An Amusing Christian Deconstruction Story (Adult Subject Matter)

I'm an Italian American who was brought up Roman Catholic. This is my story. (Yes. I went through puberty at age ten... so, sue me!)

[@LieslWeppentz]

"... and twice on saturday." 😂

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

In my prime, three times!

[@JanetStarChild]

As an Iberian raised on Roman Catholicism (now an atheist), I resonate with your upbringing. My sister is still in the deconversion phase and flip-flops between skepticism and woo-woo credulity. I need to show her your videos.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Hope I can help!

[@pineapplepenumbra]

What I tend to do is ask people what they believe, specifically, or what they have doubts about, and then address those. The trouble is, a lot of people either don't like to reveal exactly what they believe, or, when they do, say that it's something that nothing will change their mind about, and then metaphorically stick their fingers in their ears.

[@TheKentuckyAtheist]

Good stuff

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Thanks bro!😎

[@LouMihniak-kk3xb]

I was also raised Roman Catholic, I was even an altar boy. I once asked the priest how many wafers I would have to eat to eat a whole Jesus. I got a pretty stern talking to although I maintained that it was a valid question. I always thought that confession was a really weird thing. Why couldn't I just confess to God directly and then he could just forgive me and be done with it? The fact that the church placed such a huge emphasis on the Catechism bothered me when I got older and I eventually left the church to find one that better fit with what I believed. My wife and I were married in a Lutheran church and attended one regularly for many years. All three of our kids were baptized, or I guess Christened would be more accurate. I would say the prayer at the beginning of the service and do Bible readings. I even taught a Bible study class for a while. This is ironically when I started to have doubts since much of what I read didn't seem to make a lot of sense. I was not allowed by the Catholic church to be my nephew's godfather because I had left the church. This was the beginning of the end not just for me but my brother. What finally drove me away from religion altogether besides realizing how amazingly fucked up the Bible is, was moving down south and meeting a bunch of Baptists. Never in my life had I met a more judgmental, hypocritical group of people. So, if you're still reading this, thanks for your story and for your channel. Keep up the good work.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

I was an alter boy too. For about two weeks… I remember seeing a big bag of hosts, like a big bag of Doritos. It kind of took the mystique out of it. Thanks for the comment. Much appreciated.

[@LouMihniak-kk3xb]

@TheOriginalAnswerman I forgot about the hosts coming in a giant plastic bag! That was really weird. Of course, it was understood that before being consecrated, they were just really awful crackers.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

You’d think the consecration might have added a little flavor…

[@BruceCarroll]

"What time is it now/" 😆

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

😎

[@lucas.warhero]

I love hearing a fellow former Catholic talk about their experience. Mass was so boring!

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Sometimes it even looked like the Priest was about to fall asleep from it in mid sentence.

[@gloeiende1]

i remember watching a film about Noah when i was a child. My dad told me that if this story was true the should be seashells in the mountains, there weren' t. As far i was a believer that was over at ones(and forever)

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

And why would Noah save lice and tape worms…?

[@lokilawson]

@@gloeiende1 actually, there are seashell fossils found in mountains. It is where sedimentary rock was later lifted from colliding continents for example. The good news is that we can trace the dates of when those deposits were laid down, and we can discern when the continents collided to create those mountains, so it still makes sense.

[@Roquefortraider1]

One thing about confession is that it felt way more sincere, in terms of contrition, as just saying "sorry, Jesus" in one's head.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

I never got specific. I just didn’t trust the old guy…

[@DeconvertedMan]

Deconverting can be hard. Can be easy, it depends on the person. Regardless, you are not alone!

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Thank you. 😎

[@lokilawson]

Great stuff Alex. According to your experience, at least the Catholics don’t even try to justify the OT as being anything realistic. I grew up in the midst of fundamentalism, but didn’t engage fully with it until I got to college. Folks preach from the OT, but they ignore the nastier stuff in it, so if a church goer didn’t read their bible for themselves, they wouldn’t be exposed to the nastier stuff. Imagine a preacher trying to build a sermon around Numbers 5: 11-31. That’s the one by the way, where a jealous husband can bring his wife before the priest if he wants to test if she has been unfaithful, and the priest mixes a curse potion, using dust from the tabernacle floor, so that the woman will get sick and lose her baby if she was unfaithful. It may be the earliest description of an abortion ever, and there it is in the Bible, as a command from god. But let’s think about that in the context of what we know now. Forgiveness of sins was accomplished by sacrificing an animal on the alter in the tabernacle. When an animal dies, it loses bladder and sphincter control, causing its bladder and colon to empty. That would have flowed down onto the floor, along with a gush of blood, and the floor was just the ground with a tent over it. Now, you are going to make a curse potion of that dust, along with some holy water, and ink from a writing of the curse. The woman would have to drink That. If her abdomen swelled up and she got sick, and aborted any pregnancy she may have been carrying, she would be considered guilty. Likely would have been stoned to death. But think of all the bacteria in that dust. How many innocent women were sickened and maybe stoned because they didn’t understand science, and all because their jackass husbands were a little insecure. That is some effed up literature. The point of all this is that the book isn’t holy, and if the book isn’t holy, you can’t use it as your standard. Catholics look to the Pope as having divine knowledge of God’s will. That is the standard they have created in order to discern their God’s actual will. How bizarre to think it was God’s will to hide the child sexual abuse scandals so ingrained in the church worldwide. Not to mention the horrible display of so-called morality during the Holy Roman Empire. So, that “special human” standard doesn’t work either. So you are left with a silent god, who is supposedly everywhere, and yet when a gunman shoots up a school, those bullets have to pass through a caring god on the way to killing an innocent child (credit to Darkmatter2525 for that bit of insight)? Give us all a break! Kudos to you, Alex, for seeing this nonsense for what it is, and for helping to spread that knowledge.

[@lokilawson]

And oh by the way, he was disapprovingly watching you “pat the robertson,” “rough up the suspect,” or whatever you may call it while those bullets were flying.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Thank you! I’m going to have to do something with that story. It’s absolutely crazy!

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Right! 🥴

[@lokilawson]

@@TheOriginalAnswerman it is ripe fodder for ridicule, for sure.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

@ and not a lot of people know about it…

[@robertsummers3386]

My mom was raised Methodist, but she never put that onto us. I actually had no idea she was religious until I was 17. She's supportive of our own beliefs on top of that. Me and my younger brother were never religious at all, but our older brother experimented (though it was more because of his friends or he had eyes on a girl), but she'd let him do it because she wanted that to be our choice, not hers.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Cool mom👍🏻

[@holeshapedgod]

The title was no lie. It was an amusing story. I am so glad i was not raised in a religious household. The thought of going to hell because of masturbation is insane and very harmful especially to young minds. Why would an all powerful and loving god be so petty? Why would a god create beings with those urges in the first place? Makes no sense!

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Thanks. I don’t think Catholic doctrine actually says masturbation is a sin punishable by hell, but they certainly don’t tell kids it isn’t. Who knows, maybe the sin adds up over time… 😎

[@jw3816]

Lol could never understand a word the priest said he spoke like the drunk priest on father Ted.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Ha! Love that guy!

[@S.P.A.M]

love your content man, i became an atheist because i prayed every time my mom got upset and beat the living shit out of me as a child, and i prayed in the bathroom for god to calm my at the time hysterical mother down and make her happy by tomorrow xD. it didnt work, eventually i stopped praying and she calmed down the next day anyway lol, and i started thinking about the logic behind god and thought to myself that religion is kinda stupid, and if god was real, why did he allow Albania and Yugoslavia to exist? so either god isnt real, or he is evil like Yugoslavia and Albania. keep up the amazing work man

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Thanks a lot. Appreciate the comment.

[@ChristianCatboy]

I was raised as a Conservative Evangelical (and even a Young Earth Creationist), but they could never convince me that self-comfort is inherently sinful. They still got me hate myself for looking at pørn, though.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Did you have a subscription to National Geographic? That used to get me through…

[@lokilawson]

@@TheOriginalAnswerman it was the Sears and Roebuck catalogue that got me through!

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Woah… tough times

[@glenhughes8013]

It has some parallels with my own story.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Catholic upbringing?

[@glenhughes8013]

@TheOriginalAnswerman C of E, then the dreaded JW's.

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

C of E, that’s like Catholicism with beheadings, right? What’s JW? Jehovah’s Witness?

[@DeconvertedMan]

I've been told many times that I was not a true xtan due to all sorts of silly reasons. Still happens. Is masturbation a sin under the catholic stuff?! My best argument for god is that god is in fact, a nitwit. God is dumb. It made the universe via accident. :D

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

That’s a popular rationalization. I hear that all the time, also.

[@DeconvertedMan]

@ if you want an interview let me know and/or if you want stuff things let me know! ^_^

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

@ cool! I’ll check out your channel…

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Hey, if you want to chat, feel free to email me at [e-mail] I think it’d be fun.

[@lidbass]

Twenty-five minutes?!? Basic Catholic service over here in Italy is usually not less than an hour. Your priests must have rattled through their sermons!

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Around 45 minutes on average. I think they get bored with the sermons too.

[@rogersacco4624]

Read Jesus Christ Superstition by Robert M Price

[@vokqe]

Response to this video: 1:48 Yes. Because most of the bible is not meant to be taken literally, take the parables for instance. 2:20 Name some mistakes 2:21 If you're referring to the Canaanites, then there is a good explanation for that. 2:25 The regulations regarding slaves in Exodus 21, far from being inhumane, would have been far more humane and protective of the slave in Israel than in any of the surrounding nations. 2:30 Slavery in Israel was often a means for foreigners to find refuge and sustenance within the community, although it still carried a significant power imbalance. In Leviticus 25:46, we see the concept of inheritance in relation to slaves. This means that foreign slaves could become part of an Israelite household and share in the blessings and responsibilities of the family. While this may not justify the institution of slavery, it does reflect a certain degree of integration and care for the well-being of slaves within Israelite society. If you look at the historical context of Leviticus 25:44-46 the way they treat slaves is great. I seem to find that most atheists like you grow up with catholic school/church backgrounds. 6:30 thats just not how it works. I don't know too much about Catholicism but all you need to do to go to heaven is accept Jesus and repent meaningfully. Catholicism seems to have it wrong. If you want to be forgiven of sins you just need to repent meaningfully, in private or public, at any time. it doesn't matter. 8:25 If your actively committing sins and not even trying to stop then your doing something wrong. If you actively sin and know you are going to, but think your fine because you can repent, then your not actually repenting, because you don't mean it. 9:05 You don't need to do the communion. 9:45 Yes, only if you don't care about your relationship with god. 9:50 You didnt sound so sure about that 10:20 Asking for people to worship you if you created them is not a fragile ego 🤣 10:27 and 2 humans is all we needed to become a race. 10:50 I doubt he "needed to" 11:04 Why does that mean he can't be all loving and all powerful? 11:52 and why can't that be done while God and satan exist?

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

Hey, I was wondering what happened to you…

[@vokqe]

@@TheOriginalAnswerman Yeah my comments have stopped showing a lot for some reason

[@TheOriginalAnswerman]

@@vokqe It wasn't anything I did.