As always, I love your content. I came across your channel about three years ago, and it introduced me to difficult church topics through a lens of reason and faith. For that I will always be grateful.
My take on Halloween is that if the world can celebrate Christmas while making it commercial and stripping it of any religious significance, then I'm allowed to celebrate Halloween while making it wholesome and eschewing all the bad stuff. We dress up, trick or treat, decorate with "spooky" pumpkins/bats/spiders, and celebrate our spooky dead ancestors by learning about family history.
I remember in 5th grade someone told me that their mom told them they “weren’t allowed to play with me because I worship the devil”. I’m just confused as to why. Someone else asked me if I had horns. Where does that even come from??
In high school I trolled a guy in my class by telling him that at church we wore our young women's medallions in the middle of our foreheads where our horns were removed.
@@briantaylor8836I commented under that video about the video having a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation and there was a guy who wrote a whole paragraph about what misunderstanding and he was serious. Kinda crazy how to have been misinformed until the point that they have a testimony against our Church.
Thanks for existing guys :) I love your videos and they make me see everything in a better light. Seeing all these negative things give me a good chuckle instead of a day long heart wrenching feeling, since seeing them with you helps me realize the silliness of it all. Your videos are so nice and relaxing and fun, hope you all had a great thanksgiving, and have an even better Christmas :D
Halloween was invented by Christians lol. All hallows eve, the night before hallowed (meaning holy). Halloween is the day before All Saints Day. Why does no one know this
In the end, God could care less that we dress up and pass out candy. That we have school socials that kids and teachers can connect on a different level
Interesting how all that rhetoric about loving other people flies out the window as soon as the critics start talking about us. Not very Christ-like I'd say.
I didn't think much about Halloween until I became a mother and realized that they played all these scary, gory movies on TV in October. Then it occurred to me that we spend 364 teaching our children to eschew evil and one day celebrating it. That really turned me off to Halloween, but my (now) adult kids can't resist dressing up in fun costumes.
I dont see anything evil about people who have died, bats, spiders or playing dress up. And if you've ever watched TV or been to the internet, then you know we celebrate evil every day.
Isaiah 40:22 ;It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in
You guys are correct in saying that it doesn’t matter if God spoke to Joseph through a seer stone, because God can use whatever he wants, I guess. The thing that matters is that Joseph used this same seer stone to deceive people about finding buried treasure that didn’t exist. He was not a treasure digger. He was a treasure seer. He was a con man. After he was told in a court of law that he could not con people with his treasure seeing skills. He changed his approach and just started a religion with some gold scriptures that he found.
For Christian’s to fight against each other is anti biblical and anti Christ. When the apostles found someone casting out devils they forbid him. Jesus told them not to forbid him because they were not against each other, they are therefore on the same team.
I do wish Relief societies wouldn’t host witches night -usually a soup social- I think it does send the wrong message but I just don’t attend those activities.
I have never heard of a witches night…. Trunk or Treats, though. All the way! This year my ward is doing a combined activity with the Spanish-speaking ward with which we share a building: Trunk or Treat and Dia de Los Muertos on the actual Day of the Dead. I expect much family history-related stuff and treats!
3:29 Holy envy? What?! That is so untrue. Have you ever heard a Bradly Wilcox talk dude? Everyone else is just pretending remember? You do think you have a monopoly and shame on you for downplaying the reasoning behind that logic.
Not really sure what you are talking about concerning Bradley Wilcox, but he is not an Apostle or Prophet, and his role is not to dictate any kind of doctrine that the church is to follow. It is consistently stressed that we seek after truth no matter where it is found. The last sentence of the 13th article of faith should help you a bit on this as far as what we believe: "We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
@@CameronVanTassell General Authority Bradley Wilcox and his talk on all others outside of the lds church just pretending to “play” church, look it up. Also the common knowledge lds saying of the fullness of the truth. I see your point that Snellyboys intention is to recognize that parts of others beliefs that are considered to fit into Mormon doctrine are respectable. However this will always be expressed from a “faith” fueled approval or disapproval as truth. Thereby inherently holding this standpoint of arrogant authority and never accepted or discussed on a common level.
@@K2xrs154 My entire life. I hear the term holy envy frequently and the idea that we don't have a monopoly on truth often. I'm confused what you're drawing on to say otherwise.
Some people think that if you believe in Satan, you are a Satanist. Like by believing in him, one manifests him. I don't believe in Satan anymore but I do believe in God. It's more peaceful for me.
@Rolando_Cueva I like most of the things that Jesus said. I think most of the demons were likely mental illnesses. The only people who get possessed by demons are Christians who believe in Satan and demons. Check out the Catholics. Satan has no power over me because he doesn't exist, IMO
You do understand that every holiday we have is pagan aka worships the other guy. Christmas on the 25th is 4000 year old festival honoring Tammuz, the reborn son of Nimrod and Semiramis. It even speaks of bringing in the tree and decorating it and fastening it to the wall, balls of gold. It is in the OT. Easter is another one. Halloween of course. We feel we are in the truth while we celebrate pagan holidays and ignore the holy days of the Bible.
Actually I’ve (surprisingly) read several things about Easter that seem to believe that there is no record of an ancient holiday celebrating Oester or whatever the Germanic goddess is supposed to have been. I even found one source saying the word Easter had Christian origins, but I can’t remember the etymology off the top of my head. Never heard of Tammuz, but I have heard of Yule and solstice, which are also around the 25 of Dec. My understanding is that pagan holidays were appropriated and “rebranded,” if you will, for Christian celebration. I kind of feel like it’s the intention and purpose of the celebrant that matters more than the origin of the holiday. 🤷♀️
@@gingersnaps215 Thanks for the comment. Yes Constantine and the romans severely disliked the Yahudim or ish people so the Sabbath was changed, the holidays the Savior had celebrated removed and new ones added.
Mormons are just Christians with a whole bunch of really crazy stuff added on. The Joseph Smith story is hilarious, the gold plates and seer stones and a magic hat. Good stuff. I think its great that yall think this stuff is true, bless your silly little hearts.
Is this sarcasm? I hate sarcasm. I can never tell when people are being sarcastic, but I sure hope you are being sarcastic when you say you will only be saved by Joseph Smith.
@@rodneyhuckaby8716 Not sarcasm. We as members *do* believe that the ordinances and endowments that were brought to the earth by the church *he* restored can only enter into the highest heaven. Also Joseph Smith will have some roll to play in the judgement. There's many early journal entries by church leaders from the day that said that the enemies of the church will have to answer to Joseph Smith on that judgement day. Fun fact: This is partly why modern day church leaders are not allowed to keep diaries and journals. They are afraid people will use their alleged prophetic words to show how the changing sensibilities of the time will contradicts the later doctrinal teaching. Which is true and is what happens.
As always, I love your content. I came across your channel about three years ago, and it introduced me to difficult church topics through a lens of reason and faith. For that I will always be grateful.
My take on Halloween is that if the world can celebrate Christmas while making it commercial and stripping it of any religious significance, then I'm allowed to celebrate Halloween while making it wholesome and eschewing all the bad stuff. We dress up, trick or treat, decorate with "spooky" pumpkins/bats/spiders, and celebrate our spooky dead ancestors by learning about family history.
I went to a trunk or treat where I sacrificed many Laffy Taffies. BWAHAHAHA!!!
😂
I remember in 5th grade someone told me that their mom told them they “weren’t allowed to play with me because I worship the devil”. I’m just confused as to why. Someone else asked me if I had horns. Where does that even come from??
In high school I trolled a guy in my class by telling him that at church we wore our young women's medallions in the middle of our foreheads where our horns were removed.
@@DesertPrimrose wild
It comes from the Banned Mormon Cartoon. You can look it up on youtube and its very funny with these claims
@@briantaylor8836I commented under that video about the video having a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation and there was a guy who wrote a whole paragraph about what misunderstanding and he was serious. Kinda crazy how to have been misinformed until the point that they have a testimony against our Church.
@@BddJnr it’s very funny and very sad. Today I had to convince someone that we aren’t a sect of Scientology. Crazy
Thanks for existing guys :) I love your videos and they make me see everything in a better light. Seeing all these negative things give me a good chuckle instead of a day long heart wrenching feeling, since seeing them with you helps me realize the silliness of it all. Your videos are so nice and relaxing and fun, hope you all had a great thanksgiving, and have an even better Christmas :D
Halloween was invented by Christians lol. All hallows eve, the night before hallowed (meaning holy). Halloween is the day before All Saints Day. Why does no one know this
Halloween was appropriated from Pagans and changed into a Christian day. Not that it really matters.
The Christianization of the Celtic festival Samhein.
@@AlwaysWondering56 It is actually much older than even the celts, dating back to the Druids.
In the end, God could care less that we dress up and pass out candy. That we have school socials that kids and teachers can connect on a different level
@@tawneenielsen4080 I agree, but the history is still fascinating, and should be accurate.
Always love these videos 😂
We always love YOU, Ryan!
@@SaintsUnscripted this is the way 😂
The act of stating "I don't support satanists" isn't "CHRISTLIKE".
I got the horn question when I moved to Alaska (from Utah) in 1975. I was baffled.
Interesting how all that rhetoric about loving other people flies out the window as soon as the critics start talking about us. Not very Christ-like I'd say.
I didn't think much about Halloween until I became a mother and realized that they played all these scary, gory movies on TV in October. Then it occurred to me that we spend 364 teaching our children to eschew evil and one day celebrating it. That really turned me off to Halloween, but my (now) adult kids can't resist dressing up in fun costumes.
I dont see anything evil about people who have died, bats, spiders or playing dress up. And if you've ever watched TV or been to the internet, then you know we celebrate evil every day.
our ysa rs watched hocus pocus 2 and decorated pumpkins as an actiity this year
I love how you can laugh off the hate
Those are the nicest mean comments. I have read on this channel a lot worse.
She is such a Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz.
Isaiah 40:22 ;It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in
A lot of nay sayers don't apply occams razor
You guys are correct in saying that it doesn’t matter if God spoke to Joseph through a seer stone, because God can use whatever he wants, I guess. The thing that matters is that Joseph used this same seer stone to deceive people about finding buried treasure that didn’t exist. He was not a treasure digger. He was a treasure seer. He was a con man.
After he was told in a court of law that he could not con people with his treasure seeing skills. He changed his approach and just started a religion with some gold scriptures that he found.
For Christian’s to fight against each other is anti biblical and anti Christ. When the apostles found someone casting out devils they forbid him. Jesus told them not to forbid him because they were not against each other, they are therefore on the same team.
I do wish Relief societies wouldn’t host witches night -usually a soup social- I think it does send the wrong message but I just don’t attend those activities.
Witches night?! Never heard of that!
???
I have never heard of a witches night…. Trunk or Treats, though. All the way!
This year my ward is doing a combined activity with the Spanish-speaking ward with which we share a building: Trunk or Treat and Dia de Los Muertos on the actual Day of the Dead. I expect much family history-related stuff and treats!
You mean trunk or treat night?
The host, he seemed kind of tired or was having a crapper of day or sick. Sorry no offense. Hoping youre doing well
lol David, you good?
Correction: it's not round.
You guys are an embarrassment to the church.
3:29 Holy envy? What?! That is so untrue. Have you ever heard a Bradly Wilcox talk dude? Everyone else is just pretending remember? You do think you have a monopoly and shame on you for downplaying the reasoning behind that logic.
Not really sure what you are talking about concerning Bradley Wilcox, but he is not an Apostle or Prophet, and his role is not to dictate any kind of doctrine that the church is to follow.
It is consistently stressed that we seek after truth no matter where it is found.
The last sentence of the 13th article of faith should help you a bit on this as far as what we believe:
"We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things."
I'm genuinely confused by what you mean? Can you clarify?
@@CameronVanTassell General Authority Bradley Wilcox and his talk on all others outside of the lds church just pretending to “play” church, look it up. Also the common knowledge lds saying of the fullness of the truth. I see your point that Snellyboys intention is to recognize that parts of others beliefs that are considered to fit into Mormon doctrine are respectable. However this will always be expressed from a “faith” fueled approval or disapproval as truth. Thereby inherently holding this standpoint of arrogant authority and never accepted or discussed on a common level.
@@IJN-33I’m genuinely confused at how you don’t understand what I’m referring to. How long have you been a believing Mormon?
@@K2xrs154 My entire life. I hear the term holy envy frequently and the idea that we don't have a monopoly on truth often. I'm confused what you're drawing on to say otherwise.
Some people think that if you believe in Satan, you are a Satanist. Like by believing in him, one manifests him. I don't believe in Satan anymore but I do believe in God. It's more peaceful for me.
Bro have you read the Gospels? Jesus is casting demons all the time, left and right.
Jesus knows Satan exists.
@Rolando_Cueva I like most of the things that Jesus said. I think most of the demons were likely mental illnesses. The only people who get possessed by demons are Christians who believe in Satan and demons. Check out the Catholics. Satan has no power over me because he doesn't exist, IMO
Ye shall know them by their fruits.
You do understand that every holiday we have is pagan aka worships the other guy. Christmas on the 25th is 4000 year old festival honoring Tammuz, the reborn son of Nimrod and Semiramis. It even speaks of bringing in the tree and decorating it and fastening it to the wall, balls of gold. It is in the OT. Easter is another one. Halloween of course. We feel we are in the truth while we celebrate pagan holidays and ignore the holy days of the Bible.
Actually I’ve (surprisingly) read several things about Easter that seem to believe that there is no record of an ancient holiday celebrating Oester or whatever the Germanic goddess is supposed to have been. I even found one source saying the word Easter had Christian origins, but I can’t remember the etymology off the top of my head.
Never heard of Tammuz, but I have heard of Yule and solstice, which are also around the 25 of Dec. My understanding is that pagan holidays were appropriated and “rebranded,” if you will, for Christian celebration. I kind of feel like it’s the intention and purpose of the celebrant that matters more than the origin of the holiday. 🤷♀️
@@gingersnaps215 Thanks for the comment. Yes Constantine and the romans severely disliked the Yahudim or ish people so the Sabbath was changed, the holidays the Savior had celebrated removed and new ones added.
Mormons are just Christians with a whole bunch of really crazy stuff added on. The Joseph Smith story is hilarious, the gold plates and seer stones and a magic hat. Good stuff. I think its great that yall think this stuff is true, bless your silly little hearts.
Not sure if sarcasm but Idk this take made me smile haha.
It’s just nice to be recognised as Christian if anything 🐙💗
When are people gonna just accept than you will only be saved by Joseph Smith! And the religion he created! And in NO other way!
Is this sarcasm? I hate sarcasm. I can never tell when people are being sarcastic, but I sure hope you are being sarcastic when you say you will only be saved by Joseph Smith.
@@rodneyhuckaby8716 Not sarcasm. We as members *do* believe that the ordinances and endowments that were brought to the earth by the church *he* restored can only enter into the highest heaven. Also Joseph Smith will have some roll to play in the judgement. There's many early journal entries by church leaders from the day that said that the enemies of the church will have to answer to Joseph Smith on that judgement day. Fun fact: This is partly why modern day church leaders are not allowed to keep diaries and journals. They are afraid people will use their alleged prophetic words to show how the changing sensibilities of the time will contradicts the later doctrinal teaching. Which is true and is what happens.