just return to dusts after their deaths just like the animals as written in Ecclesiastes 3: 19, 20 but he also KNOWS that he will not let all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others to remain as worthless and useless dusts on earth forever, instead, he will let them all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854 _Global Drama_ is a 2008 studio album by the Swedish metal band Cloudscape. It is the band's third studio album, and the last to feature their founding lineup of Roger Landin (drums), Haynes Pherson (bass) and Björn Eliasson (guitar). Two musicvideos ("Cloak & Daggers" and "Darkest Legacy") were released to promote _Global Drama._ The Opening track "Mind Diary" was featured as download to the video game Rock Band 3.
@@dasbus9834 Nothing has changed, just the same, the REALITY remains that RELIGIONS and ATHEISM still bring DISHONOR and ETERNAL DEATHS because Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions are still unbothered and just don't care even if their Satanic LIE and false claim that GOD doesn't exist and Satanic LIES and false teachings and doctrines about "hellfire", "Trinity", "Armageddon", "rapture", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", and "reincarnation" bring them dishonor, disgrace, shame, and cause their own downfall and ETERNAL DEATHS and humiliations, sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and DEATHS to their own families and neighbors. Nothing has changed, just the same, the TRUTH remains that GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 is still NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons but ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are still the guarantee that all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others will all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Bro that last video is insane. like how did he make that and think he was cooking by spreading Gods word. He’s literally just spreading fear that’s it. There is no stability in Christianity if the Devil can always deceive you.
There were countless times where my dissonance got so bad that my undiagnosed bipolar almost drove me to self-delete or the lesser, wipe out muh wang. :-(
whats so facinating is as an antheist is how many Christians that A) think the best way to convert is to be an ass to people, but THEN B) All the pastors that think people are leaving Christinanity because they aren't asses enough.
Jesus man, you described my marriage. I knew my ex for 6 months and stayed in a miserable marriage for 20 years before I left thr faith and filed for divorce
All you need is faith. But if you really have faith, you'll show it through works. But you don't have to do works. But if you don't do works, it might be a sign you don't have true faith. But you aren't saved by works. But you should be doing works, even though you don't have to. Because if you aren't doing works, you're probably not saved. But you don't need to be doing works to be saved. But you are commanded to do works. But it's not a salvation issue. But if you have salvation, you should desire to do it. If you don't desire to do it, there's a good chance you don't really have salvation. I feel like I'm missing something here.
@Rhewin Ouch! That hurts my head. I need to do one of two things to help me clear my head: either lie down in a room with dim lights and soft, quiet music, or drink a pint of bourbon. Or maybe both! Hot damn! That's it!
But if you rely on works alone, then you are not really saved. But faith without works is dead, but not everyone, not even some of those who do mighty works In Jesus’ name will inherent the kingdom of heaven, for they never really knew Him, but you need works as evidence of your faith, but you can’t rely on them for your salvation, because that would be relying on yourself. And this doesn’t bring repentance into the picture, have you tried repenting of all your sin? Is that possible? Is repentance a work? Or is it a changing of one’s mind into belief? But did you also make Jesus your Lord, which includes forsaking literally everything to follow him? Remember forgiveness is conditional! Good luck! 🫠🤪🤯
Another traumatic effect this evil had on my self-worth/image/value was every (phoney) testimony I suffered through... hearing how this god was showing up, and providing these wonderful feelings that I was always (apparently) unworthy of no matter what.
One of the main reasons i left Christianity. How can one get into heaven,when there's no clear definition of sin? Especially when there are various Christian views and beliefs that don't.... favor me. (I f i were to fully elaborate, UA-cam would think im harassing and will delete my comment. But if you know what Puritans thought about native Americans and neurodivergent people, you'd get it.) Edit: Sorry about virtue signalling. It's just a part of history I'm very bitter about.
When did you virtue signal? Unless you deleted a part of your response I’d really recommend doing some thinking about why you feel merely bringing up your heritage and neurodivergency is virtue signaling. A LOT of right wing and/or religious claptrap is designed to make you feel ashamed about fundamental parts of your identity, so (combined with the liberal tendency to tone police and obsess over civility) it’s very easy for people to fall into harmful self-deprecation or try to hide those parts of themselves. I went through it, and your comment reminded me of that time. I now love being trans, being (albeit a culturally whitewashed) native, being pansexual. All of those make up facets of who I am, and I think I’d be much less interesting if I were to lose or hide them. Repressing emotions never works, much less who you are fundamentally. Although I don’t personally think that “negative” emotions should be shunned or ignored, but they do fester. Bitterness, once purged of directionless anger and hatred, can very easily become righteous anger.
@@azreales2451 it's just that I don't want to bother people with that. Yeah,it's something personal to me,but I know folks don't want to hear me whining.
@ That’s my point, you bringing it up in and of itself isn’t whining, and you shouldn’t consider it whining. The fact that you considering merely identifying yourself as who you are as whining is concerning. That is the harmful self-deprecation and hiding I mentioned. Imagine if you met a woman who talked about Christianity’s misogyny but apologized every time she brought it up because others had told her it was “whining” and the like. It would be plainly obvious to you that she wasn’t whining but rather that those who told her she was were using it to avoid actually examining the misogyny and to refocus the discussion on her. It’s an attempt to move the moral blame from the text in question (and the writers and adherents of that text) to said woman for a million possible breaches of etiquette. She’s too loud or angry or entitled or self-centered or abrasive or pessimistic or too “worked up” over nothing. The excuses are endless. I hope you can now more clearly see my point and advise that read the works of Maya Angelou and others like her. She happens to have and advocate a very robust and healthy sense of self and pride without going too far and fostering arrogance and selfishness. I’d also recommend some reading on the history of tone policing and civility politics, which will help explain in more detail (as well as substantiate with evidence) why I think that not only is your current approach harmful to yourself and your own confidence but also actually harmful to any attempt at getting the truth of what happened during colonial times and still to this day, albeit with a fresh coat of paint, into the public consciousness.
"How can one get into heaven,when there's no clear..." and if you are too old (12) when you first hear about this, your questions are way waaaay more basic. F.e. What is heaven? What it the g0d? And how do the religious demonstrate any of that?
The clearest definition of sin is basically anything that any particualr deity does not like and/or does not want their followers to do. As for what those are specifically? Unfoirtunately these gods aren't willing to be clear and specific about what they are.
I typically listen to UA-cam while i bop around - would you consider giving a quick summary of the videos you react to after they play? I think it would help others who can't see/ don't look at the screen while enjoying your commentary. 🙏
From the second video- Him (as 'ME'): "secular music is a sin?" ... Him (as friend): "it's not like you're doing the things you hear in the music" Him (as 'ME'): "I mean there is a lotta sex and cussing in *my* playlist" In what sort of F-ed up reality does this exist where the christian is proposing a question as if he has just been told by his friend that secular music is a sin, and then his friend goes on to say it's okay to listen to secular music. Either the friend is not purist Christian and it wouldn't make sense secular music is brought up as a sin, or the friend is a purist Christian and the whole scene doesn't make sense. Am I missing something? Also, why would the Christian even have sex and cussing in his playlist if he did think it could be sinful? Why would he then go talk to the one person who would clearly try to talk him out of thinking it's a sin? If he doesn't trust his parish leaders to have the answers, why would he even consider secular music to potentially be a sin in the first place if some Christian told him? The loop holes abound, unless I am too oblivious to see how this would work. Just, as a writer, I find all of the context of these skits so confusing. Any premise I could think of in how these conversations would just happen are only worthy of scrapping and I would be going back to rewrite the conversation itself, and do everything possible to never let anyone see the prototype. Edit: Okay, didn't watch the last bit. His 'friend' being lust is even worse, though. The only way I could think this would work is if there was a third party saying that secular music is a sin... You know, just no... I give up. Secular music is not all sex and cussing so the premise is dead before it even got going. And this dude is a bigoted, purist, arrogant pandering conman who's only target audience would logically be other (agnostic) believers scared of hell. Anyone else would just ignore it or see right through it... (I think I got a little triggered--probably by the homophobia, and the rest just went downhill).
In my only legal marriage in '98, I had in mind to settle down at 23 as I ran amok a bit from the age of 18 'til then. I wanted to be right in God's eyes. That was but one aspect, though. I had good intentions in other aspects as well. The marriage lasted 11 weeks.
It's amazing how often the porn addiction topic comes up on Christian YT channels. If their religion were true, would it really be this much of a problem? Would not earnest prayer and sustained effort suffice? It's almost as if, despite their wishes and belief, they're not actually getting assistance.
Hey Everyone. These 5 clips really gave a lot of material for us to cover. Hope you enjoy.
You are absolutely right when you say that this seems insane to me. Satan has Telepathy? Having a an imaginary friend is bad enough but an imaginary enemy is paranoid. I could laugh but part of me really wants to cry. This poor fellow is so confused it almost breaks my heart.
@@TonyLambregts oh man, you said it!
Brandon, I can be sure of it because I rightly divide the word of truth as stated in 2 Timothy 2:15.
Rightly dividing the word of truth is the key to understanding the bible and that is the clear reason why you get everything wrong in every single video that you have done to date about God and the bible.
You are not rightly dividing the word of truth.
Before you make another video against God and the bible maybe you should learn what rightly dividing the word of truth is all about.
I suggest that you watch the bible teachings of Robert Breaker who actually does rightly divide the word of truth in his teachings.
Maybe you should begin with the teaching he has done that shows the differences between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Heaven because you seem to think that they are the same thing when they are not.
Here is the link to it: The Kingdom of God vs The Kingdom of Heaven ua-cam.com/video/o-PchAXJufs/v-deo.html
Brandon, you speak of true born again Christians having fear of going to hell, then how come I don't have this fear?
Oh...wait I know that the bible has the answer to this...
1 John 4:18 (KJV): There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
A true born again Christian has God's perfect love upon them and as a result they won't have a fear of hell anymore because they are not going to end up in hell as a saved person.
Brandon have you ever heard of the Christian found footage film, The Lock In. It’s about a dirty magazine that opens a demonic portal. GAM did a good episode covering it.
A skit of a person talking to themselves, while also pretending to be God, Lust, the Flesh, Satan is a perfect representation of Christianity. We make our thoughts their thoughts. We are simply having a conversation in our own minds.
oh how true!
"Let's make man in our image" = "Let's make god in our image"
"We are simply having a conversation in our own minds." Right. And that's where they build their justifications, like some do in two person arguments.
@maggienewton8518 convincing themselves more than they are you.
That's a great way to put it. I remember back when I was a Christian, I would basically conjure an image in my mind of what I thought god would be in order for me to talk to him. Funny enough, I still talk out loud as I did when I prayed, because it helps me process things. It's just now I know I'm talking to myself, not some being who can hear me.
47 now and an atheist/humanist. In the height of my Christianity, in my 20's, I managed to stop self-gratification for months. But then I started having nocturnal emissions. I came to the realization that it was just a normal body function and that I would rather take care of it while awake than have to clean my sheets every day. The ridiculous things we do to try to please a being that doesn't even exist.
The natural process when we leave any religion behind and we stop accepting things not proven even when they say have faith (a unsure mental belief) as if that’s going to change anything
"Nocturnal emissions"
Just say you got off in your sleep.
“Oh no that was just god doing what we call the “Dream Jerk”. One of his many… mysterious… ways… *puts finger on your lip, erotically hushing you*” - Christian
Right. We are supposed to believe that god created a. biological reaction to seeing scores of woman as human nature and yet wants us to abstain from doing anything about said natural reaction. If god is all powerful shouldn’t we only get erect for our “soulmate??” It’s laughable.
I have contamination OCD. I have been grossed out(for lack of a better term) by my bodily emissions. I hate having wet dreams. I did the same things you did,but somehow,I ended up having intrusive thoughts and possibly erotomania. Both those are somewhat opposed to my OCD. I cant blame my problem completely on self gratification,but maybe overdoing it and the fact that I have a family history of mental issues and have a hard time taking care of myself health wise are factors. I agree of course with just taking care of it instead of dealing with wet dreams. So much for intelligent design😂
I am one of those “young Christian men” that rushed into marriage to avoid Sin. I got married at 19 (I’m 22 now) I can honestly say that you hit the nail right on the head. I’m in the process now of deconstructing everything, from my faith to my politics. But she still believes strongly (she’s what you might call a reformed fundamentalist. Believing in a young earth and that the Bible is inerrant . But that you shouldn’t discriminate against homosexuals and women ETC.) and it’s been tough man. She is still one of my closest friends and I don’t want to continue to hurt her, I’m just lost, I don’t know what to do. I realize now that we do have A LOT of different goals, desires and philosophies in life but I feel as though I’m stuck between a rock and a hard place. Our families are still very close and all of my friends are close with her as well and by leaving her I would effectively end my relationship with all parties involved. I don’t want to stay just to make our parents happy and I don’t want to hurt her by leaving. She thinks this is just “part of my testimony and God is going to use this one day” I just don’t have the heart to tell her “No, it’s probably not.” I’m damned if I do and damned if I don’t. This was very long winded but I just wanted to say thank you Brandon, I’ve been listening to you for quite a while now and you’ve been a tremendous help/comfort to me in my deconstruction journey. I genuinely look forward to your insight you share in your videos every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday (and the occasional Saturday short) if you haven’t done anything else with your channel, you’ve helped me and I’m very grateful for it. keep up the good work!
Hey man, thanks so much for reaching out and sharing that. What a hard spot. I was 10 years and 2 kinds into my marriage before the veil was lifted, and i think that makes my situation pretty different. Theres a real pro and con for figuring it out so young, but if you and your wife love each other and have a healthy relationship despite the differences, my first advice is always to try to make it work. God or no God, I think Marriage is an incredible thing, but again each individual situation is so specific. Wishing you well man!
Lol your poor ex wife is a perfect example of a deeply brainwashed human being. There are billions out there like her, and they are hopeless to reason with
Brother, my story is similar as yours. I can feel the pain of it. Be loving, but be honest, and stay committed to understanding the reality you are in. I hope things workout for your best interest. You’ve got this
You are definitely not equally yoked with your wife. It’s good that you do not stand in her way of her path.
@@blakebortles3805 sounds like, even though you rushed into marriage, you really care about her.
You only have this one life. Don't sacrifice it for other people.
If there's one thing that's consistent with Christianity, it's the inconsistenty.
Indeed!
Lol "inconsistency"
It is funny how they are saying "the disagreements between denominations are superficial and dont take away from core doctrine" now. Its like they havent ever learned what other denominations think. Or i guess with some they just say they arent christian like mormons, jw, or catholics sometimes.
@@GameTimeWhy Yes, and since they don't like to be questioned, they're not going to question someone else's faith... Most of the time. My ex BIL would jump at every opportunity to show how much he understands what God means. Annoying af lol
But most Christians accept the "I'm Christian, too" label.
Christian apologist: The flaws are how we know it’s true! If it was consistent, it would be too unbelievable.
Or some crap like that.
I know first-hand how this mentality messes with a person. Part of the reason I examined my faith and reasons for belief were because I was worried I was a "lukewarm Christian" and that I'd be spat out. I worried I was going to hell because I wasn't sure if I was saved or not. And I was worried I wasn't the "right" kind of Christian. And that opened the door to me examining why I believed to begin with or how I could know what is true... and long story short I realized I'm an atheist. But there was so much fear and so much self loathing up until realizing I no longer believe. I feel bad for how religion has hurt people and made them feel that they are wicked simply for being human. It is so messed up...
I'm thankful for people like you talking about these things. It helps me process them as a former Christian, and maybe... maybe it can help others work through these things, too.
Thanks for sharing your journey. Yes, you cared, you wanted to follow truth, and this is where it lead. The story for so many of us.
Damn I can truly relate to that
The same thing happened to me! I felt exactly the same.
@kintsugi-c6u this is why I chose to walk away from it all as ultimately its sanity over belief which as you deconstruct, you really just how much nonsense we buy into. You can do it, its not easy but it's totally worth it to be happy in yourself x
Amusing about the cussing, the pastor of a church my dad attended admitted to watching porn. I asked if he was going to be removed and my dad said they were going to give him another chance, then he said something that floored me. He said 'it would be different if he had been caught cussing or something'
lol strange all around!
Gotta wonder how some people, especially people who should be able to do better, get a free pass, while people who never read the bible or "got saved" are condemned for minor offenses that aren't even canonical!
@@KatMo7121 Makes it pretty clear it's about power and control, doesn't it?
The funny thing is that most of these curse word didn't even exist at the time of Jesus & even for the ones the did, why would the creator of the whole universe care about something like improper grammar?
The only "real" curse word in the bible is damn.
Always reminds me of the Tony Campolo story... that he stood before Spring Harvest church in England in the early 1980s and said " I have three things I want to say. First, while you were sleeping last night, 45,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don’t give a shit. Third, what’s worse is that you’re more upset with the fact I said ‘shit’ than the fact that 45,000 kids died last night.”
Such scary world we used to live in, with demons and pitfalls around every corner, all the time living with the threath that in the end you could still end up getting spit out.
That about sums it up!
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
Now we dont got to now Thank "god"
Istg it caused so much anxiety and paranoia that partially still live in my head sigh
Thank you so much for calling out p@rn addiction, Brandon. I've seen so many young people unable to form healthy relationships because they started watching this at very young ages, and too many people in the atheist community avoid or dismiss the topic because they associate criticism of p@rn with puritanical Christianity.
As for immature marriages, I had an Evangelical friend who married at 16 because she didn't want to have sex before marriage and this was preferable to "burning." Very early on, she knew that she and her husband had no sexual chemistry, but her parents and the entire church convinced them that "love was a choice" even though his touch would sometimes make her vomit. Long story short: 10 yrs and 3 kids later, the marriage fell apart, she was abandoned by much of her church community, and these kids have parents who hate each other. Don't get married just to have sex, kiddies.
Oh man, its such a sad but unfortunately all too common story!
Oh gosh, that's horrible! I've heard that whole "love is a choice" thing. As if to say any two people can just choose each other and make it work. And force yourself to keep choosing it.
I once went to a church years ago where I was engaged to a guy. Our engagement fell apart when I had a massive mental breakdown. During our breakup. He said something to me that was very telling. He said: "people told me that love was a choice and that I had to choose you so I forced myself to choose to love you when I didn't really love you."
@@Charlotte_Martel I think that porn is a bigger problem if you think that you are doing something wrong. Without that guilt you would have to be doing it a lot for it to be a problem.
This is very common in the Jehovahs Witnesses. If you're not married by age 22 you're gonna be pretty much out of luck and marriage outside the religion is highly frowned upon. Me and all my friends all got married by age 19. I have to say it wasn't until I watched soft porn that I got any idea how to make her at least halfways satisfied.
As the mother of a now adult son, who is Christian; I know how insidious this cycle is.
They try so hard to be perfect, but of course they can't and so that brings on guilt and it's a damaging cycle.
I always gave grace and told my son that none are perfect and that was why we had a savior. I talked to him regularly about not feeling shame for experiencing normal teenage thoughts and desires.
He is now 45, Calvinist and the father of four boys. He is a believer and we just agree to disagree.
I recently had a discussion with both my 16 and 14 year old grandsons, and I told them there isn't anything they cannot talk to me about. We are open and I don't hold back on what I know are struggles for young people in general. My son and his wife have no problem with my transparency, and I'm thankful for that!
You always do such a nice job in presenting your view, I appreciate you very much!
Transparency for the win. Lucky kids to have such an open and mature grandma!
@@MindShift-Brandon thank you Brandon ❤️
I feel for your son. These doubts must be a nightmare to live with.
Thanks for sharing your account. If I may ask, what theologically caused your son to choose Calvinism?
@Charlotte_Martel He, at one point was going to the Church of God, also the Assembly of God. Both of those denominations are free will churches who stress immediate repentance after sinning. When he was going to these churches he literally thought if he had a bad thought or did something wrong and died before he repented he would go to hell.
I was raised Lutheran, which is Catholic light. He was exposed to that denomination but liked going to these other churches and I did not care.
I believe what brought him to Calvinism is that it teaches that God is sovereign and therefore he (God) and only he can elect who will and won't be saved.
This leaves it in God's hands and basically you can profess your faith without worrying that there is anything you can or cannot do to tip the scale. You're either elected for salvation or you're not.
Interestingly this was a turning point for me. He announced this is 2015. I did a deep dive and of course I could see arguments for both sides.
It was a slow shift but it was within a year or two after this, that I said to myself " This is mythology, allegory, fables and I don't think I believe it anymore!"
My son is a good man, good husband and excellent father. I'm thankful he doesn't disparage me for how I believe or for my exit from the faith.
"tell me that doesn't absolutely break a person who thinks they love this god." one hundred percent. the incredible stress never goes away for anyone that has a shred of self awareness.
There is simply no arriving in christianity.
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
14:00 this is what made me think Christianity is a walk into a comic book style life to lay over reality. The cognitive dissonance that slowly eroded away as I applied logic and critical thinking, not taking it literally, and getting therapy and applying what I needed in order to grow worked better than being "more religious". "God is good, you're bad. Try harder " doesn't work. My life feels so much better now that I don't believe.
If habitual sin were the real problem, they'd be refusing cake to gluttons not just lgbtq. It's bigotry. Period.
If gluttony is a sin someone should tell televangelist John Haggie. 😅.
Plenty of Christians do view gluttony as a major sin, at least the Catholics and Orthodox do. When I was in Catholic school, the sisters actually had a formula for how many years in purgatory one would get for gorging on each meal.
It was bizarre, but that's one of the reasons why the saints are characterised by being so pale and thin. Fasting showed ultimate mastery over one's most basic fleshy desires.
Ain't gluttony jus greed
I find it strange how ppl will call someone a glutton jus cuz their chubbier but they don't call their pastors tha--
"God is supposed to fill you with purpose." (Paraphrased) This is one of the reasons I became an atheist. I was suffering from a deep depression when I was much younger. I went to church with my family like a good Christian, and one day they asked for people to be baptized. I stood up, thinking, "I have to do something. Maybe God's light will burn away the depression."
I got baptized, and I was then wet and still deeply depressed. Of course, nothing changed except I started to think differently about my faith. It took me a long time to get the proper help, but by the time I did, my faith was completely dead.
I'm so glad you got the help you need! ❤
I genuinely don't think I'd still be here if I hadn't gotten the real help I actually needed, as quickly as I did, and continue to get every day (daily medications - for bipolar disorder & others).
It was already difficult to realize (and then accept) the reality I was naturally unlucky enough to have such mental illnesses. A belief that a loving God created me and had the power to end my suffering would have been crushing...and the time I would've spent attempting to obtain that healing could have genuinely ended me. 😔
Definitely would have made it impossible to have the life I do today (which is solely thanks to my medications)!
15:28 - He was going to “kill” his flesh. There are a lot of churches that teach this concept that you have to “die to your flesh” or even “crucify your flesh.” It’s in the same vein as “carrying your cross” but just more extreme language
very possible what he was going for. I am familiar with the concept, but also pulling a knife out when struggling with the sin of lust....seems to be a bit on the nose for the verses from Jesus about what to do if your lust will put you in hell. Either way, extreme.
@@MindShift-BrandonI was truly concerned with what the young man might cut off as well. Jesus was pretty specific on this issue. A troubled mind could really harm himself.
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
That part legit had me concerned for his mental well-being.
@@Charlotte_Martel I can't remember the name right offhand but there was a very famous early Christian writer (2nd-3rd centuries?) who actually castrated himself in the name of Jesus. He wasn't the only one . . .
11:08 this section on listening to secular music really hits home. When I was a teenager, I was taught in my youth group that I should only listen to Christian music. I tried and I forced myself to listen to it, even to the songs that were subpar. In college, this idea waned a little because my Christian group listened to all types of music.
One of the freedoms I experienced leaving Christianity was the freedom from obligation to listen to Christian music and guilt from listening to secular music.
It's so weird because, in a way, all music will take you to a different place-- and I'm not convinced "Christian" music takes you to places any better than other kinds. Just depends on the music and where you are in relationship to it. You can tell where it's taking you by the way it feels, having rules about it is ridiculous.
The reason Christian music is so bad is that the artists don't put the music first: they put "God" first. They're not true artists, they're Christians "posing" as artists to attract kids to their religion. They don't make music for the love of music, they do it as a means to an end, reducing it to an evangelizing tool; and so the life gets sapped out of it.
@ wonderfully said. I wish I felt that way as an adolescent. I think to me, at the time, music was an identity I felt I had to conform to.
@michaelhenry1763 I can't stand the new "christian" music...way back in the 70s, there were a few artists who rocked out (Stryper, Barry McGuire, etc). But today is just boring "praise" songs. Even though I'm deconstructing, I still enjoy the old hymns. Besides, I grew up under the influence of "evil" rock and roll in the late 1950s and up.
The guilt Is real, happened to me With sports and video games
I feel really bad for this guy and Christians like him. His life seems to be a nightmare. I don't know how he can endure it.
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
If he's being honest I'd say he's 3/4 of the way towards going on a killing spree to "cleanse the world of sin" or somesuch nonsense.
More likely he's just a dishonest Christian excusagist grifter like most of them.
Yeah I was going to say the same thing - I really feel sorry for this poor guy. Hope he gets past all this.
Hey, I did so maybe he can too. It almost seems like many of us who took it most seriously are the ones who eventually find our way out. Not sure the statistics on that….
My wife and I dated for a few months only before deciding to get married. Because we were both Christians and marriage was seen as the only correct end goal of dating. Now we have a kid together, but we've found so many incompatibilities, and we're trying to figure out how to make the best of it.
As an old man here is my advice to the younger men (not necessarily Christians but ALL young men): it IS very important to love other people. It is SO important that we need to not let religion get in our way. The Bible says (paraphrasing) "we can't serve two masters" and the irony is the Bible is right about this, but fictional characters should not be our "master" - loving & taking care of other humans should be our master. Life/relationships are very complicated, and life doesn't get less complicated as we get older. We will always be on the stage juggling dinner plates, so no sense trying to juggle even more of them at a time. Just my 2 cents!
Current christian here going through the trenches right now of deconstruction. Brandon always has excellent points and he goes about it in a very respectful way. The super high standard and thought of hell, the complete overthinking of every thing I do. Has kept me from sleeping, has given me a huge amount of anxiety and depression, my mental health has been horrible the last year.
I have taken hell as a very serious thing because I did/maybe do believe in it. I often wondered why other Christians didn't feel burdened by it, I often have been sad because the "wide path" to destruction is going to take my entire family because most of them aren't believers. It's horrible.
Nothing has changed, just the same, the REALITY remains
that
RELIGIONS and ATHEISM still bring DISHONOR and ETERNAL DEATHS
because
Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
are
still unbothered and just don't care even if their Satanic LIE and false claim that GOD doesn't exist and Satanic LIES and false teachings and doctrines about "hellfire", "Trinity", "Armageddon", "rapture", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", and "reincarnation"
bring
them dishonor, disgrace, shame, and cause their own downfall and ETERNAL DEATHS and humiliations, sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and DEATHS to their own families and neighbors.
Nothing has changed, just the same, the TRUTH remains
that
GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
is still
NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons
but
ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
and
the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are still the guarantee
that
all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and
fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Its incredibly hard to struggle through deconversion and it unfortunately doesnt always heal all wounds associated with living in a belief system that teaches what Christianity does. Keep working through. To quote Van Helsing from Dracula, “we must pass the bitter waters before we reach the sweet.” Wish you all the best in your going forward. Channels like this are tremendous help.
Hey current Christian here I would recommend studying your Bible more and joining a church where they have regular Bible study’s so that you can have more answers for your struggles I wish I could talk to u more about it (if you want to we can ) ,but I will pray for you guys love you all !
@@bigm8120yes tell him to entrench himself deeper in ignorance and to continue to study the very texts causing him to see past the veil….
Christian here don't join any closed community and do not believe what you read or hear online without a second thought. Read major theologians like CS Lewis and actual history books.
the condemnation of "secular music" part is so funny and hypocritical when you consider the contents of the Scriptures and ancient Hebrew psalms (music)... its not like believers are dashing infants against rocks after all right
lol agreed!
They are indistinguishable and are one and the same, but the mofos have their heads so far up in their asses that they can't see it.
"its not a religion, its a relationship with christ" always seems like something a cult would teach their followers.
One of my brothers said a week ago, "We don't call it a religion, we call it faith." And I got so confused. He must be listening to crap like this. The more "Christian" he becomes, the less sense he makes.
It is very much a cult. The fact that its so wide spread as to be called a “religion “ or a “faith” is optics for those who follow it to think they are somehow different than the 20-30 people living in the hills waiting for ufo’s or whatever.
“Islam isn’t a religion, it’s a way of life”
“Buddhism isn’t a religion, it’s a philosophy”
"a narcissistic relationship with God"
Just so sad. Thank you for this, million likes.
My former cult leader (aka Christian small group leader) convinced me that I was an addict because of my drinking and my porn addiction. When I left the faith, those addictions went away because I was no longer stressed about having to be perfect just like God is perfect.
“Convinced me I was an addict” so you were an addict
I don't know if this guy covers other angles of religion but all of these are fear based. He mentions love, but the gist of his message is fear - of hell, of our own weakness.
Bingo 👍🏼 That's what theistic religion is about (mostly.. I'm a little fuzzy on some theistic beliefs). Mostly fear about an "afterlife".
@@CatDaddyGuitar But why have an afterlife when the habitability of the universe is still some billions (lower estimate big crunch) and or (100) trillions (upper estimate widely accepted heat death) years away? While I certainly like the idea that we all have an immutable immortal soul but then again why must the vehicle the body have to die when (physical) creation itself is not in the hurry to end anytime soon?
It's like being restricted to going on a vacation within the limits of your own city all because of original sin! Total nonsense. I don't think God actually get's why God created such a vast universe of space and time. Oh btw and there is no universe (as how we know the universe) in the bible at all so there's that too.
These clips remind me of Jack Chick tracts I read decades ago. The comic book presentations contained relentless messages of:
1. Most Christians, especially Catholics, were deceived by a false gospel and headed for hell, no matter how kind and loving they were.
2. Satan ruled all aspects of society and was constantly trying to deceive you and get you to sin.
3. You were responsible for your non-Christian family and friends going to hell if you did not preach the true gospel to them.
This was the beginning of my severe religious trauma as a teenager.
@kiva2156 We used to get those at our Reformed church. Us teenagers would laugh at the crap stories and would tear them up. Worse, some kids were taken in by that crapola.
7:58 I want to do this so badly. I was immersed in so many denominations growing up, all in the same town. I think it’s what helped my skeptical alarm bells go off at such a young age.
i have a video planned where i will be calling churches and asking simple doctrinal questions and comparing results.
@ That is going to be great 😂I can’t wait! Notifications on 🔔
@@MindShift-Brandoni very much look forward to that one.
Thank you so much for this video. Truley, I wanted to burst into tears. This was the hell I was in, feeling the lust and thinking i was evil for it. It led to a cycle of torture that I sought help through the church to overcome, only to end up exactly where I started, except with more self-hate. Once the help didn't help, I became unsavable, and now so many people know about that shame. I broke out of religion, thanks partially to this. This video is so powerful. I wish I could save everyone from all that pain I endured, both self-pain, and religious. Thank you so much. You are helping a ton of people who need this message. I know many people hate on you, but you are doing good work. Stay strong and keep fighting!
I attended a bible school in Cincinnati, it was amazing how those young people rushed to get married.
Facepalm
I wonder how well they're doing now.
They seek something that's not there.
I think God owes Satan an apology for all of the evil things he intentionally and entirely created and choreographed him to do to people every day, while simultaneously scapegoating him for all of it.
Agreed, but seeing how God in the Old Testament used Babylon to "judge" the Israelites, only to destroy them after they did his dirty work for Him (I don't believe this happened but it's how the Bible story goes), it's only logical that God would use Satan and then destroy him once he's outlived his usefulness. God is the ultimate mob boss- showing no loyalty to anyone but himself.
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
Just like a typical narcissist would. Lol
Where there's a narcissist (God), there's a scapegoat (satan)
The porn take really hit home for me. I struggled through this addiction right when i was the most devotional to the faith. I prayed god to help me or to take the urges awaya or to change my desire and have "his" desires since im now a new creation, fasted, read my Bible, everything you can think of but nothing worked i kept relapsing and feel more shame and guilt which just caused to keep relapsing again and again. It wasnt until i left the faith and started realizing that shame and self loathing are the WORST way to approach any addiction im now free of the addiction i dealt with the root cause and im happier and more content with my life than ever.
Keep doing what you do Brian after watching your videos it has helped me with my deconstruction and got rid of my fear of hell which used to haunt me . I really appreciate your work 🙏💯
Thank you for this.
I know I'm early, but I really do appreciate all of your hard work and the consistency of your videos.
Appreciate that so much. Thanks for being here!
Agreed
@@gamingwithmaya502 absolutely!!!!
+
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So Satan talking to you is indiscernible from God talking to you. That's not problematic at all.
That's a path to madness for sure.
That's why muslims aren't allowed to mention the Satanic Verses (the originals, not the book by Salman Rushdie), it undermines the whole religious narrative.
I had this argument with a christian before. Their answer in how to differentiate between god and satan trying to deceive was "they just feel it". Okay great then every lunatic that goes on a xxx spree and thinks god told them was right, because they also felt it.
On second thought, this does sounds like something the bible god would command...
Fr that still confuses me
No wonder people get stuck in this religion lol
@@abiliv-lf9tz But surely that should cause them to doubt, and to leave the belief system?
This really hit home with me. Even though I've pretty much given up on Christianity, I still suffer from these types of thoughts. It's absolutely horrible.
I can't still believe that ppl still become Christians and deny evolution and.also not question the first chapter in.the bible
And also to me personal experience doesn't count as evidence for GOD it's just your brain
Thanks for another great video Brandon, fantastic work once again! The impossibility of being a 'perfect' Christian is the thing that gets me and these shorts show that really well... the message is really - you're struggling with x, well just stop it because God said so and if you don't you better beware. Rather than - you're struggling with x, i know it's really hard to break out of it, i know you're trying your best to do so, here's a toolkit of things that will assist and list of people to go see about it.
Good created you one way, He wants to be another way, Orders you to do it under threat, Leaves you to be crushed by finding it hard...unless you manage to master cognative dissonance!
Well said!
There is no hate like Christian love. It reminds me of something genius I saw somewhere (might have been “shower thoughts” on reddit) about how you always notice that those who deny that the holocaust ever happened, never seem particularly relieved to have supposedly found that out. Because for me, I’ve noticed how the kinds of Christians who are so convinced that my being openly and unapologetically gay (unapologetic on account of me doing nothing wrong to anybody except an infinite being who is more concerned about who he made me interested in sleeping with than helping newborns with malaria) is going to send me to burn in Hell forever, never seem really fearful for me and my well-being. They seem excited a little bit to see me get my comeuppance. Says a lot.
The porn one really hit home. I have struggled with porn- and sadly still do- but when I was a Christian and struggling with porn, the guilt, shame, cognitive dissonance of believing I was a new creation bound for Heaven, yet still falling for the same sin over and over which made me worry that I was actually not saved and headed for Hell was enough to break me mentally. Now that I no longer believe, I still don't like my porn addiction and want to get over it but I at least can see it for what it really is, without the additional guilt, shame and confusion that comes from being Christian. I feel sorry for the guy making the videos, as well as everyone else who is living through what I thankfully escaped. I'm grateful to Brandon for his great work in exposing this.
Atheists
are FREE to mock and degrade all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them.
Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
are FREE to mock and degrade all Atheists as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them.
GOD and Jesus Christ have nothing to do with Atheism and Religions.
GOD KNOWS
that
loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
rejected Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all kinds of Religions as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever
and
honor and obey Jesus Christ instead as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
will
definitely bring themselves honor and his favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
and
GOD also KNOWS
that the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee
that
all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom
and
fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854 seems like copy pasted that. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the definition to follow or love Jesus is colloquially "Christian". It seems you're positing some "The Way" version. Fine. Here's the central problem: "obey Jesus Christ" What does that really mean? Plain-sense readings of the gospels and epistles can lead you to the exact problems outlined in this video. That platitude you offer is empty of any practical application. It's a vacuous concept with no "how." Pray? How much? Do I make up how much? When do I know I've really opened my heart? Impossible and eventually induces anxiety. I don't think you really listened at all. "Proper time" is the excuse you can give for these supposed promises remaining continually unfulfilled.
Appreciate you sharing!
@@MindShift-Brandon 👍
I struggle with it too. Combined with OCD and unwanted sexual thoughts,its my personal hell. Would not wish that on anyone. In fact I really would not wish anything bad or unproductive upon anyone. Here is to hoping your problem gets better over time!👍
I love that you used the word "burdened". My heart is also burdened for young people who are trapped in a belief system that makes them hate themselves.
I blame the internet for the increase in porn addiction. Can be very destructive to intimate relationships. Glad you mentioned CBT. 30 years of therapy proved CBT to be only effective method for my family member. Amazing how omnipresent Satan is in many Christian religions. That always bugged me. I never heard a word from God or Satan in 50+ years of “listening” so this is hard for me to relate to.
Watching the clips was like a SNL skit-a parody-a satire. But I have deep sympathy for that very young man-an obvious VICTIM of religious indoctrination. I feel gutted by the trauma inflicted on the innocent by the “LOVING FUCKING GOD.”
Yes its terribly sad.
MADE MY DAY!
Thanks for being here!
as someone who, as a kid was told about how people who didn't believe would go to hell regardless of if they were good or bad, and that "good people go to hell", things like this really help me realize how convoluted each belief in Christianity truly is. it's one thing for different beliefs around the world to conflict with one another, but for different beliefs of the same book, of the same god, to be vastly different from one another, to the point where people constantly question if they're a "lukewarm Christian" or not, clearly speaks volumes to how it all really is.
It's interesting, because I grew up without these types of fears of being "lukewarm". I was told by our youth group leaders that God loved you regardless of who you were, that us people were always going to be fundamentally "sinful" as they said, and painted a picture of hell as a sort of oncoming storm, similar to how the flood is toned down to children as being a natural disaster that god foresaw, rather than something he did.
I find two things interesting, first of all, as a kid, not only did the idea of fundamentally sinful made my already present self-hate issues worsen, but the idea of even good people going to hell made me get in trouble at school for basically harrasing other students into trying to get them to believe to "save them".
even more interesting than this, My Christian mom actually told us that "not all churches taught the same messages", and actually had us move churches after my sibling got bullied over thinking about potentially being LGBTQ back in the day. it's clear that our mom cared enough about our wellbeing to accept that all beliefs were different, and even I as a kid imagined god being above all the bad things people saw of him that they believed to be supposedly just, but it's unfortunate to think that people truly believe these things.
while belief can be used to give people comfort, that comfort unfortunately lies in things like the idea of an afterlife and of people still persisting after death. people dislike that bad things happen and that mortality is undeniable, but by creating these comforts in the form of belief, it shields them from having to face the truth and coming to terms with things like passing on. Even worse, it brings people to wish such demise upon others for doing things that aren't harmful or bad, simply different.
As a bisexual... that first one is just horrid. I'm made to be the way i am... just so a big boy can take all the glory for punishing me for what he made me to be? Punishing us all for his choice to make sinners? I see no justice in this god. Bloodshed and Boasting.... Guilt trips and Jealousy. Never was good. I'm glad I know. 👁
I'm wondering why guys like Billy Carson get all the attention... when we've got great intellectuals like yourself who have read the literature (just like myself) and can articulate very accurate arguments based on what's written in the bible. Love this man! Your videos deserve to go viral! 💯💯
13:18
Actually, it’s really up in the air whether porn “addiction” is a real thing. You can go down the rabbit hole on this, but AASECT therapists and educators have vocally opposed the addiction framework for treatment of “problematic” sexual behaviors for years, arguing (with fairly convincing evidence) that it simply makes the problem worse.
Thanks!
Missed this one. Thank you!
The best way to ensure that porn addiction continues is to make a problem out of it at all. When you load the practice of masturbation, especially with porn, with so much guilt and pressure you're just ensuring that the shame cycle endures. What helped me get off that stuff was getting out of Christianity. Not feeling shame anymore about my entirely natural sexual urges allowed me to just go with the flow of my body and accept that there are times where I will masturbate more and times where I will masturbate less. In consequence, my porn consumption and masturbation in general has lessened more than it ever did under christianity. Don't let people or institutions stigmatize you into a shame cycle, they just want to make you more obedient and reliant upon them.
Talk to a believing Seventh Day Adventist. It's amazing how they will insinuate that non-Saturday Sabbath keepers are going to Hell but without actually saying it out right.
They worship the God of Petty.
@smithgorrilugum4574 Well, except for the going to hell for not worshiping on Saturday, it is correct that the correct day IS Saturday. There was no command from "god" or Jeezis to change to Sunday. That was a man commanded change, from around 352 CE (AD, if you like). I think maybe it was Constantine who implemented it...of course, Protestant churches use the excuse of Jeezis rising from the grave on Sunday as reason. But in some religions (which ones,. I forget) Sunday is known as "The Venerable Day of the Sun." Sun worshipers.
@@JeantheSecond-ip7qm Tom Petty, or Petty Larceny, where people steal domesticated animals? I stole that last from an old episode of "Mork and Mindy."
@@johntiggleman4686 Alright then; you tell me;...are the Christians reading this right now going to be damned for not keeping the Saturday Sabbath? Considering that now they understand that the fourth commandment says to keep the seventh day of the week as a sabbath? Are all Catholics, Protestants, and Charismatics going to roast in Hell forever for not keeping the Saturday Sabbath?
@smithgorrilugum4574 Well, god did punish the Israelites for disobeying the "No other gods before me" command...If it's ok to ignore that Sabbath command, might as well remove it and call them The Nine Commandments.
Getting married does not cure lust, and Paul the Apostle did not have a clue what he was talking about!!
Often speculated if his “thorn in the flesh” was that he was a sex addict.
Good on you posting about this. Christianity is destroying young men's lives, IMHO. I was one.
Also teenagers
I still question how teenagers even become Christians
@@joshuadala3508 Yep.
Ooooh this is going to be good!
Thanks for being here for it!
These are some of your best points yet 💯
Good day, all!
Mornin, Mags!
Good morning 🌅
Good morning Maggie.
Hi maggie
@@AdamKlownzinger Hello Adam :)
You’re right; Christianity is so man-made. Only humans can make up so many different interpretations of a handful of core beliefs.
I still don't understand why teens and ppl even become Christians with all this facts and information
And I also think that the only way ppl believe this shit is the so.called personal experience which is basically just the placebo and Mandela affect combined with your what your brain wants it to look like
Hey Brandon. I can’t wait to get to a place where my mind is serving me properly rather than these Christian theological intrusive thoughts!
I suffer with ED and it slowly gets better the more I listen to you. This video was a wrecking ball. With this understanding of what has been going on with me has loosened a lot of pressure and tension.
Thanks again for your hard work buddy.
Tyree D 😉
(i go to a adventist school) Today's religion class was about 1 Samuel. My teacher was talking about "beliefs" and basically the mentality behind believing something is true. Today was mainly about how King Saul outlawed witchcraft but then he himself went before a witch in order to contact Samuel. I guess it was to show Saul's hypocrisy, which I am not discrediting that, but quite ironic knowing God himself's actions. Really ticked me off when the audiobook reader read about how God had abandoned Saul, to the point they were deemed enemies, and that Saul was trying to escape God's fury, how no one in that room bothers to think about how God really care about the most diplomatic solution does he? The whole reiteration of the Israelites and Palestinians fighting each other over and over, with still everyone in the room I feel desensitized to what they were even listening to! To think of the people in the bible as real human beings makes the stories much more unpleasant.
There was, I guess I should say like, interlude where the teacher was talking about the topic Christianity's not so good in my opinion's influence. They revealed about how forcing your beliefs onto other people when they are going through grief and is a horrible thing to do along with just saying someone else's beliefs are wrong is the wrong thing to do. They talked about a show about wizardry and "witchcraft", got them in big trouble with their mother. They talked about how playing uno on Sabbath got her grandma livid. Their family were very devoting 7th day Adventists. The teacher talked about how they had a college friend who firmly believed that when they are dead, they are dirt and know nothing. Yet when their partner died, they believed their partner was watching them down from heaven. This was supposed to be an example of what they said earlier about how the brain can really convince our minds about what is true and what isn't. If that whole class period didn't end with more than 1 doubter in that room, I'd lose it.
The saddest part of the whole class period was when it closed with the teacher speaking about cults, beliefs that may not be in your interest, etc, they asked the class if they would be able to avoid a cult when they see it, and all of them said yes. I wish there was more I could do.
Also, speaking from experience, as someone who is nearly 2 weeks clean on my journey to quit pornography, I think it's much easier to work your way out of that horrible stuff when you don't have the heavenly and demonic pressures pushing against you, guilt of shaming your creator, guilt of succumbing to your creator's mortal enemy, haha! I give my deepest best wishes for anyone trying to escape this horrible addiction.
I apologize for the longer read, I probably should've wrote this down in my journal or something, but pencil just causes too many wrist pains sometimes ok lol. have a great day/night whenever you are reading this Brandon.
I enjoyed reading your long comment, but it would have been much easier with a full line of space between the paragraphs. :)
It looks like you did break your comment into paragraphs, with excellent sentence formatting, but you only hit the "enter/return" button once, instead of twice.
(IDK, hopefully that makes sense! It's kinda crazy what a difference is made by just a few lines of empty space scattered within a big block of text.)
I usually don't leave comments, but I really enjoyed that video, especially when you mentioned what is God waiting for regarding Jesus' return. It's interesting to think that Jesus could have come back a thousand years ago and saved countless souls.
A messiah complex, and a shame stiffy. What a combination.
Can confirm, gives superpowers.😂
The chapter about deception was just spot on! It would be an amazing ytb short, btw.
Late to the party... but not too late for coffee! ☕😀
Howdy, Das!
Your videos really helped me to think for myself and find myself, and am grateful that I no longer suffer from this fear anymore,
It breaks my heart that ppl go through this No one should be going though.
I'm hoping everyone wakes up from this as well with every other religion system
Some Christians say that all you need to be saved is to believe and trust in Jesus Christ, and they’re right.
Some other Christians say that homosexuality is theologically condemned and nobody who engages in it will be allowed into Heaven, and they’re right.
There is no theological consistency in Christianity and everybody can just pick and choose whatever their heart, or bigotry, desires
Well put!
Ganymede, the cup bearer and homosexual became Moses.
@@AdamKlownzinger so true 👍
@@harveywabbit9541Based on what? Nowhere in the Bible, that's for certain.
@@Charlotte_Martel
Exodus 19.4.
Love the video, Brandon! It reminds me so much of my college days.
I would've found this relatable back then (those 5 short years ago) but now it just appears insane.
Really appreciate this look back into the problematic psyche of a young Christian man. Brilliant video idea!
Comparing these videos to “1984” is low hanging fruit, but in these TikTok scenarios, “God” is O’Brien, “Satan” is Emmanuel Goldstein, and the Christian is Winston Smith. The only difference is in these TikTok videos, there seems to be no proper way of loving Big Brother.
honestly i felt relieved when the blurred image was a knife...
@@MindShift-Brandon funny how there were christian cults back in the middle ages who's male members castrated themselves in order to overcome lust, only to keep lusting after women afterwards
@ Yeah, I was thinking it was, er, something else.
I would also like to add that these videos are truly insidious in the sense that they plant seeds of fear and doubt into people that are already believers. they make them paranoid that, despite doing what they believe is what god wants from them, that it will not be enough to please him.
as someone who's struggled with feeling the need to bend over backwards to go above and beyond in regards to achievement, having struggled with self hate, procrastination, and potential depression, I know the feelings of paranoia about things I'm insecure of. I know the feelings that are being instilled into people through these videos, and it's enraging on the inside to see these things being made.
12:05 This is so upsetting. It implies that God doesn't see him at all. It implies all of his individual self -not just the bad, but the hopes, dreams, the good of him- is erased and replaced completely with the the concept of another being.
Or this young man is presenting himself as he is and God is disregarding that entirely, and instead only choosing to see what he wants to see.
Either way, this is the kind of thing you see in deeply unhealthy relationships.
That video short breaks my heart
Don’t like how there wasn’t any audio for the shorts. I usually listen to, rather than watch. I have vision issues. Maybe in the future you could read out what is on screen? Love your channel, Brandon. Keep up the great work.
yes, thought about that for those that listen. Sorry about that!
@ no worries. Just meant to be constructive feedback.
Yeah. I was listening and thought UA-cam stopped working. Lol
Would you ever consider talking about a very descriptive breakdown of your deconversion process? I started this process in June and it's been a challenge to balance how to do this thoroughly especially when deconstructing some genuinely traumatic stuff. So much religious trauma makes it a bit trickier to navigate. Some descript tips and recommendations and how to flow in this would be so helpful
For that last one - If a good Christian, trying their best, can honestly be deceived into thinking that Satan is God...well doesn't that invalidate the whole thing? How could any Christian ever know what the truth is or what God wants from them?
Atheists, Jehovah's Witnesses, SDAs, Mormons, Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
KNOW
and are fully aware that GOD and Jesus Christ are opposed and against them because they are not the loving, kind, and submissive Followers of Jesus Christ
but
the worthless fools and liars on earth
and
the loving, kind, and merciful GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
is
definitely NOT for worthless fools and liars
but
ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
and
all the worthless fools and liars on earth will just turn into worthless and useless dusts on earth forever after their deaths
while
the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee
that
all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and
fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Greetings Brandon! Lol once my Pastor in Los Angeles said, "trash in trash out !"
I remember going to a Christian counselor when I was younger to help with my drug addiction. Being taught I was powerless without Jesus only fueled my self destruction! I began to hate my unworthy self more and more because Jesus wasn't taking my addiction away as was promised to me. Eventually, that hate spread to others who I had been told were the Devils little pawns sent to turn me away from Jesus! Christianity can really fuck your head up! Sadest thing is that when I explain why I'm no longer a believer to Christians and share my srories with them I am told I'll come back to him or Jesus is working in my life in ways I don't understand! So, basically, what I hear is, oh you silly sinner, you're pain means nothing to me!
If they follow a god who created a hell, they must at least be able to tolerate others being hurt
As someone who has come away from Christianity after being fully indoctrinated since birth (my dad was a pastor), I can safely say that you hit the nail on the head with this video, so much so that it triggered me deeply with how these beliefs made me feel.
We can argue doctrine all day, whether or not the bible is true but fundamentally, and for me, the constant not knowing if I was in or out, safe or not safe, loved or not loved, constantly feeling I wasn't good enough for this God, never having true security as I was taught both calvanisim and Armenian beliefs - I was traumatised for years, truly traumatised with all kinds of issues that I needed therapy & before anyone judges or thinks I was "sinning" - I wasn't, I was so focused on living right and doing right it made me ill.
So everything you are saying here is absolutely spot on. There is no way around this, the bible teaches all of these things & for those who take it very seriously as I did, the only way to deal with it is to come away from it entirely.
I've spent the last 6 yrs fully deconstructing. It was hard, my family are still strong believing Christians, but I can honestly say I've never felt so free from the mental anguish and torment I put myself through believing this toxic stuff. I'm happy, free and can love others and myself without any ifs buts or maybes.
So thank you for highlighting the truth about the damage this does to people as I was absolutely one of those people & I'm just thankful people like you can expose it for what it is.
ATHEISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, and ALL RELIGIONS
are
NOT the "Word of GOD" and source of TRUTHS
but
the "Word of the Enemies of GOD" and sources of the Satanic LIE and deception that GOD doesn't exist and even if existing is cruel, merciless, and will destroy human beings in their fake Armageddon and torture them for eternity in their invented and fictitious Hell.
The BIBLE is NOT the Word of the Liars and Deceivers but the "Word of GOD" and source of the TRUTHS that -
1. Loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
honor and obey Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King in their obedience to what's written in Matthew 28: 18
will
definitely be honored and rewarded by loving, kind, and merciful GOD with ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
2. The teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee
that
all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and
fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Appreciate this!
Another great take! It is insane when you sit down and realize that everyone is convinced that their mutually exclusive belief is correct, and the implications of everyone else being wrong. So not only are the 70% of people who don’t claim Christianity at all automatically condemned to hell, but so are most Christians according them, and they think that is love or the best plan God could’ve done.
Maturing and gaining empathy is realizing that that is a terrible plan and a horrifying story, that has the propensity to result in a myriad of religious traumas and psychological damage. It’s absolutely abusive. You spend your whole life immensely stressed out about something that isn’t real.
Well said! It's so weird how they convince themselves only the people they don't like will go to hell when the story basically says 99.99% of people will - likely including THEM. lol
14:30 OMG This part is so good
Setting an unattainable standard of behaviour then condemning everything you do is classic abusive partner shit.
These are really, really good Brendan thank you
I would recommend reading the Screwtape Letters by C.S.Lewis.
These are letters from a senior demon to his ward, or nephew. I forget which.
The pretzel thinking you need to engage to even remain 'safe' as a Christian is truly staggering.
No wonder people were self flagellating all the time.
I think it was best said by Reverend Lovejoy ala Simpsons: "Marge, have you ever read this thing? (indicates bible). Technically you shouldn't even go to the bathroom."
I loveddd Screwtape Letters when I was a believer. But what a mindfuck now.
When I see young people like this, it makes me sad. How much time will they waste on such suspect advice and beliefs?
indeed!
Always good to know that your deity is gonna set fire to anyone who doesn't show absolute compliance, I guess? Make an error, get set on fire? Forgiveness doesn't exist, it's perfection or immolation? Jesus didn't die for anyone's sins and nobody's going to Heaven, I guess? What a weird version of Christianity.
The clincher: He made you that way, but he punishes you for all eternity for it
Didn't Hitchens say something like that? But it is very true,if God exists.
You are sick, take my medicine.
I'm not sick.
Take my medicine.
Okay, I took the medicine, but I feel worse.
It's because you are sick, take more medicine.
I am really sick now, thanks for the medicine, may I have more?
Yes, you are really sick, now take more medicine.
YES
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
lmao
God tells us don’t judge, but he’s always judging everyone! I feel like no matter what you do God is never satisfied. He created us in perfect , yet it feels like he wants us to be perfect. That’s impossible
HIGHER and SUPERIOR than GOD and JESUS CHRIST
Atheists
who are mocking and degrading all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them
are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father
Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
who are mocking and degrading all Atheists as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them
are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father.
GOD KNOWS
that
loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
rejected Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all kinds of Religions as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever
and
honor and obey Jesus Christ instead as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
will
definitely bring themselves honor and his favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
and
GOD also KNOWS
that the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee
that
all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom
and
fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854 "HIGHER and SUPERIOR than god and Jesus"
Well certainly higher than the make believe gods of the bible, yes.
@@jaflenbond7854 "Atheists
who are mocking and degrading all"
The torah, bible and qur'an all *insult* any god, or gods, that _might_ exist.
These books assign not only human attributes, _but the WORST of human attributes._ Their gods are portrayed as ignorant, immature, insecure, inconsistent, incompetent, immoral, illogical, capricious, petty, narcissistic, idiotic, jealous (seriously, what the hell would a *GOD* have to be jealous of? The very notion is ludicrous, to say the least), vengeful, wrathful sadistic, overbearing, overcontrolling, unimaginative, creepy and generally pretty shit.
The _claims_ that their gods are in any way good, loving, compassionate, merciful, forgiving, etc are _completely HOLLOW claims,_ made by people with no true understanding of these qualities.
Instead, these gods are clearly merely the reflection of the deeply flawed _men_ who made them up, complete with those flaws.
And they don't even consider claiming that their gods have a sense of humour or compersion.
@@pineapplepenumbra Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
are
all FREE to hate GOD and insult JESUS CHRIST as worthless, useless, and undeserving to be honored and respected as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth.
GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
is
NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons
but
ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and obey his teachings too about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26.
GOD KNOWS
that all human beings will just return to dusts after their deaths just like the animals as written in Ecclesiastes 3: 19, 20
but
he also KNOWS
that
he will not let all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others to remain as worthless and useless dusts on earth forever,
instead,
he will let them all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom
and
fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
"It's not a religion, it's a relationship."
One of the of lies and untruths christians come out with so regularly, that many years ago I compiled a list.
Where are you even coming up with pondering as to Christianity being one thing whether it’s a religion or a relationship?
It’s been well known for since even the first century that there is more than one Christianity and therefore more than one relationship, and to just lump them all into one category is not an accurate position to take.
@@kevinx7015but you're a real true Christian? 👍 all the others aren't?😂
@TonyLambregts And all others are not true concerning what? Also, how does one sincerely believe what they.believe concerning Christ means they are not sincere in their Christianity?
It’s not about which Christian is real. It’s about which Christian denomination has the most truth. And one can try to ask God in sincere faith if a certain denomination has the fullness of truths.
@@kevinx7015 I asked god he told me it's all made up bull💩, Amon Ra is the truth!
@@kevinx7015 "Where are you even coming up with pondering as to christianity being one thing whether it’s a religion or a relationship?"
I'm not pondering, I know it's not a relationship.
"It’s been well known for since even the first century that there is more than one christianity"
There's no such thing as christianity, only Paulians, Liarians and Nobodyknowsians. christianity, if it ever existed, died out about 2000 years ago, to be superseded by fan fiction and the words of blatant plagiarists, liars and at least one nutter, none of who had ever met Jesus , some of whom didn't know the area, or Jewish ways at the time, and who didn't write anything until decades after his alleged life and death.
Religions: Creating very real problems for very imaginary reasons. As if life didn't have enough actual challenges already.
Hard for me to imagine being under that kind of pressure, but I sure understand I dodged a bullet there by not following that faith. Also let's not forget how toxic and divisive many of those views are against others. Great video!
HIGHER and SUPERIOR than GOD and JESUS CHRIST
Atheists
who are mocking and degrading all Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them
are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father
Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
who are mocking and degrading all Atheists as worthless, useless, lower, lesser, and far inferior than them
are FREE to raise, glorify, and exalt themselves as greater, powerful, glorious, higher, and superior than Jesus Christ and his GOD and Father.
GOD KNOWS
that
loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
rejected Atheism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and all kinds of Religions as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever
and
honor and obey Jesus Christ instead as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
will
definitely bring themselves honor and his favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
and
GOD also KNOWS
that the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are the guarantee
that
all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom
and
fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854 Yuji Abe (阿部 祐二, Abe Yūji, born 14 August 1958) is a Japanese television reporter and actor. He is represented by Tender Pro.
@@dasbus9834 Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
are
all FREE to hate GOD and insult JESUS CHRIST as worthless, useless, and undeserving to be honored and respected as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth.
GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
is
NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons
but
ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King and obey his teachings too about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26.
GOD KNOWS
that all human beings will just return to dusts after their deaths just like the animals as written in Ecclesiastes 3: 19, 20
but
he also KNOWS
that
he will not let all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others to remain as worthless and useless dusts on earth forever,
instead,
he will let them all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD" or His Kingdom
and
fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
@@jaflenbond7854 _Global Drama_ is a 2008 studio album by the Swedish metal band Cloudscape. It is the band's third studio album, and the last to feature their founding lineup of Roger Landin (drums), Haynes Pherson (bass) and Björn Eliasson (guitar). Two musicvideos ("Cloak & Daggers" and "Darkest Legacy") were released to promote _Global Drama._ The Opening track "Mind Diary" was featured as download to the video game Rock Band 3.
@@dasbus9834 Nothing has changed, just the same, the REALITY remains
that
RELIGIONS and ATHEISM still bring DISHONOR and ETERNAL DEATHS
because
Atheists, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and fanatics of all kinds of Religions
are
still unbothered and just don't care even if their Satanic LIE and false claim that GOD doesn't exist and Satanic LIES and false teachings and doctrines about "hellfire", "Trinity", "Armageddon", "rapture", "afterlife", "immortality of the souls", and "reincarnation"
bring
them dishonor, disgrace, shame, and cause their own downfall and ETERNAL DEATHS and humiliations, sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and DEATHS to their own families and neighbors.
Nothing has changed, just the same, the TRUTH remains
that
GOD's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence on earth without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4
is still
NOT for arrogant, cruel, merciless, and deceitful persons
but
ONLY for loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
honor Jesus Christ as their loving, kind, and merciful Master and Heavenly King
and
the teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" written in Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are still the guarantee
that
all the loving, kind, respectful, and submissive persons on earth
who
died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Jesus Christ's Followers and disciples, and many others
will
all be RESURRECTED back to life in the right and proper time so they can happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "KINGDOM of GOD"
and
fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, generosities, compassions, favors, and blessings of GOD and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his GOD and Father's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
Bro that last video is insane. like how did he make that and think he was cooking by spreading Gods word. He’s literally just spreading fear that’s it. There is no stability in Christianity if the Devil can always deceive you.
It is amazing how much power Christians give the devil lol... That's why I say it's more comic book like now than it was when it started.
indeed, but at least it was biblically accurate lol.
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
There were countless times where my dissonance got so bad that my undiagnosed bipolar almost drove me to self-delete or the lesser, wipe out muh wang. :-(
'You must talk to three different beings inside of your head or you will go to hell'
Its devestating for so many. Glad you are still here.
Happy tuesday
And to you!
with this lovely early group, it is a happy day!
Same to you! ☀️
whats so facinating is as an antheist is how many Christians that A) think the best way to convert is to be an ass to people, but THEN B) All the pastors that think people are leaving Christinanity because they aren't asses enough.
The melodrama of these shorts would be hilarious if the ideas being presented in them weren't so overwhelmingly toxic.
Jesus man, you described my marriage. I knew my ex for 6 months and stayed in a miserable marriage for 20 years before I left thr faith and filed for divorce
All you need is faith. But if you really have faith, you'll show it through works. But you don't have to do works. But if you don't do works, it might be a sign you don't have true faith. But you aren't saved by works. But you should be doing works, even though you don't have to. Because if you aren't doing works, you're probably not saved. But you don't need to be doing works to be saved. But you are commanded to do works. But it's not a salvation issue. But if you have salvation, you should desire to do it. If you don't desire to do it, there's a good chance you don't really have salvation.
I feel like I'm missing something here.
Lol. And for each step in the confusing, contradictory mess, one can find one or more verses to back it up.
@Rhewin Ouch! That hurts my head. I need to do one of two things to help me clear my head: either lie down in a room with dim lights and soft, quiet music, or drink a pint of bourbon. Or maybe both! Hot damn! That's it!
@@johntiggleman4686 😄Enjoy!
No, I think that sums it up pretty well.
But if you rely on works alone, then you are not really saved. But faith without works is dead, but not everyone, not even some of those who do mighty works In Jesus’ name will inherent the kingdom of heaven, for they never really knew Him, but you need works as evidence of your faith, but you can’t rely on them for your salvation, because that would be relying on yourself. And this doesn’t bring repentance into the picture, have you tried repenting of all your sin? Is that possible? Is repentance a work? Or is it a changing of one’s mind into belief? But did you also make Jesus your Lord, which includes forsaking literally everything to follow him? Remember forgiveness is conditional! Good luck! 🫠🤪🤯
Another traumatic effect this evil had on my self-worth/image/value was every (phoney) testimony I suffered through... hearing how this god was showing up, and providing these wonderful feelings that I was always (apparently) unworthy of no matter what.
One of the main reasons i left Christianity. How can one get into heaven,when there's no clear definition of sin? Especially when there are various Christian views and beliefs that don't.... favor me. (I f i were to fully elaborate, UA-cam would think im harassing and will delete my comment. But if you know what Puritans thought about native Americans and neurodivergent people, you'd get it.)
Edit: Sorry about virtue signalling. It's just a part of history I'm very bitter about.
When did you virtue signal? Unless you deleted a part of your response I’d really recommend doing some thinking about why you feel merely bringing up your heritage and neurodivergency is virtue signaling.
A LOT of right wing and/or religious claptrap is designed to make you feel ashamed about fundamental parts of your identity, so (combined with the liberal tendency to tone police and obsess over civility) it’s very easy for people to fall into harmful self-deprecation or try to hide those parts of themselves. I went through it, and your comment reminded me of that time. I now love being trans, being (albeit a culturally whitewashed) native, being pansexual. All of those make up facets of who I am, and I think I’d be much less interesting if I were to lose or hide them. Repressing emotions never works, much less who you are fundamentally.
Although I don’t personally think that “negative” emotions should be shunned or ignored, but they do fester. Bitterness, once purged of directionless anger and hatred, can very easily become righteous anger.
@@azreales2451 it's just that I don't want to bother people with that. Yeah,it's something personal to me,but I know folks don't want to hear me whining.
@ That’s my point, you bringing it up in and of itself isn’t whining, and you shouldn’t consider it whining. The fact that you considering merely identifying yourself as who you are as whining is concerning. That is the harmful self-deprecation and hiding I mentioned.
Imagine if you met a woman who talked about Christianity’s misogyny but apologized every time she brought it up because others had told her it was “whining” and the like. It would be plainly obvious to you that she wasn’t whining but rather that those who told her she was were using it to avoid actually examining the misogyny and to refocus the discussion on her. It’s an attempt to move the moral blame from the text in question (and the writers and adherents of that text) to said woman for a million possible breaches of etiquette.
She’s too loud or angry or entitled or self-centered or abrasive or pessimistic or too “worked up” over nothing. The excuses are endless.
I hope you can now more clearly see my point and advise that read the works of Maya Angelou and others like her. She happens to have and advocate a very robust and healthy sense of self and pride without going too far and fostering arrogance and selfishness. I’d also recommend some reading on the history of tone policing and civility politics, which will help explain in more detail (as well as substantiate with evidence) why I think that not only is your current approach harmful to yourself and your own confidence but also actually harmful to any attempt at getting the truth of what happened during colonial times and still to this day, albeit with a fresh coat of paint, into the public consciousness.
"How can one get into heaven,when there's no clear..."
and if you are too old (12) when you first hear about this, your questions are way waaaay more basic. F.e. What is heaven? What it the g0d? And how do the religious demonstrate any of that?
The clearest definition of sin is basically anything that any particualr deity does not like and/or does not want their followers to do.
As for what those are specifically? Unfoirtunately these gods aren't willing to be clear and specific about what they are.
I typically listen to UA-cam while i bop around - would you consider giving a quick summary of the videos you react to after they play? I think it would help others who can't see/ don't look at the screen while enjoying your commentary. 🙏
From the second video-
Him (as 'ME'): "secular music is a sin?"
...
Him (as friend): "it's not like you're doing the things you hear in the music"
Him (as 'ME'): "I mean there is a lotta sex and cussing in *my* playlist"
In what sort of F-ed up reality does this exist where the christian is proposing a question as if he has just been told by his friend that secular music is a sin, and then his friend goes on to say it's okay to listen to secular music. Either the friend is not purist Christian and it wouldn't make sense secular music is brought up as a sin, or the friend is a purist Christian and the whole scene doesn't make sense. Am I missing something?
Also, why would the Christian even have sex and cussing in his playlist if he did think it could be sinful? Why would he then go talk to the one person who would clearly try to talk him out of thinking it's a sin? If he doesn't trust his parish leaders to have the answers, why would he even consider secular music to potentially be a sin in the first place if some Christian told him?
The loop holes abound, unless I am too oblivious to see how this would work. Just, as a writer, I find all of the context of these skits so confusing. Any premise I could think of in how these conversations would just happen are only worthy of scrapping and I would be going back to rewrite the conversation itself, and do everything possible to never let anyone see the prototype.
Edit: Okay, didn't watch the last bit. His 'friend' being lust is even worse, though. The only way I could think this would work is if there was a third party saying that secular music is a sin... You know, just no... I give up. Secular music is not all sex and cussing so the premise is dead before it even got going. And this dude is a bigoted, purist, arrogant pandering conman who's only target audience would logically be other (agnostic) believers scared of hell. Anyone else would just ignore it or see right through it... (I think I got a little triggered--probably by the homophobia, and the rest just went downhill).
In my only legal marriage in '98, I had in mind to settle down at 23 as I ran amok a bit from the age of 18 'til then. I wanted to be right in God's eyes. That was but one aspect, though. I had good intentions in other aspects as well. The marriage lasted 11 weeks.
It's amazing how often the porn addiction topic comes up on Christian YT channels. If their religion were true, would it really be this much of a problem? Would not earnest prayer and sustained effort suffice? It's almost as if, despite their wishes and belief, they're not actually getting assistance.
I have no desire to spend eternity with a schizophrenic god that needs my continuous praise and worship.