"Two kinds of people you should never trust: A religious leader who tells you how to vote and a politician who tells you how to pray."
@lunalea12507 ай бұрын
🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯
@robertalker6527 ай бұрын
Perfect.
@toomanydonuts7 ай бұрын
Amen my brother. Well said. I am so glad you are with us. Thank you. God's love is all that matters, the labels divide us. God bless.
@RockyMountainsUSA7 ай бұрын
More like anyone who tells you to pray at all. Religion is a big reason trump voters are so delusional, they have been indoctrinated into believing things without evidence.
@Madbandit777 ай бұрын
Amen.
@jameschapman65597 ай бұрын
Former Conservative Evangelical and I will never vote for a Republican again. It's been the hypocrisy of Evangelical's that change my mind. Thanks for your testimony.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
How about the one in the mirror?
@lisaschreiber28937 ай бұрын
the whole evangelical support of trump reminds me of the left behind series where a large religious section supports a leader they are supposed to oppose and doom their souls to hell.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@lisaschreiber2893 are you sure you are Judge?
@lisaschreiber28937 ай бұрын
@@TimSpangler-v9i comrade what are you talking about?
@thelostone69817 ай бұрын
@@TimSpangler-v9iHahaha. To be clear, YOU came in here judging the person who made the first comment so it’s hilarious that you have the laughable audacity to judge someone else! 😂😂
@chesterwilberforce98327 ай бұрын
As a partly retired person, I work at a church as a maintenance guy. I was raised in one of those Midwestern protestant families where your hungover dad drops you off for Sunday school and the only time prayer was used was at Easter dinner. It does get a little awkward at work as the rest of the staff are members of the church and very much religious while they can sense through my non-participation in religious activities there that I am pretty much there for a paycheck. Traditional Christianity, despite the fervent right wing support, is dying in this country. Here in Texas, the only churches to thrive are the giant mega non denominational arenas that hold televised circus events on Sundays. But I bet if you put even them on a lie detector and asked them if the world was only 6,000 years old, or whether Jesus rose from the dead, you'd make the machine go off. Evangelism has much more to do with society and culture (and politics) than it does with true religion. I think if you took the tax status away from them, half the churches in country would shutter.
@fredfolson53557 ай бұрын
Very interesting perspective. Thank you for those insights.
@gregorysouthworth7837 ай бұрын
I also live in Texas and I see much of what you report. The young especially (the under 45 crowd) are less and less interested in traditional Christianity, including the evangelical variety, which they see as merely a recruiting arm for the MAGA movement. My own perspective is that what we call Christianity in the USA is up for a change. Granted there may always be fundamentalists of various flavors, but I see a slow steady interest in the contemplative side of Christianity as evangelical numbers begin to slide. This isn't the mere pietism of the past as many are active in change for the better as in helping the poor, downtrodden, and being good stewards of the Earth. I have heard it said from more than one contemplative Christian that, "on the outside, we probably look and sound more like Zen Buddhists than conventional Christians." I guess time will tell, but I wonder how many of these megachurches with their seven figure pastors and 10,000 sq foot residences will be around in 20-30 years.
@paulshriver24047 ай бұрын
I, too, grew up among people who were appalled by the behavior of Bill Clinton. I was reminded regularly that what America needed was a Godly leader. All of that was abandoned for 30 pieces of silver and a couple Supreme Court justices…
@MtHockey7 ай бұрын
The evangelical leaders also lambasted Jimmy Carter who was a Baptist Sunday School teacher and actually 'practiced what he believed. I learned way back in the 70ies, that the evangelical Christian right was not about Christianity but were about money and Republican political power.
@davidtingley99787 ай бұрын
@@MtHockey Wasn't Ford's loss to Carter in 76 what drove the GOP to court the support of evangelicals?
@MtHockey7 ай бұрын
Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority came to fruition at that time for Reagan.@@davidtingley9978
@darrylperry6487 ай бұрын
Some of these people just lied and fooled themselves, and then lied to their children, it was not about true Christianity, that was just a convient way to hide behind their bigotry, just like policy, ( they don't care about that either )😮
@VoodooV17 ай бұрын
Say what you will about Clinton, he got it for free, while Trump had to pay for it.
@JustWantToWrite7 ай бұрын
The party of so-called traditional Christian values nominated a convicted rapist, fraudster, and wannabe dictator. What Twilight Zone episode did I just land in?
@bubsie447 ай бұрын
As a Christian I can’t believe it either.
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
@@bubsie44 But you can believe something just as ridiculous, which is Christianity. People are fascinating.
@lindapryor37477 ай бұрын
@@chikkipopIt’s the earliest recording of anything written. So, where’d it come from if you think it’s made up?
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
@@lindapryor3747 I often respond to creationist comments by saying *"That's so funny!"* But in this case I must say, that may be the funniest one yet. Please tell me I'm not getting your point. It's always a possibility 😇
@sidsuspicious7 ай бұрын
@@lindapryor3747 The Sumerian civilization first developed writing around 3400 B.C. You do know what the B & the C stand for? So you got that wrong by a huge margin. That second bit... WTF? Donut brain. 🤣
@dca48407 ай бұрын
Spot on. I always wondered why no one calls them out on their hypocrisy over the way they held Clinton to one standard then destroy it for Trump.
@susanne96027 ай бұрын
A politician shouldn't tell you how to pray and a pastor shouldn't tell you how to vote
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
They should both do both, because anyone thinking won't pay any attention to a "pastor," and a politician can be judged by his record.
@leahartlee297 ай бұрын
And if either tells you what to for either- RUN!
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@leahartlee29 How about a LIBERAL Pastor...Which there are many?
@xjarheadjohnson7 ай бұрын
@@TimSpangler-v9i It doesn't matter. The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* (To the Members of the New Jerusalem Church of Baltimore, 27 January 1793) _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
@barryb831107 ай бұрын
I left when the pastor told us to vote for Reagan.
@kathyrama45707 ай бұрын
There never could have been Trump without Reagan.
@robertalker6527 ай бұрын
Applause.
@TheMonkdad7 ай бұрын
@@kathyrama4570 or Newt Gingrich.
@brianjennings16247 ай бұрын
Still waiting for the trickle down 40 years later.
@kathyrama45707 ай бұрын
@@brianjennings1624 43 to be exact. He was elected in 1980, inaugurated Jan, 1981.
@TheWoodstockWarrior7 ай бұрын
I grew up in the church. The compassionate Jesus I knew was nothing like the anti-Christ Trump.
@toomanydonuts7 ай бұрын
Antithetical to God's teachings. Absolutely antithetical. Love matters.
@RockyMountainsUSA7 ай бұрын
@@toomanydonuts The Christian god is much worse than Trump. Just open the bible and read it.
@TBrl87 ай бұрын
Religious zealots know exactly what they are doing when they boost trump. They know he is a degenerate piece of trash.
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
@@toomanydonuts There's a "god" and it has "teachings"?! Very strange, but this news could win you a Nobel.
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
You knew someone compassionate named Jesus?
@tejanoj30177 ай бұрын
For some, church is a business.
@terrybodenhorn35087 ай бұрын
A business, or a con game…
@carriefox11467 ай бұрын
And it should be taxed like other businesses.
@RaulM-qb3dr7 ай бұрын
For all. Religion is a scam
@WillowEtain7 ай бұрын
All churches are businesses.
@boochi70877 ай бұрын
For most*
@raymondrochajr96217 ай бұрын
Tax the churches! IN JESUS NAME!!
@VoodooV17 ай бұрын
I'd rather they just re-establish separation. If we tax churches, that gives them a legitimate reason to be a part of government. reinforce the separation.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@VoodooV1 What do you consider separation?
@thetruthfornow60457 ай бұрын
Jesus and his followers were a church without walls. When asked, Jesus said to pay the government called Caesar the taxes owed and pay God or the church your tithes.
@raymondrochajr96217 ай бұрын
@@thetruthfornow6045 I meant to say that the trump inspired churches need to pay taxes! Because he is evil! And those are not churches at all because of that!
@VoodooV17 ай бұрын
remove "in god we trust" as our national motto for starters. It's a remnant of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. the REAL motto is "E Pluribus Unum" @@TimSpangler-v9i
@rottdog78647 ай бұрын
I was bullied at Sunday school for years. The priest told me I deserved the harrassment because I was a boy with long hair. I pointed to the statue of Jesus and asked why when Jesus too had long hair. The priest then hit me with a ruler across my hands. Welcome to the catholic church!
@anastasiabeaverhausen82207 ай бұрын
I had 12 yrs. of that sort of hypocrisy in catholic school. Turned me into an agnostic.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@anastasiabeaverhausen8220 Turned me into a non Catholic Christian
@Mudbutt737 ай бұрын
I grew up catholic as well and it was like that for me as well. They don’t want you to think critically or question anything they say. It’s still like that today.
@brendaechols59297 ай бұрын
Yeah, nun used to scare me. If we didn't know prayer by Sunday school. Forget it. She would make you feel bad in front of the whole class. I'm still catholic to this day.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@brendaechols5929 Why?
@JeffRL19567 ай бұрын
"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know. I've tried to deal with them." -- Barry Goldwater (yes, THAT Barry Goldwater)
@jimknarr7 ай бұрын
The 2024 vote comes down to whether people want freedom or one person to have absolute power. Why half of this country doesn't understand this is beyond me.
@mickeyhadley42817 ай бұрын
Am I wrong or did someone once make a declaration of independence to get away from a monarch?
@drewc7717 ай бұрын
Fear and anger.
@Jcs577 ай бұрын
I think you need to look a little closer. They not only understand it they completely embrace it.
@JayFreeburn7 ай бұрын
It is because they are brainwashed by right wing media. 35 years of right wing media pounding in your head without proper debate and hearing both sides has consequences for everyone.
@stephen14627 ай бұрын
@@Jcs57I agree. For many in the evangelical community, their faith has become a way to justify bigotry and hatred for others. Trump is their savior in that regard.
@ShinjiKataoka7 ай бұрын
Religion and politics don't mix
@TopoGigio5557 ай бұрын
Exactly, and it’s the entire premise for the separation of church and state.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@TopoGigio555 No ESTABLISHMENT....but the free exercise therof is ok
@bethfinne32607 ай бұрын
I waa raised mainstream protestant in the 70s. Evangelicalism is very weird to me and I cannot accept it.
@craigstahl18747 ай бұрын
Short answer: she got educated. When people read and spend time with diverse opinions they realize the world is a big place. Not everyone is like them. She had the courage to share her experience with becoming a tolerant person.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
Could she be wrong?
@craigstahl18747 ай бұрын
@@TimSpangler-v9i Of course. And she had the wisdom to admit it.
@shannonscheible79857 ай бұрын
Could you?
@craigstahl18747 ай бұрын
@@shannonscheible7985 Yes. I left the faith years ago.
@KadeBronson6 ай бұрын
Then why are liberals so intolerant?
@SimonGonzales-t8c7 ай бұрын
Republicans party is dead
@rd83706 ай бұрын
I think that was Trumps goal.
@SimonGonzales-t8c6 ай бұрын
@@rd8370 Republicans going to lose again
@deantodd81037 ай бұрын
I'm a pro-life Christian conservative, but I never ever supported Trump. I recognized from the start that he was a wolf in (ill-fitting) sheep's clothing.
@Ex_christian7 ай бұрын
I don’t know any pro-life Christian cultists. I only know Pro-Birth Christian cultists……. Once born no one cares.
@xjarheadjohnson7 ай бұрын
That is why the Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* (To the Members of the New Jerusalem Church of Baltimore, 27 January 1793) _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
@Ex_christian7 ай бұрын
@@xjarheadjohnson it’s sad living in Theocracies like Utah and Idaho all under Moroni Law. It shouldn’t be happening, but it does and they will definitely lie about it as well!
@jtmindc6 ай бұрын
Sadly, that term "pro-life" is juxtaposed with J6, in the same sense as that big lie. Biden indeed won. In other words, the term is effectively another big lie. Scaling back women's health care is not "pro-life"!
@AndreaCrisp6 ай бұрын
Thank you. You seem to be the minority. I hope you are able to speak out to your loved ones. You are likely the only one who can reach them.
@Mary-cr9jq7 ай бұрын
I'm a Christian and it grieves me that so many have been deceived!😢 I follow Jesus,not Trump and false prophets making a profit ..
@RockyMountainsUSA7 ай бұрын
Sorry Christian you don't get away that easy. Trump in the enabler of Christians trying to take peoples rights away. Christianity/religion is the root problem, if Trump wasn't here there would just be some other mouth piece for the Christians and there antiquated, harmful beliefs.
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
Following 'Jesus' (not his actual name) is delusion in the first place.
@Spiritof_767 ай бұрын
You follow an ideal, and your caretakers growing up did a good job indoctrinating you.
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
Notice the other two comments here? They both got it right. Funny how people like you talk of others being "deceived," at the same time telling us you believe an absurd ancient myth which has survived over centuries because families *indoctrinate* each new generation, and because it is a belief that appeals to the narcissism in people. Ten points for your rejection of the Orange Fraud. Ten points subtracted for allowing yourself to be duped by an old superstition. Societies advance when the people are not deceived by frauds of *any* kind.
@HalfCrazy5207 ай бұрын
Jesus was an Arab Jew... if the "Good Christian Conservative Republicans" had their way, Jesus wouldn't be allowed into this country! Think about that!
@cnightingale97 ай бұрын
The number one thing she left out of the interview is that it’s all about the money.
@davidtingley99787 ай бұрын
The prosperity gospel
@m1thomas17 ай бұрын
And power.
@brianmcconnell18177 ай бұрын
That’s a given.
@brendaechols59297 ай бұрын
And that most are pedo
@peral3417 ай бұрын
It's all about hate.
@MichaelPowers19607 ай бұрын
In the beginning, the deal was, the church pays no taxes, but stays out of politics. The church reneged almost immediately. Now they should pay the price of admission like the rest of us.
@user-zu5do6ri6r6 ай бұрын
That wasn't the deal at all. The deal was that the government is to stay out of church.
@MichaelPowers19606 ай бұрын
@@user-zu5do6ri6r That certainly WAS the deal. The government does not infringe on your right to worship as you please, aside from keeping church and state separate.
@chuckhunter777 ай бұрын
Evangelicalism is just Radical Islam but with bacon.
@AndreaCrisp6 ай бұрын
Having grown up in it and seen the changes over time, I totally agree. These people are willing to destroy democracy for it, not understanding that democracy is the only reason they are allowed to be whatever religion they choose. It's mind blowingly maddening. Just ask someone in Iran or Venezuela if having a dictator worked out the way they imagined? But that could never happen here, 'cause we are the greatest, free country. EVER! Until we hand over our freedoms to a dictator that doesn't give a crap about anyone but himself. They love him, because they wish they could also be so horrid and get away with it. Exactly what Jesus would do. 🙄🤦🏼♀️ I resent the fact that these evangelicals, these posers, even call themselves Christians. But even more so that they think they are good American citizens.
@lunalea12506 ай бұрын
This needs to be on t/shirts & bumper stickers!!🎯🎯🥳🥳
@barbaragallo88627 ай бұрын
An Evangelical preacher has a couple muti million dollar properties, private jets, designer clothes, numerous cars, and people driving old Hondas and living in rentals are contributing money regularly. Then the preacher tells them who to vote for and they do and contribute more money. No way could and sane responsible person support that type of grifter. What is wrong with people?
@roberthunt15407 ай бұрын
Former evangelical here. I quit when they began to elevate Ronald Reagan as the Second Coming.
@ericlanebarnes42666 ай бұрын
I left the evangelical Xtian church due to the fact that none of us were allowed to ask questions. Blind, submissive faith was demanded of us. I simply could not turn my brain off and accept things wholesale - especially things that did not square with reality. The deeper I looked the more I questioned. The more I questioned the more I was punished. I left eventually, scarred, beaten and bruised, but intact. I am so much happier outside of the church than I ever was inside it.
@jojoleaf21127 ай бұрын
Her point about their view of the country as fundamentally Christian doesn't jibe w the founding father's separation of church and state.
@xjarheadjohnson7 ай бұрын
The Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* (To the Members of the New Jerusalem Church of Baltimore, 27 January 1793) _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
@brendaechols59297 ай бұрын
The constitution was not founded on religion, that's a fact.
@xjarheadjohnson7 ай бұрын
@brendaechols5929 Moreover, contrary to popular American folklore, some of the founding fathers DID NOT BELIEVE in the Bible, DID NOT IDENTIFY as Christian & DID NOT CREATE a government based on those values. In fact, some had an extremely obvious & palpable dislike of it. Just look at the laws they passed, treaties they ratified, the letters they exchanged & the books they published; written, edited & published by the Founding Fathers, themselves. Publications like, *Age of Reason* or *Reason: The Only Oracle of Man* or *The Jefferson Bible* are good introductions. They are all damning critiques of Christianity. _"I am no Christian, except mere infant baptism make me one."_ *-Ethan Allen - Reason the Only Oracle of Man* _“The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.”_ *- Thomas Paine* (American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary) _"...the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding..."_ *- Thomas Jefferson* (Letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823) _"The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up."_ *- Thomas Paine - Age of Reason (1794)* _“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”_ *-Thomas Jefferson* (Letter to Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813* _"I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies."_ *- Benjamin Franklin* (Poor Richard's Almanac) _“Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange belief that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.”_ *- Thomas Paine - Age of Reason (1794)* _“There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.”_ *-Thomas Jefferson* (American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, Founding Father, 3rd president of the United States) _“Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?”_ *-Letter John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1817* (Published in - The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams) _“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.”_ *-James Madison* (Letter to Wm. Bradford, April 1, 1774* _"During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.”_ *-James Madison, Ibid, 1785* (American statesman, diplomat, Founding Father, 4th president of the United States) _"I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.”_ *-George Washington* (:etter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789)
@NikKaussFlies6 ай бұрын
this is absolutely wonderful. Thank for taking the time to post all of this. I'm saving it in my documents. thanks again. I cannot wait to have this used in my arsenal. @@xjarheadjohnson
@KadeBronson6 ай бұрын
The Democrats view on guns and freedom of speech doesn't vibe with the founding fathers.
@moretoknowshow18877 ай бұрын
I left the church in my late teens and have lived my faith better without it, I grew up in evangelical-based church school and I can tell you i'm still dealing with the mental and physical scars from it.
@DrJohn4937 ай бұрын
I grew up in a southern household and among family in the 50s and 60s much like Ms. McCammon describes her experience. I put organized religion and church attendance behind me about 30 years prior to Ms. McCammon for most, if not all, of the same reasons cited in this interview and her recent Fresh Air interview on NPR. I look forward to reading her book.
@rogerbouchard71357 ай бұрын
They promote someone who has no moral fiber in his being. It so boggles my mind how a person of faith can overlook all that is wrong with that man. 😮
@amaradominique7 ай бұрын
Most white evangelicals are racist and Trump definitely a racist. He called Holly Robinson Peete the N word on the the Apprentice. Called the exonerated 5 still guilty after they were falsely accused in the Central Park 5 case.
@davidrobertson43327 ай бұрын
Pastors and Youth Pastors are the real groomers
@lindamerrill16947 ай бұрын
This the truth !!!!!
@pn3127 ай бұрын
Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! George Carlin
@lunalea12506 ай бұрын
When it's put like that, it " boggles the mind" that people still believe this, I have lost friends/family when I told them I refuse to deceive myself with this nonsense! 🤔🤔🧠💤
@bobblacka9187 ай бұрын
When the pastor of a church wears a business suit, he's running a business.
@NeilDonald-y5h7 ай бұрын
In the USA, " evangelical" seems to have lost its actual meaning. Indeed, the term has been perverted to mean self-centered salvationist, Republican, anti-science, gun loving, end times, anti-female, young earth theology and doctrine doctrine. It has become fear driven, not good news driven. To its adherents biblical justice and social justice are good and evil respectively, but the biblical justice of the Old Testament prophets and Jesus is social justice in most ways. That is why Jim Wallis, Shane Claiborne, and many others have ditched the evangelical label and chosen to be identified as Red Letter Christians.
@markg.78657 ай бұрын
Just say they are MAGA now.
@NeilDonald-y5h7 ай бұрын
@markg.7865 In many cases they are, sad to say.
@Spiritof_767 ай бұрын
Might as well say Red Hat Christians.
@NeilDonald-y5h7 ай бұрын
Silly response. Red letter Christians tend to lean to the political left. Tony Campolo has been shunned because of his support for LGTBTQ individuals. Jim Wallis et al would be called socialists by MAGA, and Shane Claiborne and his associates have taken up residence in the poorest parts of town and offer food programs, tutoring and other practical assistance to the poor. Such people abhor MAGA style racism, prejudice, ignorance, and Christian Nationalism. You have based your comment on a stereotype.
@oldpossum576 ай бұрын
All religions can be adopted to whatever political purpose you want. The sort of christians you complain about are objectively just as christian as you. Get your head around the fact that religions are made up, and are full of contradictions.
@johnduso85747 ай бұрын
Evangelicals are the biggest hippocrates in this country
@vickbond0087 ай бұрын
The first time I was called the "N" word was when I was six years old, and attending what would be now called, a private, Evangelical, "Christian" school. 'Nuf said?
@doug38197 ай бұрын
My main problem with evangelicals is denying science. Morals is a matter of opinion not science.
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
Morals are not ethics. Morals are imposed from outside authority, usually the church, and enforced through fear of consequences. Ethics are an internal sense of what's right and wrong.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@shepberryhill4912 All laws have a moral basis
@SuperBookdragon7 ай бұрын
Except for murder ....please don't murder me because of your opinion...lol
@lamdao12426 ай бұрын
@@TimSpangler-v9i I don't agree that all laws have a moral basis. There was NEVER any moral basis for treating black african americans as slaves. And then later, as 2nd class citizens. And there was no moral basis for apartheid in South Africa such that black africans were never provided with the same resources in education and healthcare to succeed. Or to ban the cross racial marriages. Attempts were made to provide a moral basis for this level of racism including actual papers written by then respected men who claimed that Africans were more Ape like then white people. May be a species of Gorillas or chimpanzees or something. There were however AMPLE economic basis for imposing slavery on African Americans and apartheid on black south africans if you were a white man in the US South or in South Africa.
@loomspace7 ай бұрын
Those who can make you believe absurdities can also make you commit attrocities.
@JudyJohnson-xq4ps6 ай бұрын
Do you mean like believing men can have babies, men can have periods, people can identify as anything and we are supposed to learn their pronouns, it’s okay to have drag queens entertain young children, it’s okay to have porn books in elementary school libraries, it’s okay for school teachers to discuss gender identity behind parent’s back? Those absurdities?
@Don-ol8ze7 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, too many in this world mistake faith as justification for blatant hypocrisy.
@drthete7 ай бұрын
It’s so strange comparing evangelicals in the UK to those in the US. I count myself as evangelical and, frankly, not only do most of us see Trump for who and what he is, but there are quite a lot of us who are left wing politically (and even those on the right tend to be fairly soft right. I have a friend who is there. When it comes to the key teachings of Christ (the beatitudes, the command to love our neighbours, the golden rule, the parable of the sheep and goats - not a single word to be found on gays, trans people or abortion - etc.), those are the things that tie up most clearly with left leaning politics IMO. Though you’ll not see our pastors or priests preaching politics from the pulpit. Something went badly wrong in the IS evangelical churches. The mainly white ones at least (black churches seem very different).
@Kilgore_Trout_jr7 ай бұрын
America is a racist nation
@NeilDonald-y5h7 ай бұрын
I think most Canadian evangelicals would agree with you, as would those in New Zealand and Australia. Someone once observed that theology was born in Germany, corrected in Britain, and distorted in America. Given the current American evangelical submission to Trump, I am compelled to agree.
@drthete7 ай бұрын
@@NeilDonald-y5h Particularly the last part. Still, good to see we’re not lone in seeing the submission of the US evangelical Church to Trump in total disbelief.
@JayFreeburn7 ай бұрын
I have the answer to your question. For 35 + years evangelicals have been brainwashed by right wing media. When this is playing in your head hours a day during your commute without hearing debate and the other side of the issues, it brainwashed you. This is what has happened to evangelicals in America.
@victorious5927 ай бұрын
Great observation! I’m an American living in the south… the supposed bible belt. Ha! America’s version of Christianity was a weapon of oppression and genocide from the beginning. The European catholic church told the colonizers that God was with them (not the natives they massacred or the African people they enslaved). No. God was with them and He 👀 was good. Christians here castrated and hung black people after Sunday service. A large segment of today’s American evangelicals are just as ignorant and dangerous as their ancestors.
@getplaning7 ай бұрын
You cannot trust any religious movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath but never a source of God's mercy, generosity, or compassion.
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
I cannot and will not trust any religious movement. Period. In the 21st century, "gods" should be left behind altogether.
@xjarheadjohnson7 ай бұрын
That is why the Founding Fathers deemed *ALL* religions unfit for modern, civil governance. The *1st Amendment's Establishment Clause* prohibits the government from making any law, _“respecting an establishment of religion.”_ This clause not only forbids the government from establishing an official religion, but also prohibits government actions that unduly favor one religion over another. It also prohibits the government from unduly preferring religion over non-religion. *Constitution Article VI Supreme Law - Clause 3 Oaths of Office* _"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; _*_but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."_* This means nobody is ever required to swear to a god or on the Bible, or any other religious book for an oath of office. They may choose a god or religious book, but none is required. Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge did not use a Bible in their oath-taking ceremonies. Theodore Roosevelt did not use the Bible when taking the oath in 1901, nor did John Quincy Adams, who swore on a book of law, with the intention that he was swearing on the constitution. _"In this enlightened age and in this land of equal liberty, _*_it is our boast,_*_ that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest offices that are known in the United States."_ *-George Washington* (To the Members of the New Jerusalem Church of Baltimore, 27 January 1793) _“The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or Mohammedan Nation.”_ *- John Adams* (American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, Founding Father & 2nd president) _“...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion."_ *-Treaty of Tripoli - June 7, 1797. Signed by President John Adams & Ratified UNANIMOUSLY, by the Senate June 10, 1797* ....only a few times in history the Senate unanimously agreed on anything. A 2018 Supreme Court Ruling re-affirmed this statement, from The Treaty of Tripoli. The Supreme Court released an opinion on May 14, 2018 in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Assn., 584 U. S. (2018), Justice Thomas in his concurring opinion wrote: _"The Treaty of Tripoli was passed by the Senate and signed into law by President John Adams. As such, it is a "legislated text" which must be read "textually". The lower courts in this case read a hypothetical legislative intention into the text by dismissing Article 11 as "a mere formality". _*_The language itself makes a clear direct statement that our government is not based on the Christian religion and any attempt by a government official to represent our government as Christian contradicts the text and the historical understanding of our founders."_*
@robertanderson8097 ай бұрын
I quit at 12 after reading the whole bible. Sticking to the past guarantees continuing the deplorable history of religions. All warlord backed and murderous.
@lunalea12506 ай бұрын
Reading a book set in ND, a religious group calling themselves, " the brothers', the women do all the farming, cooking, cleaning, sewing, while the men are, " in charge", how is this " bible based" & how could other fully formed Human beings accept & tell themselves it is ok, fiction it is, but people living this experience everyday?😔😔 🤔🤔🤔🧠📚
@TheMonkdad7 ай бұрын
Politicians are like a parasite taking over a host. I’m proud of her for going public with the idea that you can still be religious and not be a hypocrite.
@DCGuy19977 ай бұрын
Actually, it's the religious right acting a like parasite and taking over the GOP.
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
A little bit of education is better than no education. Get a little more education and religion becomes absurd.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@shepberryhill4912 Give us your BEST evidence for the origin of life from natural means. Educate me
@bobbyrush97737 ай бұрын
In my opinion... Is there anything more corrupting than Religion and Politics??
@michaelkurchak54277 ай бұрын
I agree
@dannoland7 ай бұрын
@bobbyrush9773 Is it that religion and politics have corrupted people or that sinful people have corrupted religion and politics?
@JustWantToWrite7 ай бұрын
More corrupting: money... in religion and politics 🫠
@michaelkurchak54277 ай бұрын
@@dannoland it seems both go hand an hand
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
@@dannoland Religion and politics are organized corruption and delusion.
@dianagale5817 ай бұрын
True Christians care about other people as a result of knowing Jesus. You don’t see that in these people who follow trump
@Ex_christian7 ай бұрын
I don’t see true christian cultists as loving. Those in the Christian cult are delusional and narcissistic.
@cliffsaxon54937 ай бұрын
This Is Why I Left The Southern Baptist Church And Became An Episcopalian.
@johnhopkins49207 ай бұрын
Excellent. Next step: atheïst. Good luck on your journey 👍🏻.
@jcfisher87717 ай бұрын
Welcome!
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
Next step is to leave superstition altogether.
@TimSpangler-v9i7 ай бұрын
@@chikkipop I left superstition too. I"m a Christian now
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
@@TimSpangler-v9i Oops. You just contradicted yourself.
@43050517 ай бұрын
I don't consider "God" as an explaination for anything for the same reason that I don't put leeches on my skin when I'm sick.
@Spiritof_767 ай бұрын
The biggest difference is that leeches are real, and when used appropriately can have actual medical value.
@jaggg.38217 ай бұрын
I might of thought that of leeches as well however, when I was watching 2 year's ago A Call of The Mid-wife Episode where this Jamaican Mid--wife was due to be married. She went out with friend's and surprisingly Some Nun's and got very happy fast. Unfortunately coming back she fell it her head near her eye but remember she was very happy from that partying. Next morning she took her self to the doctor because her eye was swollen shut I mean it was bad she probably would of lost her Eye. A aging Nun who is a bit eccentric but we'll rounded she reads every Newspaper/Book/& historical topic out there it helps she's some where in her late 80s she loves being A Mid-wife. Okay my point is she explained despite some of their ideas the old methods they used could work for this. So here is the treatment. A Glass Jar filled with 1 Leech A sewing Needle An Clean water or Iodine. They had no iodine so they used clean water sterilized and cleaned the sewing needle. Took the needle pricked the top of the eye where the most blood had pulled in her eyes where it was swollen shut. Took out the one leech and placed it over the tiny prick placed a cold compress over the eye for the treatment about 10 minutes? What's more since Call of The Mid-wives is based on someone's Memoirs who lived the life that procedure was really written up in the medical journey's let's see this season of call of the Mid-wives is dealing with 1969? Last 68/season before 68/67? It was 1967 for when The Jamaican Mid-wife got married. Yes? Alright so after 10 minutes leech was taken off her eye placed back in the jar closed up and the young woman's eye was all cleansed from the injury. I was like My God you are totally awesome creating such blood suckers who could one day help heal us somehow.
@Spiritof_767 ай бұрын
@@jaggg.3821 Your point was made, but try editing for clarity and conciseness when you post.
@timadamson33787 ай бұрын
Q: can you give us an example of when you have asked god for forgiveness? Trump: no, I don't think I ever have asked god for forgiveness.
@HawksDiesel7 ай бұрын
Should lose yoir non-profit status once you say who to vote for...
@SkipAd_Vegas7 ай бұрын
to me it all just comes down to: religion= believing in magic and myth.
@JohnSmith-vr3xr7 ай бұрын
And this is why the left is in so much trouble with people of faith who would never follow Trump. No place for us in the Democratic party
@ziff_16 ай бұрын
Ex-Christian here. Never again. It's all a big scam.
@susanv62977 ай бұрын
You are a brave woman! Wish you the best.
@clamourincessant69747 ай бұрын
"I'm old enough to remember the 1990s..." Ugh, I feel old. (Looking forward to reading her book after I get done with Tim Alberta's new one on Evangelical extremism.)
@josephmayfield9457 ай бұрын
As William S Burroughs said, “when you’re dealing with a religious SOB, always get it in writing.”
@chrisandersen56357 ай бұрын
Oh good grief do I feel old hearing a person say they’re old enough to remember the 90’s. Oh my. And yet, ain’t that just life. Keeps on keeping on.
@lunalea12507 ай бұрын
Yipes, scary people, scary beliefs, we all need love, light & to live our best lives, happy for u...☮💕
@64choicesyaaaa6 ай бұрын
You should not need an institution like church to make you be a good person. Have faith in" your" higher being. Be kind.be loving...do no harm. That's it!
@lunalea12506 ай бұрын
That's it, sadly, it's too easy & uncomplicated, so it a no...☮💜
@nowsc6 ай бұрын
… the things this woman figured out about her goofy religion, that was something I discovered myself by the age of five.
@loveydovey8027 ай бұрын
Is taking advantage of Christian people for money and power a sin?
@Ex_christian7 ай бұрын
There is NO HATE like Christian love!
@alexhidel37326 ай бұрын
Going to church ⛪️ is a waste of time, nothing fails like prayer 🙏
@Jcs577 ай бұрын
Funny how Jesus is now the standard for hate and divisiveness, I bet he would be impressed.
@RobertRodgers-r5h7 ай бұрын
She is right on every point that she made.
@Spiritof_767 ай бұрын
She took a baby step into "modernity" by moving away from evangelical faith. Now how about a giant step into modernity by accepting that her reference book is full of 2000+ year old middle east mythology? There's no good reason to think it's anything but that.
@LaLaGrunge7 ай бұрын
Religion will never diminish because the Western world continues to import those who follow Islam.
@kitskivich7 ай бұрын
I've never met more hypocrites, and never faced more ignorance than I did during the hellish five years my parents dragged my siblings and me through evangelical churches.
@Ripplesinthewaters7 ай бұрын
Hilarious about judging Clinton for his affairs when so many evangelical preachers had the same problem. I’m sorry that the Evangelicals were so gullible. I pray God’s guidance that they’ve learned to do their own homework this time.
@pirimid97 ай бұрын
VOTE BLUE 🔵🔵🔵 AMERICA
@artfuldodger78386 ай бұрын
I left the Evangelical church when I was 16. You want the book, or just the chapter titles why?
@lunalea12506 ай бұрын
"Why not' please share?😇
@artfuldodger78386 ай бұрын
@@lunalea1250 Hypocrisy. Intolerance. That is why. Lots more where that came from. Now tell me WHY I should still be Christian. Your god never protected me, never gave me what I needed. I don't believe such a being exists because I never experienced anything I was told I would be given. You know, like safety in my own home.
@LateCambrian6 ай бұрын
Religion is a BUSINESS..... why can't these people who are so mistrusting of every other institution see this?
@ih8utbe7 ай бұрын
Buddhism is more or less a philosophy. 4 noble truths and 8th fold path. Its a self ish , not selfish belief system . Its about changing the negativity in oneself to a positive one. Granted there are Hinayana, Mahayana, and Therevada. Therevada is mostly Buddhism of Southeast Asia or I like to call the saffron robed Buddhists. Mahayana is Japan,Korea and China. Hinayana is mostly Southwest Asia including Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim. The statue of Buddha in different states of consciousness is not an idol but a reminder of the suffering to the state of enlightenment (Nirvana or in Pali Nibbana). Originally the Buddha Gautama believed life is suffering and there are many ways that we suffer but through self meditation, changing our internal selves we can change that to a better enlightened state. There really are no dogmas, scriptures to condemn others in Buddhism. But guidance. I dont see Buddhist statues or shrines in our government. We dont say one nation under Buddha. We don't say Buddha hates sinners or Buddha hates LGBT because its simply something one does not do. It goes against respecting others. I believe in the power of mantra. It does work for me. Repeating a good phrase to overcome obstacles and negativity in ones life . In my sect of Buddhism, Hell is a state of being not a lake of fire. Heaven too is a state of being and not some celestial place to go for being perfect for God . Having been a Christian if you take away all the thou shall nots it will be a totally better belief. But the sex, violence, sexism, homophobia and racist dogma which the Bible has is what makes it dangerous. There used to be books of the Bible that actually discussed reincarnation and internal self healing through meditation but they were taken out of the Bible. It was sort of the philosophy that Buddhists believe in. Unfortunately the early church removed them.
@billmago79917 ай бұрын
Mathew 19:21 if you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor and you shall have treasure in heaven and come ,follow me,...,....... 7 lear jets.. glass towers etc doesnt quite fit the teachings of Christ
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
Ye'shua's name was not Christ.
@jcfisher87717 ай бұрын
@@shepberryhill4912 You're missing the point.
@Spiritof_767 ай бұрын
@@shepberryhill4912 He was "the Christ" just like Erik was "the Red." At least according to the stories in the second half of the book of myths. Correct me if you claim otherwise.
@christianhoffman74076 ай бұрын
Examples? He said on video TWICE, two separate instances that he has NEVER asked God for forgiveness because he doesn't do anything wrong. He didn't merely drop clues, he straight up told us that he is NOT a Christian and that he doesn't even believe in its core tenet.
@benzle937 ай бұрын
I wish they would go back to calling them fundamentalists. All Christians are "evangelical." It just means good news...good news that death no longer has the last word & that all things will be set right through Christ. No more injustices. No more disease. No more loss. But, instead, life, joy, & the rescue of the whole creation. So keep your chin up. Believe it or not, Easter is coming. That's evangelical! 😊
@ga65897 ай бұрын
"Evangelical" is a label for those who are arrogant enough to think that it's their responsibility to proselytize and save souls on behalf of their god, an all-powerful supernatural entity who apparently can't do it himself. I don’t care if people believe in magical entities, myths or fairy tales. It’s when they act on those beliefs and try to use fear and intimidation to indoctrinate, deceive, and control others that it’s a problem.
@benzle937 ай бұрын
I agree. That's not what Christianity says at all. Let's call those folks fundamentalists.
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
'Good news' is when one achieves enough education to renounce fraudulent religion. All Christians are deluded.
@brendaechols59297 ай бұрын
I'm catholic , and don't push it on anyone. I don't believe in using violence toward anyone. These evangelicals are nut cases. They want to commit violence toward others.
@rumrstv6 ай бұрын
@@ga6589 God should do his own work for once!
@Hydrosized7 ай бұрын
Falling away from Christianity means becoming a good person in 2024. Shame so many have been blinded by fear.
@tananario237 ай бұрын
Take religion out of government. Pray at home.
@jasongress87646 ай бұрын
They know he can push through their agenda because he just wants the power. He has no agenda other than self promotion and ego. He tells them what they want to hear, they eat it up and give him adulation. Both sides happy. It’s everyone else that sees this and are disgusted with both. I can’t imagine more anti-Christian behavior than what the evangelicals are doing at the moment.
@XYZ-bi9eb6 ай бұрын
orange jesus gave evangelicals a big taste of national power after he was elected by the electoral college in 2016, and they went crazy about it. their goal is to impose their evangelical theocracy and dominion over the entire country through the dictatorship of orange jesus. christianity has nothing to do with their agenda--it was, is, and always will be about $$$$$ and political power.
@ric3hfishman5657 ай бұрын
Religion. Keep it to yourself!
@richardkern89167 ай бұрын
Matthew 6
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
@@richardkern8916 Attempting to use bible verses to validate anything is an exercise in hypocritical futility.
@Spiritof_767 ай бұрын
@@shepberryhill4912 It was an interesting and weirdly appropriate reply, however. Getting guidance from the bible is comparable to a magic 8-ball.
@Lady-Kawai7 ай бұрын
Unfortunately by default they can’t. Religion is about testimony and proselytizing. Without those two things theirs no point because it means they failed and will go to hell
@chikkipop7 ай бұрын
@@richardkern8916 Bob 7
@sherronmitchell39777 ай бұрын
Why does religion make people look stupid?
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
Faith is by definition held in the absence of validating evidence. Belief is a lack of facts.
@michaeljones18026 ай бұрын
Evangelicals gave us Trump but they can't figure out why we think they're depraved. Let me give them a hint....it's in the bible
@williamshaw53887 ай бұрын
NPR is nothing more than corporate media these days. NPRs integrity is gone.
@moonshoes117 ай бұрын
Says who?
@fredricksmith-something.21257 ай бұрын
Whatever
@jd190d7 ай бұрын
You read NPR and nothing else in the opening tagline to make your opinion. This in an ABC anchor talking to an NPR correspondent so it is an ABC news story. Your statement shows you not only failed to read the whole tagline, you did not watch the video either.
@jamesmetter98277 ай бұрын
How much did npr pay to get out of a lawsuit??????💰
@TheWoodstockWarrior7 ай бұрын
This was a story done by ABC interviewing a NPR political correspondent on a book she wrote. But you are too obtuse to know that. Stay in your Trump cult, since you are not a real Christian.
@cjduran39576 ай бұрын
He is their Golden Calf. False God. False Prophet in Sheep's clothing.
@MichaelCollins-js5kq7 ай бұрын
I learned this over 40 years ago....I turned PRESBYTERIAN
@OldHeathen19637 ай бұрын
Separation of Church and State 💙🌊🌊🌊
@jaredhenderson49097 ай бұрын
Tax the church since they failed on their job to help the homeless and downtrodden..
@shepberryhill49127 ай бұрын
Tax them regardless. There is no valid reason for their tax exempt status. They are businesses, selling delusion.
@kcaustin9047 ай бұрын
“I was a racist conservative Christian who believes all non-believers go to hell now I’m a progressive liberal Christian who believes all non-believers go to hell but it makes me sad” two sides of the same coin. The church IS the religion.
@modularcuriosity6 ай бұрын
Her story is the same as mine which lead me to atheism. From a young age I looked at religious though vs scientific thought and I couldn't resolve the non-sense of religious thought.
@richardcoughlin89317 ай бұрын
Short answer: They’re cult followers.
@een_schildpad6 ай бұрын
I'm so glad to be out of that world. It makes me sad to remember all the confusion, delusion, and hurt. But I was lucky to get some distance for quite a few years which helped me get the perspective I needed to be comfortable making the break. Now looking back I feel so free and happy to no longer be associated with it. It's funny how hard it is to get perspective though when your on the inside... it becomes how you view the world around you!
@markwellsfry98436 ай бұрын
Feelings, nothing more than feelings......
@willie95377 ай бұрын
Welcome back, remember that Coca-Cola commercial " We like to teach the world to sing... that's what democracy wants for everyone. As one!
@ezcleghorn40253 ай бұрын
Currently reading this book and being completely blind like zero light perception for some reason, and this is something that I never used to think about when I was a child about people, I’m wondering what she physically looks like. Someone should tell me. Also, I love the fact that she specifically mentioned Adventures in Odyssey and admitted in the book that even if it was extraordinarily conservative, it was incredibly well done, and the acting and production and scripts were second to none because that’s true. They’re about to celebrate their 1000 radio and sold out two shows in an arena holding 7000 people. There’s still a huge market for this stuff.
@skyeridge20206 ай бұрын
I'm glad others are speaking to this concern. I used to be a pastor and have a theological degree and do spiritual direction and also distanced myself from evangelicalism because of these Christian nationalist views and a movement away from love toward ideology and moralism. Christianity is about love, not about moralism, the republican party or trying to get the nation to "become Christian." Nothing could be further from the Christian vision of love. Thank you, Sarah, for your voice. I do love the church but am concerned much of it has lost its way.
@JoaquinPhoenix-s3k7 ай бұрын
Shaming people into submission, whether that be Trump or wokeness, it's both equally terrible. Expect people to revolt or reject the things that are forced on them.
@CorvusTX6 ай бұрын
If you can believe in a magic sky wizard, you can believe in all kinds of crazy.
@missmarthafawker7 ай бұрын
Can we talk about how he’s gaslighting people and how he’s a narcissist so that his base can recognise why they don’t feel right….
@rwdswght40577 ай бұрын
I cannot believe it's 2024 and we still have evangelicals exist in this country.
@deedetres7034 ай бұрын
She is not alone - and I am inspired by her courage - Many young women in the evangelical church could benefit by taking the time to understand her journey as she leaned in to her critical thinking skills. I know she will continue to find a fulfilling life and be able to use her God given gifts or "talents" outside the church who generally restrict women to limiting roles or labeling them a bother - if the ladies think of speak with an open mind. their loss.
@stu10377 ай бұрын
Would've been interesting to talk about more than, "Can you tell us how your book makes tRump look bad? Aaaaand, we're out of time, we only allotted a few minutes to bring you a story so we could tell you the anti-tRump parts and she has a book, go buy it."
@j.whisper23797 ай бұрын
Because she finally got some brains!
@IaneHowe7 ай бұрын
It was specifically because the head of the few evangelical churches gave him a list a name of very sticked judges for the Supreme Court that would reverse rights that they didn't believe matched their beliefs starting with abortion.