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I was friends with a woman who is about my age (70's). She has epilepsy, fortunately controlled by medication. When she was a child, she'd have seizures. Instead of taking her to a physician, her parents took her to their minister (a fundamentalist). He proclaimed that the seizures were a sign of demonic possession. The next time she had one, they were to beat her until "the demon was gone". They continued to do this until CPS became involved & she was removed from her parent's custody.
I think that's what happened to Annalise Michael. Her mom got pregnant before marriage and one report on UA-cam was saying her daughter was the sacrificial lamb to attone for her mother's sin, so she encouraged the belief it was possession and not a medical condition. To me that's worse than child abuse. It's betrayal based on delusion.
@@saitlife332 While not all religions can qualify as cults, the mentalities between religions and cults are very similar. Any extremist in any religion is indistinguishable from a cult member.
I went to a “Christian” high school and it was terrible. If you weren’t the typical white social butterfly, you were gawked at like an animal at a zoo. Plus my teachers made every excuse possible for me to get into trouble because I was autistic. In their minds, I should’ve been in an asylum. I’m glad to be rid of that place and I have been convincing many others not to send their children there.
I have religious parents and religious grandma and seeing this makes me thankful that they are not crazy. My mom told me to hide the fact that I'm bi in school but this was because the school I was attending was very religious and she was scared that I would be bullied if that was found out.
While I had many of these experiences, religion was never shoved down my throat. It was my mother's need to have me fit in and not be an embarrassment to her. She was raised rich, and was, and still is, extremely judgemental of any behavior she deems to be unacceptable (something without class or refinement). She doesn't say the quiet part out loud, but if it isn't bourgeoisie, she scoffs at it. No cartoons or video games for me, no no, it was poetry and plays and painting. Growing up I was made fun of at school for being a weirdo nerd, and mocked/derided by my mother once I got home for not being popular. My father was never home, he busted his ass to allow my mom to live in luxury. Church was all apart of this of course, but again, the message wasn't about sin or going to hell, it was the need to fit in and live a high class life. She never understood that the opera, orchestrated music, plays etc. was what made me unpopular, along with my entitled attitude. She was excited when I began to study theology to become a minister, and she'd brag every chance she got about it. Well, studying the faith got me realizing that flaunting ones status and privilege were not okay, as is behavior that could be classified as holier than thou. Long story short, I'm an atheist now and living my best nerdy life, helping others and working with people my mother would be disgusted to even look at.
These parents just seem utterly insane. I’m lucky enough to have religious parents that mostly arent extremist ones, and because of that I myself am religious (Christianity, although I am in a state of intense stagnation) There are a few types of christians from what I’ve seen online, but the 2 I see most are 1. “Christians” who hold the values too aggressively and thus go against those values, like those who think pokemon is satanic due to having an evolution mechanic, and these are the ones mostly featured in this video. 2. Christians who hold the values in a correct manner, being respectful and reasonable with how they share their beliefs with others and are actually nice to be around with how they treat people with kindness whenever they can but know how to also condemn correctly. I also see a middle-ground between these 2 where some people (children, I assume) go around and spam comment sections with very long copypastas of why you should repent, when that’s not how sharing the gospel is done and makes you come off in a bad way.
My parents are divorced and I live with my Mom half the week. She’s a Christian but not an extremest, though she hates LGBTQ+ and thinks everyone is actually straight and is just manipulated by the internet if they are part of the LGBTQ+ community. Because of this my bolder sister who is pan sexual hasn’t been able to come out to her about it, and she doesn’t believe that I’m aro/ace. She just thinks I have depression and self image issues that are making me feel like nobody can live me. I do have self image issues because of my Grandma but I’m getting a little bit better slowly and I still think it’s wrong of my Mom to not believe me and make my sister feel like she can’t come out…
Dang that sucks. I don't know how to say this cause i don't know what branch you're from, but it's not a sin to BE gay, only to act on the gay sexual impulses. An important member of the Tabernacle choir (a professional mormon choir) is openly gay. I just hope you remember that not all of us are extremists and don't decide to leave god entirely. No ones perfect, and thats completely ok.
That's awful, I'm sorry you both are going through that and as a mother myself I couldn't imagine treating my kids that way. One day you'll be able to get away from all that and surround yourself with ppl who truly love and care about you. You are human beings who should be able to be yourselves and love who you want just like everyone else. It will get better, I promise.
My Grandma just watched her youngest daughter have a seizure and said if it was her time for god to take her then it was her time… that’s one of the tamer things they did
I have a lot of religious trauma relating to Christianity because of my dad's toxic family. Many of the Christians I know are toxic and judgemental people, however I also know Christians who are very charitable and kind people. Because of my religious trauma and other factors, I am not Christian but I always keep in mind that there are some good ones out there. I think Christians tend to be very extreme in one end or the other, either one of the most thoughtful, charitable, and kind people or the most cruel, judgemental, and inconsiderate.
For me the ones I know for a bit and then find out they are Christian seem to be great people, the ones that announce thier religion right off the bat or wear it so loudly its inescapable tend to be the jerks..
I grew up in a pretty normal Christian family. We weren’t regular church goers, but we did partake in church activities. I was baptized, I went to Sunday school, I made communion, and I’m still friends with a lot of my old church members. But by the time I got to high school I had started to undergo a religious crisis where I was really beginning to question the validity of the Bible and the existence of God. I won’t pretend that this wasn’t one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had, coming to terms with forming my own views on existence, and I had several mental breakdowns over it. Fortunately, I also had a very strong support network and my parents were more than willing to help me through it, even if it meant that I may not come out the other side the same. My current beliefs lean more towards agnosticism, and though my mother still encourages me to have faith, she doesn’t force anything on me, and was even very supportive of my brother when he came out a bi. TLDR; religion doesn’t make bad people. Bad people just use it as an excuse to be bad people.
Wasn't there literally a moment in the Bible where Satan attempted to get Jesus to sin by quoting the Old Testament? These extremists are really giving me that vibe tbh.
My mom was pretty religious growing up but not extremist. She didn’t let me read the HP books for a long time. She ended up buying the books for me cus she realized it would help me make friends (it did). Over a decade later and she still buys me HP stuff. She also changed her views on LGBTQ+. She…didn’t take me coming out the first time well. Read all the Bible verses you would think of. Second time was part of a long letter after I got into a seriously deep hole and seriously considered ending things. Considering everything else in the letter (eating disorder, depression, su*c*dal ideations), she didn’t react much. Years after that, she came to me asking how she can support one of the kids of a family friend. The kid went to mom first to come out to cus she was worried about how her parents would react (they ended up being supportive) and trusted my mom. My mom asked me cus she “wanted to do better”. I gave her advice and we had a good long talk with lots of crying. My mom now educates her Christian friends about what the Bible actually says, with translations and interpretations. She even cut off one penpal she’s had for years because they kept being homophobic and hateful. She’s said now she’ll be happy with whoever I end up with as long as they treat me right…and sometimes I feel like she’s holding back some jokes cus I’m Bi/Pan and still single 😂
Yeah both my parents believe in God and want me to pay attention in church and take it seriously but they're not overly religious they're just like yeah God exist please Believe this and we cool
Yeah.. I’ve recently finished a church retreat that talked about sexual purity and that what the time I talked about an addiction I was struggling with with to my Dad. He already knew and trusted me to set boundries for myself so I can get purofied with the help of God.
Oh my gosh yes! Our general beliefs teach that we should be loving, and have other jesus-like traits, though your not expected to be perfect, just to be your best self, thats the whole reason why repentance exists in the first place. It's the people who become overly obsessed that give us a bad rep. I promise it's ok to be gay or queer, we just don't want you to have gay sex or something, as love was meant to be between a man and a woman; but you definitely aren't going to hell for it.
Something my dad told me once was "A priest can describe every pebble in hell, but nothing past the pearly gates, so think about that when you blindly believe whatever people tell you." Hes not religious but we live in a pretty religious neighborhood, and I was quiet young at the time, but its still good advice. These kinds of nuts always rely on blind faith to get their way, and these unfortunate kids often received the brunt of it. I've seen it at my job as well. I work at a summer camp in-between academic years, and these kids would get relentlessly bullied. You could always tell too, as their parents force them to go to an outdoor summer camp in buttondown shirts and ties, sometimes even toting around a bible.
Athiest here, it kind of goes both ways. My mom constantly looks down on religion. I remember that i said " i believe in God" as a joke when i was little. She straight up gasped and told me not to. She says religion is weird, and that most religious people are awful or discriminatory. Its hard when shes doing that. She says that religious people shove their ideas down others throats, when she does the same thing. Atheist fanatics exist too. My mom isnt to that point, thankfully.
I see the nuance but you have to believe me when I say that you'd be better off getting a little weirded out by your mom shielding you from religion, rather than being raised in an extremist household led by religion.
As a Hindu,my parents also had some vegetarianism but they dont have as strict rules as story 19,only on Saturdays we cant eat meat,and for around the month of september,but on Thursdays my mother and aunt dont eat meat,but they let us to eat it on Thursdays rater than force that upon us.
As a Pentecostal Christian, I feel awful that people are forced to go through this, but please believe that not all Christians are like this, and though I know it won't do much I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry but christianity is almost a mark of distrust for me. I'm scared of christians. I'm gay. I have to watch as extremists in my country tries to strip away my rights, ban books, and backpedal social progress made under the guise of christian values and parent's rights. All the homophobia I know of ultimately stems from christianity. There are even churches in my country that preach for my execution just because of who I love and am attracted to. I see so many people who'd want me dead or shun me for who I am because of this religion that I can't look at it the same anymore. I hope you understand. It's like the "poisoned bottles" analogy for women. Yes, most of them are good... but too many of them are dangerous to me.
@@yharon8243 I really wish that they just remembered about the empathy aspect. Like, what happened to "be good to the next"? When was murder ever justified in the bible? Sometimes i wonder if some of them are just there for the money. Hope the best for you.
@@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672 Thank you for being empathetic. Unfortunately, because it's an old book with old ideas, the bible does contain a lot of terrible messages that many christians use to hurt people. Though my hope is that people like you can change churches further for the better... and though I'm still afraid for myself, I have been seeing leaps and bounds in progress like that. I won't forget that and I don't take that progress for granted. Like I said, the bible is an old book with old ideas. It gives me hope to see so many christians have been treating it as such and using the good moral lessons it teaches, while acknowledging but abandoning the bad lessons. I mean, if people still believed all the bad lessons, people nowadays would still be shamed for wearing two or more different types of fabric at once or eating pork. The fact that this doesn't happen anymore is a good sign to me.
Even though I'm a Catholic (lapsed), if I ever had a child I would not tell him or her anything about religion, send him to non-sectarian schools, and let him or her choose religion but if he ever grows up as an atheist I'm fine with that.
@@flatearthisahoax4030 That's definitely the way to do it. I don't think it's a good idea to introduce religion to a person at a super super young age because they don't have the understanding to actually consider what they're worshipping. People should decide for themselves who or what to worship or believe in, if anything at all.
@@Juzokinnie even though I agree with everything you said, my reason goes farther than that. You see the Catholic church has said a lot of ironies about being "pro-life", "abortion destroys the life of the child", wanting to protect children, etc etc etc. Every time they call themselves pro-life, I always ask myself "what about the children who's lives were destroyed due to SA inside the church? They also had life." The worst part is that they cover it up, and send that priest to another location where he can have more access to children. Given that most victims of old priests who happen to be males are little boys, their stance against LGBT and same-sex marriage is also ironic
@@flatearthisahoax4030 The priest predator thing is honestly disgusting, the fact that a lot aren't getting arrested is sickening. I hope that something is done about that.
@@Juzokinnie I personally think it's good to introduce your child to religion and explain what your beliefs are about, but definitely don't be extremist with it; extremism drives people away more than it brings them in.
I wouldn't say my parents are extremist per sé, as they believe in the "hate the sin, love the sinner" stuff which is marginally better than some religious circles. I do remember coming out as bi and demigirl to only a few people in high school because I was scared if it went around everywhere that my parents would find out and get me in gigantic trouble. Note that I did come out to my parents and older sister late into my junior year, and their first instinct was to try and 'snap me out of it' and 'convince' me that I'm a straight woman. So throughout those years I was in a constant cycle of coming in and out of the closet, trying to hide my queerness from my peers, and feeling very self-conscious, scared, and alone. I'm graduated now and fully out of the closet with my immediate family, but it took so long to feel okay coming to that conclusion.
Story 14 I'm glad that makes some people get that You can't always expect instant acceptance that some people need time to come to accept things like that.
there are less religious extremists these days. but the total number of extremist personality type is still the same. the weak minded extremist personality types have just parasitically latch on to other things/groups...think about it. i predict in the future we will have a entirely new crop of young adults talking about their New Type Extremist parents. looking forward to seeing that future video 15 years down the line. "People with [BLANK] EXTREMIST Parents..What was it like?" SAME THING DIFFERENT FORM
This video really showed me how important nature and nurture is. Depending on how your parents can use them can effect someone’s entire life and how they interact with others
10:33 Ngl i feel this person. Im happy with the gender i was assigned at birth (M) but i experienced the same type of "live by my rules" bullshit from my parents. This is gonna sound dark but sometimes i feel like faking my death and leaving and starting over
Wow, I'm totally feeling these and it makes me wanna jump out of a window. Everyday my parents kept treating me and my sister like sluts, because they were uncontrollable horndogs when they were our age. My sister told me this story where she went trick-or-treating in the neighbor next door with some classmates, and the moment my dad found out, he threatened to walk out on our family if she ever did that again. To this day, we don't understand his logic. Despite how prude my parents were towards us, my mother, weirdly, always had a vulgar sense of humor, which I found off putting. I still find sex jokes gross and immature. Sometimes I don't know if I was born AroAce or guilted into it by their constant slut-shaming! By the time my sister and I reached adulthood, our parents patted themselves on the back for raising good, little Christian daughters, but wondered why we never had any boyfriends, got married, or had children past our mid-twenties. I'm a firm believer in "bad parents don't deserve the opportunity to be good grandparents" and my life goal has always been to die single and childless. Before my dad died, I did get to fight them on what horrible parents they were, and how we haven't recovered from all their psychological damage, and his reaction was "So, your saying I stopped drinking for nothing?". Again, we don't understand his logic.
It's stories like these that make me happy I didn't grow up in a religious household, but I have relatives who are religious so I still dealt with bullshit like being told I worshiped the devil becoz I listened to bands like Korn. Ppl like that will say anything is a sin or devil worship without any thought or proof and they just believe it. They really like to make life less enjoyable for everyone else.
I know I’m not the first one to say, but these make me glad I was raised in a kind Catholic home, where God was a tool for helping to make life better, and not as a judgement parental figure that expects you to be perfect. Sure we were taught about Hell and all that, but we were told not to worry about that because God was way more forgiving than some people thought.
I am currently thanking God that my parents are not extremist. They were pretty chill with me and my brother. Though none of them approved of it. They got me my first pokemon game when I was a senior. I love them.
These people right here are why people avoid others who claim to be religious and it’s a shame tbh. Really there’s nothing wrong with being extremely religious, I’d actually much rather hang out with religious people most times because they seemed a lot nicer and at peace. Religious people are supposed to follow the laws of their faith and insert it into their personality from what I’ve been told. I don’t wanna go assuming things about the people mentioned in this video because idk them but it’s definitely strange.
I'm glad my parents weren't entirely religious sychopaths but it was still annoying having it shoved down my throat every Sunday, easter and Christmas.
… and that’s why I’m aetheist and lucky to have the wonderful loving parents, though hateful to each other, that don’t give a shit what I do as long as I’m safe and l being legal
... this makes me hate religion- No. the way people, MOSTLY PARENTS, ABUSE religion!! And the "rules" that some religions have... Such as women not being allowed to wear something normal but black cloaks (I forgot which religion), people claiming that LGBT is eeevil and a sin, people saying that your misfortune or bad mental health is your own fault because you didn't pray enough. ... I'm half religious. I was born Christian, I was baptized (is that the term when they do the water stuff?) but my family swears, we don't go to church. We barely pray. I have gone through some dark times... praying didn't do shit for me so that's why I say that god is dead or doesn't exst.
I was allowed to play Pokémon video games as a child, my grandparent(s) and my dad are not extremists. My grandparent (grandma) believes in the afterlife and angels but, that's pretty much it
Seeing these stories makes me so grateful that my family is religious in a way that isn’t crazy. My grandma raised me and my sister and she did want us involved in church and to pay attention and all that, but she isn’t a fanatic and instead respects most people’s beliefs, even if they aren’t her own. She didn’t like it when I read Harry Potter in middle school though.
My mom was so beyond religious growing up but she taught us about God in a loving way never mentioned hell or that women are less then men she taught us that God loves us no matter what we even went to a church that had all the religions there would be Christians Muslims Catholics and sometimes even Mormons in the same sermon the church was so welcoming with open arms and their motto was "judging is not our place" literally everyone was welcome I'll never forget that church it was amazing and has taught me to love everyone no matter who they are or where they come from I know that's not bad like these ones but I feel like one good one would lighten the mood 😢❤
Not my parents, but my school. I went to a catholic school and it was only in 4th grade when I found out that people actually believe that Jesus and God are real and that evolution is bogus. From then on I didn't do prayers, didn't listen in religion and didn't listen in church.
This made me remember a character I had came up with a few years ago. I can’t remember the name I came up for him, but what I do remember was that he was abused by his parents who were religious extremists. In order to cope with the abuse, he developed a hatred of ALL religious people (especially his own religion), and he also developed a racist view of Arab people, thinking that all of them are extremist Muslim terrorists. Yeah, edgy early teenage me was weird.
None of these parents should be used to represent religious parents as a whole. Good Christian parents would love others and encourage them, not condem whoever disagrees, even if it has to be their own family. Love your neighbor.
Omg I got real luckily. My family is super religious but never disowned, told someone their going to Hell for being LGBTQ+, and never burned any of my anime stuff.
I had a hard time making friends bc my family were rudely religious. Like they would tell u, u look pregnant and hound u with questions then when u dont eat u dont appreciate life and God is ashamed of u…literally no winning and i just got a really bad eating disorder
nah bro because my dad is this hard-core Christian right, like Bible Thumper, hard-core, and growing up I never went out anywhere after my mom died when I was 7, and got separated from my siblings. After my mom lost her privilege's with me, my dad ALL OF A SUDDEN wants to take care of me. Keep in mind I was supposed to go with my grandma, and my dad said that he didnt want me to go with her because he didnt want me to end up "gay", because she is married to another woman. So back to the actual story, when I would go to school I was always wearing the same old clothes, and he wouldn't buy me anything, he claimed that I was a spoiled brat, but compared to my cousins and siblings living with my grandma I was FAR from spoiled, and he forced his religion onto me and I didnt know that he got it so far into my head , that I would do it to my older sisters, I am very disappointed in my younger self for doing what I did. That being said I didn't have any friends and was viewed as a freak. This went on for years and I am now a junior in high school, I am now what you would consider a "devil worshipper" according to my dad, just because of my drawings that I do. There are many other things but in order to say all of them, there would be a whole ass essay to be written. lmao and apparently I don't do shit with my life even though I got a job at 11(mind you is illegal) and know have my own car and I am now 16. And my dad didnt even make it through the first semester of freshman year in high school. So I made it further in life and school than he ever did. so he can kiss my "gay devil worshipping" ass.
Sounds like plenty of these people using religion as a means of control. My mother is religious and my father is religious aswell but does not go to church. There was no control like this (mother is united church and my dad catholic) I am thankful that they were not fundamentalist. I had my spell of athieism but ive finally found god in his reformed church as it was in the time of jesus christ(latter day saints ie mormonism). It saddens me to see the atheists turn but I completly understand why
I went to a youth bible study once and was told in front of 2 dozen kids, that my depression was my fault for not reading the bible enough. I was 13 and juat got diagnosed with bipolar
Geez these people are what give religion a bad rep these days. My parents are also very religious but not to this extreme. They just just follow the customs of their religion which is Islam. Just praying daily and fasting during Ramadan. Well not my dad because he had diabetes. He would go to the mosque every Friday and my mom now wakes up early every day to pray the morning prayer. My mom would also fast the day before the Islamic new year. They raised me to also pray and fast but they never made me do things I don’t want to do. I would wake up early to pray only during Ramadan cause my mom says it’s a good thing to do. I also just started fasting the day before the Islamic new year as well as my mom says doing that will bring you good luck. My parents are good people who love me and want what’s best for me and would never shove their preferences in my face.
12:59 eight! one of the greatest classifiers years for someone being absolutely loony is baptizing their kid below the double digit ages! In my opinion, there should be illegal baptism age, which is 20 because then you’ll spent two years being an adult and if you’re religious yourself.
I’m thankful my parents, while religious, were not extreme about it. We did church on Sunday and Bible study on Monday every two weeks. Thankfully, they let my sister and I decide about doing Bible study. I did go to a Catholic school, but we were allowed to decide whether or not to join in the religious stuff. (I did the religious stuff. I’m religious, but not the type to try to stuff it down your throat.)
As someone who isn't religious, it usually isn't the religion that's the problem. (And it's made important cultural impacts in human society and brings comfort to many people) it's it being used as a tool to oppress.
I'd say the main thing that turned me away from organized religion for good was when I realized how is it that one can be happy in heaven if they have loved ones in hell? And even at a fairly young age I was confused about how God often was in the OT and couldn't help but think that God often seemed more like a bad guy than a good guy.
Lol one of my exs had a helicopter religious mom and she blew a gasket when she found out about me I was 1) a couple years older than her son 2)not religious in the slightest 3) had a pokemon tattoo (she raised him against it) and 4)didn't conform to the whole "women are only meant to serve their husband and bear children" on several occasions she told me to cover or remove my pokemon tattoo and if i talked pokemon or dnd to my ex or his siblings i got splashed with holy water not even a simple hey can you not then she found out her son was no virgin that he played pokemon behind her back and vaped as well she blamed me for it i noped out of that relationship after a month
Im a Religious kid, and there are some things i dont want to do, that i have to, BUT NOTHING AS BAD AS THIS! like holy crap, im glad my parents are good parents. Also, I realise a lot of this is Mormon, Islam, and Catholics, so i think my Pentecostal Christianity is so much better than a lot of crap….
I am a Muslim and my dad never did anything like this he treats me and my sister and mom really well also my sister doesn't wear a حجاب ( head scarf) because in Islam a head scarf is a choice is the radical extremist that forces it
I did not have that type of parents however I went to Pentecostal Church when I was young and then two uncles and Mom converted to SDA. Now that was an extreme change from Pentecostal on Sunday Church and then Seventh Day Adventist on Saturday. Pentecostal very loud, and speaking in unknown languages TO sit down be quiet we’re in church on Saturday. Don’t go to either now I married the daughter of a Free Will Baptist minister.
Story 19: huh, I didn't realize Hindu's had so many dietary restrictions. I knew that cattle are considered sacred, but not those other things. Ya lean something every day. :P
Please read all of this comment before you comment Thank you! Kids coming from this type of environment overcompensate and dive into the opposite end. They look for inclusion and a way to fit in, they end up doing what they never would have thought they would and end up regretting it. I have seen communities pray on these people first hand with people becoming red pilled incels, and some going to LGBTQ+ desperate to fit in and believing everything they see online about it, trapped in the circle of yes men going deeper and deeper. The one thing they have in common is that they regret being part of these communities that pray on the lost and looking for answers. All communities can be toxic, some more than others. Remember true friends and communities will be there for you and NOT force you to become what you are not. Non toxic communities won't form sub groups of sub groups based off of how committed you are or how much or little you believe. True friends won't ditch you just because you have different options on politics, or if your gay or trans. Build a base with good people, be open to new things but don't let it destroy your convictions.
I was raised Catholic, but I'm an agnostic now. My politics just don't mesh with the Catholic church. My personal views don't mesh with the Catholic church. I also had to go to the same church that the kids who bullied me went to. Its funny because religion once gave me a sense of peace and security, but put my bullies in the same place as me, my sense of peace shattered. I'm confirmed and everything, but the last time I went to mass was at a Christmas mass in 2005. I've been an agnostic since I was 20, and I only went to the important stuff. I haven't set foot in a church since 2015, which was my grandfather's funeral. Like I said, I only went to the important stuff- weddings, funerals, holidays- and even then, it reminds me of why I choose to be an agnostic.
Now this is just a suggestion, I'm not telling you how to live your life. Can I ask if you've tried other christian branches? All of them are pretty different, especially mormonism; maybe you could find another church that does mesh with your views. I'm sorry about your bully situation, if you choose to, I hope you can find a good religious community.
10:25 Those aren’t “friends’’- I pray they’re able to get tf away from those ppl and find real friends someday.. 10:33 So that’s basically r@pe. They’re having their child _r@ped_ … yeah, they need to gtf away asap!
A responce to story three. I believe all children go to Heaven. (Unless in very rare cases where their like psycopaths or something.) Perants that treat they're kids like that go stright to Hell. One, for blaspheming God. Two, for hurting their child.
I can't relate to any of these stories, but my mom is a helicopter parent, and I can say that shell most likely not let me "do it" if I get a girlfriend because its "a sin" to do it before marriage, but I say "why did god make teens so horny if he made sex before marriage a sin huh?
As a Turk no it sucks here. Yes the transphobia is off-putting but I'm straight so that's not the problem. The problem is that the dictator we've had for 20 years ruining the economy, ruining our relations with the rest of NATO, repeatedly starting wars to boost his public image and generally being a dick.
It is sad that a lot of people experience the idea of the Christian religion as a judgemental place that tells people that those who make mistakes go to hell. If anyone in the church tells you that, they are wrong… still it is best to tread lightly when living in this fallen world. But living a life in relationship with God will give you a safe place… I am a Christian and do believe that Gay sex and being trans is not what God wants, but I do believe that it is ultimately between you and God on that one.. If anyone of you has been hurt by a Christian… I am so sorry and hope you understand that Jesus love you and wants to hold you.
Tries to claim Christians aren't judgemental. Immediately assumes they know what their god wants and judges the people they have decided their god doesn't want. Didn't do a great job, mate!
People using religion as a weapon has served the devil so much. God doesn't send people to hell for punishment. They choose hell to separate themselves from God.
Not me but 2 distant cousins on my maternal side. He was raise by one of this. It sickened me because his religion were bloody sucking to his mother, and his mother devolved because of this. Is even worse because both are from different dads ... both dads literally died when they were kids (even was in the wedding of one of them). This distant aunt was best friend with my mother and her sisters, specially the one after rmy mother. Seen her devolving into a fanatic mess just hurt my mother, my aunt and even my great grandmother who was still alive at that point, all thanks to the religion who introduce the prick she marry long after. His kids hates her because of the a-hole who became their step-father and the religion they were in. He controls her money literally. Last time i heard was almost 11 years ago, both kids literally escape from their mother thanks to their grandmother (one of my great grandmother's sisters), who was guilty of introduce her that guy in the 1st place. My great grandma died in 2011 , her sister in 2016 if i don't mistake, and that distant aunt was never to be seen again. The funny part is, i was raised catholic but i choose to be atheist, not because of hate, because i had good religious people who at least were understandable instead of nutsos (at least some relatives and other figures). My parents are still but they are just tired of going too. I'm all if people wanna exercise their religion as long as is nothing shove down the throat. HECK! my family became less and less religious after a while. Keep just the minimum as my parents still believe, specially my dad who believes in San Cayetano, the saint patron of work, since the 2 times he was unemploy, the 2 times he finds job not so long after. He still gives me new stamps, even if i don't believe, to conservate for "luck" in case i need work.
My parents are not excessively religious, but I can tell you what people hate if the extremely excessively religious. They say that rock music is Satanic and no it’s not. You’ll probably say that is black metal and death metal Because of some of the crazy shit they do Example, burning down churches. You find that in the Norwegian black metal scene. They even say pop music is Satanic. It literally sounds so awful tbf because a lot of kids like music such ands rock and pop music. I like rock music I’m a fan of Metallica Megadeath. Those are my metal bands now my rock bands Bon Jovi and Journey 🎸🤘🤘
I myself am a Christian and do I agree with say lgbt no not at all but I’m not just gonna treat you like garbage ima ask you to come to church yes I’ll be honest with you yes but not be rude like what kind of light would I be shining i saw something once that said a cow ain’t gonna eat from you if you smack it each time it tries to
Dude, just leave people alone. Disagreeing with the existence of humans I'd already braindead, but saying you disapprove of their existence and then asking them to come with you to your cult is beyond stupid
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I was friends with a woman who is about my age (70's). She has epilepsy, fortunately controlled by medication. When she was a child, she'd have seizures. Instead of taking her to a physician, her parents took her to their minister (a fundamentalist). He proclaimed that the seizures were a sign of demonic possession. The next time she had one, they were to beat her until "the demon was gone". They continued to do this until CPS became involved & she was removed from her parent's custody.
I think that's what happened to Annalise Michael. Her mom got pregnant before marriage and one report on UA-cam was saying her daughter was the sacrificial lamb to attone for her mother's sin, so she encouraged the belief it was possession and not a medical condition. To me that's worse than child abuse. It's betrayal based on delusion.
To me it sounds like she was in a religion cult
@@saitlife332it’s a video about religious extremism. The line between religion and cults here is pretty weak.
@@saitlife332 While not all religions can qualify as cults, the mentalities between religions and cults are very similar. Any extremist in any religion is indistinguishable from a cult member.
Religion is the worse child abuse ever!
I went to a “Christian” high school and it was terrible. If you weren’t the typical white social butterfly, you were gawked at like an animal at a zoo. Plus my teachers made every excuse possible for me to get into trouble because I was autistic. In their minds, I should’ve been in an asylum. I’m glad to be rid of that place and I have been convincing many others not to send their children there.
You dropped this 👑
I can relate I have asbergers
I'm glad that my parents sent me to regular school!
L, you dropped this in school 🧬
I have religious parents and religious grandma and seeing this makes me thankful that they are not crazy. My mom told me to hide the fact that I'm bi in school but this was because the school I was attending was very religious and she was scared that I would be bullied if that was found out.
Well she’s looking out for you at least
While I had many of these experiences, religion was never shoved down my throat. It was my mother's need to have me fit in and not be an embarrassment to her. She was raised rich, and was, and still is, extremely judgemental of any behavior she deems to be unacceptable (something without class or refinement). She doesn't say the quiet part out loud, but if it isn't bourgeoisie, she scoffs at it. No cartoons or video games for me, no no, it was poetry and plays and painting. Growing up I was made fun of at school for being a weirdo nerd, and mocked/derided by my mother once I got home for not being popular. My father was never home, he busted his ass to allow my mom to live in luxury. Church was all apart of this of course, but again, the message wasn't about sin or going to hell, it was the need to fit in and live a high class life. She never understood that the opera, orchestrated music, plays etc. was what made me unpopular, along with my entitled attitude. She was excited when I began to study theology to become a minister, and she'd brag every chance she got about it. Well, studying the faith got me realizing that flaunting ones status and privilege were not okay, as is behavior that could be classified as holier than thou. Long story short, I'm an atheist now and living my best nerdy life, helping others and working with people my mother would be disgusted to even look at.
I’m sorry religion Christianity didn’t work for you in that setting… but God bless you.
More like evolution bless you
In a lot of ways you’re probably more “Christian” than she’ll ever be, I salute you my friend!
I had excellent parents.... seeing all these horror stories makes me even more grateful. I had the chance to have a pretty good childhood....
These parents just seem utterly insane.
I’m lucky enough to have religious parents that mostly arent extremist ones, and because of that I myself am religious (Christianity, although I am in a state of intense stagnation)
There are a few types of christians from what I’ve seen online, but the 2 I see most are
1. “Christians” who hold the values too aggressively and thus go against those values, like those who think pokemon is satanic due to having an evolution mechanic, and these are the ones mostly featured in this video.
2. Christians who hold the values in a correct manner, being respectful and reasonable with how they share their beliefs with others and are actually nice to be around with how they treat people with kindness whenever they can but know how to also condemn correctly.
I also see a middle-ground between these 2 where some people (children, I assume) go around and spam comment sections with very long copypastas of why you should repent, when that’s not how sharing the gospel is done and makes you come off in a bad way.
My family is in the 2, while we are Christian, we don’t be so serious about it, we do not shove our religion to ourselves
My parents are divorced and I live with my Mom half the week. She’s a Christian but not an extremest, though she hates LGBTQ+ and thinks everyone is actually straight and is just manipulated by the internet if they are part of the LGBTQ+ community. Because of this my bolder sister who is pan sexual hasn’t been able to come out to her about it, and she doesn’t believe that I’m aro/ace. She just thinks I have depression and self image issues that are making me feel like nobody can live me. I do have self image issues because of my Grandma but I’m getting a little bit better slowly and I still think it’s wrong of my Mom to not believe me and make my sister feel like she can’t come out…
Dang that sucks. I don't know how to say this cause i don't know what branch you're from, but it's not a sin to BE gay, only to act on the gay sexual impulses.
An important member of the Tabernacle choir (a professional mormon choir) is openly gay.
I just hope you remember that not all of us are extremists and don't decide to leave god entirely. No ones perfect, and thats completely ok.
That's awful, I'm sorry you both are going through that and as a mother myself I couldn't imagine treating my kids that way. One day you'll be able to get away from all that and surround yourself with ppl who truly love and care about you. You are human beings who should be able to be yourselves and love who you want just like everyone else. It will get better, I promise.
My Grandma just watched her youngest daughter have a seizure and said if it was her time for god to take her then it was her time… that’s one of the tamer things they did
... WHAT THE FUCK!?!? THAT'S CHILD NEGLECT!!! CALL THE COPS ON HER!!!
I have a lot of religious trauma relating to Christianity because of my dad's toxic family. Many of the Christians I know are toxic and judgemental people, however I also know Christians who are very charitable and kind people. Because of my religious trauma and other factors, I am not Christian but I always keep in mind that there are some good ones out there. I think Christians tend to be very extreme in one end or the other, either one of the most thoughtful, charitable, and kind people or the most cruel, judgemental, and inconsiderate.
For me the ones I know for a bit and then find out they are Christian seem to be great people, the ones that announce thier religion right off the bat or wear it so loudly its inescapable tend to be the jerks..
Christianity is a sect of Judiasm. I don't think a lot of people understand this.
As someone who grew up Mormon I feel this thread to my soul. 31 now and finally getting past the indoctrinated guilt of my childhood
I grew up in a pretty normal Christian family. We weren’t regular church goers, but we did partake in church activities. I was baptized, I went to Sunday school, I made communion, and I’m still friends with a lot of my old church members. But by the time I got to high school I had started to undergo a religious crisis where I was really beginning to question the validity of the Bible and the existence of God. I won’t pretend that this wasn’t one of the scariest experiences I’ve ever had, coming to terms with forming my own views on existence, and I had several mental breakdowns over it. Fortunately, I also had a very strong support network and my parents were more than willing to help me through it, even if it meant that I may not come out the other side the same. My current beliefs lean more towards agnosticism, and though my mother still encourages me to have faith, she doesn’t force anything on me, and was even very supportive of my brother when he came out a bi.
TLDR; religion doesn’t make bad people. Bad people just use it as an excuse to be bad people.
Wasn't there literally a moment in the Bible where Satan attempted to get Jesus to sin by quoting the Old Testament?
These extremists are really giving me that vibe tbh.
My mom was pretty religious growing up but not extremist. She didn’t let me read the HP books for a long time. She ended up buying the books for me cus she realized it would help me make friends (it did). Over a decade later and she still buys me HP stuff.
She also changed her views on LGBTQ+. She…didn’t take me coming out the first time well. Read all the Bible verses you would think of. Second time was part of a long letter after I got into a seriously deep hole and seriously considered ending things. Considering everything else in the letter (eating disorder, depression, su*c*dal ideations), she didn’t react much. Years after that, she came to me asking how she can support one of the kids of a family friend. The kid went to mom first to come out to cus she was worried about how her parents would react (they ended up being supportive) and trusted my mom. My mom asked me cus she “wanted to do better”. I gave her advice and we had a good long talk with lots of crying. My mom now educates her Christian friends about what the Bible actually says, with translations and interpretations. She even cut off one penpal she’s had for years because they kept being homophobic and hateful. She’s said now she’ll be happy with whoever I end up with as long as they treat me right…and sometimes I feel like she’s holding back some jokes cus I’m Bi/Pan and still single 😂
The problem isn’t religion. The problem is people don’t know how to not make religion a painful thing.
Fr tho, the many time the bible was changed/take the bible out context.
Yeah both my parents believe in God and want me to pay attention in church and take it seriously but they're not overly religious they're just like yeah God exist please Believe this and we cool
Yeah.. I’ve recently finished a church retreat that talked about sexual purity and that what the time I talked about an addiction I was struggling with with to my Dad. He already knew and trusted me to set boundries for myself so I can get purofied with the help of God.
Oh my gosh yes! Our general beliefs teach that we should be loving, and have other jesus-like traits, though your not expected to be perfect, just to be your best self, thats the whole reason why repentance exists in the first place.
It's the people who become overly obsessed that give us a bad rep. I promise it's ok to be gay or queer, we just don't want you to have gay sex or something, as love was meant to be between a man and a woman; but you definitely aren't going to hell for it.
Wrong. The problem is the religion.
Something my dad told me once was "A priest can describe every pebble in hell, but nothing past the pearly gates, so think about that when you blindly believe whatever people tell you." Hes not religious but we live in a pretty religious neighborhood, and I was quiet young at the time, but its still good advice. These kinds of nuts always rely on blind faith to get their way, and these unfortunate kids often received the brunt of it. I've seen it at my job as well. I work at a summer camp in-between academic years, and these kids would get relentlessly bullied. You could always tell too, as their parents force them to go to an outdoor summer camp in buttondown shirts and ties, sometimes even toting around a bible.
Athiest here, it kind of goes both ways. My mom constantly looks down on religion. I remember that i said " i believe in God" as a joke when i was little. She straight up gasped and told me not to. She says religion is weird, and that most religious people are awful or discriminatory. Its hard when shes doing that. She says that religious people shove their ideas down others throats, when she does the same thing. Atheist fanatics exist too. My mom isnt to that point, thankfully.
I see the nuance but you have to believe me when I say that you'd be better off getting a little weirded out by your mom shielding you from religion, rather than being raised in an extremist household led by religion.
@@heyfella5217 probably. I have some religious friends tho
The problem is not religion. The problem is that people use religion as an excuse to be abusive.
As a Hindu,my parents also had some vegetarianism but they dont have as strict rules as story 19,only on Saturdays we cant eat meat,and for around the month of september,but on Thursdays my mother and aunt dont eat meat,but they let us to eat it on Thursdays rater than force that upon us.
My entire family is vegetarian, but I do eat meat. Not around them obviously but when I'm alone or with friends.
I am Hindu and completely veg, forgive me but I thought all hindus were veg
@@adhvayjayanty6056 No majority of India is Hindu but also majority of India is not vegetarian.
As a Pentecostal Christian, I feel awful that people are forced to go through this, but please believe that not all Christians are like this, and though I know it won't do much I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry but christianity is almost a mark of distrust for me. I'm scared of christians.
I'm gay. I have to watch as extremists in my country tries to strip away my rights, ban books, and backpedal social progress made under the guise of christian values and parent's rights.
All the homophobia I know of ultimately stems from christianity.
There are even churches in my country that preach for my execution just because of who I love and am attracted to.
I see so many people who'd want me dead or shun me for who I am because of this religion that I can't look at it the same anymore.
I hope you understand. It's like the "poisoned bottles" analogy for women. Yes, most of them are good... but too many of them are dangerous to me.
@@yharon8243 I understand and I'm sorry you have to go through that, I hope things will get better for you.
@@lainadanger5998 I wish that every christian was every bit as understanding as you are.
@@yharon8243 I really wish that they just remembered about the empathy aspect. Like, what happened to "be good to the next"? When was murder ever justified in the bible?
Sometimes i wonder if some of them are just there for the money. Hope the best for you.
@@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672 Thank you for being empathetic.
Unfortunately, because it's an old book with old ideas, the bible does contain a lot of terrible messages that many christians use to hurt people. Though my hope is that people like you can change churches further for the better... and though I'm still afraid for myself, I have been seeing leaps and bounds in progress like that. I won't forget that and I don't take that progress for granted.
Like I said, the bible is an old book with old ideas. It gives me hope to see so many christians have been treating it as such and using the good moral lessons it teaches, while acknowledging but abandoning the bad lessons. I mean, if people still believed all the bad lessons, people nowadays would still be shamed for wearing two or more different types of fabric at once or eating pork. The fact that this doesn't happen anymore is a good sign to me.
“Pokemon promotes evolution over creationism”
Ma’am/sir have you looked into the lore of how the Pokemon came to be? They had Pokemon GOD make them 💀
It a’int promoting anything over the other both are there
Stories like this make me glad I was raised atheist.
Even though I'm a Catholic (lapsed), if I ever had a child I would not tell him or her anything about religion, send him to non-sectarian schools, and let him or her choose religion but if he ever grows up as an atheist I'm fine with that.
@@flatearthisahoax4030 That's definitely the way to do it. I don't think it's a good idea to introduce religion to a person at a super super young age because they don't have the understanding to actually consider what they're worshipping. People should decide for themselves who or what to worship or believe in, if anything at all.
@@Juzokinnie even though I agree with everything you said, my reason goes farther than that.
You see the Catholic church has said a lot of ironies about being "pro-life", "abortion destroys the life of the child", wanting to protect children, etc etc etc.
Every time they call themselves pro-life, I always ask myself "what about the children who's lives were destroyed due to SA inside the church? They also had life." The worst part is that they cover it up, and send that priest to another location where he can have more access to children.
Given that most victims of old priests who happen to be males are little boys, their stance against LGBT and same-sex marriage is also ironic
@@flatearthisahoax4030 The priest predator thing is honestly disgusting, the fact that a lot aren't getting arrested is sickening. I hope that something is done about that.
@@Juzokinnie I personally think it's good to introduce your child to religion and explain what your beliefs are about, but definitely don't be extremist with it; extremism drives people away more than it brings them in.
Any extreme in parenting, religion, politics , or work isn't a good idea 💡 for any individual on earth 🤔.
I wouldn't say my parents are extremist per sé, as they believe in the "hate the sin, love the sinner" stuff which is marginally better than some religious circles. I do remember coming out as bi and demigirl to only a few people in high school because I was scared if it went around everywhere that my parents would find out and get me in gigantic trouble. Note that I did come out to my parents and older sister late into my junior year, and their first instinct was to try and 'snap me out of it' and 'convince' me that I'm a straight woman. So throughout those years I was in a constant cycle of coming in and out of the closet, trying to hide my queerness from my peers, and feeling very self-conscious, scared, and alone. I'm graduated now and fully out of the closet with my immediate family, but it took so long to feel okay coming to that conclusion.
Story 14 I'm glad that makes some people get that You can't always expect instant acceptance that some people need time to come to accept things like that.
I’m not atheist because I don’t believe in gods/ a higher power, I’m atheist because I don’t believe that said higher powers are worthy of worship
A singular answer to a singular question: is there a god? No!
I dont think that's atheism, then. Atheism is a lack of belief in the spiritual.
there are less religious extremists these days. but the total number of extremist personality type is still the same. the weak minded extremist personality types have just parasitically latch on to other things/groups...think about it.
i predict in the future we will have a entirely new crop of young adults talking about their New Type Extremist parents. looking forward to seeing that future video 15 years down the line. "People with [BLANK] EXTREMIST Parents..What was it like?"
SAME THING DIFFERENT FORM
This video really showed me how important nature and nurture is. Depending on how your parents can use them can effect someone’s entire life and how they interact with others
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Ngl i feel this person. Im happy with the gender i was assigned at birth (M) but i experienced the same type of "live by my rules" bullshit from my parents. This is gonna sound dark but sometimes i feel like faking my death and leaving and starting over
Wow, I'm totally feeling these and it makes me wanna jump out of a window.
Everyday my parents kept treating me and my sister like sluts, because they were uncontrollable horndogs when they were our age. My sister told me this story where she went trick-or-treating in the neighbor next door with some classmates, and the moment my dad found out, he threatened to walk out on our family if she ever did that again. To this day, we don't understand his logic.
Despite how prude my parents were towards us, my mother, weirdly, always had a vulgar sense of humor, which I found off putting. I still find sex jokes gross and immature. Sometimes I don't know if I was born AroAce or guilted into it by their constant slut-shaming! By the time my sister and I reached adulthood, our parents patted themselves on the back for raising good, little Christian daughters, but wondered why we never had any boyfriends, got married, or had children past our mid-twenties. I'm a firm believer in "bad parents don't deserve the opportunity to be good grandparents" and my life goal has always been to die single and childless.
Before my dad died, I did get to fight them on what horrible parents they were, and how we haven't recovered from all their psychological damage, and his reaction was "So, your saying I stopped drinking for nothing?". Again, we don't understand his logic.
And this is why I love being an atheist. Imagine having to put up with this shit EVERY DAY for DECADES. Fuck that.
It's stories like these that make me happy I didn't grow up in a religious household, but I have relatives who are religious so I still dealt with bullshit like being told I worshiped the devil becoz I listened to bands like Korn. Ppl like that will say anything is a sin or devil worship without any thought or proof and they just believe it. They really like to make life less enjoyable for everyone else.
Some religious nuts think metal is made to worship the devil.. gimme a break 😂
I know I’m not the first one to say, but these make me glad I was raised in a kind Catholic home, where God was a tool for helping to make life better, and not as a judgement parental figure that expects you to be perfect. Sure we were taught about Hell and all that, but we were told not to worry about that because God was way more forgiving than some people thought.
I am currently thanking God that my parents are not extremist. They were pretty chill with me and my brother. Though none of them approved of it. They got me my first pokemon game when I was a senior. I love them.
These people right here are why people avoid others who claim to be religious and it’s a shame tbh. Really there’s nothing wrong with being extremely religious, I’d actually much rather hang out with religious people most times because they seemed a lot nicer and at peace.
Religious people are supposed to follow the laws of their faith and insert it into their personality from what I’ve been told.
I don’t wanna go assuming things about the people mentioned in this video because idk them but it’s definitely strange.
Oh, the lifecycle of religion: Starts with good intentions, gets blown out of proportion by its followers, turns evil
I'm glad my parents weren't entirely religious sychopaths but it was still annoying having it shoved down my throat every Sunday, easter and Christmas.
refraining from eating onions and garlic? what religion/denomination does that?
Vampires?
@@livwake lol :-)
🎵🎶”Keep your ri-fle, byyyyy your siiiiide!”
My dad stopped drinking and got saved just in time to see him mom, wife and daughter fall in love with Prince 😂😂😂
… and that’s why I’m aetheist and lucky to have the wonderful loving parents, though hateful to each other, that don’t give a shit what I do as long as I’m safe and l being legal
... this makes me hate religion- No. the way people, MOSTLY PARENTS, ABUSE religion!! And the "rules" that some religions have... Such as women not being allowed to wear something normal but black cloaks (I forgot which religion), people claiming that LGBT is eeevil and a sin, people saying that your misfortune or bad mental health is your own fault because you didn't pray enough.
... I'm half religious. I was born Christian, I was baptized (is that the term when they do the water stuff?) but my family swears, we don't go to church. We barely pray.
I have gone through some dark times... praying didn't do shit for me so that's why I say that god is dead or doesn't exst.
No shows and with talking animals I guess that person isn’t allowed to watch sonic
I was allowed to play Pokémon video games as a child, my grandparent(s) and my dad are not extremists. My grandparent (grandma) believes in the afterlife and angels but, that's pretty much it
Seeing these stories makes me so grateful that my family is religious in a way that isn’t crazy. My grandma raised me and my sister and she did want us involved in church and to pay attention and all that, but she isn’t a fanatic and instead respects most people’s beliefs, even if they aren’t her own. She didn’t like it when I read Harry Potter in middle school though.
I've NEVER trusted ORGANIZED RELIGION!!!!
I’m so thankful to have parents who aren’t crazy religious people lol
I have borderline religious extremist parents, i have to be very secretive about every song and show i watch
He turned the ace of spades into the queen of hearts?! Witch!!!
My mom was so beyond religious growing up but she taught us about God in a loving way never mentioned hell or that women are less then men she taught us that God loves us no matter what we even went to a church that had all the religions there would be Christians Muslims Catholics and sometimes even Mormons in the same sermon the church was so welcoming with open arms and their motto was "judging is not our place" literally everyone was welcome I'll never forget that church it was amazing and has taught me to love everyone no matter who they are or where they come from I know that's not bad like these ones but I feel like one good one would lighten the mood 😢❤
Not my parents, but my school. I went to a catholic school and it was only in 4th grade when I found out that people actually believe that Jesus and God are real and that evolution is bogus. From then on I didn't do prayers, didn't listen in religion and didn't listen in church.
The Catholic Church doesn’t believe evolution is bogus, so I don’t know what you were being told.
@@spanky9676the church used to believe that the sun circled around the earth, so who knows...😯
This made me remember a character I had came up with a few years ago. I can’t remember the name I came up for him, but what I do remember was that he was abused by his parents who were religious extremists. In order to cope with the abuse, he developed a hatred of ALL religious people (especially his own religion), and he also developed a racist view of Arab people, thinking that all of them are extremist Muslim terrorists.
Yeah, edgy early teenage me was weird.
Don't try so hard to get close to God. You'll only end up farther away from him.
"When I went looking for God, I found only myself. When I went looking for myself, I found God."
None of these parents should be used to represent religious parents as a whole. Good Christian parents would love others and encourage them, not condem whoever disagrees, even if it has to be their own family. Love your neighbor.
Im Catholic but still...
OMFG
Omg I got real luckily. My family is super religious but never disowned, told someone their going to Hell for being LGBTQ+, and never burned any of my anime stuff.
I had a hard time making friends bc my family were rudely religious. Like they would tell u, u look pregnant and hound u with questions then when u dont eat u dont appreciate life and God is ashamed of u…literally no winning and i just got a really bad eating disorder
nah bro because my dad is this hard-core Christian right, like Bible Thumper, hard-core, and growing up I never went out anywhere after my mom died when I was 7, and got separated from my siblings. After my mom lost her privilege's with me, my dad ALL OF A SUDDEN wants to take care of me. Keep in mind I was supposed to go with my grandma, and my dad said that he didnt want me to go with her because he didnt want me to end up "gay", because she is married to another woman. So back to the actual story, when I would go to school I was always wearing the same old clothes, and he wouldn't buy me anything, he claimed that I was a spoiled brat, but compared to my cousins and siblings living with my grandma I was FAR from spoiled, and he forced his religion onto me and I didnt know that he got it so far into my head , that I would do it to my older sisters, I am very disappointed in my younger self for doing what I did. That being said I didn't have any friends and was viewed as a freak. This went on for years and I am now a junior in high school, I am now what you would consider a "devil worshipper" according to my dad, just because of my drawings that I do. There are many other things but in order to say all of them, there would be a whole ass essay to be written. lmao and apparently I don't do shit with my life even though I got a job at 11(mind you is illegal) and know have my own car and I am now 16. And my dad didnt even make it through the first semester of freshman year in high school. So I made it further in life and school than he ever did. so he can kiss my "gay devil worshipping" ass.
Im glad my dad only taught me the bible just so i would understand the meaning, and not obsess over it.
Turns out that George Carlin was right.
dude the kid who had the wood stove could have just lived by himself and have been better
Sounds like plenty of these people using religion as a means of control. My mother is religious and my father is religious aswell but does not go to church. There was no control like this (mother is united church and my dad catholic) I am thankful that they were not fundamentalist.
I had my spell of athieism but ive finally found god in his reformed church as it was in the time of jesus christ(latter day saints ie mormonism). It saddens me to see the atheists turn but I completly understand why
The parents in story 14 are the type of parents who are both religious and extremely sensitive and loving even when their child is homosexual 😊
These stories are so sad. I'm so glad I didn't grow up with overly-religious parents. If I did, I'd probably be a very miserable person today.
I went to a youth bible study once and was told in front of 2 dozen kids, that my depression was my fault for not reading the bible enough. I was 13 and juat got diagnosed with bipolar
Geez these people are what give religion a bad rep these days. My parents are also very religious but not to this extreme. They just just follow the customs of their religion which is Islam. Just praying daily and fasting during Ramadan. Well not my dad because he had diabetes. He would go to the mosque every Friday and my mom now wakes up early every day to pray the morning prayer. My mom would also fast the day before the Islamic new year.
They raised me to also pray and fast but they never made me do things I don’t want to do. I would wake up early to pray only during Ramadan cause my mom says it’s a good thing to do. I also just started fasting the day before the Islamic new year as well as my mom says doing that will bring you good luck. My parents are good people who love me and want what’s best for me and would never shove their preferences in my face.
I'm very happy for you, but do keep in mind how lucky you are.
Excess in all things is the undoing of Man.
12:59 eight! one of the greatest classifiers years for someone being absolutely loony is baptizing their kid below the double digit ages! In my opinion, there should be illegal baptism age, which is 20 because then you’ll spent two years being an adult and if you’re religious yourself.
I’m thankful my parents, while religious, were not extreme about it.
We did church on Sunday and Bible study on Monday every two weeks. Thankfully, they let my sister and I decide about doing Bible study.
I did go to a Catholic school, but we were allowed to decide whether or not to join in the religious stuff. (I did the religious stuff. I’m religious, but not the type to try to stuff it down your throat.)
Thank goodness I'm an atheist .
Nah story 8 was WAY too relatable for me
To the smallest detail...
As a Christian I’m glad nobody I know except my grandmother is like this
As someone who isn't religious, it usually isn't the religion that's the problem. (And it's made important cultural impacts in human society and brings comfort to many people) it's it being used as a tool to oppress.
My non religious relative moved to Tennessee and is now religious fanatic trumper who believes trump is the new messiah….😔
I'd say the main thing that turned me away from organized religion for good was when I realized how is it that one can be happy in heaven if they have loved ones in hell? And even at a fairly young age I was confused about how God often was in the OT and couldn't help but think that God often seemed more like a bad guy than a good guy.
Lol one of my exs had a helicopter religious mom and she blew a gasket when she found out about me I was 1) a couple years older than her son 2)not religious in the slightest 3) had a pokemon tattoo (she raised him against it) and 4)didn't conform to the whole "women are only meant to serve their husband and bear children" on several occasions she told me to cover or remove my pokemon tattoo and if i talked pokemon or dnd to my ex or his siblings i got splashed with holy water not even a simple hey can you not then she found out her son was no virgin that he played pokemon behind her back and vaped as well she blamed me for it i noped out of that relationship after a month
Stressed with fear tactics
Im a Religious kid, and there are some things i dont want to do, that i have to, BUT NOTHING AS BAD AS THIS! like holy crap, im glad my parents are good parents. Also, I realise a lot of this is Mormon, Islam, and Catholics, so i think my Pentecostal Christianity is so much better than a lot of crap….
I am a Muslim and my dad never did anything like this he treats me and my sister and mom really well also my sister doesn't wear a حجاب ( head scarf) because in Islam a head scarf is a choice is the radical extremist that forces it
@@netromo to be honest, i think Muslim families like yours get bad raps due to stereotypes and the internet. Thats a Good father right there.
My hypocritical cousin didn't have a TV in the lounge room because it wasn't Christian and demons come through it but she had a TV in her bedroom.
damn. all my parents did was ban minecraft as they thought it was evil or some bullshit
I did not have that type of parents however I went to Pentecostal Church when I was young and then two uncles and Mom converted to SDA. Now that was an extreme change from Pentecostal on Sunday Church and then Seventh Day Adventist on Saturday. Pentecostal very loud, and speaking in unknown languages TO sit down be quiet we’re in church on Saturday. Don’t go to either now I married the daughter of a Free Will Baptist minister.
Growing up in the Pentescostal church is why I'm now an atheist.
Story 19: huh, I didn't realize Hindu's had so many dietary restrictions. I knew that cattle are considered sacred, but not those other things.
Ya lean something every day. :P
With this video, i learned that many parents are just like frolo (hunchback of notridam)
poor 3 third person
Please read all of this comment before you comment Thank you! Kids coming from this type of environment overcompensate and dive into the opposite end. They look for inclusion and a way to fit in, they end up doing what they never would have thought they would and end up regretting it. I have seen communities pray on these people first hand with people becoming red pilled incels, and some going to LGBTQ+ desperate to fit in and believing everything they see online about it, trapped in the circle of yes men going deeper and deeper. The one thing they have in common is that they regret being part of these communities that pray on the lost and looking for answers. All communities can be toxic, some more than others. Remember true friends and communities will be there for you and NOT force you to become what you are not. Non toxic communities won't form sub groups of sub groups based off of how committed you are or how much or little you believe. True friends won't ditch you just because you have different options on politics, or if your gay or trans. Build a base with good people, be open to new things but don't let it destroy your convictions.
I was raised Catholic, but I'm an agnostic now. My politics just don't mesh with the Catholic church. My personal views don't mesh with the Catholic church. I also had to go to the same church that the kids who bullied me went to. Its funny because religion once gave me a sense of peace and security, but put my bullies in the same place as me, my sense of peace shattered. I'm confirmed and everything, but the last time I went to mass was at a Christmas mass in 2005. I've been an agnostic since I was 20, and I only went to the important stuff. I haven't set foot in a church since 2015, which was my grandfather's funeral. Like I said, I only went to the important stuff- weddings, funerals, holidays- and even then, it reminds me of why I choose to be an agnostic.
Now this is just a suggestion, I'm not telling you how to live your life.
Can I ask if you've tried other christian branches? All of them are pretty different, especially mormonism; maybe you could find another church that does mesh with your views. I'm sorry about your bully situation, if you choose to, I hope you can find a good religious community.
10:25 Those aren’t “friends’’- I pray they’re able to get tf away from those ppl and find real friends someday..
10:33 So that’s basically r@pe. They’re having their child _r@ped_ … yeah, they need to gtf away asap!
A responce to story three.
I believe all children go to Heaven. (Unless in very rare cases where their like psycopaths or something.) Perants that treat they're kids like that go stright to Hell. One, for blaspheming God. Two, for hurting their child.
I can't relate to any of these stories, but my mom is a helicopter parent, and I can say that shell most likely not let me "do it" if I get a girlfriend because its "a sin" to do it before marriage, but I say "why did god make teens so horny if he made sex before marriage a sin huh?
9:30 Turkey is a complete W then 🗿
As a Turk no it sucks here. Yes the transphobia is off-putting but I'm straight so that's not the problem. The problem is that the dictator we've had for 20 years ruining the economy, ruining our relations with the rest of NATO, repeatedly starting wars to boost his public image and generally being a dick.
😐
No one is laughing
@@umrayquazashinyapareceu1672 ok? I don't care if you find it funny, countries need to wake up like turkey and Russia
Grow up.
It is sad that a lot of people experience the idea of the Christian religion as a judgemental place that tells people that those who make mistakes go to hell. If anyone in the church tells you that, they are wrong… still it is best to tread lightly when living in this fallen world. But living a life in relationship with God will give you a safe place… I am a Christian and do believe that Gay sex and being trans is not what God wants, but I do believe that it is ultimately between you and God on that one..
If anyone of you has been hurt by a Christian… I am so sorry and hope you understand that Jesus love you and wants to hold you.
Tries to claim Christians aren't judgemental. Immediately assumes they know what their god wants and judges the people they have decided their god doesn't want.
Didn't do a great job, mate!
Thankfully my mother wasnt to bad she had her moments but the church pushed my entire family away shes more agnostic and im just atheist
People using religion as a weapon has served the devil so much. God doesn't send people to hell for punishment. They choose hell to separate themselves from God.
Not me but 2 distant cousins on my maternal side. He was raise by one of this. It sickened me because his religion were bloody sucking to his mother, and his mother devolved because of this. Is even worse because both are from different dads ... both dads literally died when they were kids (even was in the wedding of one of them). This distant aunt was best friend with my mother and her sisters, specially the one after rmy mother. Seen her devolving into a fanatic mess just hurt my mother, my aunt and even my great grandmother who was still alive at that point, all thanks to the religion who introduce the prick she marry long after. His kids hates her because of the a-hole who became their step-father and the religion they were in. He controls her money literally. Last time i heard was almost 11 years ago, both kids literally escape from their mother thanks to their grandmother (one of my great grandmother's sisters), who was guilty of introduce her that guy in the 1st place. My great grandma died in 2011 , her sister in 2016 if i don't mistake, and that distant aunt was never to be seen again.
The funny part is, i was raised catholic but i choose to be atheist, not because of hate, because i had good religious people who at least were understandable instead of nutsos (at least some relatives and other figures). My parents are still but they are just tired of going too. I'm all if people wanna exercise their religion as long as is nothing shove down the throat. HECK! my family became less and less religious after a while. Keep just the minimum as my parents still believe, specially my dad who believes in San Cayetano, the saint patron of work, since the 2 times he was unemploy, the 2 times he finds job not so long after. He still gives me new stamps, even if i don't believe, to conservate for "luck" in case i need work.
My parents are not excessively religious, but I can tell you what people hate if the extremely excessively religious.
They say that rock music is Satanic and no it’s not. You’ll probably say that is black metal and death metal Because of some of the crazy shit they do Example, burning down churches. You find that in the Norwegian black metal scene.
They even say pop music is Satanic.
It literally sounds so awful tbf because a lot of kids like music such ands rock and pop music.
I like rock music I’m a fan of
Metallica Megadeath. Those are my metal bands
now my rock bands
Bon Jovi and Journey 🎸🤘🤘
I myself am a Christian and do I agree with say lgbt no not at all but I’m not just gonna treat you like garbage ima ask you to come to church yes I’ll be honest with you yes but not be rude like what kind of light would I be shining i saw something once that said a cow ain’t gonna eat from you if you smack it each time it tries to
Dude, just leave people alone. Disagreeing with the existence of humans I'd already braindead, but saying you disapprove of their existence and then asking them to come with you to your cult is beyond stupid
those are basicaly horror stories.
I wouldn't call my parents extremists but some of their tendencies are quite annoying.
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El bozo
Bro I wish I can delete it
Stephen King said it best: "God speaks to us everyday, and he's telling us precisely what we want to hear."
Did any of the religious parents support isis or 9/11?
No