Thanks, Brandon. Yes, definitely continue with this series. I read the book about a year ago. It's time to go through it again. You pick up on a lot of things I missed. Thanks again.
@@halalmon I thought you meant Chris Langham. To which I would say; "That freak can sod off" Then I realised you are talking about Chris Langan. To which I would say "That freak can sod off".
@1st_Harmonic Maybe this may help you with your quandary as to the meaning of the word "Glory"; Oxford English provides two definitions that are most commonly applied:. noun; .high renown or honour won by notable achievements: "to fight and die for the glory of one's nation" or noun; magnificence or great beauty: "the train has been restored to all its former glory". I have no idea where you found; "of goodness truth healing blah, blah, blah". This does sound rather contrived, as if an attempt to pervert the meaning of the word. It is sad indeed that there is such a thing as dyslexia. Learning to recognise words and associate then with their corresponding phonetic intent can be extremely distressing for even the most brilliant of minds. I was not aware that it impacted into map reading and symbolism as well. Thank you for sharing.
Great to see this series return! Half of me is fascinated to learn more about the origins of the mythology that controlled my life for many years. The other half is still saying "I saw God's butt!" in a very juvenile way. Both approaches are therapeutic. Thanks Brandon!
Hello Brandon and greetings from Ireland. I recently found your channel, and I have been binge watching. I've been an atheist since the age of fifteen, I am now in my sixty-six years, and I have not heard or seen anything in all of those years to convince me of the existence of any of the multitude of proposed "gods". I started reading the bible around the age of ten, and it's one of the major reasons why I became an atheist. I have researched other "holy books " on different belief systems, and they are not convincing. I have been aware for many years that yahweh is a member of the Canaanite mythological pantheon. Your videos are very insightful, and thank you for uploading them.
10:17 and not only was Yahweh molded like many other gods from the time period, but he originated as merely a storm god from a huge pantheon of gods under the thumb of one more dominant god. I really think the importance of understanding how this god originated and how not-unique it actually is in comparison to other gods from that time period we now consider silly, is undersold, because one apologetic you sometimes hear is that the Bible story was just so unique and this God was such a unique concept that it must be real because humans during that time period had never come up with that before Because if this god came about just like those other gods, what makes this one real and the others fake? Because its yours/ours?
right. I also love how Jesus is praised for coming up with concepts that have been with our species...well...forever. Kindness, compassion, forgiveness, sharing...
John 1 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
@@justice8718 Deuteronomy 21, ”10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.” Same God and same Bible. Also, I don’t think “something cant come from no nothin’!” Is an actual response to anything I said about your god not being special in its attributes or origin.
@@justice8718 "and without him was not any thing made that was made." Uh yes there are for example stars being created and destroyed (supernova explosions) by the universe itself all the time (relatively speaking within timespans of millions/billions of years). However to such events we only have the photon evidence as due to their vast distance from us we do not observe them in real time. This contradiction is further underscored with creation being "finished" and subsequently God resting on the 7th day. Gen 2:1-3: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. The host has the dual meaning of angels and or stars and in this context I think it meant stars. And don't try to pass the buck by having God invisibly creating life giving stars while the Devil also invisibly creating destructive disasters. The problem of evil is a natural problem not a supernatural one. Oh btw the earth (as well as the sun in theory) can be moved with sufficient enough technology. There's a Chinese scifi movie about just that called The Wandering Earth. Psalms 104:5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved. I think it's time to upgrade (transfiguration part 2?) Earth Jesus into Space Jesus.
Love this series! please continue. The light being "pure and good and innocent" and dark being "evil" rubs me the wrong way. It's obviously socially constructed but people act as if it's some objective fact about how the nature of the universe.
Light was fire, which warmed and cooked food and the only tool that humans alone mastered. Darkness was the night full of stalking predators, the blackness at the edge of the campfire, it was the unknown that could hide any threat, where the lights in the sky placed themselves, there before the greatest light, the Sun, entered the world, fleeing its presence, and waiting until that light left at the end of day. Its easy to see how light and dark could be reduced to human characteristics of 'Friendly' and 'Frightening.' Simpleminded people love simple ideas, and those seem to be the ones most in love with the worst interpretation of religions.
It's really weird to me as a pagan because, as migraines and photosensitivity run in my family, I naturally find most comfort in deities that are represented by darkness or who live in darkness. And this means that most people will just assume I'm doing edgy devil worship and I'm cursed. In reality it's just the migraines
Yes! DTD is back!! I was hoping this was coming soon. I just gotta say, if UA-cam had a "UA-cam Wrapped" similar to spotify, your channel would absolutely eclipse any other channel I've watched this year 😂 Thanks for all the amazing content this year!
Thanks for picking this back up! This is so fascinating and offers lots of new and more accurate points. It’s so fun to learn the truth behind what we used to be apart
It's obvious that Yahweh's followers took inspirations from stories of other popular deities of the time & gave him a power boost. also I think Yahweh impregnating Mary might have been inspired by stories of Zeus/Jupiter
@maggienewton8518 Yahweh is honestly no better than Zeus & his act of impregnating Mary is seen as a "good thing" by Christians & they'll defend God's actions even though it was basically rape.
So, what is your evidence showing that the archeological record is complete showing with absolute certainty that there was no earlier worship of Yahweh as opposed to you just assuming that is the case because of what archeology findings have found thus far? Or why don’t you prove how an incomplete picture guarantees one sees the full picture?
I greatly enjoyed reading this book. It is so full of fascinating information. I know that I am going to read through it again and find even more fascinating information. I cannot recommend this book enough. Thanks for picking up where you left off earlier this year.
Love this series! (I love ALL your content!!) Thank you, as always, for your excellent, logical, incredibly helpful videos!! Keep shining the light😉! Watching from South Africa
Could it be that people associate darkness with evil, not because of some ancient mythology, but because people are scared of darkness since we can't see in the dark?
I just finished this book. It was a great read. Couple others that were great: The Evolution of God - by Robert Wright A History of God - by Karen Armstrong All of them clearly outline how, "In the Begining, Man Created God(s)".
The book is very interesting. I needed a break from time to time during reading, because I found it very overwhelming and triggering. But it is a great book, and I am happy I read it. Very good that Brandon covered it, too. Sone things were easier to hear from him. It feels more comfortable than reading. I had never thought of the euphemisms the bible uses and what they really mean....
It's BAAAAAACK!!!! Yay! I'm so excited! Let's f*cking GOOOOOOOO!!!! Edited to add: I just ordered this book for my dad for Christmas. I'm struggling with gift ideas this year and this seems like a perfect book for him. If he doesn't want it, I'm going to "steal" it.
I missed this series. I have enjoyed the videos that we have had in the meantime, but it's nice to go back to it. I honestly didn't think about how terrible of an omen it would be to have a god turn its back on you. But I did catch on one of my last complete read throughs of the Bible that Moses went from speaking face to face with god, then not being worthy enough to see his face, but I am sure there is some apologetics that "totally explains everything."
Holy book review !!! Brandons ever growing ancient middleeast literature "lectures" are heads above. And dazzling. Your body of work has become so bad-ass. A radiant glory of a channel. A Light in the dimming darkness. I even imagined (in your video) a big shining CGI halo over you and a glittering flash on your teeth when you finished talking about all that glorious light 😂 😅
Welcome first of all! Second, it can pass. My advice is to first dig in to the bible so hard. It becomes painfully obvious how manmade it is. From there, i think it just gets easier.
Side note you may find interesting, In the story of Moses glowing after seeing Yahweh, this phenomenon happened after every time he went up the mountain to pray, which was often, and he began covering his face after praying to prevent the people from seeing the 'fading glory'
@@justice8718 do you? You don't even know what he looks like and no not white Jesus. Not his voice, and personality. You only believe in him due to a "special relationship". And yes there are a lot of mythological figures way better than Jesus many who wouldn't send people for eternal torment because "they didn't believe in me." You cannot just handle the fact that your religion is loosing its power as more people seriously question its tenents.
@@justice8718 also how do you know they are idols? Cause your god said so? Dude read your Bible. even your god acknowledges the existence of other deities but warns not to worship them. Your god literally came from a Canaanite pantheon but you would acknowledge that now?
@@ChinonsoNnadozie The shroud of Turin showed me what he looks like. And you despise it because he does look like the actors he chosen. You simply hate him and love your lies.
It's great knowing the roots of my former religion, even if they are horrible. Too bad it won't have any effect on current believers. They will just hand wave it all away.
Thank you for paraphrasing her book. I’ve been interested in stavrakopolou’s work for a while. I always found it strange that god was supposedly bodiless yet the garden of Eden story says god created man in his image
The part about experiencing God in a way that most people don't get to at 4:52 is an accurate summary, and hilarious. From the title, I was hoping Yaweh acquired His light by taking it from other gods who therefore no longer had it, but no.
The thing that always puzzled me about the bible stating no one could see the face of god and live was the fact we are supposed to be in heaven with him for eternity and sing his praises. Guess he will be wearing a mask for all eternity.
@danielsmith2447 Well, it does say in the bible that we "will be changed in an instant..." so I guess that means our changed selves will not be affected by his glory. Or maybe he hands out Ray-Bans (tm).
Everyone in Heaven would be already dead though. Or have eternal life and couldn't die anymore. So looking at Yahweh's face would have no effect on them at that point.
I went from 30+ years of Christianity to 3+ years of Atheism thanks to you and many other Atheist channels. Now I've moved onto a more Taoist like Pantheism. No more anthropomorphic-like deities for me!
It’s sobering that an Eternal, N-Dimensional, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Being is apparently unable to reveal Itself to Moses without killing him? When believers are asked for evidence of the existence of this Being, they ultimately are unable to do so, retreating into appeals to the mystical In terms of turning the back, I thought of the memorable scene in ‘Gladiator’ where Commodus asks the Gladiator’s name, and the Gladiator turns his back. Furious at the disrespect shown him, Commodus demands to know the Gladiator’s name - he turns, removes his helmet so that his face is seen and declares, ‘My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legion… ‘ Commodus is terrified at the revelation. Is God so terrible that full revelation would be unbearable?
I have more personal evidence in my life through the mandela effect and personal odd " glitches " in my life to believe in simulation theory than any type of evidence or experience to believe in the christian God at this point.
@@GreenJeep2019 Those “glitches” and Mandela effects are literally some of the things witches and warlocks do to try to manipulate and exploit reality. What do you think you are doing when you drug yourself and you see these jesters and entities that the pagans have described?
Binge watched this whole series tonight and wow, just wow. I'm just in awe on how many of my nagging doubts about the validity of Christianity just fell away here. It felt like listening to any other mythology - all the same themes, many of the same events. Thanks for helping me see I really am on the right track with my deconstruction.
I think we're at a revolutionary moment in human history thanks to technological progress that now allows the wide-spread of information to help us move past these harmful and irrational ideologies that have hindered people from their true potential.
The parts about washing one's self to go from black to white reminds me of an anime where a black guy was being washed and the guys scrubbing him said, "The dirt won't come off". 😂
When I first left Christianity it was tragic, but now I'm joyful and content knowing the universe is far vaster and greater than what I could have even imagined. I was fearful for nothing. As long as we continue to have courageous people like Brandon, who are well educated and willing to put themselves out there to continue fighting against religious mind-control, more people will be freed and able to live a life of liberty and gratitude, without being binned by an irrational fear of death.
Naked buttocks in the bible. Isaiah Chap. 20. Here Sargon (supreme head = Sun at the- beginning of the year) sent Tartan (tall person- Saul = the winter Sun) to fight against Ashdod or Azotus (winter). At the same time, the Lord (Jahveh) told Isaiah (the New Year Sun) to go and take off the sackcloth from his loins (his middle = spring equinox), and "put off thy shoe from thy foot." Isaiah did so, walking naked and barefoot three years (months, from winter solstice to spring equinox), for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and Ethiopia (winter). In like manner, the king of Assyria (equinoctial Sun) bore away the Egyptian's prisoners and the Ethiopian's captives (winter days) naked and barefoot, just as they were. Even their buttocks (the end of the year) were uncovered, to the shame of Egypt - the Earth every year comes out of winter naked, and winter ought to be ashamed of it.
hey dude, great content, would you ever consider doing a breakdown of the TAG transcendental argument for God, which a lot of appologists use, especially orthodox christians , most notably Jay dyer on youtube. It seems to be one of the most arrogant arguments for Gods existence i've come across but it goes very deep and i find it hard to keep up with all the jargon.
Paul Wallis and Mauro Biglino who've in different capacities have served in the church. Have spoken & written about these subjects extensively. Thus challenging pre existing misinformation within the Christian faith. These are issues many Christians either outrightly ignore or are unable to comprehend the fact that they reveal inconsistencies.
Brandon, have you seen the documentary Christspiracy? It might be interesting, I thought it was. I was aware of some of the information, but seeing it all in one film like this was quite impressive.
DTD is back! thanks for being here.
“Dungeons Then Dragons”?
Thank you for reminding me about getting this book. I'm going to try picking it up today.
@@gamingwithmaya502 Enjoy!
I knew I was missing something in my week! This is terrific.
Been looking forward to this. Completely fascinating
Thanks, Brandon. Yes, definitely continue with this series. I read the book about a year ago. It's time to go through it again. You pick up on a lot of things I missed. Thanks again.
Love to hear it. Thanks!
I have no desire to have a quick look into anyone's glory, no matter how divine the owner claims it to be.
I am not going to fall for that one again.
“no matter how divine”
Yahweh showed Moses . . . His Divine Behind. 😮
@@legendre007 no ass like divine ass. sorry for that 😂
Chris langan would like to have a chat with you!
@@halalmon I thought you meant Chris Langham. To which I would say; "That freak can sod off"
Then I realised you are talking about Chris Langan. To which I would say "That freak can sod off".
@1st_Harmonic Maybe this may help you with your quandary as to the meaning of the word "Glory"; Oxford English provides two definitions that are most commonly applied:.
noun; .high renown or honour won by notable achievements:
"to fight and die for the glory of one's nation"
or noun; magnificence or great beauty:
"the train has been restored to all its former glory".
I have no idea where you found; "of goodness truth healing blah, blah, blah". This does sound rather contrived, as if an attempt to pervert the meaning of the word.
It is sad indeed that there is such a thing as dyslexia. Learning to recognise words and associate then with their corresponding phonetic intent can be extremely distressing for even the most brilliant of minds. I was not aware that it impacted into map reading and symbolism as well. Thank you for sharing.
I do like this series.
Especially because it brings academic work to lay people.
Thank you Mindshift!
Great to see this series return!
Half of me is fascinated to learn more about the origins of the mythology that controlled my life for many years. The other half is still saying "I saw God's butt!" in a very juvenile way. Both approaches are therapeutic. Thanks Brandon!
The butt symbols the end of winter, typically the five signs in Rev. 9.5.
Hello Brandon and greetings from Ireland. I recently found your channel, and I have been binge watching. I've been an atheist since the age of fifteen, I am now in my sixty-six years, and I have not heard or seen anything in all of those years to convince me of the existence of any of the multitude of proposed "gods". I started reading the bible around the age of ten, and it's one of the major reasons why I became an atheist. I have researched other "holy books " on different belief systems, and they are not convincing. I have been aware for many years that yahweh is a member of the Canaanite mythological pantheon. Your videos are very insightful, and thank you for uploading them.
10:17 and not only was Yahweh molded like many other gods from the time period, but he originated as merely a storm god from a huge pantheon of gods under the thumb of one more dominant god. I really think the importance of understanding how this god originated and how not-unique it actually is in comparison to other gods from that time period we now consider silly, is undersold, because one apologetic you sometimes hear is that the Bible story was just so unique and this God was such a unique concept that it must be real because humans during that time period had never come up with that before
Because if this god came about just like those other gods, what makes this one real and the others fake? Because its yours/ours?
its such a huge point!
right. I also love how Jesus is praised for coming up with concepts that have been with our species...well...forever. Kindness, compassion, forgiveness, sharing...
John 1
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
@@justice8718 Deuteronomy 21, ”10 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.” Same God and same Bible.
Also, I don’t think “something cant come from no nothin’!” Is an actual response to anything I said about your god not being special in its attributes or origin.
@@justice8718 "and without him was not any thing made that was made."
Uh yes there are for example stars being created and destroyed (supernova explosions) by the universe itself all the time (relatively speaking within timespans of millions/billions of years). However to such events we only have the photon evidence as due to their vast distance from us we do not observe them in real time. This contradiction is further underscored with creation being "finished" and subsequently God resting on the 7th day. Gen 2:1-3: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. The host has the dual meaning of angels and or stars and in this context I think it meant stars.
And don't try to pass the buck by having God invisibly creating life giving stars while the Devil also invisibly creating destructive disasters. The problem of evil is a natural problem not a supernatural one.
Oh btw the earth (as well as the sun in theory) can be moved with sufficient enough technology. There's a Chinese scifi movie about just that called The Wandering Earth. Psalms 104:5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved.
I think it's time to upgrade (transfiguration part 2?) Earth Jesus into Space Jesus.
Love this series! please continue. The light being "pure and good and innocent" and dark being "evil" rubs me the wrong way. It's obviously socially constructed but people act as if it's some objective fact about how the nature of the universe.
Light was fire, which warmed and cooked food and the only tool that humans alone mastered. Darkness was the night full of stalking predators, the blackness at the edge of the campfire, it was the unknown that could hide any threat, where the lights in the sky placed themselves, there before the greatest light, the Sun, entered the world, fleeing its presence, and waiting until that light left at the end of day. Its easy to see how light and dark could be reduced to human characteristics of 'Friendly' and 'Frightening.' Simpleminded people love simple ideas, and those seem to be the ones most in love with the worst interpretation of religions.
It's really weird to me as a pagan because, as migraines and photosensitivity run in my family, I naturally find most comfort in deities that are represented by darkness or who live in darkness.
And this means that most people will just assume I'm doing edgy devil worship and I'm cursed. In reality it's just the migraines
Glad you're picking this book up again!
Thanks for watching!
Yes! DTD is back!! I was hoping this was coming soon.
I just gotta say, if UA-cam had a "UA-cam Wrapped" similar to spotify, your channel would absolutely eclipse any other channel I've watched this year 😂 Thanks for all the amazing content this year!
ha! i love that. Thanks so much for all the support
@MindShift-Brandon anytime man, you deserve it.
@@Djax111 same 😂 my Spotify listening hours are so low compared to my friends bc I’ve found this channel. It’s even my bedtime stories sometimes 😁
@@juliehedberg3293 haha I feel that! I somehow keep a good balance of both 😂
For sure!
I could certainly see you writing a similar type book. When you and Francesca critique religion , receipts are abundant.
Thats very kind, but I can never even pretend to have her expertise!
Thanks for picking this back up! This is so fascinating and offers lots of new and more accurate points. It’s so fun to learn the truth behind what we used to be apart
my pleasure!
Yay!! You inspired me to read this book and it is *SO* good. Thank you for coming back to it. I look forward to hearing more about it.
It's great that there are several series, working on having a Mindshift for every mood.
Lovely as always to be here and see you, seasonal wishes from your Scottish friends ❤🎉❤🎉
Morning! thanks for being here.
@ Good afternoon 🤭🤗
Thanks for continuing the series! I've got to pull my book back out.
I’m so happy you came backto this series. I was wondering if there was gonna be more. Great overview of this section Brandon.
Thanks so much!
It's obvious that Yahweh's followers took inspirations from stories of other popular deities of the time & gave him a power boost. also I think Yahweh impregnating Mary might have been inspired by stories of Zeus/Jupiter
Some, like the French savant Charles F. Dupuis, figured out that IU Piter (Jupiter) is the supreme god of the bible.
"Yahweh impregnating Mary" seeing it written out like that feels really cringy. Yes, right there with Zeus and his rapey-ness
@maggienewton8518 Yahweh is honestly no better than Zeus & his act of impregnating Mary is seen as a "good thing" by Christians & they'll defend God's actions even though it was basically rape.
@@sauron69447
Mary is the Virgin in the signs. She is also Minerva, Athena, Isis, Nut, and Neith of Sais.
So, what is your evidence showing that the archeological record is complete showing with absolute certainty that there was no earlier worship of Yahweh as opposed to you just assuming that is the case because of what archeology findings have found thus far?
Or why don’t you prove how an incomplete picture guarantees one sees the full picture?
I LOVE this series and will continue to watch it whenever you get time to put out more episodes. Haven't got the book yet, but it's on the list.
So glad to hear, thanks!
Yay! Another Dissecting the Divine! Probably my favorite of your series (it's hard to pick).
I’ve listened to her audiobook twice while waiting for this series to return :) looking forward to continue to learn more
The audiobook, at $10. is a deal.
Love that, Julie!
Please continue this series. Enlightening! You’re great at what you do and positively impact people’s lives.
Awesome glad to see this book being finished up here. Served as a reminder for me to finish the audiobook, good stuff!
Thanks so much!
Thanks for returning to this series!
I’ve been waiting for this to come back!
These are my favorite videos you do I think…I find it so fascinating!
Yeah! Glad this is back! I've read the whole book now and can't wait for you to break it down!
Nice! Always looking forward for your next vid to drop.
Appreciate that!
I greatly enjoyed reading this book. It is so full of fascinating information. I know that I am going to read through it again and find even more fascinating information. I cannot recommend this book enough. Thanks for picking up where you left off earlier this year.
Love to hear it Duane!
I ended up finding this on Spotify as a audio book. Super glad I read this (well listened), it was facinating!
And her voice is amazing!
@@ghostreyn ooh good to know! 👍🏼 I do better with audiobooks
GENERIC COMMENT FOR ENGAGEMENT
Always appreciated!
Yaaaas!!!
Just yesterday, i was wondering if you were coming back to this series.
Glad to delvier!
I missed the original part of this series lol super interesting stuff, I gotta go back and catch up now!
Love this series! (I love ALL your content!!) Thank you, as always, for your excellent, logical, incredibly helpful videos!! Keep shining the light😉! Watching from South Africa
Glad the series returns! Hoping for an interview w/ Dr. S if that can happen.
I was wondering what happened to this series. Good to see it back in the rotation.
These got away from me for a while there. They just require a lot more work than some of my others is all.
@@MindShift-Brandon We appreciate the work you put into this, Brandon.
This book sounds right up my street and I just ordered it. Thanks for the wonderful tip!
My pleasure!! enjoy
@ I just discovered your channel and it's probably the best of its kind one encountered. I've been recommending it to everyone.
@@pamigreenway thats so nice to hear. Thanks for that!
Yaayyyy! I was one of the ones that requested this to be back!! I’m relatively new and mention it about a month or so ago lolll
All for you! Lol thanks so much for being here and engaging!
Miss Stavrakopoulou is one of my fav Brandon!
Could it be that people associate darkness with evil, not because of some ancient mythology, but because people are scared of darkness since we can't see in the dark?
It’s feeding off of fear no matter what
Yes, i see very natural origins for that association. The issue is what followed.
Finally!!! Thank you for bringing it back!
Absolutely loving the series so far!
I just finished this book. It was a great read. Couple others that were great:
The Evolution of God - by Robert Wright
A History of God - by Karen Armstrong
All of them clearly outline how, "In the Begining, Man Created God(s)".
Boom! Here we go!
Bam! thanks for being here.
Here we gooooo!
Good to see you!
Hi SCP
@@SeekingTruth2023 hello Seeking. Always good to see you
@@MindShift-Brandon always...Danke for doing what you do!
Thanks for your excellent work 👍
Thanks so much for the support, Jerry!
@MindShift-Brandon . You are very welcome, Brandon .
YAY! I finished reading the book in the interim.
Don't spoil the ending ok? 🙃
The book is very interesting. I needed a break from time to time during reading, because I found it very overwhelming and triggering. But it is a great book, and I am happy I read it.
Very good that Brandon covered it, too. Sone things were easier to hear from him. It feels more comfortable than reading. I had never thought of the euphemisms the bible uses and what they really mean....
so you already know the amazement!
I bought this on Kindle because of this series. It's awesome
Love to hear it
It's BAAAAAACK!!!! Yay! I'm so excited! Let's f*cking GOOOOOOOO!!!!
Edited to add: I just ordered this book for my dad for Christmas. I'm struggling with gift ideas this year and this seems like a perfect book for him. If he doesn't want it, I'm going to "steal" it.
ha, love this!
Yessssss! ❤
I love it, Please continue with it thank you. ❤
I’d be de…lighted if you continued this series!
Another installment of "I Can't Believe This is Not Porn."
lol!
😂
I missed this series. I have enjoyed the videos that we have had in the meantime, but it's nice to go back to it.
I honestly didn't think about how terrible of an omen it would be to have a god turn its back on you. But I did catch on one of my last complete read throughs of the Bible that Moses went from speaking face to face with god, then not being worthy enough to see his face, but I am sure there is some apologetics that "totally explains everything."
Yayyyy! So glad this is back! ✨✨✨✨
Hell yeah! “Hate to see Yahweh go, love to watch Yahweh leave.” ZZ Top pointing gif
@@Crimenocerous Could you imagine those big juicy holy ham hocks 🍑
@@Crimenocerous can you imagine those juicy holy ham hocks… 🍑
@@Crimenocerous Can you imagine those big juicy holy ham hocks… 🍑
@@Crimenocerous Can you imagine those big juicy holy ham hocks…
Holy book review !!!
Brandons ever growing ancient middleeast literature "lectures" are heads above. And dazzling.
Your body of work has become
so bad-ass. A radiant glory
of a channel. A Light in the dimming darkness.
I even imagined (in your video) a big shining CGI halo over you and a glittering flash on your teeth when you finished talking about all that glorious light 😂 😅
Yesssss I f@&$ing love this series !!!
haha! so glad to hear it!
I really enjoyed that!
Recently discovered your channel. Been in an existential crisis for several years. Can't find the bottom.
I feel this.. you're in the right spot 👍🏼
Welcome first of all! Second, it can pass. My advice is to first dig in to the bible so hard. It becomes painfully obvious how manmade it is. From there, i think it just gets easier.
Find what you love and do what you love.
Don't swing it like a puppy with a rag toy. Set it aside and see if it still seems to call you. Live your life with excellence.
2:25 SO was this Moses politely asking god to sit on his face 😂
Change the sit to s h i t
My favourite series!
Awesome! I'm currently reading this!
Love to hear that!
Fascinating read. Please continue.
Will do, thank you!
Love this series of videos. ❤❤❤
Thanks so much, Jamie!
We're so back!
Thanks for coming along.
finally finishing this series
Finally back to it lol. Finishing is a whole other thing.
good morning!
Side note you may find interesting,
In the story of Moses glowing after seeing Yahweh, this phenomenon
happened after every time he went up the mountain to pray, which was often, and he
began covering his face after praying to prevent the people from seeing the 'fading glory'
Keep going with the series because I ain't reading that big ass book no time soon.
I see alot of Christians in this comments that are coping with the fact their special god many not be all that special .
None of your idols are like Jesus. Nor do they have the character of Jesus.
Your empty gotcha does nothing but prove you don’t know the son of man.
@@justice8718 do you? You don't even know what he looks like and no not white Jesus.
Not his voice, and personality.
You only believe in him due to a "special relationship".
And yes there are a lot of mythological figures way better than Jesus many who wouldn't send people for eternal torment because "they didn't believe in me."
You cannot just handle the fact that your religion is loosing its power as more people seriously question its tenents.
@@justice8718 also how do you know they are idols? Cause your god said so? Dude read your Bible. even your god acknowledges the existence of other deities but warns not to worship them.
Your god literally came from a Canaanite pantheon but you would acknowledge that now?
@@justice8718 _None of your idols are like Jesus_
William Michael Albert Broad has a better hairstyle though, so there's that 👍
@@ChinonsoNnadozie The shroud of Turin showed me what he looks like. And you despise it because he does look like the actors he chosen. You simply hate him and love your lies.
And Brandon said, "Let there be more", and so it was, and it was good, really good.
It's great knowing the roots of my former religion, even if they are horrible. Too bad it won't have any effect on current believers. They will just hand wave it all away.
Interesting for sure!
Omg im here within an hour for once yay!!!!!!
Hey there!
Thank you for paraphrasing her book. I’ve been interested in stavrakopolou’s work for a while. I always found it strange that god was supposedly bodiless yet the garden of Eden story says god created man in his image
The part about experiencing God in a way that most people don't get to at 4:52 is an accurate summary, and hilarious.
From the title, I was hoping Yaweh acquired His light by taking it from other gods who therefore no longer had it, but no.
Good morning! ☕😉
Whats up, Das!
Mooooorning 😊☕️☕️🫖
5 seconds!
Morning
Good morning, Das
The thing that always puzzled me about the bible stating no one could see the face of god and live was the fact we are supposed to be in heaven with him for eternity and sing his praises. Guess he will be wearing a mask for all eternity.
@danielsmith2447 Well, it does say in the bible that we "will be changed in an instant..." so I guess that means our changed selves will not be affected by his glory. Or maybe he hands out Ray-Bans (tm).
Everyone in Heaven would be already dead though. Or have eternal life and couldn't die anymore. So looking at Yahweh's face would have no effect on them at that point.
@@Badficwriter yea!! Forced to live in church for ever.
So Heaven is basically North Korea.
Bibble study and I'm here for it!
Hey everyone!
Hey! ☕😌
Hey Sauron. Good to see you here.
@TonyLambregts you too
@dasbus9834 hello there!
Hey Suaron!
Francesca's channel is really good too. Havent bought the book though.
Excited to have her on the podcast at some point next year.
I was hoping for this
Thanks for being here for it!
@@MindShift-Brandon I wish you reached in my 20s, I could have been a better person by now, wasted so much time
I went from 30+ years of Christianity to 3+ years of Atheism thanks to you and many other Atheist channels. Now I've moved onto a more Taoist like Pantheism. No more anthropomorphic-like deities for me!
It’s sobering that an Eternal, N-Dimensional, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent Being is apparently unable to reveal Itself to Moses without killing him?
When believers are asked for evidence of the existence of this Being, they ultimately are unable to do so, retreating into appeals to the mystical
In terms of turning the back, I thought of the memorable scene in ‘Gladiator’ where Commodus asks the Gladiator’s name, and the Gladiator turns his back. Furious at the disrespect shown him, Commodus demands to know the Gladiator’s name - he turns, removes his helmet so that his face is seen and declares, ‘My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legion… ‘ Commodus is terrified at the revelation.
Is God so terrible that full revelation would be unbearable?
I have more personal evidence in my life through the mandela effect and personal odd " glitches " in my life to believe in simulation theory than any type of evidence or experience to believe in the christian God at this point.
@GreenJeep2019 You given to yourself divinations. Absolutely worthless and fruitless divinations.
@@justice8718 what?
@@GreenJeep2019 Those “glitches” and Mandela effects are literally some of the things witches and warlocks do to try to manipulate and exploit reality. What do you think you are doing when you drug yourself and you see these jesters and entities that the pagans have described?
Well, God has a billion names, so once he starts telling you all his names, you're stuck there forever..
A Mindshift Study Bible would be cool
I would totally buy one!
Binge watched this whole series tonight and wow, just wow. I'm just in awe on how many of my nagging doubts about the validity of Christianity just fell away here. It felt like listening to any other mythology - all the same themes, many of the same events. Thanks for helping me see I really am on the right track with my deconstruction.
So happy to hear it! Yes this book will do that
I think we're at a revolutionary moment in human history thanks to technological progress that now allows the wide-spread of information to help us move past these harmful and irrational ideologies that have hindered people from their true potential.
I have the blue (UK) cover too. I know it’s just a cover but it is prettier than the red cover.
agreed!
Amazing book, I will read it again one day.
God has weird organs. Pretty sure this thumbnail photo crashed my brain. 😳
The parts about washing one's self to go from black to white reminds me of an anime where a black guy was being washed and the guys scrubbing him said, "The dirt won't come off". 😂
Was wondering when we were going to get back to this book.
When I first left Christianity it was tragic, but now I'm joyful and content knowing the universe is far vaster and greater than what I could have even imagined. I was fearful for nothing. As long as we continue to have courageous people like Brandon, who are well educated and willing to put themselves out there to continue fighting against religious mind-control, more people will be freed and able to live a life of liberty and gratitude, without being binned by an irrational fear of death.
It's not.
So much the death It's all this lake a fired shit. Boy life isn't bad enough. We gotta score points for the afterlife?
@@Bobbyboy-i3z Exactly
Naked buttocks in the bible.
Isaiah Chap. 20. Here Sargon (supreme head = Sun at the- beginning of the year) sent Tartan (tall person- Saul = the winter Sun) to fight against Ashdod or Azotus (winter). At the same time, the Lord (Jahveh) told Isaiah (the New Year Sun) to go and take off the sackcloth from his loins (his middle = spring equinox), and "put off thy shoe from thy foot." Isaiah did so, walking naked and barefoot three years (months, from winter solstice to spring equinox), for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and Ethiopia (winter). In like manner, the king of Assyria (equinoctial Sun) bore away the Egyptian's prisoners and the Ethiopian's captives (winter days) naked and barefoot, just as they were. Even their buttocks (the end of the year) were uncovered, to the shame of Egypt - the Earth every year comes out of winter naked, and winter ought to be ashamed of it.
hey dude, great content, would you ever consider doing a breakdown of the TAG transcendental argument for God, which a lot of appologists use, especially orthodox christians , most notably Jay dyer on youtube.
It seems to be one of the most arrogant arguments for Gods existence i've come across but it goes very deep and i find it hard to keep up with all the jargon.
Thanks so much. Will take a look. If you have a specific video, send the link.
The playlist link in the description is bad, good stuff keep creating!
Paul Wallis and Mauro Biglino who've in different capacities have served in the church.
Have spoken & written about these subjects extensively.
Thus challenging pre existing misinformation within the Christian faith.
These are issues many Christians either outrightly ignore or are unable to comprehend the fact that they reveal inconsistencies.
Yes do the whole book! 🎉
Brandon, have you seen the documentary Christspiracy? It might be interesting, I thought it was. I was aware of some of the information, but seeing it all in one film like this was quite impressive.
One of my favorite books!
The omniscient omnipotent god clearly knew what he was doing when he mooned Moses.
I'm buying this book!
Oh good! Thanks!
my pleasure!