Allie Beth Stuckey | A Totally Depraved Deep Dive

[@FundieFridays]

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[@fireside-saga]

Everything else aside, this was one of my favorite ads that you guys have ever done. I was laughing the whole time.

[@emmacarlsen2651]

Jen please tell me where you got the spooky sweater 👻

[@Mia199603]

If this is the same company that makes adult content, then I have to recommend their PH channel. Wholesome stuff even when it isn't exactly vanilla.

[@heavenj7]

@@fireside-sagathe best!! 😂😂😂

[@disgruntledmoderate5331]

​@@fireside-sagaI was also laughing the whole time- it was fabulous!

[@MC-lm7de]

The nicest thing I can say about Allie Beth Stuckey is that she looks *exactly* like someone who would be named Allie Beth Stuckey.

[@kmasse81]

She's the type of person that's always looked old. Like Kevin Costner. He looked 50 when he was 20.

[@JustinWO-31]

Allie Beth Stuck up.

[@rubeusswagrid6039]

LMFAOOOOOOO

[@AliStuckey]

As an Ali Stuckey without mean girl coded christofascist content…what exactly am I supposed to look like??

[@gayasparagus]

​@@AliStuckey 😂😂😂

[@Tazzie1312]

I'm sorry, but that fact that you're filming video diary sections like you're an arctic explorer is absolutely hilarious. "Log day 133... we have run out of food and decided to eat Jim. Allie Beth posted another podcast."

[@prudentreality]

@@Tazzie1312 This could be a fabulous one off series!! Just video diaries and audio snippets paired with “after” photos and video. After what, exactly?? You’ll have to watch the season finale to find out…

[@sandrae2398]

LOL

[@heathers424]

I need this to be a series 🤣

[@lauralynn1124]

😂 I am laughing so hard!!

[@rainboehm7446]

Best comment here by far 🤣

[@jjj8940]

Canning is too hard for her but she thinks she can be a midwife with no experience? Hilarious

[@HazelSageHP]

Oh my gosh, that's what I was going to say!! My jaw dropped at such a casual, "Eh, maybe I'll be a midwife."

[@Bri-br9qh]

Exactly. There are so many women who think just because they’ve given birth they can assist someone else with their’s. Those women also tend to be the most toxic lololol

[@kellyburds2991]

Less "hilarious" than terrifying coming from an untrained layperson. It would be hilarious coming from someone with medical training.

[@morganbodhi9492]

as a doula in training that caught me so off guard lmao midwife is an extremely hard job

[@ericatucker2683]

That's exactly what I thought! Like midwives just walk in with a pot of hot water and some towels? No. Absolutely not. Maybe she thinks a midwife is just like some kind of emotional support? I truly don't know

[@nathanfitzgerald9424]

Saying the America of your childhood had no security threats when you were nine when 9/11 happened is wild.

[@kaleanaking5292]

Or the remnants of the Cold War plus Desert Storm!

[@anwitt09]

My favorite was how people are blood thirsty now but didn't used to be ... Like, have you read the old testament. That is a major theme ...

[@ealusaid]

"The America of my childhood was simpler, more pure, without all this current chaos" GIRL YOU WERE BORN IN 1992, IT ABSOLUTELY WAS NOT.

[@starophie]

the absolute privilege and ignorance it takes for her to claim there were only two genders when we were kids. just because you didn't see/experience it doesn't mean it didn't exist 😭

[@valentine.58]

LMAO REAL

[@JuriAmari]

Facts. I was born in ‘92 as well and after learning 90s history, it’s a miracle us 90s kids SURVIVED! Also the censorship of anime dubs and cartoons and the ridiculous notes stopping people from reading fantasy books back then is hilarious when you look at it in a present day lens 😂 thank you Satanic Panicked adults for the nostalgic content and thank you to my family for not taking those things seriously

[@ealusaid]

@ I'm a little older, and I remember grownups passionately talking about things I only understood much later. 1992 saw people rioting against police violence on the streets of Los Angeles and AIDS activists spreading the ashes of gay and trans people on the White House lawn. There was sooooo much going on. Sometimes it just feels like now we're finally making progress towards things people knew society desperately needed 30 years ago.

[@audreytwo]

She's only 32? That's crazy.

[@candybobandy]

jenn your mental and emotional labor does not go unnoticed. (same for james!) that shit is heavy. hard to talk about too. thank you for doing the work and contributing to / literally leading the conversation

[@sarahp4829]

THIS

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

100%! Wishing love and kindness to Rev Jen and King James and to all the folks who at all felt hurt and/or invalidated by ABS's loathsome tripe. Y'all are loved, and valid, and lots of allies out there supporting yas! 🩵💗🤍

[@jessicawest8190]

She does something I find EXTREMELY annoying, which funny enough Ben Shapiro is also guilty of, and its acting so confident and like shes a scholar on every and any given subject despite clearly the most research she's ever done being a quick skim on wikipedia.

[@plasticjesus444]

and it’s sooo transparent

[@katetucker1452]

... or of the bible.

[@Mia199603]

Dunning-Krüger effect. Humans be like that.

[@muffininorbit]

out of everything that irritates me about fundies, the arrogance gets me the most. they're constantly claiming to speak authoritatively on the nature of the entire universe--because that's the equivalent of their understanding of God. girl defined is really really guilty of this as well, their entire schtick is that they're going to explain to you God's perfect design for womanhood or whatever. the magnitude of that claim is comical in it's own right, but then you're going to hear it from a couple of unusually sheltered people whose experience of other people, ideas and the world has been deliberately narrowed to the size of a thimble. but it's a special sort of jarring to hear it from someone who seems somewhat better educated than most fundies, and who is much better spoken. it's the same sort of infantile logic and confidence with a mature delivery. it's like you're hearing an argument for why everyone should eat ice cream for every dinner, but it's written like a college essay.

[@Nassifeh]

It's kind of funny because I think this is really just classic ADHD tendencies to read a bunch of things and want to spout off about random stuff you find interesting. But you have to be a specific sort of very privileged person to get rewarded for that enough to think this actually means you're brilliant. Everybody else starts getting treated pretty poorly for it starting back in like... middle school, and largely we just all wind up with anxiety problems instead of thinking we're the smartest people on earth.

[@carriepinkduck]

I don't understand female conservative pundits who tout family values and female roles but then have full time jobs in and out of the home. Is that not hypocritical?

[@JustinWO-31]

It's not hypocritical for a woman who believes that way to work from home. Proverbs 31 actually encourages married women to do that. However it is hypocritical for her to have a job outside of the home while she's telling other women to be stay at home moms.

[@heyitsme881]

@@JustinWO-31when has she ever said that moms have to stay at home?😂

[@phi4721]

Yes

[@cecelias_]

When she said: ‘Don’t go to therapy, you need Jesus Christ’, the mental image I got was that part of Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia: “Well, through Jesus, all things are possible, so write that down.”

[@ktmcclure7009]

I'm a big fan of Jesus + therapy

[@katelindrum3022]

I went so hard into self criticism as a teen that I reversed the order- I had to go see a therapist to talk me down because I was TOO intensely focused on being The Best Follower of Jesus I could be. (Turns out, that was called moral scrupulosity! And haunts me to this day 🙃)

[@Rawnblade13]

You're better off without the imaginary friend and go to therapy instead.

[@zac8603]

Okay Calvinism is actually cracking me up. Gonna try out “God has sovereignty so it’s actually his fault I’m a non-believer!” at thanksgiving this year.

[@bettyunicorn6132]

Yeah Cavins are nutso

[@susiedyck4914]

Calvinism is a false Gospel, Jesus became a Ransom for all 1 Timothy 2:4-6. Jesus became Sin for us 2 Corinthians 5:21. 2 Peter 3:9 says God is not slow to fulfill His promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. GOD IS Good. Calvinism is horrible.

[@carameldare]

I also love the idea of being a calvinist who believes lots of people are just going to be the worst, but also touring the belief that no one needs oversight from something like a government.

[@kbarteaux9807]

Talk about Uno Reverse

[@evelien135]

@@susiedyck4914yeah I don’t believe in God but I’m raised catholic in the only Catholic region of a Calvinist country and they are in fact, shit. They suppressed Catholic holidays and traditions heavily. We are surrounded by two countries who have November 1st off because it’s a Catholic holiday (all saints) but not us!

[@jas-hr6gq]

The longer a Fundie Fridays video is, the more productive I am

[@cupcakesoup]

Right? Not me starting my laundry and cooking supper and washing up, all because they gave me something to listen to for this long

[@matchbox420.]

I love to paint to FF!!

[@ktmcclure7009]

Same, you helped me write a paper!

[@TLZ78]

😂❤

[@samanthashayler6028]

Omg literally me too, whenever I put on a ff video I end up cleaning my car and doing laundry while I listen 😮 it's so good because I constantly procrastinate

[@valentine.58]

"i literally have none of the skills of a traditional woman and nothing to offer but i will tell everyone else to have and adhere to the conservative values i dont stick by"

[@Messwithmitchie]

She’s deeply insecure

[@Naturefan354]

Yes but being traditional is just having traditional and conservative ideals. In fact I have more traditional values and I don't know how to sew and I don't make all my meals from scratch either 😂

[@Rosy.Cusson]

Very disrespectful of midwives that she thinks she could maybe just jump into that work in an apocalyptic situation.

[@Dusty_Den]

Right!? that was bananas

[@CatBarefield]

I’m convinced conservatives have the world view they do because they don’t understand how anything works

[@gloriajewelart]

she’s gonna motivationally speak the baby out

[@Rosy.Cusson]

@@gloriajewelart Bahahahaha!

[@SPMunny]

@gloriajewelart nah that baby is gonna hear her voice and go “actually I think I’m gonna hang out in her and cook for an extra few months thank you”

[@kendallbalon1360]

I’m only two hours in and I’m EXHAUSTED by this woman’s content. How did you put this together Jen??? You’re seriously superhuman🥲

[@JuriAmari]

Same. I’ve had to watch this in snippets over days because it’s a lot! 😮 Jen and James are troopers because I bet this was so difficult to edit just on content alone; it makes sense why they delayed! ABS’s commentary is so emotionally and intellectually draining.

[@lastupenda3049]

@@JuriAmari Seriously. I keep having to take breaks. I just went to go watch a murder documentary just to have a respite from Allie Beth.

[@EmSaidThat]

Never met a Calvinist who didn't think that they were part of the elect is too funny

[@maybemablemaples2144]

Same, they always think it's them. Such mean girls mentality 😂

[@TheSim1derful]

It's SO true I've known way too many Calvinists in my life. And their justification for why they're the elect is basically "trust me bro" it's too funny

[@dirtbagdeacon]

I'm a Methodist, so I'm of the thinking that predestination makes God worse than the devil. It's such a cruel worldview. Like, cool beans, if Calvinists are right I will face Evil God and walk backwards into hell, all the fun people will be there anyway.

[@arghleblarghle]

​@@dirtbagdeacon Honestly though. I don't believe in God, I don't think I'll exist after death, and I think it's important for me to do as much good and the least harm as possible in my finite life. A god that would condemn someone whose morality and life is rooted in good works because they didn't have faith or expectation of eternal reward is not, in my opinion, a good god. "God picks his favorites and there's no evil you can do to stop being his favorite and there's no level of good you can do to get into his good graces" is absolutely awful.

[@arghleblarghle]

Now that I think about it, it's kind of surprising that there aren't more "fallen" Calvinists. Like, if you're a Catholic that gets pregnant out of wedlock or "fails" in some other way, it seems like it could be comforting to just throw in the towel and say "I'm a Calvinist, I'm not elect, and so I don't need to bother with good works. I'm not gonna be saved, might as well enjoy the worldly things while they last!"

[@ColoradoLJ]

3:23:20 I work in affordable housing. People are incredibly ignorant about how affordable housing programs work so thanks for sharing this piece. There are so many issues with our federal funding for housing, but having a roof and a warm bed should be a goal for everyone. It's really difficult to run an affordable housing complex in general. But resident services are often the hardest to come by. My company tries to build housing that includes resident services in the development plan. Low income housing tax credits should be something every fortune 100 company should have to invest in IMO too.

[@ka8544]

Omg Allie, please stop mutilating your body by dying your hair and wearing makeup! I’m horrified. Edit: oh no!! Her husband mutilated his god given body with a tattoo!!

[@pumpkingranolan]

The way she says she dyed her hair black and it’s “such a blonde girl thing to do,” like honey, is the blonde girl in the room with us now? Because those roots…

[@TheTijl8032]

Hahahha deffo one of those people who were blonde as a child who turned brunette at a later age, but still cling to that they were blonde at one point 😂 ​@@pumpkingranolan

[@emmyrose233]

​@@TheTijl8032lmaooo why is that so accurate

[@AmyLou733]

Even though she had such a bad time going through all of Allie's stuff, being bombarded by all the hatefulness, Jen doesn't return ANY hate for hate. Instead, she's incredibly gracious, saying so many good things about her. This is why we love you, queen!

[@OscarFrosty]

Exactly right.

[@arielrodriguez968]

fundie fridays sponsorship ads are the only youtuber ads that I never skip lol, King James is so funny

[@Butterfly-ql4pg]

​@@amla2263James is honestly one of the few dudes I'll let mansplain anything to me 😂

[@redactedvt7873]

I love the ads and I’m glad to support these dope people 😂

[@arielrodriguez968]

@@Butterfly-ql4pg exactly, that’s why I rly enjoy listening to him explain politics to me 😂

[@andreareddorkinghood1371]

Seriously, they are the best!

[@oldhaglady62]

James is hysterical. A tad off topic, but he reminds me, if you get a chance, go see the documentary on Vince Mc Mahon. He is a POS😡 but the documentary was very enlightening.

[@allyssaward5691]

The part where A.B.S talks about being soothed by the concept of predestination because when she was 6 she would be pleading with God to come into her heart, and not knowing if she had "done it right" really struck me because I also went through that crisis when I was going to a private Christian elementary school. Had my parents not pulled me out because I was having daily panic attacks at 10 years old, I feel that I could have also fallen prey to Calvinism because at it's core, it sounds defeatist and nihilistic, and just in general the mentality of a depressed person that nothing matters and nothing I do means anything. It's honestly scary how I can imagine myself going down the same road as her had I not transferred to public school and had time to deconstruct.

[@Thee_adjective_noun]

I think it’s an incredible example of “when they go low we go high” with how much empathy you show for her in this video, calling out this aspects of her personality you see and relate to and appreciate. Truly one of your best videos so far really digging into the complex humanity of your subjects.

[@grace-4072]

I really appreciate that Jen and James do this. While it can be really easy and often a little deserved to truly dehumanize the people we are talking about, it honestly doesn’t do much to help us be the people we want to see in this world. Also, how on earth can we connect with conservatives/right wingers without accepting that they exist and trying to relate to them on a human level so that we can have dialogues?! Not saying we should kiss their boots or anything but it’s a lot easier to talk to someone you disagree with when youve established mutual respect (i know the mutual part is the hard one lol).

[@vasilyevs]

"gender isn't an identity you can choose" no one is just picking out their gender at the gender store!!!! man i didn't choose to be trans. i'm comfortable with and proud of this aspect of myself now, but i would not ever in a million years have chosen this. clearly you weren't wrong about her being good at ~triggering the libs~ because she got me 40 min into this video. thank you for taking the time to guide us through this.

[@medicatedmenorah]

As a therapist, I’m gonna need a sign for my office that says ‘Cult of Self Affirmation.’

[@confusedlizard]

I will never understand women like Allie Beth who genuinely want to be go back to being treated like they’re worth less than a livestock animal.

[@KHwut]

I think they really have trouble with logic. Like, they do not get it that if A equals B, then C equals D. They cannot truly comprehend that their humanity and freedom will go away if they surrender their rights for a cozy homestead under the "protection" of dear hubby (the tradwife fantasy is strongly alluring to women who think traditional women never had to worry about money or living day to day when a man controlled their life).

[@AnneBurns-pv6xc]

She thinks she is the exception, which only reinforces her belief that she is morally and personally superior.

[@RozenGermain]

@@AnneBurns-pv6xc She's desperate for male approval too....

[@edvh88]

And her job is public speaking! Literally not so long ago it was illegal for us to do so here in the US. She’s never heard of the Grimke sisters.

[@Dusty_Den]

My favorite thing about voter disenfranchisement is how people in prison (and felons) aren't allowed to vote, but prison inmate population is considered in the general population which is considered in things like redistricting and gerrymandering. Super, super fun stuff 😬

[@Dusty_Den]

Jen I also think you did a great job, thanks for making this very sad and depressing episode for us! Love you!

[@whatthehellisthis]

not to mention that a convicted felon is qualified to run for office but can’t legally vote🫣

[@bettyunicorn6132]

I hate that felons can't vote. I also hate the electoral collage

[@acornpockets7244]

Yep, it's modern day slavery. Southern states also tried to get their enslaved populations counted towards things like how many representatives they got in Congress. That's how the "compromise" saying enslaved ppl only counted for a fraction of a person occurred.

[@bkk1996]

To the Allie Beth is just waiting to read someone: ppl who claim they're "brutally honest" are usually more concerned with the brutality than they are with the honesty.

[@dirtbagdeacon]

They just want to be mean and cloak it under the disguise of honesty.

[@bg5322]

I'm stealing that 😅

[@masonreith2382]

I am LOVING the long form deep dive on depravity and sin. I am not a religious person, but what Alley does, to me, is an affront to everything sacred and important. What an absolute trash fire of a human, and SO funny for her to be de-platformed from the RNC, talk about cancel culture am I right? 😂

[@Sarah-re7cg]

She got cancelled by the RNC? HAHAHAHAHAHA what a washed up loser

[@vasilyevs]

i am absolutely fascinated by the anti-abortion argument focusing on female fetuses, specifically. "protect the babies" wasn't strong enough on its own, "protect the feeble, vulnerable women from their own stupid choices" still wasn't strong enough, and so we come to "protect the girl babies who will become women". neat little rhetorical trick.

[@suni3368]

I noticed that, especially in the clip where she’s talking about a hypothetical fetus and my first thought was “why is it specifically female?”

[@phi4721]

@@vasilyevs you can't murder and life trumps choice

[@cutiepeel]

she looks, speaks, and sounds exactly like someone named Allie Beth Stuckey, it's incredible how spot on her parents were.

[@kellychillari3458]

God’s plan, remember? No accidents. 😂

[@Cat-tastophy83]

Random, but I was so happy to hear you mention using the library. It's such a great resource for so many things and one of the few things we still get for free. Great to hear someone utilising it.

[@KHwut]

Me too! In the episode mentioning attacks on intellectual freedom, the library commercial Jen clipped was made by someone I know. I loved it back then and it was like seeing somebody on the news haha. 📚

[@satellite991]

I think allie beth stuckey is more dangerous than ppl think b/c she's genuinely a good public speaker; articulate, spirited, down to earth, relatable (lmao). it's a little crazy to see the dissonance; she has this innate likability to her & she's wasting it to espouse the most cruel opinions imaginable??? come on man.

[@AllegedlyRyn]

“I also have sims open in the other monitor” is so real ur honestly a champ for doing this

[@ka8544]

I LOVE MY ABORTION. Just needed to say that in case anyone else watching this loved theirs too and needed to be seen. I genuinely don’t care if people like Allie call me a murderer and think I’m going to hell, both because she is wrong and also I don’t believe in hell. I am not an incubator and I will not be treated as one. Also I’ll note that I absolutely want children. So bad. AND I will never bring a child into this world until I am at a place where I can provide them with what I believe they deserve. And if that means I never have kids then I truly believe that is a better outcome than me forcing a human to exist who will not receive the parenting and basic life necessities that they deserve.

[@SpecialBlanket]

Other side here, I hated mine. I feel like ppl aren't allowed to admit that on the left?

[@iambored678]

​@@SpecialBlanket you can admit that, you have my empathy. The issue is when people use their own abortion regret to justify taking the right to choose away from others.

[@anon9067]

you are so right, and i really appreciate your comment. i hear all the time, even from people on the left, that their abortion was excruciating and that it was an absolute last resort. i rarely hear people say that they love theirs and that they're guiltlessly grateful for it. thank you for sharing 💖

[@heavenj7]

@@SpecialBlanketI Aww it’s ok! To not be thrilled I wasn’t either but I’m so glad I had the option!! i had TWO! And they sucked for me but so glad I had abortion as an token sure I was in college one I was using the sponge 🧽 oopsie. 😢 the second? I didn’t know until I was 3.5 months in and things with my body started to change. The first dr I went to? Was in one of those clinics pretending to be like a planned parenthood! It wasn’t he shamed me and I was running out of time I ran out of there soooo fast ( and this was nyc) it was hidden it was religious place ! Then I finally found a Dr and I had the procedure, because I was soo far along? It was a two day thing. And it was horrible!! I’m on the left and yes it flipping hurt!! This was before the abortion pill etc so yea ouch 😢 mentally? I was ok it was sad it made me cry. But I’m so GRATEFUL that in 1990&1991 I had this option! This wss nyc btw. And I later went on in 96 and 2001 to have two beautiful children I never told anyone until now! I was embarrassed getting pregnant one year apart!! It’s ok to not love it!! Just happy we had the option! I’m so grateful we don’t have to fight for it or travel to a different state 😢

[@vampirechick1159]

@ka8544 Thank you for this. They cannot shame us if we refuse to feel shame for doing the right thing. One thing I learned after leaving the church is that so much of what they threaten you with (depression, loneliness, sadness, loss of direction in life, loss of morality) are all things that you only feel if you allow them to brainwash you on the definition of right and wrong. If you get out in the world, none of that is real.

[@abbyk2166]

I'm so glad you had a whole section on here about calvinism & the TULIP... more people need to know how prevalent the concept of "total depravity" is in America (imagine being a kid raised to believe they are totally depraved from birth). It's crazy that they haven't updated that wording to sound less diabolical but I guess they don't expect strangers to check up on the TULIP acronym lol

[@oldhaglady62]

Yes, I agree. I’m glad she is exposing this mess.

[@emmanarotzky6565]

I guess I’m technically a Protestant but there was something I read in a Catholic book that I really liked, I think it was Richard Rohr criticizing Martin Luther for calling humans a pile of dung and talking about how you can’t even begin to have good theology if you don’t have good anthropology. Like you can’t start out by assuming that you and other humans are terrible because you can’t get anywhere from there.

[@emmanarotzky6565]

(And also if Calvinists believe in both total depravity and being made in the image of God, doesn’t that imply that they think God is totally depraved? 😂)

[@emgrmc]

so much for tabula rasa😪

[@dirtbagdeacon]

@@emmanarotzky6565 I am a Methodist who loves Fr. Rohr. He's lovely!

[@kyleyoung8476]

I don't want to listen to anyone who thinks my existence is against God. Sorry. And it doesn't make me incapable of discussion. I simply won't do it.

[@ka8544]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@lauralaforge558]

I dislike a lot about ABS, but she wouldn't say you don't exist. I've not heard any RWNJ say that LGBTQ+ people don't exist.

[@ka8544]

@@lauralaforge558 that’s not what this person is saying. I don’t know what this persons identity is, but to explain I’ll say maybe they are gay. Allie knows that a gay person exists in reality. But she believes that their existence as a gay person is against god. That said, I also feel that in some sense she does deny their existence in that she believes that they are choosing to be gay (and therefore “sin”). So she believes they are a straight person who is choosing to be romantically and/or intimately involved with someone of the same gender. So she is denying their reality of having genuine feelings towards people of the same gender. Anyways, OP I sincerely apologize if I’ve put words in your mouth here. I am absolutely just taking an example of what identity you might be referring to here, as I don’t know anything about your identity based on your post.

[@lauralaforge558]

@@ka8544 RWNJ don't say people are not attracted to others of the same sex. It's just whether the attraction is wrong. We all agree some attractions are wrong. It's just a matter based on the person of which attractions they think are wrong. Everyone agrees though that people having wrong attractions still exist. If people really mean they don't think it's wrong to be same sex attracted, they should just say that. Instead of saying something demonstrably false (strawmanning the opponent) by saying people like ABS deny the existence of LGBTQ. Besides, we do have people who engaged in same sex relationships and say they would never again. What does that mean? They no longer exist?

[@manderly33]

@@lauralaforge558 You are arguing a strawman. That is not what the OP said. This seems like a weird hill to die on.

[@madisonjefferson9]

The whole treat her like you would want your wife to be treated thing is ok on the surface ig. But it kinda irks me cuz it implies women should only be treated nicely if a man thinks she’s respectable or something. Like just treat all women nice cuz they are human and deserve respect, not just cuz she will be someone elses wife one day.

[@FeministCatLadySpinster]

Me, Rachel Oates, and now Fundie Fridays... I'm so glad Allie is getting the attention she deserves this weekend.

[@elisa-beary]

I just looked over your videos & subscribed!! 100% gonna watch after I finish this video. Your content is totally up my alley.💜🩷💙

[@itsaballoonparty]

Father, son, Holy Spirit

[@allyturner147]

What is this? A crossover episode?

[@borntodiy]

This is what a community feels like!! 🙌💗🎀

[@grace-4072]

Hi I loveeee your videos!! Thanks for making them!!

[@introusas]

A kid needs to be able to identify their abuser, yes. If a trans woman (for the sake of this argument) assaults a kid, the kid needs to describe them as a woman with a penis. Otherwise they’re going to be looking for the wrong person. Seems like common sense to me.

[@CharlieHorse4363]

This.

[@carpenoctumpoetry8400]

Jen may be joking about us waiting around for her videos, but I do in fact actually evaporate into the void in between Fundie Friday videos 😂

[@violetsleigh3882]

I’ve never heard an explanation of Calvinism that didn’t make my brain feel like it was melting

[@bettyunicorn6132]

But their logic they should kinda do whatever they want they can't change anything.

[@blugreen123]

I grew up in the Presbyterian church, which is very Calvinist. Presbyterians are jokingly referred to as "The Frozen Chosen." I still can't make heads or tails of it!

[@theresathelen7670]

The whole idea that people want to have abortions up nine months??? No one wants one that late…. Shit has really gone wrong if it’s needed. Pisses me off

[@MaidMirawyn]

If someone wants to have an abortion “just because” they don’t want a baby, they’re going to want to get it as soon as possible. Pregnancy is hard and not fun. Why would they do it for months? If someone is choosing abortion in the third trimester, something is wrong. It’s almost certainly a threat to the safety or life of the pregnant person, or because the baby couldn’t survive. Someone doesn’t carry a baby for six months then just decide, “Nah, let’s not.” There is a reason, and it’s not a fun one.

[@LibraryLady929]

@@MaidMirawynit’s also deeply insulting to me personally as a preeclampsia survivor. I would have given ANYTHING to not endure what I did or go through having my son born at 29 weeks and in the NICU for almost 2 months. Pregnancy isn’t always easy for everyone and sometimes things happen that are completely and utterly out of your control, especially when it’s your body literally betraying you. (Preeclampsia is thought to be an autoimmune reaction to the cells that make up the placenta and therefore the placenta isn’t allowed to implant deeply enough.)

[@catherinehildebrand4777]

Pretty sure fear based rhetoric is a popular theme for the Christian Fundamentalist. Wonder if they are scared by their own shadows.

[@Peregrina]

I feel like this is pure fear mongering about abortions and people who fall for it seem to focus more on preserving the unborn fetus or infant even if it harms the parent or the fetus/infant...

[@amityislandchum]

Right?? An abortion an 9 months is just delivering a baby. Nobody is trying to do that.

[@utopianturtletop7953]

This is your strongest, most impassioned, and most incisive video yet! Your reflective coda at the end is so thoughtful and invigorating. One of my favorite quotes: “You, and all the rest of us, should spend our lives striving to become a better person, to become more empathetic, more kind, and more understanding. I truly believe that we’re here to learn as much as possible, and the more you learn, the harder it is to hate someone.”

[@meghansullivan6812]

Damm that’s beautiful

[@Blondiej1]

4:14:17 “The more you learn. The harder it is to hate someone.” This. This line right here. Thank you for putting in so much effort to film this informative and educational video. It was extremely insightful. ❤️

[@flaweddream6562]

"Unconditional election" sounds to me like a Calvinist belief that it doesn't matter if they are kind or horrible in life as they have a guarantee to get into heaven. It's a Get Out of Jail Free card for their soul.

[@Nassifeh]

Technically, it's a Get Out of Jail Free card for everybody's souls! If God wants us, he can count those childhood baptisms even if we never went to church, he can take our deathbed conversions, whatever, somehow we'll be cool. If he doesn't want us, we might as well live it up now. And on the flip side, none of them technically have any way of knowing that God isn't up there like, "yeah, but you're gonna have a crisis of faith because of lack of adequate pain management when you're 80 years old and dying of colon cancer, and then you're going to die right after telling me to fuck off, so none of this counts."

[@dirtbagdeacon]

Yup. Just dreadful theology.

[@rosemariecawkwell2233]

Pretty much. That's my understanding anyway.

[@nergregga]

"Maybe I can be a midwife" Girl, that is one of the hardest jobs in the world. In my country, it takes really high grades to get into midwifery school.

[@3vaniamaria]

I loved that "farming" was a no but "midwifery" (ostensibly using her 3 births as her entire knowledge base) was a maybe

[@nergregga]

@@3vaniamaria Thank you for writing the word Midwifery, I'm a non native english speaker and too lazy to look the right translation up.

[@Ruth-of1ji]

@@3vaniamariafarming is also incredibly hard and varied work that requires a LOT of skills and knowledge. She probably couldn’t do that either.

[@3vaniamaria]

​@Ruth-of1ji that's true!

[@3vaniamaria]

​@@nergregga😆 you're so welcome

[@jayejaejjjeijay5648]

So it boils down to 'Why would God make us this way?' 'Because shut up, that's why'?

[@heidihendrickson6643]

I just have to say that having James talk about vibrators as Randy Savage and saying "oh yeah" a bunch was the pick me up I needed this morning. Bless you two, You guys are truly doing the lord's work.

[@jacobus57]

"Caring" for zygotes, embryos, and fetuses does NOT make someone a caring person.

[@keroberos882]

What does it make her?

[@thenopedetective]

An idealist with no real comprehension or follow through. Someone who values things without actually enacting care for the consequences of those things (be it embryo or values)

[@kellyburds2991]

Indeed. Fetuses are easy to care about because they haven't done anything yet. Fully fledged humans are messy, and caring about and for them takes effort.

[@breannankolb]

There’s a huge difference between pro life and pro birth. The major of conservatives fall in pro birth

[@elisa-beary]

&& the truest thing is that they go so hard for that but then deny && vote against ALL policies to help kids after they ARE born. They deny rly everything public assistance, affordable healthcare, more money going to public schools in lower income areas, funding that goes to community based resources for low income families. If conservatives genuinely cares as much about children as they rattle on about when it pertains to abortion, they’d be boots on the ground themselves helping kids that need it once they’re here. The way she talks about the 10 year old girl says ALLLLL you’d ever need to know about how she feels about kids OUTSIDE the womb. I could barely listen to her talk about that!!🤢 heartbreaking & rather than centering that convo on compassion && empathy she’s ONLY worried about pushing HER talking point. It’s unfathomable how people act like this but think they’re so good they were pre-selected by God….

[@newtpollution]

Allie Beth Stuckey is the most insufferable person I've ever heard, and Ben Shapiro is featured in this video multiple times.

[@Happytravellerkimmy]

Say it with me for the economic conservatives in the back: IT IS CHEAPER TO HOUSE PEOPLE THAN TO LEAVE THEM ON THE STREET! There are studies that bear this out time and again. And so, if you're worried about "free housing" being an economic burden, it's actually the opposite.

[@emmanarotzky6565]

True but conservatives would rather spend more money to make their perceived ‘enemies’ suffer

[@dirtbagdeacon]

Yup, the Emergency room/streets/jail cycle lots of homeless go through costs a fortune.

[@TheSim1derful]

It is, and it's very interesting when you get to know why educated conservatives, because MANY of them know this. However, many educated Conservatives are also upper middle class minimum, and they genuinely think that poor people and homeless people and people who abuse substances DESERVE to be where they are. They hide behind economics but that's not what it's about - it's about finding disadvantaged people fundamentally undeserving. It's about thinking they are ENTITLED to the advantages and privileges they are lucky enough to have.

[@charlottewebb8191]

The idea that god is compassionate and loving is incompatible with the idea that he created billions of sentient beings, decided on the small number to reward with eternal salvation, decided to punish the rest with ceaseless, eternal torment, and then just sat back watched them try in vain to exert free will over their own lives. I wonder if many Calvinists know, on some level, that their version of god is an incomprehensibly sadistic monster, but they aggressively suppress that knowledge and insist that he is kind and loving just so they don’t piss him off and incur his wrath.

[@valentine.58]

it makes me sincerely wonder if any of them have ever had a moment if critical thinking in their lives because the only benefit i see to calvanism is the initial hit of relief to tell yourself "its okay...even if im a piece of shit i will reach heaven...phew"

[@Sadbhnailart]

2 things about ABS that terrifies me (this list is long but these would be my top 2) - she has 3 daughters - she has said numerous times Trump isnt conservative enough for her :)

[@kellyburds2991]

Thank you for this important nightmare fuel.

[@Sadbhnailart]

@@kellyburds2991 literally the only compliment I have for her is she doesn’t share her kids at all- only thing she has shared is she has 3 daughters other than that they’re completely offline, never even shared their names or a single picture of them so at least she’s not a child exploiter Yes the bar is on the floor

[@Nassifeh]

The most baffling thing about all of this is that every single conservative Christian in the US should have been saying that about Trump, though. He's barely even darkened the doorstep of a church, even after getting into politics. He's not even good at *pretending* he's like them. He has zero actual principles about marriage, faith, family, etc, and this should be obvious even to conservatives.

[@alyishiking]

That's the scariest part. ABS is smart enough to recognize that Trump isn't a conservative, but she's still far right enough to support him because this is who the right has hitched their wagon to.

[@heathersnyder8789]

Wow. As a woman, I just want to be seen as a fellow image bearer. Sadly, many conservative men view me as womb. A toy to possess and someone in need of being controlled. I am thankful to the men who view me as human and co-heirs in Christ.

[@strawberryhairclips]

Jen you are truly one of the kindest and most thoughtful people on earth. Thank you for always being so vulnerable and honest. I know this is cheesy but you have such a beautiful soul. You’re doing so much good. Take care of yourself and know that a lot of people love and appreciate you. ❤

[@somewhatsecret]

"thot leader" would be a great name for anti-fundie commentary

[@somewhatsecret]

ooh or merch!

[@autumb617]

This cracked me up

[@edvh88]

Haha I love this!!

[@oldhaglady62]

I never got Calvinism. A friend I had years ago believed in Calvinism….I recall that I said to my friend, if I’m pretty much predestined to burn in hell, why even bother with trying to be ‘saved’? I just pissed her off, I don’t think she had much of an answer. I’ve since lost contact with her. I wasn’t too fond of being told I was going to burn in hell because I was agnostic. At least my other friends/family respect that I question religion. Thanks for all your work looking into this woman and her beliefs. I honestly didn’t know her. The name sounded familiar….but I didn’t know of her. I have been reading and looking into these so called Christians….(I don’t think they are true Christians at all).

[@Tiny_Koi]

You'll find more Christians among non-monogomus straight edge punks then the whole of the conservative party... I wish I was kiding. (Not to say that all straight edge people are christians but they tend to have more values which happen to align)

[@yasmineyusuf2890]

She’s the kind of person who struggles with anxiety and tries to manage it by trying to control outside surroundings. She did it first by controlling what food she ate and how much she weighed. But has now moved on to trying to control people’s relationships and this country’s demographic.

[@amibugxo]

As someone with anxiety I recognize it in others and have come to find it really is the root of a lot of bad thought processes and behaviors. Fear and anxiety make people do and believe crazy things.

[@bongqueen]

i literally cannot listen to allie without commentary that reflects my opinion bc i get so mad and wanna write paragraphs in defense. ik everyone is saying this but your ability to sit through hours of fundie content is so deserving of applause. imo we need to deeply understand these peoples' worldviews in order to protect ourselves from them, and you're doing really important work by presenting that in a digestible way

[@CharlieHorse4363]

Same I’ve already commented responses to bs multiple times and I have to put a cap on myself or I’ll never finish the video 😭🥴

[@FlyToTheRain]

also thank you for taking time for yourself while producing this. i assure you i was more than fine not having this come out "on time". if there's ever another project like this in the future, don't be afraid to break it down into more manageable parts if needed. we'll watch it.

[@DinosaurProtector]

Jen, I want you to know that I paused the video right around 4:06:00 and scrolled down to the comments to write something and read some things and when I scrolled back up, your face in the pause screen looked absolutely beautiful. You had this amazing look of compassion on your face and it just made you look like like you should be in a painting. I wish my words could describe it properly.

[@DinosaurProtector]

Sorry, it was right about 4:08:00, not 4:06:00.

[@TheRoseMirror]

Gonna be real, the 'tism in me is so bothered by TULIP hypocrisy (plus the whole women preachers saying women shouldn't be preachers). Like why do ANYTHING if EVERYTHING is already decided?? It's literally elementary school imagination fights "I win cause I said so" type nonsense. Why vote, why preach, why harass, why fearmonger, why hatemonger? You believe god already decided who wins everything? Like I know it's to protect their ego about their lack of empathy but still

[@rosiejl2798]

Yup also Autistic and can't understand why anyone would bother believing in god or following the religious rules given it is pre determined if you are saved or not. Like why bother then?

[@caseyw.6550]

It's so nonsensical. Like what is even the point of allie beth wasting her breath if God already has everything figured out and predetermined everything. Did he predetermine that he needed Allie Beth's help explaining "His word" to us? No wonder she thinks she's so damn special.

[@CatBarefield]

Because intellectual rigor was never the point. Power and control are the point

[@rainaashley8561]

Came looking for this comment because like.. if you believe it’s predetermined why does it matter if some people are unsaved if their “depravity” is cooked into your worldview. Why not just live your life convinced you’re the chosen one quietly?

[@bloodynora93]

Also autistic - I’ll never be able to understand what the whole point of praying is if God has already predetermined everything

[@wormmrow]

I’m quite surprised this is the first time hearing an American fundie talk so openly about reformed Calvinism. I grew up in the Biblebelt in the Netherlands where the reformed church/protestantism/calvinism is the main stream of Christianity. Super interesting to see this American “version” of it. Thank you Jen and James for educating me!🧡 Haven’t finished the vid yet but great content as always 🫡🧡

[@kimberlybega8271]

I am curious, does the American version described here differ much from the Dutch Reformed church?

[@dirtbagdeacon]

Calvinists did a hostile takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention in the 1970s, so since then it's become much more prominent. Not to mention all the midwestern Calvinists of Dutch descent living in western Michigan doing church plants all over the country.

[@Rhaifha]

@@kimberlybega8271 Hmm, so I also live in the Dutch Biblebelt. In my experience many of the reformed calvinists are absolutely hypocrites, but then again there is also a significant group that is highly involved with charity as well. And like, actual charity not just evangelizing, getting people housed and fed and that kind of thing. That said, as a group on the whole they're more than happy to vote for parties that would take peoples rights away and they have some wild anti-science beliefs as well.

[@Siures]

German (west, near the Netherlands) here. Never heard of your biblebelt. But my experience with reformed Protestants here near the German-Dutch border is that they would be considered liberal Christians in the US. Even my friend who is seventh-days-Adventist (and that’s considered a cult here) is a lot more progressive than every Christ talked about in Fundie Fridays ever.

[@rachelowen2824]

The way I GASPED at four hours! Truly could not be more thrilled. The laundry I’ll get done!!

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

Not me just pressing Start on my first load of laundry when I came across this comment! 😂

[@nonchalantoaster]

1:19:14 someway into her lil speech about how excited she gets about helping people, really makes me sad. Its heart wrenching to think about how many people become misguided or disillusioned by religion or cult of personalities of any kind. It also makes me wonder how much more fufilled a life she could be living if she never got so deep into fundamentalism, like event planning or a project coach. Truly love the video - a horrifying work of art, very fitting for spooky season!

[@kaysiegrigg6756]

2:24:08 one of my super religious friends from high school used to use my husband’s crunchyroll log in because she was VERY into anime, he recently texted her to tell her about an anime that he thought she would enjoy and she told him that she actually stopped watching anime. i wondered where that came from bc imo anime uses a lot of christian imagery in a neutral or even positive light but she probably picked it up from allie beth. it’s been literally bugging me for months bc i was like this has to be like a *religious* reasoning bc she was like REALLY into anime for years (constantly telling me about her shows, character dynamics, listening to the INSTRUMENTAL soundtracks constantly) and to just quit cold turkey was so jarring because it was genuinely the only secular interest that she had at that point. it’s genuinely so disheartening to see fundamentalism take root in the lives of people you care about and love. about half the girls in my friend group from high school have fallen down the allie beth alt right pipeline and it is so so hard to move this grieving process for the kind compassionate girls i once knew. this is a pretty hard watch because it mean confronting the fact that some of my best friends were stolen from me by this woman, shocking but not surprising. i guess that’s just the landscape for young women in deeply conservative middle america

[@PamelaBowsArt]

❤

[@JuriAmari]

F to pay respects to all the friends who lost things they loved because of fundamentalism 🙏

[@Siures]

Think this is a brave assumption if she didn’t explain it that way… I was also into manga / anime for years and at some point simply stopped. Lost every interest because the translated manga or animes are often for a teen or younger audience. I very seldomly take a manga to read now and only watch Ghibli movies. Totally lost any connection to the scene although I even attended conventions. I am NOT religious.

[@OneTimeLiteracy]

I already thought her brand of Christianity was icky but yeah, learning she's a Calvinist explains A LOT. I'm a Christian myself, and even other protestant christians give Calvinists a side eye. When they're not full of self loathing, they walk around like nothing they do can hurt anyone, because they already predestined, so their actions must be what God ordained. 🙄

[@oldhaglady62]

I’m curious, though. How does she (and others who have this mindset) KNOW that she’s destined to be ‘saved’? I recall asking a former friend who had this mind set this question, and she didn’t have an answer….i guess you have to follow all their rules, and hope for the best? Me, I’m going to do what I can to do the right thing by myself and others simply because it’s the right thing to do…..not because I’m going to have some kind of reward when I die.

[@emilyemiranda]

@@oldhaglady62 i can only speak for myself, as someone who grew up in the calvinist theology, but i justified it sort of like this - i did NOT sit well with the notion of predestination and the elect. so to feel better, i told myself that the fact i was sitting in church and believed in God was enough proof that i was "chosen." for the record, i no longer practice or worship in reformed theology.

[@emmanarotzky6565]

“The weak are good” literally a paraphrase of Jesus but she calls is bad because she labels it “the left” 🤦‍♀️ I mean yeah, the politics of Christianity is left wing for this exact reason. It values the weak, the meek, the poor, the marginalized, the prisoners, the immigrants (“strangers”), the gender and sexual minorities (“eunuchs”), etc. The people society doesn’t care about and wants to throw away.

[@dirtbagdeacon]

Amen! Fellow Christian here, thank you.

[@anonymoussaga8723]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@oldhaglady62 The really funny thing is that John Calvin himself said that they don’t know: “Experience shows that the reprobate are sometimes affected in a way so similar to the elect that even in their own judgment there is no difference between them.” (The reprobate are all the souls whom aren’t chosen.) So, basically, she didn’t get the message that the founder of her denomination literally said that you can feel to your bones that you’re saved, but that doesn’t mean you are.

[@pixie7349]

“Maybe I could be a midwife or something” MAM you just said you can’t sew, can or farm saying you have no skills even though you can learn those at home and just decided you could MAYBE DO A PROFESSION THAT REQUIRES MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SCHOOLING… what? 🙃

[@supercrazylegs1]

That's what I was going to say. Farming is hard work, but it's a lot easier to plant and water seeds than it is to know what to do when someone is having a baby. The trial-and-error of farming and sewing is much less risky.

[@redhandedbee]

My MIL is becoming increasingly fundie. Wrote my husband a letter apologizing for her failings as a mother but also driving the point that the rapture is coming and that we will not be saved. Trying to get us on board. We have been understanding of her beliefs but not receptive to them, but she will not let up. It’s v uncomfy.

[@Messwithmitchie]

Obviously I don’t know the depth of the situation between you and your MIL or her relationship with her son but my advice would be to not pay it much mind and I’m assuming she had very little contact with your husband considering her choice to write him a letter instead of giving him a call so to be honest I don’t think it’s worth your time or energy since there’s a pretty good chance she’s only apologizing so that she feels better and not cause she’s actually sorry

[@Nassifeh]

I have never heard a description of God that sounds more Satanic than "we have to just accept that he chose some people to suffer eternally because God is bigger than us and says he's in charge and somehow this glorifies him". I would 100% prefer to suffer for eternity than feel like I was an eternal minion to whatever she's describing. Let him get his own damn glory. I won't have any part in it.

[@Nassifeh]

And this really just repeats as a theme over and over again. She's aware that she's worshipping a being who is openly bent on the eternal suffering of most of humanity, but like, guys, it's just so important to submit to him because he's all-knowing! She's called to do all this stuff by Him, so this is her best possible life! Glory to God, and nothing else matters! I've never seen anybody so frankly make Calvinists come off like Cthulhu cultists. The Left Behind nonsense was one thing, but the people who were into that were mostly actually very big on God trying to convince people somehow. Paternalist but caring. This God is just a monster on a cosmic scale.

[@Rhaifha]

@@Nassifeh No no, don't you see, god is *all good*! We humans are just too puny to understand his goodness! Or at least, that's the thought stopping cliché used to explain away suffering.

[@dadsocksss]

y’all are some of the coolest, kindest, most thorough and thoughtful creators on this platform, especially considering the subject matter you cover. its been awesome to see your channel grow over the past few years, really appreciate you both :) alright, time to lock in for the next 4 hours lol

[@rottedngutted]

These kind of people scare me. They hide under the guise of morality while being totally bankrupt of any love or compassion….

[@caseyw.6550]

My thoughts exactly.

[@rcliddiard]

Slow clap. It took me a week to watch this in several parts, I can appreciate that this was hell to put together. Thank you so very much for doing this work, I love your takes and your compassion - I have learned so much from you and James over the years. This Allie Beth video is a jewel in your crown. Thanks again for making this!!!!

[@ciarancooper394]

Girl Defined out here looking like a pair of King Charles Spaniels reacting to a squeaky toy 35:40

[@plasticjesus444]

i’m crying 😭

[@CatBarefield]

Loooool

[@morganw2492]

That's an insult to King Charles spaniels!

[@cassidymccardle729]

The thing is, Allie and people like Allie speak and teach differently than they actually live. She will write in her book we need to have zero faith in ourselves but shes living a career that youd HAVE to have some level of faith in yourself to accomplish. Its similar to married couples preaching the submission rule while living in a very mutually respectful and honouring marraige.

[@brittanyg7700]

Ho boi, not 10mins into this and not me getting pissed off about the "inner child" not being real. Has this woman not read the Bible where Christ refers to becoming as children in the kingdom of heaven? Even my autistic ass knows the term isn't LITERALLY acting as if you have a child in you or you revert to childish things. It's glaringly apparent that she had no concept of self reflection. It's supposed to be about connecting with yourself in the different stages of your life and how you can evolve. It's crazy to me how many Christians just don't understand their own religion. I say this as an exMormon/exChristian myself. Good grief.

[@theMMAdhatter]

It's giving Scientology

[@lillithoscar5185]

3:32:33 I am in school to get my bachelors in elementary education and in my first course I leaned about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and this is the exact concept that Housing first is following. It’s common sense that your physiological needs must be met first (water, food, shelter) before you can meet other needs properly.

[@klaythoring1326]

It's also a great way to explain why people who don't have basic needs met aren't free to pursue their truest, freest form of expression. If the US wanted to be the freest nation on Earth, they shouldn't be crushing all expression.

[@cosmictacos]

I can't believe I sat through a 4+ hour video about Allie Beth all in one go. Thank you for all of your hard work and sacrifices to make this deep dive. You and James are the best!

[@abbyanderson55]

Such a phenomenal episode :) Thanks for doing all the work to cover this woman! It's so great to see how your channel has grown and developed over the years keep up the amazing work and I hope you and your animals stay cozy this holiday season 🩷🩷

[@ethanculbreth2466]

Jen, your makeup looks SO GOOD.

[@amyc.513]

Yes! What is her lip color?

[@Dusty_Den]

Right!

[@autumb617]

I was going to say the same thing!

[@phoebegeebie1]

So stoked about the length of this even though ABS is hard to cope with. Thank you for making the sacrifices to do this episode!❤

[@callistaabner9304]

my college rhetoric prof also taught her rhetoric at furman and said it was his greatest regret that he informed her in any way. like big regret shame that he was part of her becoming what she is.

[@Saycille]

That's amazing. If you don't mind sharing who is the professor?

[@lilafeldman8630]

At 3:32:00 years ago, I had a terrible mental health crisis. One that resulted in my life completely falling apart. At the time I had been under the influence of extreme teachings like Ali Beth's. I ended up having to move back home and move in with some close family friends who are pretty liberal in their views. Staying with them made me realize how important housing really is. Having a stable base underneath you really does help you plug into community and move forward.

[@Eturpe]

When I heard she was Calvin I said in my head “Ugh she’s the worst kind of Christian” but in Louise Belcher’s voice

[@callie17472]

Jen: “I’m at the tail end” *halfway through the published video* 😂 this is an incredible video and I appreciate all the work that went into it ❤

[@starlabradshaw2969]

A Fundie SUNDIE?! Best day off ever!

[@EmSaidThat]

Fundie sundie!!!

[@shannonmeadow9069]

Thankful for you!! You powered through this like a boss. Thank you for putting so much time and hard work into this. My mother is a hardcore Allie supporter, daily listener and mega fan and you breaking down this harmful rhetoric is so validating and keeping me sane heading into the holiday season. I also grew up Calvinist and appreciate you dedicating a section to it. I find it very telling when a Christian chooses to believe they are one of the few, special “chosen”

[@saraht3196]

i, a former catholic, also went "oh, of course she's a calvinist..." once you said it 😂i went to high school with a calvinist girl and she ended up going to liberty university. her and allie beth look and act like twins. the only difference is that the girl i know tries to walk the line between her strict faith and supporting her trans sibling. i had to unfriend her mom on facebook bc she would constantly post baby photos and deadname him talking about how good life used to be, like he was dead or something. now it makes a lottttt of sense.

[@DinosaurProtector]

I'm a middle school teacher and when Allie Beth started giving advice to that teacher, I literally flipped off my computer and stopped the video while telling her to shut her stupid mouth. If a teacher at my school started doing what she was suggesting, I would be at every school board meeting, pushing for them to get fired. The way that Allie Beth weaponizes empathy... I think she is my new most hated human. Sorry Phyllis Schlafly- you have been replaced.

[@aklane7470]

“Is the compassion in the room with us?” 😂😂😂 but in all seriousness I very much enjoyed the diary entries.

[@abuck2119]

I’m half way through and I’ve had to take many breaks because of just how hard it is to watch Allie and the stuff she says. Thank you for all your hard work and transparency ❤

[@confettiify]

Not Randy Savage telling me about vibrators! 😂❤

[@confettiify]

It felt like a subtle dig at Shapiro from her when she said, "You should know more than anyone that college students..." because I think Shapiro did debate for a while but only college students! Which is hilarious if that's what she intended or not! LMAO

[@lextalk925]

I demand all sponsor segments be delivered by Randy Savage from now on!

[@helenr4300]

Jen - I bow down in recognition of your sacrifice to bring us this epic and wonderful deep dive. I was braced for the worst of ABS and yes it was there; but you brought empathy and humanity to her too, regardless of her views of others and empathy itself. Loved the daily(ish) video blogs during the process - whilst sometimes felt like 'day 5 in this alt reality prison' they gave moments of reprieve and grounding for the listener/viewer. I hope you have given yourself recovery time and lots of destress fun having let go of this into the world.

[@heathermacneil2298]

Property owners only to vote?!?! So I own my house but my partner doesn’t so he can’t vote? Anyone who rents can’t vote? WTH? She’s nuts!!!!!

[@stormfischerr]

✨💫classism💫✨

[@Rhaifha]

Easiest way to stop those darn poors from voting.

[@GK-xi5uj]

I really appreciate how respectful and honest Jen is while talking about her. I would never be able to stomach her content on my own so I appreciate the sacrifice so much!

[@rottedngutted]

You really are a trooper for listening to hours and hours of this. What an exhausting person she is…

[@makeminemonsters]

The Macho Man/Mean Gene sponsor segment cheered me up SO MUCH (especially since certain undertakers have made me extremely sad to be a pro wrestling fan recently). You guys are just the best

[@andchimeras]

She legit reminds me of the Commander's wife from The Handmaid's Tale. Allie Beth Stuckey is where those women come from, and that's where the xtian nationalist/theocractic fascist/etc. women leaders go after they "win". Blue dresses and silence.

[@JuriAmari]

Perfect metaphor!

[@Divawithavoice]

She is Serena Joy IRL.

[@apathydisastrophe]

Not gonna lie. I've had to watch this in pieces. I hope you rested after this horrific personality. Learned a lot. Almost feels like you wouldnt have to do a Jinger/Jeremy video too, on a religious front lol. Thanks for a crazy comprehensive video on ABS!

[@autumntaylor2533]

That bit where you talked about how life really is beautiful, and that most people want to help others, did me good. It's hard to remember that sometimes

[@Dusty_Den]

It's so important to remember for sure 💜

[@matchbox420.]

The Bellessa ad in the beginning had me cackling! James was born for that role

[@pamwishbow8826]

I'm there right now and my partner came in to see what I was giggling about