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Why So Many QAnon Believers Are Evangelical Christians
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- Опубліковано 4 кві 2021
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Strange how people constantly warning about false prophets, fall for every con artist claiming to be a godsend.
All prophets are false.
True.
These are the same people who believe some random guy with a beard came back to life from "God's grace", but still can't get vaccinated because they think it will kill them. smh...
I've always wondered that. Like its literally one of the key things in the bible. Avoid false prophets, but people just eat it up.
@@Silver77cyn Actually, if all prophets were false, then Jesus wouldn't have bothered telling us how to tell the difference in His Sermon on the Mount. ("Ye shall know them by their fruits.") Without prophets, there would be no scripture, including the Bible. That said, people of faith are supposed to have the gift of "discernment" (the ability to tell truth from error), which is a gift of the Holy Spirit. The lack of it, shows a lack of true faith (which is a belief in TRUTH, not nonsensical dogmatic absurdities).
“I like your Christ, I do not, like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
(Mahatma Gandhi)
Gandhi was a very wise man indeed!
@@vonsuthoff for sure. I have met many Christians that don’t really take in the neighborly love that Jesus was all about. I have met a good few that do though. I feel the organized aspect of the religion hurts the message. Gandhi was truly a great person to set examples for being a good member of any community. It’s no surprise that people like MLK were influenced by his beliefs and actions.
@@Rwtheking ... Now, if the people of Earth could just agree on one rule of law... The Golden Rule - "Treat others how we want to be treated." The world would be a much better place to live!
*#OneRule*
It's easy to forget Gandhi predicated his rhetoric on anti-blackness, a vehement allergy to female sexuality, and a general unwillingness to help liberate the "untouchable" caste.
@cj dub There is no one real God or Gods. Otherwise there wouldn't be thousands of religions in the world.
Being an evangelical christian means being a bigot, a racist, a homophobe, a hypocrite, a fascist , a misogynist, etc.
I lost a 25 year friendship with someone who was a lapsed Catholic when I met him. But for the last 5 years of our friendship, he fell into the Evangelical world, and almost like magic, fell into the world of conspiracy theories as well before tripping down the QAnon rabbit hole. I couldn't take listening to it anymore, so we became more and more distant until we just lost contact with each other. His personalty change during that time was heartbreaking.
I became estranged from my sister because she believed "every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of *ucker Carlson." (She lives in Texass, BTW, so...)
I've watched the same thing happen to friends and family who grew up in cults and different evangelical sects, they get out, and then fifteen or twenty years later like clockwork they just fall into a slightly different one and convince themselves it isn't the same because of some slight difference in teaching. It's almost like they get tired of having to think for themselves and get nostalgic for the toxic environment that almost killed them when they were younger, so they return to it. Maddening.
I am currently coping with this, too.
I would recommend Ben Folds’s “Christine from the Seventh Grade.” The lyrics are for you.
Many of us have lost people like that. The common thread is that they have suffered in life and been stepped on so much that anything that offers them the hope of power captures their mind completely. Like any dopamine hit, religion and thoughts of conquering the "bad people" makes them feel bullet proof when they really lean into it. Like any drug, the amount and purity of the thing they are using escalates until they can no longer function and they hit rock bottom. At that point they'll either die or pull themselves back into the real world. In the meantime there's nothing anyone can do for them except try to prevent them from hurting themselves and ruining the lives of everyone around them.
Politicising their church is going to turn off a lot of people over time, particularly the young.
That's a good thing. They are actively destroying themselves from the inside out.
That’s already happening. Fewer and fewer people are going to church anymore. I just read an article about that the other day.
@Sherlock Whole mess they will die out.
I used to think that, now I'm not so sure. The TV and internet are filling the void and making things worse. I grew up in that BS and it seems to be getting worse. Unless you are amongst these people on a daily basis, don't say it is getting better. They MAY be fewer, but they are more vile. A democracy is only as good as it's education system.
Trust me, Gen Z is already turned off from the church.
It's frightening -- this country was *supposed* to be founded on the Separation of Church and State. And yet these people just don't seem to get that...
and they claim to love our founding principles, they are simple people who just say what they are told
@HouseholdHandyman just the property taxes on churches would be amazing.
Their idea of separation of church and state is tany religion but theirs should be excluded. Religious fanatics are as bad as Nazis.
Admittedly, the difficulty of that is that for these people religion is reality. They base all their decisions on this faulty reality, so they don't comprehend why you'd pass laws that conflict with their estranged perception. In the same way we'd pass laws based on the facts and statistics and polling available to us, they pass laws based on the shitty, early-iron age literature.
@@monsieurdorgat6864 Bronze age.
The family of my girlfriend is evangelical. Those people are absolutely nuts. Her dad claims to be living for God, but he has caused so much misery and pain among his family, with his extremist views and rules. The love for his invisible friend seems to be stronger than the love for his family.
When Paula White /Jerry Falwell put their hands on Trump and prayed for him.Trump acted pious and played along.Later he said to Michael Cohen." Can you believe people believe that bullshit?"-page 133 Cohen's book Disloyal.
I hope you've found another girlfriend by now.
She’s not like that too, is she?
I mean loving god more than your own mother is litteraly stated to be how you should be word for word jesus says it
@Michael Rogers
Commandment 5: “Honor thy mother and thy father.”
I am a Christian but I stay away from conspiracy theories.
That's an oxymoron and it's said that you don't understand that.
As a christian, this is Exactly why I stay away from evangelicals, their conspiracy theories and cruelty.
You are in the far minority there.
So many Christians.......SO LITTLE CHRISTIANITY. 💔
Exactly!
@@mangonel But you people fail to realize that religion is in of itself the problem.
@@FactStorm Please elaborate?
@@JD-gw3fp It's a cult for fools and fanatics just like every other religion.
To convince people that virgin births, resurrections, noah's ark, creationism, a talking snake, miracles and prophecies are real is the epitome of psychosis and gullibility.
Imagine being this gullible, just imagine.
@@JD-gw3fp Empty words..yet you still can't address the supernatural claims I brought up. Why? Because you know you can't fathom justifying them with proof.
Also, your straw man is pitiful, I said nothing about relying on government to save us from anything.
I thought technically churches are not supposed to take political positions or they might lose their 501(c)3 status.
@drew c BLM cant be taxed because its uncentralized but if they put up churches yes they would be Tax'd as well
One of the big ways trump got the support of evangelical leaders was promising to relax or even remove restrictions on how they could raise funds and spend them on political candidates.
@Deanna W. He is clearly uneducated , i feel bad for him SMH
Yeah i really dont get what the esculpatory argument is that allows them to escape this.
@drew c go back to Q
As a Christian I hate how my faith has becomes so corrupt by people in power/politics and then tricking weak minded people 😠
Its always been corrupt. Free your mind.
Religious people in the 1900s: "Love thy neighbor, love your family, blessed be the poor."
Religious people in 2020: "JeeZus HAtes dEm' CoMmie DeMocRAts."
Nope I’m the US they were pushing for segregation and Jim Crow, there’s no difference
Religion is always been fucking insane. It was religious people burning witches, because they believed they had made a pact with the devil.
Kinda been the same back then to
"Those who can get you to believe absurdities will make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire.
Underrated comment. From an incredible thinker. Great quote. Thanks for posting.
For instance all police officers are racist who get off on killing minorities. Correct?
Amen
@@bradleyriles3889 Yea so those people commit atrocities what's the problem? The two extremes aren't the only people in existence, many sane people are still on the middle ground.
@@bradleyriles3889 except no rational person says that ALL police officers are racist. Your premise is highly exaggerated.
This is what happens when a group has been taught for decades to follow their "leaders" blindly. I grew up Evangelical, and I couldn't get away from it fast enough. These people are nuts.
Same
Glad you got out
Agree, run fast their lunatics
Former evangelical here and I can confirm that this specific Christian religion is a fucking madness.
Prophets were to bring people back to Torah nothing more and nothing less, read Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 11 twice says not to add or take away , Torah is for ever and read then later , measure later Ezekiel 18: 21, and 22. The truth will set u fee Hasatan invented Christianity....
Most evangelicals would not recognize Jesus even if he sat next to them in church.
Oh no, considering where he lived and what people made up his DNA he would be way too dark for them to even speak too. His hair would make them call 911 and report him as a Dred locked drug dealer.......Trust me
Your professing omniscience
“I think the church is worse for it.”
The whole world is, brother
Islam and Christianity barbaric religion
They’re obviously a very, very, superstitious, gullible group of people. Which makes them extremely easy to manipulate.
Ikr just lool at all the sheep they think vice has any clue what they report on they should go back to shows about doing drugs thats what they and their audiance is good at 😂
Ikr just lool at all the sheep they think vice has any clue what they report on they should go back to shows about doing drugs thats what they and their audiance is good at 😂
That applies to all religions
@@catdoggo362 They are reporting on dimwits who follow Qanon, the same dimwits who claim to be 'christians' they are addicted to utter nonsense, just like addicts are addicted to drugs
It's a bit alarming how they basically sound like radical Muslims.
Try telling that to them.
@@junjunjamore7735 Tell them that once you get past the "Jesus or Mohammad" matter, they (at least the most hard-core of them) and the Islamic Republic of Iran (and as of 2 days ago, back in the news, The Taliban) would actually agree on quite a bit.
Because they are the same
The parallels are real
Two sides of the same coin.
I went to mass in a very affluent Catholic church in south Reno about five years ago in reverence for my 97-year-old aunt Dorothy. I went with my family because they asked me if I would like to go to mass. The first thing that happened when I got there before mass started was a 10 minute infomercial of a lady talking against abortion. When we got home my aunt asked me how I liked mass. I told her I was not expecting an infomercial on abortion. They haven’t talked to me since. My uncle in law told me he would be very happy never to see me again. We will never see each other again. I’m gay. The rest of my aunts family hate my guts because I had the nerve to speak out. They are hateful bigots.
So sorry
On the positive side, YOU will continue living a positive, happy life. Your aunt's family will continue living a negative, angry life. You chose well.
My Grandmother got looped into it as well. She went crazy Evangelical after she cheated on my Grandfather with a preacher.
A Christian does not commit adultery.
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."
~Hannah Arendt
Great quotation.
@@glenngrymes6553 I highly recommend her book, "The Origins of Totalitarianism".
Tough read because she was fucking SMART, but worth it.
Your local library should have it.
Golgotha_Mythos69 I was looking at some of her profound quotes on Google. Many were spot on concerning current events. I will check our local library to see if they have any of her works. Thanks again.
@lenni j Totalitarians thrive best when BOTH sides are angry with each other. Trump voters are human beings, just like you and me. Recognize and respect their humanity, and maybe they won’t seem so much like enemies.
No wonder Right Wing terrorism makes up for over half the terrorist attacks in the US in the last 3 decades. 😏
A lot of evangelicals think of church like a country club.
Home of the KKK
@@spyingonyallteacup2744 🤔WEIRD how there's still slavery today yet crickets...... about THAT guess people never really research just assume they know something they do not.
A lot of churches are more like Epstein’s island than the house of god
Which is super christ like 👍
@@mylamberfeeties875 do you mean the 13th amendment which enshrined prison slavery in law, which the Confederatenstates said they would not rejoin the union if it wasn't included? Is that what you're talking about?
My worry is that they'll believe they have to execute the end of days, and impose it on EVERYONE.
That's what the Nazi's did but failed and they fell!
I’m a Democrat in an evangelical church. This video speaks the truth.
First things first: Leave your church....
@@jds6206 I love my church and my church family. I have no intention of leaving it.
Why are you a Democrat?
The title of this video ought to just be “why the most gullible Americans are Qanon followers”
I prefer the term Chumps.
Most hateful...and qanon just gives them an excuse
I fail to see what liking seagulls has anything to do with dingos eating our babies. Whoopsie, I mean Hillary eating our babies. I don't think seagulls eat babies, do they? Er, what was the question?
Most uneducated
Most uneducated
When you live your life in a delusion, it's easy to fall for scams.
Well said, christians are allergic to facts and reality
@@Jmschstn Some Christians...
@@davidhollenshead4892 Thank you. Back in the latter part of 2020, my pastor and I had a discussion about T****, and I was wondering how so many Christians could consider him one of them when he never embodied any of the faith in his words, attitudes and actions. Pastor, who has a true heart for poor people and immigrants, said that he had the same questions. Most of the time, Pastor concentrates on trying to guide us to being better Christians (I often describe my segment of the faith as the one whose members show up at your house with hotdish and a chainsaw right after that tornado dropped a tree on your roof!)...but Trump had disturbed him for so long that he could no longer keep silent, at least in private conversation. He never tried to influence voting from the pulpit, although I bet he was tempted.
the half that understands that the bible is meant to be metaphorical and not literal is the half thats a little more capable of reasoning
@@davidhollenshead4892 All*
1:57 I remember reading the "Left Behind" series as a kid. With how brainwashed I was, every day of being an Atheist has been a miracle I'm thankful for.
Evangelicals have never been known for critical thinking
I am a Protestant Christian, and I am ashamed that so many of our brothers and sisters have been caught up with these loonybins.
Jesus wasn’t even a Christian
@@realitycheck3672 Technically, true. I don't see how that is relevant, however. It seems you are attempting to start an argument? Not very mature, if you ask me.
@@realitycheck3672 Technically true because he was Jewish. However, in fulfilling all of Gods promises from the Old Testament times there was no need to follow those guidelines anymore.
If you believe an omnipresent morally sound being beyond physics and time created the universe than it’s not a stretch for me to believe you’re not so different from those you call looneybins
You should be ashamed that you believe in any religion. I’m sorry you need more to life than just being here and knowing this is it.
Lucky for them they can still contribute to Trump, sometimes even when they didn't want to because they didn't read the fine print.
@drew c Lol deflect much?
@drew c projection on your part?
@@plaidpanda thats all they do... lol
@drew c
⛳ SEND TRUMP MORE MONEY 🏖️
@drew c
....someone must pay, so our naked orange emperor can play a round at Mar-a-lago
UNGRATEFUL PEASANTS
Blind faith in religion leads to blind faith in conspiracies? Shook.
They should make critical thinking classes required learning in schools. But all the red states would ban it.
Here’s a simple answer: because it’s easy to exploit them.
Right to the point.
Boom! 5 second video.
I feel when evangelicals see some of the things coming from the further left people and the big corporations getting behind it. It definitely adds fuel to their beliefs. I think vice is ignorant as to how people with different beliefs or points of view think.
@@charlesweaver9297 Further left people? Please explain. Big corporations are actually the problem. Which is why all this left/right stuff is bs. It's people who absolutely will be affected by climate change vs. those who will have enough money to not worry about it until they are senile enough or dead. I don't know if you have stepped outside recently, but it's hotter than it has ever been in my lifetime. And it was the hottest I've experienced up to that point last year as well. My two points of reference are anecdotal. Scientific literature about the situation is not.
@@KyleMackenzie I don't know how climate change got tied into this. But those Q people watch videos of trans people dressed in explicit costumes reading to little children and celebrating abortions. Then they see the wokeness and censorship coming big corporations. This type of stuff gets brought to their attention and further cements their beliefs. Then the racist people or even average people who don't think about race hear how elite schools are teaching kids that there are 8 levels of whiteness and they must be a white abolitionist. That moves them towards racism or further into racism as well.
As a non American Christian, I noticed this growing trend and hysteria from outside. I could not understand what the heck was going on.
What country are you from? On a sidenote, Protestantism in America has lost the plot; European Protestant Christianity is more to the point. America is odd indeed.
@@promethium-145 Its what happens when you exile all your religious crazy extremists to what became the US.
@@VhenRaTheRaptor No evidence. Besides, there's countless other variables you didn't account for, like poor public services and economic development. But no, let's just point our fingers at the Christians and whatnot.
@@promethium-145 I'm from Canada and religious zealots are found especially in rural areas . But it is nowhere anything as crazy in the USA. To me that religion is what makes American unique but not in a good way. To me what my beliefs are is nobody's business.
@@jackfishcampbell6745 You honestly think religion is the problem? No, it isn't. Poor social services, lack of insurance, political instability. Those are what I blame.
A true Christian doesn't worry about this fleeting world or it's politics.
He explained it perfectly. Keep them scared of the alleged "Rapture". It keeps them in line and controlled.
It seems the biggest prerequisite to being an evangelical is a complete lack of critical thinking.
Prophets were to bring people back to Torah nothing more and nothing less, read Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 11 twice says not to add or take away , Torah is for ever and read then later , measure later Ezekiel 18: 21, and 22. The truth will set u fee Hasatan invented Christianity....
That and gun worship
@@RebbeYehoshuahLamberti it's all part of a self perpetuating con game.
@@johnbrown6189 if they want the end of the world they should bring it on themselves asap
@@brianbarefoot6574
as long as it's just them.
Who else got really uncomfortable when that tiktok clip was showed?
@sneksnekitsasnek Should go to Byte instead. It's 100% US-made and managed. It's also the true successor to Vine. :)
wym by uncomfortable ?
@@AtomicSymphonic or we stop using apps that’s dumbing down society, by making dumb videos that and a vehicle of disinformation.
@@erenjaeger1738 that little girl yelling Jesus is coming is what he is talking about.
@@CastleBrookKrew People feel uncomfortable of Jesus coming?
I had a older "friend" who was a born again Christian. She did a lot of Un-Christian like things to me growing up. She was the type that believed that if you don't believe in what she believed it gave her the right to hurt said person. It put a very bitter taste in my mouth towards Christianity & I will never ever believe in god. What she did had the opposite effect in what she wanted....
That’s westernised religion for you. I fell away from christianity because of the hypocrisy
Thank you Trump for being so incompetent you gave us the House, The Senate and the Presidency. He is the best thing that ever happened for the Democrats. Let's hope he runs again.
I have a friend who struggled with drugs for most of his young life. About 6 years ago he got clean but became religious ("born-again" he would say). Within about a year of getting off drugs he really started to get into conspiracy type thinking. At this point, it has become so bad that most people who know him think he would have done better staying on the drugs.
Religion is his new drug.
It's because they prey upon vulnerable people like your friend. It's no different than ISIS and Al Qaeda. They find white meat vulnerable people and radicalize them.
@@nancywebb6549 nailed it
Everyone is better on drugs. Everyone
He may be back on drugs and nobody knows it or wants to believe it.
One time I wore a Joe Biden shirt to my college bible study and I was genuinely scared. I was treated with sarcasm and everyone was condescending and rude, accusing me of trying to make trouble or make some kind of political statement. It was just the shirt I happened to put on that morning. That was a big mistake to say the least
The hypocrisy is outstanding, and quite unsettling. Their way or the highway. I suppose a Satan For Senate shirt would have been slightly worse.
@@ANDROLOMA Not if it said Satan was a Republican.
You might want to try a different Bible study. My church is very Evangelical, and conservatives are a minority there.
@@angelicalynn1259 😈
Going to bible study was the mistake, not your shirt.
As an atheist who was forced to go to church every Sunday come hell or high water until the day I turned 18, I can say that churches WERE better when they were apolitical than they are now. When I was a kid in Sunday school we were taught that we were the children of God and that God is love. If the church erred in any direction, it was in it's unwavering devotion to ending the Vietnam war, but nearly all churches were anti-war when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s. The straw that broke the whole "church's camel's back" for my son was that the junior high and high school kids were being called *"Warriors for Christ,"* which TOTALLY ticked us both OFF! Neither of us approved of the whole "War on Terror." One can't just declare war against a feeling, for Pete's sake! It's like declaring war on _ennui,_ it just can't be done! The eventual outcome of all the death, destruction and damage of the last 20 years has been sickening, and *predictable!* Every other country who has declared war on Afghanistan for CENTURIES has found it to be a hopeless money pit where nothing is ever accomplished.
It’s about power, not about religion.
They are easy to manipulate, just tell them "God said" and then ask for money. Hate and fear is a big tax free money maker for the church.
Hell, I'm tempted to start a church just to take money away from these people
Sounds like a profitable business doesn't it?
@@nancyross7935 A business should actually sell you something of worth. The church doesn't sell anything but fear and hate disguised as love.
@@Fidgetbear911 I agree. But they seem to feel they are selling you everlasting life, which should be worth something. The problem is you have to sell your ability t have free thought in order to get it.
@@nancyross7935 It sure does lure in the dumbest of people. I guess anything to fit in, right?
*_"Dear Lord Jesus, please protect me from those who call themselves your followers. Amen."_*
Amen
Ironic, but true...so topsy-turvy nowadays. What strange times we live in. {smh}
*_"Strange days, indeed.....most peculiar, Mama"_*
~~ John Lennon.
*_"It's a mixed up muddled up shook up world (except for Lola)"_*
~~ Ray Davies
its sad that being a born again Christians who dont believe in trump or Q but trust Jesus and do the work of Jesus Christ and obey the words and believe the word is the only truth are then being bundles with this Q or trump or cultist phenom when thats not true! its why i stay off of social media
@@paradisepipeco Brilliant! Good work @jones!
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Having a relationship with our Creator has nothing to do with religion. Make sure you know that.
@@cheradin "If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine reward then, brother, that person is a piece of s***. And I’d like to get as many of them out in the open as possible. You gotta get together and tell yourself stories that violate every law of the universe just to get through the goddamn day? What’s that say about your reality?"
I originally didn’t know what the “Left Behind” series was all about until after I read the first book.
Either way, it was the worst piece of piffle that I’ve ever wasted my time on. Just the most awful writing! But now that I know who the target audience is, I get it.
When I hear the word Evangelical I run. I am a man of faith. I am also educated. These lemmings are lost.
Religion is politics. Faith is not religion...
you are a paradox . Educated man of faith!
@@MAGNUMICAable Faith does not necessarily mean conviction.... Like a scientist knows laws are not inconditionate...
@@MAGNUMICAable there is many people like him. Not all religious folks are idiots and many atheists are idiots. Don't forget that before Qanon, many in the alt-right were first brainwashed with videos from atheists on youtube who hate feminism/muslims/LGBT people.
@@MAGNUMICAable I agree. I am a walking contradiction but, the science she don't lie. From evolution's facts to the splitting of the atom. I believe God is there. It's the crazies and the zealots. The lemmings for Trump. They truly mystify me. They've created a new armed Jesus for Gawdz sake.
The Bible warns against following “false gods” which based on their behavior, Qanon followers are.
True trump is a False Guy
@@fayeinoue7455 it means don't be stupid and follow your own beliefs rather than following others' beliefs. Kinda like how you're leading them into YOUR beliefs rather than letting them peacefully feel free to believe whatever they want. Whether or not gods exists, everyone is free to believe they are or not without others saying otherwise.
An interesting spin on that is that countries are technically God's as they are entities with incredible powers and are in no way flesh and blood, the fact they speak without mouths is proof of that.
As opposed to what, "real gods"? Lmao.
A superstitious person is a superstitious person..no matter the leaning, skew or viewpoint.
@@FactStorm so with that statement, what are your superstitious beliefs?
My parents go to church twice a week for as long as my memories and my father doesn’t see the irony in refusing to wear a mask to protect others.
I don’t bring it up.
Is it my fault for avoiding active influence or is it self-preservation to avoid that conversation?
Avoiding- hmmmm.
I live in a cultural Catholic European country where churches are mostly empty and the faithful that attend it are mostly elderly people.
Evangelicals are coming now to my country and are mostly trying to captivate immigrants and other vulnerable people. Getting their hard earned money … 😞
As a spiritual person who loves Jesus and his peace and acceptance. This is so sad . It is so SO concering how so many people are literally brainwashed. The fact that these people are literally idolizing Trump like he is some kind of messiah that will "save" the people or whatever is so um-biblical and totally blasphemous. Also yeah, it is sad but I feel like a lot of these people would shun Jesus if he was here physically on the earth today. He was a humble loving man who accepted and took in criminals, prostitutes and the other outcasts of society and loved them unconditionally. This "Thank God for Trump" and "Jesus is my King, Trump is my President" is so wrong to me. No man should be compared to Jesus like that.
Jesus cursed a fig tree for not bearing ripe figs outside of fig season...
People are trained by the Christian religion to make inferences then leap to conclusions concerning faith, which is the same tactic used by QAnon conspiracy theorists and their ilk.
Also, throughout history, Christians have looked to "mini messiahs" to 'save' them from whatever ails them, like the Catholic Pope, Martin Luther, Joan of Arc, Charlemagne, Jonathan Edwards, Billy Graham, so it's no wonder they're turning to political personalities like Ronald Reagan & Donald Trump to 'save' them from perceived wrongs according to the Christian Religion's tenents.
@@jonahkaun891 I've been members of multiple churches in the past where either Luther or Edwards were gushed about, almost as if they were a couple rungs below Jesus himself. So yes, I say it with a straight face. Christians have a huge problem of putting certain people and figures on pedestals besides Jesus.
@@jonahkaun891 Aah! Good old "Crossing Over". I can see your confusion! Sorry, mate! No, not putting him in the same "Idol" classification. Cold readers are not well respected in the Christian church, unless they are a *modern-day prophet* who go from church to church, cold reading people and saying it's from "god".
@@jonahkaun891 thank you kind internet stranger! Have a good one!
If you've ever known an evangelical, you know that the answer to this question is that someone told them to believe it. It's pathological in nature. I grew up with an evangelical father and I was drawn to get a PhD in clinical psychology partially to understand the man.
And who told you to believe what was in all the psychology books you had to read to pay your professors and earn your degree?
Religious psychosis
@@fattyz1 is this an attempt at criticism ???
@@fattyz1 hundreds of years of psychology research performed with vigorous testing via the scientific method, elevating plenty of psychological ideas to the highest degree that we can, to scientific theories. I get that you don't understand how any of that works, but your lack of understanding does not delegitimize science.
What do you believe that you were not told?
“I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.”
― Billy Graham
I am an evangelical Christian from Trinidad and Tobago . I am sorry for the way these Christians behave and I could assure you that not all of us are like that but we do believe in end times and also please don't let a few spoil apples spoil the other bunch. They are good Christians out there in other parts of the world and also in your country.
Its easier to find gold than a 'good' christian
They want the end of the world to happen because their own reality is depressing.
How can anybody not be depressed in this messed up world?
Of course!!!
Here's someone who realize's one of root and underlying worst of the problems with why these beliefs are still here in this day and age..they need false faith instead of what I have and that is true hope
@Gerard Woody It would be nice to see him get what he deserves....but he's slipped through so many times avoiding any responsibility or consequences it's hard to get you're hopes up he won't cause an even bigger problem once totally backed into a corner....just glad he no longer has any real Presidential powers, except his appointed judges sure do
End of world is coming but in reality they love money too much to really believe that. They crave a space wars and the newest cell phones.
They’re brainwashed
Sorry. Who is?
@@kenobi-hi7qz the people who the video is about ?
“3/4 of the country is”
- George Carlin
@@aaronrivera6732 well I do know that and you know exactly why that is
Like most people who follow Disney corporate media.. oh wait, that's this channel now.
I only see a true evil in a lot of the evangelicals. Just the feelings I get when I'm seeing one in action are far from good
Evangelicals ; " Yay ! The world is going to end, and many innocent people will die horrible deaths, Earth will be destroyed, and humankind will cease to exist ! Won't it be wonderful !"
Me ; (eyes glazing over, hands balling into fists).
I want their take on Matt Gaetz? Q surely knew of him and his "activities", right?
Lol
No no he’s obviously being framed by the deep state 🤡
Matt Gaetz has been set up by the Deep State and Biden Admin to take the heat off Hunter and Hussein Obama. Gaetz is in line to be President one day to continue the Trump agenda, the Deep State is scared of this.
It’s the craziest thing now all the Q people are like we need more evidence, we don’t want to make a snap decision
@@rickkarsan4491 Honestly, I cannot tell who's joking anymore, but I hope you are.
my mom is one of those evangelicals and she has so many books abt how to see the signs of the end of the world. and it's rly frustrating trying to talk to her abt the problems in the world cuz she just brushes it off and is like 'its the end times' or 'this world is not our home'
My mom is Catholic but she’s essentially the same as yours. Religion is dangerous.
i am so thankful for my liberal parents.
She is going to live her whole life thinking the world is about to end and it never will
@@reginabadiee4134 I think idiocy is the real danger. Most religious people(not just christians) are really chill people and actually separate religion from politics. The problem is that numerous people are too stubborn and bent on their beliefs that they won't even think rationally.
I'm in an odd state myself, I noticed I perfectly fit the requirements of an important figure in the end times, as dose the city of my birth, and the more I try to disprove to myself it can't be, the more proof I find. Can't find a single person who noticed it first, but I think it's an unstated part for a reason, hope I can shoot the plot though.
"stupid is as stupid does"
Religious, especially evangelicals and young earthers have had their brains trained to accept BS that aligns with their BS belief or whatever makes them feel good. And to reject any reality that conflicts with it.
Exactly 👍🏻
I was born and raised in a conservative, catholic part of Poland, but this is a completely different level.
Catholicism in Poland is certainly worrisome, like Orthodoxy in Russia. Religion has got to go everywhere..no matter where it is, it plagues humanity.
This is anti-Christian agitprop by dysfunctional atheist, it's not real.
Yes, it's Christianity 2.0. The next generation of the same LUNACY.
i was married by a Polish Catholic priest i considered it good luck. he passed and he taught me a lot about Poland
i miss him a lot. stay healthy and happy
@David Hogg aka crisis actor Anybody who believes in the magical sky man is a wacko. Basic logic is not a psyop.
my mom got roped in with the evangelicals a few years back, shes a completely different person now and i hate it. i miss the old version of her so much but shes so deep into it now i know ill never see the old her again
That is just sad. I am so sorry for you, that in a way, you have lost your mom. Somehow, I hope that she might come around and return to you.
These cults must be challenged every step of the way.
She probably thinks the same about you.
@@jb894 trump lost cupcake
@@David-ng7cr rigged election
Seems like an easy leap to me.
If you believe in a deity that lives in the heavens that's no different than believing in Zeus.
And building off that, qanon is like a website speaking in tongues..
Imagine if a bunch of evangelical Christians controlled the nuclear weapons of the USA. How long would we have before they decided that 'hey, maybe WE need to start the end of the world for Jesus to come back?'
"Why are people in a cult more likely to be in a cult?"😲
Absolutely correct, great comment
That's it in a nutshell.
Without even watching the video, it's probably because they never learned to critically think.
Very true. On another note. Have you ever conversed with a gender studies dropout or a supporter of critical race theory? I would put their ignorance on par with the worst of religious zealots. And their level of hate and aggression far above anything a theist of any stripe could muster. I believe people should call out both. Not just those who belong to the rival political cult.
When you think you have all the answers, you no longer need to critically think because afterall, there's no need to. It's very hard to engage with conservative religious people because they have God on their side when we have questions.
@@ivareskesner2019 that's just overblown because of the internet so you're exposed to that perspective. Evangelical Christianity has deep roots. It's a false equivalency.
@@AlmostaFlipinSkater I don’t see the correlation between how deep one’s roots are in society to how ignorant they can be. The ultra woke ideologs actually exercise more power in the west than the theists so I would say that they are actually more dangerous. No religious group could ever get away with rioting, looting, vandalising and holding the populace hostage to their demands the way ANTIFA and BLM have been able to.
@@ivareskesner2019 Christianity and Catholicism are all paganism! Pagan room had it so far with these so-called religions and I say that because there are really no religions religions were made up there is only the way and the set apart ones who follow the way not the fake white jesus christ they plaster on the cross Yahweh the one true God is the only god!
I am a Christian who doesn’t subscribe to a sub religion such as Catholic or evangelical… I’m ashamed of my kind but I understand it… the religious model is based around ‘follow without question’. Not just your God, but your human pastors.
I do think they got this wrong though. Most church leaders are NOT passive. They pander to their congregation just like Fox News or Newsmax etc. The ppl want to hear a specific thing and without those ppl they have no job. They give them what they want to hear. It turns into this cyclone of beliefs. Even if you don’t buy into a thought 100% chances are you will still get swept up in the rhetoric.
The other pastors teach shame and fear. Fear is what leaves those cracks open for ppl like Tucker Carlson to creep in.
Once you buy into the literal interpretation of a mistranslated 2000 year old allegory, you’ll pretty much believe anything
This is happening in India as well.... People are blindly confusing religion with politics. Politicians use them... Because why not... They get unquestioned allegiance from that.... We need another age enlightenment.
There is nothing more dangerous to society than a scared and stupid person coming at you with what they think is God on their side, whether it's Al Qaeda or a Trump sympathizer.
I left Church in 2016, you can just imagine why. Have to say though, I've never been happier.
Me too.
Right there with you.
The Freedom from Religion
that I feel as an ex- believer
is priceless.
I don't need to judge other people
to uphold my " Truth" now.
It's wonderful.
@You're Wrong Fascist the majority of religions need to go. Especially the abrahamic ones
I left when Bush 2 came to power.
I could see the writing on the wall back then.
@@aaronpannell6401 you will see the wrath of God poured out into this wicked world pretty soon to punish fools like you for denying God’s existence
When Paula White /Jerry Falwell put their hands on Trump and prayed for him.Trump acted pious and played along.Later he said to Michael Cohen." Can you believe people believe that bullshit?"-page 133 Cohen's book Disloyal.
3:22 the epitome of 🦇💩 crazy 🤣😜 I mean WOW 😳 scary crazy 😧🤣😜
"It's not getting any smarter out there,."
-- Frank Zappa
So true lol
Thank you for that
Science flies you to the Moon; Religions fly you into buildings.
We have limitless access to information and apparently that has either made me more aware of people’s stupidity or increased the level of stupidity.
@@hanovergreen4091 religion takes you to the battlefield...
Trump was sent to us by God……………………because God ran out of Locusts.
Lol
Amen!!
Raaaaaaaaaameeeeen
They need to invent a pesticide that will combat Orange doofuses.
LMFAOO
Evangelism is where the devil resides and does his best work .
The bible is as successful at predicting the end of the world as Wile E Coyote is at catching the Roadrunner.
Like the play "Waiting For Godot" by Samuel Beckett.
@@glengillham4629 Isn't jesus also god?
@@tari8134 Yes. The Father is not Jesus (or vice versa), who is not The Spirit, who is not The Father--but Jesus is God, and The Father is God, and The Spirit is God. That is what followers of Christ believe.
@@stephenlambros3286 Three gods in one god, like three in one oil. Sounds polytheistic. Instead of logical.
Funniest thing I've read this year. Lol
That’s only one reason why I don’t plan on going to church anytime soon; it’ll probably be full of Qamorons and I don’t need that negativity in my life. 😂
exactly...😂
@@1indefinitetruth plus they would ask for donations there and I’m too cheap to donate. 😂
@@celestecelestial90 come on, not even a dollar? 😁😁😁
@@hatbpto5180 no because I’d rather use that dollar to buy something from the dollar menu at Burger King or McDonald’s. 😂
There are many progressive choices for church. If having faith and support is helpful to you you can find a church that is right for you. Not all Christians are like this. Some people still love thier neighbors as they love themselves. These people are just fire and brimstone. Jesus would actually be really mad at people making so much wealth under the guise of Jesus. It would really piss him off I think
Here's the main problem, a majority of US Christians don't even know what Jesus taught. Jesus asked 'Why do you call me Lord when you don't do the things I say" I ask, how can we do the things Jesus said to do if we don't even know what he said? Ask any lay Christian to tell you 15 things Jesus taught or commanded, I've yet to find anyone who can even name just 5 things....sad
To me, religion boils down to wishful thinking and self delusion. That's why I'm not keen and reject it. The natural world is a much better story.
Sounds like politics
Christ refused the religion of politics - aka false gods -
Christians as the Romans Saw Them - Robert L Wilken 1936
He wrote many books on early Christians.
This one covers how Roman politicians, scholars, etc., saw Christians within the first 300 years of Christ. It cites numerous Roman & few Greek writers of the age.
Romans discussed in great detail & confusion, as to why & how Christians in no way would serve their govts. Christians did not hold any office, wave their flags, attend their ceremonies, be employed, vote, assume any responsibilities at all for the duties of the city under govt.
They did not glorify the false religious state of men, serve in their militaries or agents of the state. They didn't even recognize Roman law as the laws they should follow. They were known for their anti govt sedition.
They were seen as "sectarian", because govt IS a public religion & Christians were the first to "privatize" religion.
Christians subverted govt life & undermined foundations in which societies operated, by human false gods.
How?
Christians set up a single divine ruler, which was now seen as a rival & threat to a human emperor, who could now fall, simply because people walked away from serving the violent religion of mortal rule. Christ could reign in the hearts of people who left the mortal rules of political religion & did not see the men in govt as their rule makers.
Romans knew political structure was a sacred religious structure of law makers, aka gods, which deserved absolute obedience & celebration.
Shame on any pastor calling themselves Christian who misses this obvious story all through the Bible.
No where will you find Christ teaching people to get involved with the empire.
Matthew was called out of tax collecting. The centurion stated twice he was not worthy of Christ's help because he was a man of govt. 2nd Samuel goes into the sin & curses of asking for mortal kings. It's literally all over the Bible.
@@azsunburns As I said, there's no reason to believe any of that.
Listen to American Family radio sometime and you will hear this exact craziness loud and clear.
LoL I grew up on that crap!
@@Mr.aAdDies and so money children are being bombarded with it right now. These same people cry foul if they put a gay person in a cartoon.
Church and military industrial complex hand in hand... Fight the evil. Evil everywhere. Most of the people in the world indoctrinated zealots...edit but it's just a mascarade fed by greed.
@@waldo8040 We all indoctrinate our children in one way or another. For example, I taught mine to be skeptical of any belief or idea presented without evidence.
I grew up on that mess hated every car ride
My guess is that they can be easily manipulated, that’s why. Been livin a lie their whole life anyway.
Biden isn’t a lie ??? 😜
@@albusai nope he is your president!
But their bet is on the afterlife; imagine if they are right and your wrong, you will be living a lie for eternity?
@@wholefoodplantbasedmama5398 he is a lier
@@albusai All of them are.
If you believe there is an invisible man in the sky that controls the universe, believing in Qanon is not much of a stretch...
I looks we are back into the medieval ages. Evangelicals would think it is ok to reinstate the inquistion again. Scary!!
Prophets were to bring people back to Torah nothing more and nothing less, read Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 11 twice says not to add or take away , Torah is for ever and read then later , measure later Ezekiel 18: 21, and 22. The truth will set u fee Hasatan invented Christianity....
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire.
it boggles my mind to think people can wholeheartedly believe in Jesus yet act in such a way that is so hypocritical to the very thing they stand for. "religious people" need to start taking intermittent psychedelic trips again
" it boggles my mind to think people can wholeheartedly believe in Jesus yet act in such a way that is so hypocritical to the very thing they stand for". Maybe insert the word "allegedly"`
Agreed. This isn't what God intended.
Prophets were to bring people back to Torah nothing more and nothing less, read Deuteronomy 4 and Deuteronomy 11 twice says not to add or take away , Torah is for ever and read then later , measure later Ezekiel 18: 21, and 22. The truth will set u fee Hasatan invented Christianity....
it might help if you remember that these folk also tend to wholeheartedly believe jesus was a white american...
they aren't christians. they almost certainly haven't read the bible. they're doomsday cultists in maga hats.
Gullibility and a lack of Real World experience
Gee.. why _would_ people who believe in crazy-ass ideas believe in other crazy-ass ideas???? A true mystery...
The keyword is Believe. That pretty much explain the whole thing.
Exactly
Yup. They put their faith in bedtime stories. Very easily deceived.
A View: 👍👍👍
Reminds me of that poster on Agent Muller's office in the X-files show. A photo of a UFO with the caption " I want to believe". Which is something I would have a serious problem with. It should be " I should be skeptical. I should be think before I believe something. It seems agent Muller wants throw his sense of reason or intellect out the window for a blind belief in something unreal. Not much different from the religious believers and new agers. I could see an evangelical with a poster of Jesus Christ or god with the same motto" I want to believe".
Not to question anything but simply to believe.
Everyone has been deceived for centuries. Atheists are so pretentious
I remember when Christianity was about love and tolerance. I was very young then. That iteration of the Church died long ago, in my childhood, permanently coopted by snake oil salesmen, political whackadoodles and nonsensical culture wars.
No offense but Christianity has never just been sunshine and rainbows. It has caused alot of havoc since its inception. Unless you just mean how it was better before where you grew up.
Turin Mortis Oh, I'm so sorry to hear of your experience, which so closely mirrors mine in the phony Protestant Presbyterian church of the mid-1970s. The unspoken disapproval on all levels against a young person growing up into adulthood from the ages of 16 through 21 was so hard to understand at that time, yet so easy to understand now as the disgusting manipulation for what it was back then. So much sub-conscious garbage stuffed into my brain back then.....
lol Christianity was never about "love and tolerance". Boomer hippies in the 70s who called themselves Jesus Freaks gave us that image
Wow its great that you have been living for 2000 years.
So many Christians, so little Christ. Thankfully, I was born okay the first time!
It's really as simple as, once you believe one nonsensical claim, you'll believe any other.
The weird thing is that they keep moving the doomsday date, they'll eventually be right. Because a broken clock is right twice a day.
They ignore that the Bible states that his coming will be unprecedented and they try to find “clues” as if God plants easter eggs
LOL
Lmaaoo
everyone once in awhile a blind squirrel finds a nut
@@noahmcneil3695 same with Qanon folks, they look for clues in EVERYTHING. Their comments are so whack, I say out loud "this can't be real"
I saw instagram pages where people was calling Trump “Biblical” and a prophet....I tried to get them removed. I hope they did get removed.
Yeah. In the Bible it says thall shall not worship false prophets or whatever. They’re breaking their own rules 😂
@@aesxop ... And when they rolled in a life sized golden idol statue of Trump at CPAC, that rely should have been a wake up call... but it wasn't. Instead, they LOVED IT!!! Unfreakinbelivable*
@@aesxop You are absolutely correct. But they break another rule - one of the 10 commandments in fact.."Thou shalt not bear false witness."
@@MichaelBrodie68 agreed lol
I have seen that too...
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I'm thankful that I left the Republican Party a few years ago.
If you're gullible you'll believe anything!
The obsession of end times for Evangelicals and born agains are dangerous and anathema at the same time, this is the reason they led people astray, smh