Christian Channel Wants Parents To FEAR Satan | Atheist Reaction

Did you know that Satan is causing kids to use text-speak, which is subsequently going to destroy society? If not, it sounds like you need to listen to Allen Parr’s FEAR SHOW!
To summarise: everything slightly negative ever is because Satan. Oh and if you get divorced, your children will become drug addicts, and LGBTQ+ people cause STDs.
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Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro
07:07 - "Gender Confusion"
11:49 - Technology Bad
19:26 - Social Media Bad
21:04 - Mental Illness
23:09 - Family Dysfunction
25:38 - Pre-Marital sex
29:16 - Drugs and Alcohol

[@cassietheenglishteacher]

My daughter’s trans ness is not from Satan. Her table manners are though. 😆

[@kennywenny9407]

Will you adopt me

[@bryony2616]

I love this 😂

[@Annie_Annie__]

Your daughter’s table manners and my enby kid’s inability to speak in an ‘inside voice’. Lol.

[@maryeve3984]

JE$US DID NOT DIE FOR 0UR SINS ✝ Christians claim Jesus had to die for our sins for us to gain SALVATION Christians please Explain why this method was never needed before by all the previous prophets but is needed now❓( The reality is humans have always sinned from DAY 1 ) Suppose Jesus did die for 0ur sins ➡ Why then do the christians still preach to the world that we must repent for our sins ? ( CHRI$TIANS MAKE YOUR MIND UP BECAUSE IT CAN'T BE BOTH ) If Jesus really willingly died for our sins, why was he begging God to save him From getting crucified❓ Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" ( Matthew 27 : 46 )

[@juliawolf156]

I can offer a BBQ exorcism. It's basically a normal barbeque but i'm holding a cross taped together out of 4 forks and sometimes scream "THE POWER OF FORK COMPELS YOU! THE POWER OF FORK COMPELS YOU!", like if your daughter burps loudly on the table. If you, your daughter or your loved ones are vegetarian or vegan, please tell me in advance because i need to learn how to grill vegetables.

[@janellea826]

As a librarian, I just want to point something out. Most libraries no longer use physical card catalogs, with many having switched to electronic records over 20 years ago. Sounds like he hasn't been to a library in long a while. Maybe that explains his lack of citations? And he wants to talk about kids being lazy...

[@happytofu5]

this burn needs more likes

[@stephennootens916]

I can barely remember when they had a physical catalog. I had to be in maybe junior high when I had last saw one which must be almost thirty years ago.

[@jaclo3112]

Even when I was in high school in the 90s my school had done away with physical card catalogues. I remember the day we were taught to use the computer catalogue to find the books we wanted. It was an exciting day. Now it would be mundane. lol.

[@Klinkertinlegs]

🔥

[@joshsimpson1283]

I'm in my mid 30s and hung out in libraries a lot as a small child. My only exposure to a card catalog was my highschool library that had recently converted to digital, but hadn't gotten rid of the old cards so I would go look at them for fun sometimes

[@MudouSarah]

11:30 "oh god, imagine, the nightmares. Children are being raised to be so understanding, compassionate, and willing to learn about other people... Bloody Satan" 😂😂

[@katarinatibai8396]

😂😂😂👍👍👍

[@mikeperkins3469]

What's crazier than having an imaginary friend? Having an imaginary enemy!👹

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

God is not an imaginary firend. That is what I hate about internet Athiests.

[@mikeperkins3469]

@@TheMilitantMazdakite Produce him. There are only the gods we've created for ourselves in our own deplorable image's.

[@TheMilitantMazdakite]

@@mikeperkins3469 No, they are not. The true God, the great Ahura Mazda, is all-good.

[@mikeperkins3469]

@@TheMilitantMazdakite Introduce him to me.

[@vahidebrahimi9750]

@@TheMilitantMazdakite A fellow Iranian here. Kind of interesting seeing a Zoroastrian. Even though I actually live in Iran, I don't personally know any Zoroastrians. I guess they mostly live outside of Iran. Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that telling people that your god is the one true god doesn't really mean anything. Basically every single other religion does that as well. So, at least try to make an actual argument, you know?

[@ko2vo]

PragerU: How many genders are there? College kids: The answer is more complicated than the question suggests. PragerU: Oh they are SO confused. Kudos to those college kids for being so informed and thoughtful in their answers.

[@abeytuhanu]

Asking how many genders there are is a bit like asking how many temperatures there are. You can broadly categorize everything as hot or cold, but there's a lot of nuance inbetween.

[@BuddhaMonkey7]

@@abeytuhanu It's more like asking how many kinds of weather there are. Not only is there a lot of nuance between hot and cold, there are also whole other axes (wet/dry, windy/calm) that leaves out altogether.

[@DemonicRemption]

@@abeytuhanu Science has identified male and female by physical and biological traits, from our genitalia to the number of X and Y chromosomes in the human body. Find me similar features in the alleged numerous genders that exist, and then maybe I'll believe this notion.

[@abeytuhanu]

@@DemonicRemption You're conflating sex and gender, sex is the physical and biological traits while gender is the social and sociatial expectations. Gender norms change over time, as an example blue used to be the girl's color while pink was the boy's color.

[@DemonicRemption]

@@abeytuhanu Cute, but no I'm not. Gender and sex are synonymous in the context of biological and physiological traits. They're only differniated so it won't sound like we're talking about fornication when the word "sex" is used. Also you're conflating societal standards with biological factors, hence your misunderstanding. The two are as different as night and day. Biology and physiology help differeniate the genders of every living creature. Societal standards were crafted to establish a sense of order, and thus shouldn't determine how boys and girls behave, or what they enjoy so long as it's within reason. Hell you wanna know how B.S. societal standards are, I'm a heterosexual guy, yet my second favorite anime franchise is Sailor-Moon. Sailor-Moon is aimed at girls 12 and up, yet I've watched the series on Toonami back in 1998, and collected the manga. Another series I enjoy is My Little Pony Friendship is Magic, as I used to enjoy the original My Little Pony as a kid, though Friendship Is Magic is a vast improvement. Such examples are a nice contrast to the boy centric material likeBatman, Power Rangers, and DragonBall Z that I also enjoy. Meanwhile these individuals who consider their gender indulge in that which is socially acceptable to the genders they identify with at a given moment. But that's expected from a sheltered lot who haven't lived in this world, and don't know how unnecessary that is. Plus, you haven't done what I've asked in giving me features to identify these alleged genders by. So how am I supposed to trust what you say...? Take you at your word? Please, doing that has always ended poorly for me.

[@TheSteveLynx]

"kids shortening words in text is OUTRAGEOUS!" Wait until he learns about shorthand which has been used for LITERAL millenia!

[@86BullnoseOG]

He could’ve saved us a lot of time by just standing in a corner and screaming “OH, PLEASE! WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!”

[@braydon7589]

Is your profile picture a gorgonopsid

[@Chalkadoo]

Is he yelling at an angle facing away from the corner or towards it, I'd argue the latter would be more representative of our reaction to it, and furthermore if you managed to stick a tiny choir in there to boot, it would be the most accurate as he's clearly only preaching to people who already believe like he does.

[@86BullnoseOG]

@@Chalkadoo oh, definitely yelling INTO the corner 😂😂😂

[@MegaDurand1]

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[@lazer2521]

@@giovannipiacen85 It adds perspective. He's an man who agrees with Emma's presentation.

[@williamchamberlain2263]

KIU - knowledge is understanding --> understanding leads to empathy, empathy leads to happiness

[@user-zg9oo5bj4f]

If you find a decent explanation of religion, let me know. For the most part, only misinformation is out there. Going back to 2,000 BC, humans asked, "Why are we intelligent? Why do we make babies by sexual reproduction? Can we pray to the sun?" And the most creative types came up with answers. However, ALL of those answers were wrong. We get heat by two hydrogen atoms fusing together to make a single helium atom. Not a single ancient religious text gets that right. The Genesis Myth says the first human couple appeared in 4004 BC. So, I see nothing wrong by throwing away all the ancient "religious texts" and starting over. Especially Islam. Islam says the universe is shaped like an egg. Nothing can permanently damage a young mind more than Catholic school. Six members of the Supreme Court were dumbed down by a Catholic education and how do we get past that?

[@chrispitchforth621]

"THE ENEMY IS ATTACKING OUR YOUTH" says guy who goes on to attack kids for their gender.

[@TheBlackfall234]

"their gender" you meean, a boy who thinks hes a girl even tho he clearly is a boy ? Did you ever met a Transgender Person in your life without some kind of abusive Story from their Childhood ? Or anything in that direction ? The ones ive talked with are literally this. "well when i was a child my father used to hit me.." Its always stuff like this, or brainwashing - because apparently a 9 year old boy likes clothes we determine as Women clothes (The one aspect of "Gender" that truly is just based on Society and is regularly s hifting, somehow thats the one aspect people usually use to argue that their boy is in fact a girl, because he likes to wear dresses - there you can see how hypocritical the people who are in favour of transgender, really are) "oh gender is a structure made by our society, but clothing is totally appropriate to make statements wether or not my boy actually is a girl". We suddenly pretend that Kids know what they want and what they are, but they are literally Kids because they dont know and they probably will not now for a couple of decades to come. We pretend that Humans that are in their early phase of developing a Personality, actually dont develop and know very well what they want. This is Babylon. Does not mean Christians are just right on everything - if you look closely you can see that the Church worships the Great Snake - or the Devil. Thats also why they call Transgender Evil, because with their Pedophile crimes they are very much aware of what that makes with young kids and thus are not even lying - they just dont tell everything there is to it.

[@jaclo3112]

@@TheBlackfall234 No that's not what Chris means. But if we are going to talk about kids who were abused, I don't know a single trans person who was abused other than by people who attack them by insisting what their gender is even though a male identifying as a girl or a female identifying as a boy hurts nobody. However, I have met MANY people who are male and identify as men and who are female and identify as women who were severely abused in their childhood. Majority of cis gendered people will tell you "well when I was a child my father used to hit me..". It's always moronic brainwashing and subjective opinions that tell 9 year old boys that in some times and cultures it's NOT ok to do certain things and behave in certain ways because that's 'feminine'...then less than a generation later tell them it's ok because to engage in the exact same behaviours as they are now deemed 'masculine'. There was a time in western culture when women or girls wanting a basic education were deemed 'gender confused' and 'unfeminine' as education was a 'masculine' attribute and girls/women being educated is 'of the devil' and would 'destroy society'. lol. Now in cultures where education for girls is deemed a basic human right...as it is for boys, those cultures have better quality of life, economy, health and stability. Adults pretend they know what kids are or want based on their own subjective and arbitrary opinions...like those gross and ignorant parents who believed girls should not have a right to education because they are girls. Now days we still have cruel parents who force kids to conform to their subjective opinions of arbitrary and ever changing social constructs like gender not knowing what will happen to the child for a couple of decades to come. Adults like that pretend that what they subjectively believe without evidence is what humans that are in their early phase of development must always conform to. It's interesting that you compare it to 'Babylon' when Babylon was used as an example in the bible of the gods of christianity openly demonstrating hatred and condemnation of knowledge, human cooperation and ingenuity. And when it comes to the Devil in the bible...he's the good guy of the story who wanted humans to have knowledge, free will and stood up to tyrannical, abusive, genocidal and morally depraved authoritarian gods. So no, the church doesn't worship the devil. They clearly worship the gods of Christian mythology, in particular the evil necromancer demigod jesus, and have for centuries imitated those gods in all their moral depravity as written in the bible.

[@TheBlackfall234]

@@jaclo3112 youre the only one being brainwashed here. "i dont know any trans who got abused" i bet you dont even know any trans, or they simply didnt tell you they got abused. Babylon is not just a synonym for "human coorperation and ingenuity". That shows you dont even know anything. Youre a superficial person, believing lies and never digging deeper. Babylon is also used as a synonym for Human Arrogance of knowing it better then nature, wich is what happens right here.

[@jaclo3112]

@@TheBlackfall234 I live in Melbourne Australia and worked for 12 years in the entertainment industry. You can't not know trans people here. I never said it was a synonym. I said i was an example of the gods of christian mythology demonstrating their sheer hatred of and despising human cooperation and ingenuity. You either struggle with basic english comprehension or are deliberately using dishonest strawmanning. Now you're making personal attacks because you are upset. Calm down. That you view human ingenuity and cooperation as 'arrogance' provides a perfect example of how gods are made in the image of men. not sure what "of knowing it better then nature" means as that sentence doesn't even make sense.

[@TheBlackfall234]

@@jaclo3112 You twist and turn around, so it all fits your point. Yeah, youre clueless and enjailed in the matrix. Claiming that the Tower of Babylon is a Story about how God despises Human Ingenuitiy and Coorporation is one thing, but to reduce it to that is another. You pretend that the Babylon Story is just about what you think it is and deny the other aspects. Then you are talking about how i cant comprehend what you write. The Problem is you are not even coming close to have a decent pool of knowledge to actually talk about this matter it seems. If all you can say about babylon is "well god hated how great we worked together" then thats a shame. "gods of christian mythology" You just keep exposing yourself as a clueless person. There are no "gods", in Christian beliefs. They only have one. Youre completly blinded by your ignorant thinking that Babylon is a show of ingenuity. Yes it was a Story of Human Arrogance ASWELL. Im not saying Babylon is not about god hating that Humans work together, that is really just one part - leaving out the greater context. It is about Human arrogance, wanting to play god and doing things he is not meant to do - at least yet. Like a newborn Child wanting to drive a Car, if thats more understandable for you. Wich just means you dont even know the Story at all. With this kind of superficial knowledge youre showing and proven, you are really just proving my point. Youre a typical snake person. Spewing missinformation, leaving out important parts and only take your very own and biased interpretation of things as "fact", while not leaving room for a broader view on things. Those are the people that think they are open minded and woke today... Youre showing another problem of this World with your behaviour and you probably dont realise it. Nowadays people really think that talking from a moral highground (wich is always just based on current beliefs and no deeper truth) makes them a morally superior or a good Person. That is a horribly wrong assumption and youll gonna learn that sooner or later. Just talking after what is seen as Political Correct does not make the world a better place, nor does it make you a good Person. And just because you repeat the lies over and over does not make those lies truth. There are 2 Genders, period.

[@izzyebdon2312]

As a queer person, it's nice to be seen as important enough to be the reason for everything going wrong

[@dreamworld3319]

You must feel so powerful 😆 lololol

[@miaulink1152]

*dramatically places flat hand palm down against chest* I too feel honored. I have never caused an apocalypse before and now I get to be part of the cause of one? I feel so flattered.

[@fullauto86]

Lololol holy shit thus comment got me.

[@will48589]

@James.P???

[@will48589]

@James.P what does that have to do with trans people?

[@WilliamWyche]

I’m... estranged from all of my family for various reasons, including religion, but the idea that your dad stopped talking to you when he became a Xian breaks my heart. You are such a brilliant person and you are very very brave for sharing that. The fact that these things happen so horribly often tells you that their religion is not making them better people. Period. We hear you. Please keep sharing your voice.

[@beaconeersofthesevenmaps3467]

It is the plain demonstration that religion is harmful

[@abanks9591]

It's amazing how religion makes you a non critical thinker, an ahole, condescending, docile, group thinking yet also a day to day d^#*.

[@wilhelmschmidt7240]

The bit on the street asking about gender had me rolling.... The two males that said clearly they identify as male but have no issue with people that don't, oh the mass disruption and confusion of our youth! 😂

[@jezra4427]

I remember being 7 years old terrified I might go to hell, especially at night, and sometimes afraid I would become possessed by demons like some unfortunate people in the Bible. The way my parents scared me with all that biblical stuff was straight up child abuse.

[@DemonicRemption]

@FarLeftConspiracyTheorist As a Christian crap like this makes me want to focus on raising my kids to be independent and critical thinkers. But that deters me from wanting to have kids, because if I do that, I'll have to deal with them possibly being critical of how my parents raised me, which would make family get-togethers hazardous. This is of course, I could teach my kids to tolerable of behavior they don't agree with, but they might resent me for it.

[@solsystem1342]

Ha ha, yea I can relate. Didn't help us accept our multiplicity to be sure.

[@dalesplitstone6276]

I was equally terrified that I was going to Hell and going to Heaven. until I was four years old. It was at the age o four that the one true god first intervened in my life. Once God intervened in my life I no longer feared Heaven and Hell. It wasn't until I was 21 years old that God revealed that his true name is Lucifer. And that Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, etc are different names for Satan. He revealed to me at that time the top three ways that Satan misleads people: 1) Islam 2) Right wing Christianity 3) Theocracies

[@mugety5130]

Growing up believing that you're personally under attack by supernaturally powerful spirit creatures definitely messes you up and leads to so many horrifying nightmares as a little child.

[@gilly_axolotl]

Oh man it took me 8 years past the time I stopped believing in god to stop my ocd from manifesting in the fear of supernatural retribution

[@inconspicuoushoodie4504]

ah ha ha same dude * *whips in trauma* * (but seriously I went to a Christian elementary school and they showed us a video about a guy who died in a car accident and goes to burn in hell because he didn't believe in Jesus, there was weeping and screaming GOD DAMN!!! THAT MESSED ME UP AS A CHILD!!! I was in 6th grade at the time after that I had recurring nightmares for years, so yeah I fuckin hate this stuff now)

[@gilly_axolotl]

@@inconspicuoushoodie4504 christ

[@inconspicuoushoodie4504]

@@gilly_axolotl yeah shits fucked I remembered it a few years ago and looked for the vid on youtube to see if it was as bad as I remembered AND IT WAS!! bruh.... (I recommend you don't look for it, it does a good job at instilling fear, for me at least)

[@angemon003]

huh what left wings have show yeah his very real. Making sure you lie you can hide it anymore.

[@noway7555]

When I was young they used to tell us Rock and Roll was the devils music. I always replied 'He makes great music then, why cant the church?'. LOL. My daughter barely speaks to me because she got sucked into the baptist church. I feel your pain Emma.

[@Zaprozhan]

Other things "of the devil", jazz, ragtime, big-band, rock, r+b, rap, electronica, comics, television, radio, and the internet. Anytime the church feels it isn't getting the attention it deserves from it's minions, it fabricates a new moral panic.

[@melissacooper8724]

I'm sure the church felt that way about The Beatles! Especially after the "More popular than Jesus" quote from John Lennon!

[@jbirdmax]

I was in a terribly abusive relationship. I had to leave for fear of my life. Oh wait, no, nope, the devil made me leave so that my daughter could be raised in a better, safer, alcohol free environment. That entire, horrible experience had nothing to do with spousal abuse. It was the devil. 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@MrCrimsonbolt]

That is very crafty of the devil, depriving you and your daughter of the god given gift of having the shit kicked out of you by a deadbeat scumbag. I hope you're able to break away from Satan's evil influence, I'm so sorry that you both have to be happy and safe now

[@alexandralash]

I need a “the devil gave me ADHD” mug in my life.

[@random_programmer]

Same!

[@bbear2695]

please tell me this guys video isnt going to say neurodivergents are the devil. my heart.

[@myusaris]

I also need one saying "The Devil gave me autism".

[@Raztiana]

I want "The Devil made me nerdy"!

[@rebeccaramsey1274]

I would buy that.

[@minaravenloft]

He shared statistics for suicides amongst teens in 2017, but failed to include the statistics showing home environment/religious affiliation as pertaining to a contributing factor. How many of our LGBTQIA+ youth have we lost to suicide because of the rejection from their fundie parents?? Christians and their cherry-picking...

[@NamiNuitsuki]

Not to mention rejection from their peers as well. A lot of us grew up with that viral YT video showing a child coming out and being bullied to the point where they committed suicide. That, at least, was my first introduction to what being gay even was as I didn't know what it was before watching. I think the video resonated with a lot of people because they are so often ostracized. It's exactly people like Allen that contribute to people in the community harming themselves.

[@DemonicRemption]

@Mandi White The extremists on both sides of the fence cherry-pick information ma'am... And as someone who sits on the fence watching this display of hypocrisy, used to be irritating... Thing is I know enough about humanity to understand engaging in conflict is our nature. So at times like this, I kick back, and watch the world burn.

[@Raiden-the-Goat32]

@@NamiNuitsuki It shows how people can be quite bigoted doesn't it ? The thing is I don't think alot of people realize this. I sure did not when I was religious but I do now that I am an atheist. Like how does a person being gay make them less of a person deserving of love ? Beyond that it is just a matter of who you are attracted to. So as a religious person I did not get that who someone being attracted to or who they sleep with really doesn't matter. Beyond that it is really no one's business what another person does behind the sheets. I am more excepting of gay people now infact I fully except them. Why do religious people worry over something so meaningless? Well it's simple they are unknowingly a bigoted for religious reasons.

[@zesty_zaney81]

The "kids are going to use text language in formal communication" is absolutely hilarious to me. I'm 15, I use text language occasionally. I use proper grammar in just normal texting everyday! I feel nervous using even shortened words in my own diary! Why would I use "Gtg" in a RESUME? Lmao cant wait to apply to Starbucks like this

[@SystemsMedicine]

I’ve heard from grade school teachers that ‘text style’ slang writing is often infused into formal writing these day. Apparently kids often have difficulty distinguishing the difference. Decisions about education should not be left to the students, for many reasons, among them is that they can’t really evaluate their own problems objectively. [ps Aim a lot higher than Starbucks, or you’ll sabotage your own future. Cheers.]

[@allensparks4734]

As someone who recently learned they have autism. This feels like it might fit. Are you dyslexic like me or do you have some other mild learning disorder. I'm high functioning learning disorder on the spectrum. I've learned to let go. I'm on a phone so punctuation nah.😂😂😂

[@SystemsMedicine]

@@allensparks4734 Hi Allen. One of my college roommates was a very brilliant mathematician with dyslexia. His rule was that if he couldn’t log onto a computer within 10 tries for his simple password, he would figure that a day on the computer would be a waste of time. In the end, this became a great strength, since he would solve problems completely in his head, and then write down his reasoning and answer only after completely solving the problem. [It was amusing and instructive to see this process in action.] As for autism, if you are reasonably satisfied with yourself… embrace it. Be thyself. Cheers.

[@zesty_zaney81]

@SystemsMedicine My 15 y/o goals weren't the best but im going to be a psychologist in the future, I'm 17 now and have plans to move and go to college ! And if young kids can't see the difference, well let's hope their brains figure it out or honestly, it'll become a norm in their generation and we'll have to deal. it's weird to other gens but even if I don't agree with using brb in an essay, well, they'll do fine either way.

[@zesty_zaney81]

@allensparks4734 I *am* autistic! And have ADHD so isn't that such a great mix/s. but either way, my autism is helping me move forward with my career goals lmao. And yeah, sometimes we just gotta relax on the type speech, I'll be honest I've used tone tags verbally with friends before

[@Doctor.T.46]

When I was a PhD student I literally spent a large proportion of my life in the windowless bowels of my university's academic library. I am so glad now that technology has saved today's students of that ordeal. That's what I call progress...thank you technology.

[@MetaphorUB]

We took the approach with our kids that regardless of Internet limits and browser safeguards that we simply couldn’t control their access to information because of friends, etc. and if we couldn’t filter it, then we should arm them with enough positive facts and context to make good choices about how to process information they received when we weren’t present to put it in context for them.

[@johnathanwalker8395]

FTH!

[@Cherrypiem]

For the Horde!

[@lukasp5892]

What kinda healthy parenting is this?? THE DEVIL IS AT WORK

[@tankfu1]

That is exactly what we did. Parental controls blocked so many things that were not harmful, didn't block things that could have been, and constantly sent me notifications that something had been blocked or that my kids were requesting it be unblocked. It was a mess. You just have to tell them to be careful and that a lot on the internet is not real or not healthy.

[@hashemx1ify]

I hope this doesn't sound really ignorant I'm 24 and still far away from having a child , but the idea that some day my child will be exposed to the internet in the way it is scares me My parent took the "censor everything" approach which is really bad too So how do you arm them exactly....

[@cfadeathfries]

I can't help but laugh at people who have called me "gender confused" because there's nothing confusing about my gender to me. I understand it perfectly and often misunderstanding comes from the person who's telling me I don't understand it

[@jules7667]

I love your comment but even more I love your username. Just awesome.

[@TheBlackfall234]

@Alexandria Muse if a boy thinks hes a girl or vice versa, he already lost who he is.

[@galek75]

But you are confused.

[@grahvis]

@@TheBlackfall234 . I would say they know exactly who they are.

[@ottonormalverbrauch3794]

@@TheBlackfall234 First I read TheBlackfail234 then I realized my mistake, then I read your post and had to check your name again.

[@briguy_3840]

I’m in my 40s. When I was a kid I was very curious about everything. I would carry around a pocket sized note book and a pen all the time in order to make a note to myself to look something up during my weekly visit to the library. I dreamt of a future where information would be so easily accessible (like in sci-fi novels and tv shows). I guarantee you that this guy uses technology just like the rest of us and he doesn’t thinks it’s “from Satan” when he does it. This guy is just listing how tech and attitudes have changed since he was a kid. The funniest thing is he’s listing “issues” that have always been said about kids. His lack of self awareness is very sad really.

[@bennienthejet89]

Omg. He just listed mental illness as the devil?! Now I’m mad too. Thanks for outting this.

[@NielMalan]

I was in high school in the 80s. The complaints about what was ruining kids sounded exactly the same.

[@cageybee1154]

Satanic Panic part 2.

[@lynnpayne9519]

I remember those days.

[@ussinussinongawd516]

@@cageybee1154 the Satanic panic has been around since Jesus tbh

[@Raztiana]

Youth has been suffering from laziness, vanity and bad manners for at least 2000 years. The details just change.

[@helenr4300]

@@Raztiana Agree - I can't recall the quote but a Roman writer has a great bit about 'kids today'

[@Teeuwynn]

I have a 14, 16, and 18 year old. None of them thinks texting language is the same as other written communication. They play tons of video games. My oldest is a freshman honors Chemistry major. Oh, and we are atheists. This man is ridiculous.

[@TheBlackfall234]

Doing well in a sick system is no sign of Health. You being proud of success, in a world that is a lie - is kinda proofing his point. A convienced Atheist is just as ridicoulus as a Christian who thinks hes praying to God. Both are wrong :)

[@ottonormalverbrauch3794]

@@TheBlackfall234 Can you explain why your imaginary deity took the time to strike all his internet-minions with the curse of spelling errors and failing punctuation. Is that how you recognize one another or what? I take it you regard yourself as a success in a superior system, well it's easy to succeed in a system that has about a thousand different denominations, there's always one that fits your special needs. Just my two cents.

[@TheBlackfall234]

@@ottonormalverbrauch3794 Du hast einfach garnichts verstanden von dem was ich geschrieben habe junge. Komplett den Punkt verpasst einfach.

[@ottonormalverbrauch3794]

@@TheBlackfall234 If I didn't understand you, you've got yourself to thank mr. Poor-Grammar.

[@TheBlackfall234]

@@ottonormalverbrauch3794 "if im to stupid, its the other ones fault" is what youre saying.

[@philb4462]

I love the way this guy thinks technology makes people lazy. I'm sure he uses cars, telephones and e-mails instead of walking, visiting people and hand writing letters and doing the things previous generations had to do. It's always the next generation that has it too good or likes rubbish music or whatever rather than our own. It's how old people think. I should know - I'm an old person, but I do try to train myself out of these thoughts.

[@PraiseTheFSMonster]

It starts early. I'm in my 20s and already disgruntled by the newer generation 😅

[@pansexualdickhaver6878]

We love you Phil. Stay young my friend ❤️

[@sweeneylens]

“Therefore: Satan” is now my favorite phrase indicating a lack of connections between points.

[@andybrace9225]

The late comedian Dave Alan tells of when he when to Catholic school when 5 years old run by nuns and nun said to him "you are going to be a good boy?" He looked up and saw a man nailed to a cross and nodded.

[@kiisusan]

"This one weird trick to tell if Lucifer is tricking us. Demons hate it." Also, love that he talks about the evils of technology and social media when he's got a 100k follower award in full view on the shelf behind him.

[@eliasbischoff176]

@Alexandria Muse I think this is why he first talked about how it can do good. That opened up the possibility to vaguely complain about some things while keeping up a shield of deniability. "My use of social media isn't bad, I said it can do good. It's just THAT use of it, that is bad."

[@rstevewarmorycom]

There is NO "god" and NO "satan" or "demons", it's all BULLSHIT!!

[@eliasbischoff176]

@@rstevewarmorycom I think you have to pick your battles a bit. You're not gonna convince a convicted Christian to become an atheist by saying it's all bullshit. And commenting it here is mostly preaching to the choir

[@rstevewarmorycom]

@@eliasbischoff176 That's exactly what we do that is convincing an ever larger growing body of atheists to deconvert. Atheism is now spreading like wildfire, and it is now larger than evangelicalism and catholicism. It's all over but the shouting for right-wing christianity, that's why they're so terrified!

[@views-kb6sv]

Don't you guys complian about other people, saying your side talks about socialism, while owning an iphone tho?

[@ladyaj7784]

The disgusting part is that all these people use videos and phones (it used to be tv) to babysit their kids... usually so they can do something similar. But when the kids get older and spend all their time watching videos and media, they call it bad. Friggin hypocrites.

[@jwwebnaut7045]

"The Enemy is attacking our youth" I'm so relieved that I as an old man am getting off scot free! Phew, narrow escape.

[@jacobbuss9283]

I legit had nightmares when I was younger because I thought there was a demon and evil spirits wanting to drag me to hell at any given moment. It's fucked up

[@blacksky8854]

I saw a post once saying that all religion is psychological t3rrorism and I couldn't agree more

[@raphmaster23]

Yeah for me it went as far as a fear to even mention the word Hell. Its amazing that I get a little anxious about it still.

[@jz-meister5343]

I was a Christian for years, and I was DEEP into it. Having since gone through my own religious deconstruction for nine years, I have since realized how harmful it is to believe that some invisible enemy is after you. Sometimes, bad things just happen. And that’s okay.

[@JD43081]

But some invisible,insidious enemy is after you,whispering in your ears. It’s name is fear and this guy decided feeding it is a good idea. 🙄 As a Christian,I really hate when people do this.

[@ChristianCatboy]

@@JD43081 Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

[@jtebiblestudy]

As a Christian, I think that a lot of the bad things that go on on a societal level are more from our own sinful nature than directly from satan.

[@Nameless-pt6oj]

You do realize that you don’t need to be worried about Satan if God has your back? I don’t think you took the time to really understand that. Jesus assured us that He will always be with us.

[@stephenconnolly3018]

He is not a man in his middle age. He is a man in the middle ages.

[@TheHorrorDevotee]

Going off something you spoke about at the start, Emma, I would even go as far as to say teaching children about hell is literal child abuse, as many others here have already said. As someone who was both sexually assaulted and raised very christian, I eventually made my peace with the trauma of the sexual assault, but being told my grandmother is in hell has haunted me forever. As ridiculous as the idea of an afterlife is, I still get a jolt of fear when it's mentioned. That's how powerful childhood indoctrination is.

[@pedroyuuhi1677]

"Kids think that texting is formal communicating" Look, kids are dumb but let's give them some credit, ok?

[@Raztiana]

Not dumb, but often thoughtless.

[@pedroyuuhi1677]

Mah, def dumb

[@2121bassplayer]

when i was in middle school and texting was becoming ubiquitous, but many cellphones didnt have keyboard and texts were pricy so kids actually used hardcore texting grammar to be as efficient as possible. there was a lot of uproar about txt speech, but even then kids only did it on purpose to be funny or "cool," none of us thought it was how the english language is typically written. its so silly to see that same fear 15 years later. like if text speech was going to destroy our written language it probably would have done so by now, especially cause we're way past its heyday anyway.

[@Kagomai15]

@@2121bassplayer It's a very antiquated concern, yeah 😂

[@imaginativeskydadytm1389]

My mom is 65 y/o but her text compared to mine (32 y/o) are similar to teens, it's just people ways to get message fast and convenient way, beside during 18th century often Morse code are shorthand due to the cost of each word sent

[@kayew5492]

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. In those days a computer would fill a room and the idea of having one at home, much less in your pocket, was unimaginable. That didn't stop me from being bullied though, nor did it prevent the several occasions when I was sexually harassed and even assaulted. I don't think Satan was involved, just the individuals who actually hurt me.

[@sheldorleconcher8870]

As someone who was raised in a conservative, religious family, I'm glad to see young people like yourself, thinking for yourself. Don't take the pronouncements from old farts like myself with complete credulity.

[@kingpoo1987]

I loved your reply to this at the end 😂😂😂😂

[@LaraBee]

Okay for one thing, ADD/ADHD (and autism) is NOT a mental illness. It is a neurological condition where our brains perceive things differently. Also, I have physical mobility issues, so technology has been extremely helpful and especially this past year so that I don’t have to find arrangements to get to places, and it allows me to be more social within my physical limitations.

[@rookdice6387]

we stan correcting harmful misinformation your comment has been ADHD-peer approved

[@MEGATONHAMMA]

Forgive my ignorance but, what is the difference between a mental illness and a neurological condition? Genuinely curious.

[@HopeGardner3amed]

@@MEGATONHAMMA the way I see it is a mental illness is temporary and/or affected by environment but a mental condition is something that a person is born with. But I don't have a psych degree, I have a degree and certificate in other fields, but I am autistic.

[@MEGATONHAMMA]

@@HopeGardner3amed oh ok.

[@taynahibanez9952]

As an ADHD woman, I thank your imput, causr before I got diagnosed everything was "Satan" justified. Yhe blame was pokemon, barbies, etc... I am really glad technology is helping you with your phisical limitations. Our society has a long way to go in that regard, but glad you got acess to things to make you overcome the limitations.

[@baka-yarou]

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise" - Socrates

[@SixteenTonesStudio]

it's just all the epitome of moral panic, even when it constantly contradicts itself

[@jacobyshaddix32]

As a teenager myself I can say I don't speak text. I use full sentences sometimes.

[@wendyheatherwood]

Card catalogues? Has he been in an actual library himself in the last 20 years? The only place I've ever seen one was my school library in the 90s and even then that was replaced by the time I left.

[@BaronBytes]

He probably invented a time machine, his references are 30+ years old

[@muschiemom]

My sister has one in her house that she got when the library she worked at replaced them, many years ago. They make for pretty cool decor.

[@twiggledowntown3564]

I don't even know what a card catalogue is.

[@amandamandamands]

@@twiggledowntown3564 It was the method of looking up books before computers. Small cards that had a hole in the bottom so that a rod could go through them all and hold them in place in a draw. For fiction you would need to know the authors name and for non fiction they were sorted by the Dewy Decimal system (could have also had multiples that were other ways of searching too). It let you know if the library owned a book on a topic that you were researching and then you would have written down the title, name and dewy so that you could find it on the shelf. If it wasn't there then you could ask the librarian to check if it was borrowed and to get a hold put on it if you really wanted to borrow it.

[@KingofCrusher]

@@amandamandamands fuckin dewey decimal system! oh my god that's a flashback to grade school, haha.

[@wendypierce5621]

None of those statistics mention change over time, honestly the “alarming” numbers seemed low. When I was a kid they were freaking out over MTV and Playboy Magazine, the cycle continues.

[@wendypierce5621]

@Alexandria Muse I forgot how freaked out people used to be about DnD.

[@Ifuddontlikeitwatchsomthinelse]

Yes! Thank you...for my generation it was Harry Potter...

[@wizardsuth]

I remember the "Satanic Panic" of the 1980's. Religious people made paranoid claims about: - Satanic "backwards lyrics" on records. - Hidden messages in album cover art. - Satanists kidnapping and sacrificing children (with no specific details ever provided). - Dungeons and Dragons causing young people to practise witchcraft or invite demons to possess them - Ouija boards, Tarot cards, and other occult items None of it had any basis in reality. It was invented to spread fear.

[@Mr.Rogers143]

Hi Emma, Love the hair swoosh by the way! I came across your video for Halloween and then stumbled upon this one afterwards. I am a Christian, and in case you didn't already know, the *fear* *of* *hell* tactic that is commonly preached to "win" people over, doesn't stop at conversion. Typically, it continues in a weekly rebuke in Sunday services of how we are still not meeting God's desires and are probably disappointing him. I lived for almost 20 years with the idea that God was just waiting for me to screw up or was looking for a reason to excommunicate me from His family. I'm still a believer, but have a very different outlook on things now. I can't get over how polite you are towards others in the two videos I've watched so far. Your kindness surpasses what I've seen among many of my own "brothers" and "sisters"... towards EACH OTHER. I feel so much more open to listen to what you have to say because of that.

[@alyssajones2931]

In my Interpersonal Communication class, we are learning about online communication and text and email communication as well as in-person and face-to-face communication.

[@savanaashleigh626]

I guess this is a bad time to tell him I am a Christian and I dont limit my kids screen/ video game time...also I don’t see what these have to do with the devil 👿 Also, I’m really tired of Christians disregarding mental health and people’s mental health struggles by saying “it’s just satan”. That is a very harmful way of thining

[@raisylvaine8398]

It’s kinda funny how my dad didn’t mind me playing Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts, games with literal or allusions to demons, and yet the moment I start playing Persona 5, a game about self discovery and becoming your own person; breaking free from toxic authorities, he calls it demonic and treats me as if I’m a horrible person for not conforming to his will all the time. He also insulted my intelligence and ability to distinguish fiction from reality by saying “you can’t go into people’s minds and change them like that,” as if I believed it was real?

[@sardineRN]

'But libraries!' when mine and older generations have been defunding libraries for decades.

[@nathanallingham9014]

"I don't understand it, I don't like it, I'm afraid of what I don't understand. So, therefore, the devil." That is what I am getting from this top ten list. Which is a fear tactic that only works with those who already believe. I saw a picture on I think Facebook of people now on their phones looking very similar to an old black and white photo of people reading newspapers not talking to each other. So the method ad technology is different, the attitudes are still pretty similar at the least.

[@itsROMPERS...]

The "card catalogue" was high tech when it came out. In fact, the LIBRARY ITSELF is a high tech development. "there shouldn't be libraries because if makes it too easy to find information!"

[@AlexanderBlues1228]

27:58 As a 50 year old man… Actually, I’ve got nothing. I can only say that THIS 50 YOM isn’t blaming the LGBTQ+ community for anything.

[@ivyrose779]

We appreciate you!

[@KellyLoom1s]

I think it’s funny when older folk bemoan the children on their phones, because in my experience it’s the elders with their noses stuck to their screens.

[@PetrolJunkie]

I work with an editor and I get to see samples of submissions for contests and even traditional publishing that uses text-speek. Every time we put out a call for new employees several aps go in the bin because they used text-speek. Unfortuantely, it's an issue. Maybe it's getting better, but it's still and issue.

[@herpderp9430]

Pascal’s wager is something that most of the Christians, with whom I’ve argued, have repeated it without understanding that it works both ways.

[@alexgrey7972]

I love when older generations say “blank is making them lazy cause we didn’t have that” like imagine if his great grandparent was like your so lazy tiring on your oven in my day we chopped wood carried it a mile and started a fire before we could cook and it didn’t beep when it was ready!😂

[@terminusadquem6981]

Maybe he'd like to live in the stone age. You know, hunt for his food or gather fruits from trees in the forest. 😆

[@christiandidonna8808]

Take this with a grain of salt , It's funny because a lot of really old peaple parent got on their case about electricity

[@sawyersimonetmixelboss5095]

I bet generations older than generations that complain about smartphones and video games complained about electricity as a power source to replace candlesand also would have complained about cars, refrigerators and TV causing things to become obsolete.

[@jasonarmstead7429]

This is coming from the generation of the unwashed, molded into the couch with cheetah crusted fingers begging the government for money so they don't have to work.

[@TravisW888]

He didn’t even seem that old either, though I suppose I could be wrong. Maybe showing that you don’t have to be old to hate the modern world, just have to be scared it’s helping show your religion is a fraud.

[@TheNotoriousBTG]

I could see PragerU being the ones that added the music. They're not exactly allies.

[@TheNotoriousBTG]

I checked it out. The original interview video did indeed have that music. That's PragerU for you.

[@itsROMPERS...]

Teenagers probably ALWAYS had depression. But now, unlike before, people accept it and find help.

[@foetieau7379]

I am very late to this video, but just discovered the channel (loving it by the way, Emma you're a very sharp and funny person). As a student in a social science, the mental health part (let's call it mental health instead of "illness") triggers me, since it's so much more complicated than "the devil did it". As you already mentioned, our understanding of mental illness grows over time, so we can identify more people who are struggling and help them. This is a positive thing if you ask me. The thing I would like to add though is the changes in our society. The demands that are put on youth are higher than they were years ago, with a more specific/idealised set of skills that is highly valued. This means that people who deviate even a little are already at a higher risk of being "too different from the norm", getting negative feedback loops from their environment and thus developing issues with their mental health like anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, etc. Sometimes being too different is already enough for a diagnosis (AD(H)D, autism, etc.). So the increased amount of diagnosises (that ain't proper English XD) might reflect a narrowing concept of "normal" in the changing society. That being said, there is also a trend to be seen where the new generation is a lot more open about their mental health and struggles. This means that people who have problems actually are more open about it and don't suppress it, so it's hard to say if the problems have increased or have just become more visible. That ended up being quite long, sorry for that. Comments on old videos like these probably aren't read anymore but I still wanted to add my two cents. Thank you for this video! (And for reading all of this if you got through the whole rant XD)

[@vahidebrahimi9750]

Great comment. Don't worry, it's not too long. It just looks a little weird when you hold your phone vertically. Hold it horizontally and with your left hand. It'll look better. (Is this a penis joke? Yes.) Anyways, just one question. What I got from your comment was that there is more pressure being put on young people to stay in the "norm" these days. And while I do agree that there is pressure, why do you think that it's more pressure compared to previous generations? I mean, with the LGBTQ+ community and (like you said) the higher number of people willing to talk about their mental health, you'd think the pressure would go away, right? (This is a genuine question and I might've misunderstood your comment in which case I apologise in advance.)

[@foetieau7379]

@@vahidebrahimi9750 That's a very good question to ask, don't worry about misinterpreting and being offensive in any way. So again it's a bit long (woops XD), but I want to add the disclaimer that my studies are not complete and I'm typing this comment from the top of my head. It's hard to explain, but a child was sooner said to just be troublesome in "the old days", while we now default more quickly to a diagnosis from the DSM V (like labeling a child with a conduit disorder or ADHD instead of calling the child troublesome). And this is a double edged sword due to misunderstanding of DSM V diagnostic; it may give the message across that there's something inherently wrong with a child, as if it's a physical disease (called reification). By diagnosing quicker than before, we label them as "not normal" quicker. On the other hand though, these labels are merely meant to describe behaviour and not an inherent "wrong" of the child (a misconception). It has helped us deepen our understanding, get to the root cause of behaviours and get more accurate treatment. Mental health got a lot more attention this way, which funnily enough made mental health and behaviour both more normative (due to quicker diagnosis and the stigma and misconceptions around these) and more open to talk about (due to us actually understanding our mental health and behaviour better). So yes you're right, that could very well alleviate the pressure of normativity. Maybe the open talk about mental health is a reaction on the quicker diagnostics? Honestly, I don't know how it all balances out, it all seems a bit of a mess of contradicting movements at the moment. Personally, I hope the stigma and misconceptions around mental health, behaviour and diagnosis can be resolved, since a lot of normative standards revolve around this I feel like. Pet peeve: did you know that most people (I believe it was around 70%? Don't take my word for it though) actually would have a DSM V diagnosis if they would go through it and see where they check the boxes? That should say enough about what's normal and what isn't. Anyway, not very relevant, just a pet peeve of mine. Sorry again for the long comment, and if someone can correct me or fill more in, please feel free to do so! For context, I'm from the Netherlands, which might have different things going on then for instance the US. Hope to have answered your question XD.

[@X1Vampi1X]

This fearful rhetoric is exactly why I missed out on so much during my childhood. My mom kept me from so much stuff that I didn't become exposed too until she was forced to put me in public school when I got to middle school cause she couldn't afford the expensive private school anymore. Being suddenly thrust into the real world showed me just how sheltered I was

[@sukapuks8345]

Ooh, I remember how big of an issue it was that teenagers texted each other while hanging out at youth group events instead of speaking face to face. We had our phones taken away constantly. But then we just started using pen and paper to talk to each other. :D Because the problem wasn't that we had no interpersonal skills etc., we just had things to say that we didn't want the adults to hear or know about (and the moment they left us alone, we dropped the phones and talked out loud xd).

[@JackgarPrime]

Yeah kids have been passing notes to each other in situations with an adult authority, especially school, since forever.

[@taynahibanez9952]

Meanwhile me and my friends wod talk to each other through sign language XD. Teens can get creative sometimes

[@brianpurcell833]

The way he keeps stressing the "enemy" rings so badly in my ear. It's disgusting.

[@yippieskippy2971]

Dehumanizing language is a powerful tool.

[@xerofelix7090]

So, on the texting thing, this (switching between text speech and formal speech) is called "code switching". Younger generations are actually getting better at code switching because their social circles are growing (largely due to technology), and they have more variety in the types of groups they socialize with. So switching between how you talk with your friends vs classmates vs teachers/parents/pastors, is teaching kids to be more socially adept and increasing their language proficiency. This is part of why there are so many more young writers than in previous generations.

[@MichaelPunter]

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin. You said put anything and I love this quote.

[@SuperSwordman1]

Hey that is a neat quote. Wonder what it means

[@RavenousMedicine]

lol, "but how does that relate to Satan?" should be the tagline of your channel, Emma.

[@leyrua]

That poor fruit salesman gets blamed for _everything._

[@drewcross1310]

This is exactly the kind of stuff my parents listened to when I was growing up. Which is also one of the many reasons why I am estranged from them. This kind of stuff does real damage. Also Emma I'd listen to you read a book any day

[@timsmith5339]

When I finally came around to living in the modern world and took up texting, I resisted abbreviations, not because I thought it was the devils work, but because I felt that it simply wasn't proper English. Then I learned that 'text speak' wasn't a new thing. When morse code was the best way of communicating long distance (from the 19th century and into the 20th), 'text speak' was used to keep messages as short and as economical as possible (you were charged by the character for messages). If it was good enough for them, It is certainly ok for me, I use it all the time now. Whenever anything new takes off, there are people who worry that education will suffer. It never does. Education in fact improves with new developments such as the printing press, radio, television, the computer, phones. Perhaps this is the basis for his worries. We know that higher levels of education lead to reduced religiosity. Has he realised this link? He said that the highest cause of death for young people was 'unintentional motor accidents' - what other sort of accidents are there? Surely intentional accidents aren't accidents, they're murder!

[@capercaillieskye]

I'm a linguistics major, and I would argue that A) "text speak" (things like "lol" and "how r u" and emojis) is actually very innovative, complex, and linguistically fascinating; B) his example here of "HI HOW R U? Y not C a film together?" was almost certainly written by him, because it shows an innate lack of understanding of how text language actually functions (no kid would have written it this way, with all the caps and formal punctuation); and C) the idea that kids cannot switch between written communicative styles (e.g. text speak vs. formal essay writing) is as bizarre as the idea that a person couldn't switch between spoken registers (e.g. speaking politely to your boss vs. casual slang and laughter with friends), especially since text-based writing actually encodes pragmatics as well as semantics (i.e. it communicates things such as shouting, whispering, facial expressions, body language, sarcasm and other tone of voice, emotion, etc.) TL;DR this guy doesn't understand language (which includes texting language) at all and he really shouldn't be critiquing something he doesn't understand lol XD EDIT: To be clear, my point here isn't that everyone knows formal language (which, as Becca correctly pointed out in the replies, is a priviledged concept) but that those who already do know formal language can still use it even if they also use texting language. In other words, texting language doesn't affect access to other communicative styles or registers at all.

[@lexihopes]

Although the idea that everybody automatically knows/is taught well enough to be competent in formal language is a privileged one and would apply to written language as well. Not that it invalidates your point, but it's worth keeping in mind for people who are judgmental about language use.

[@capercaillieskye]

@@lexihopes That's fair, and unfortunately very true. However, my point wasn't that everyone has been taught and is able to use formal language but that those who *were* taught in formal language aren't losing the ability to use it due to texting, and are still able to switch between those communicative styles/registers. Additionally, even if you aren't taught in formal language, you still have access to registers within your own social group (even if they aren't the same registers found in academia). Such people are still able to switch between those registers, so in a way, my initial point still applies to them. Language is innately human, and all language (even that which isn't seen as "academic" or "formal") has value :3

[@capercaillieskye]

@@lexihopes All the same, I think I will edit my initial post to make my intentions more clear :3

[@jaysmith2858]

I'd say it's dumbing down language. It's effectively boiling down language to it's most basic level. It leaves little to no scope for nuanced expression of thoughts, ideas and conversation. It's effectively the same as trying to have a conversation using just one word questions and answers.

[@capercaillieskye]

@@jaysmith2858 On the contrary, text speak encodes every layer of linguistic communication, from the basic phonetic level all the way up to pragmatics. No other writing system encodes pragmatics like text speak does. It's highly complex and multi-layered, and even influences spoken morphology and semantics. If you're not picking up on that nuance, it's likely that you're a millienial or (most probably) even older ;)

[@BonneFyre]

People like this made my childhood & especially adolescence a living nightmare. I was a generally good kid/teen, but my parents were listening to people like this and thought I was just terrible and destined for hell. I've mostly forgiven my parents (thanks to over a decade of therapy) but can never forgive those horrible people in their ears telling them how to raise me "properly". These folks do SO much damage. This happens to countless kids/teens and that is heart-breaking.

[@Sancheroid]

8:31 i kinda like how "the devil" breaks up families by confusing kids with their gender, but by that he'd only break unhappy and unaxcepting families. It maybe for better anyway

[@parrishsells0116]

When I hear about school indoctrination related to history and book banning I ask those persons if they take children to Sunday school, which is literally the definition of indoctrination. The responses are amusing as they twist into pretzels defending indoctrination of their own children.

[@MrJazzyPants]

I hate the tactic of talking to random people and asking leading questions so much. Its probably the most dishonest way to try to make a point

[@TravisW888]

I have seen on television and KZbin enough that questions from a “person on the street” are 9 times out of 10 meant to construe me to look stupid. If I am ever approached with a question on the street, I’ll just answer “potatoes, definitely potatoes” and walk away.

[@yolandaponkers1581]

Your convo with the born-again Christian reminded me of a moment from my childhood. A family friend had a four-year-old and was telling us how “adorable” it was that her daughter was eager to get baptized so she didn’t burn forever. How horrific that that was in a toddler’s mind.

[@TheBlackfall234]

The Church itself is proof that the Great Snake is real. Google the Vatican Audience Hall, look at the statue of "jesus" theyve put in their. The Devil is real and he is in fact turning this world upside down. The Church being his first and foremost announcer. Thats why they talk about sufferung so much, thats why the have a trophy of the Lightbringer in their Temples - nailed on a cross. The real mistake here is probably that people mistake the Devil and Lucifer as the same Person, while they are not. Not to hard to find out that Lucifer is actually more like Jesus. There you can see the "turning everything around" again, because they preach to the Enslaver as a God and Saviour, while the one who brings the light is depicted as the Devil. Now you might see why some people talk about how this world is owned by the Devil. A Child knows all of this im sure, at least in their inner conciousness. Thats probably why so many Children start to cry "out of nowhere" in the Church.

[@isaacjames379]

@@TheBlackfall234 I think the biggest mistake is believing old stories and tall tails from a book that was translated retranslated and retranslated and copied and copied etc to the point it's impossible to actually determine what it's actual message is or was, and that the people who claim to believe in these fairy tails lack the ability to critically think about and analyze these stories and just accept them as true with no evidence and nothing to back up the claims the stories make. That is the biggest mistake, teaching children religion and not critical thinking skills.

[@j.kaimori3848]

Omg, my child cousin has been baptised at 6 and it made me feel uncomfortable and jealous. If you've been believing and afraid for half your childhood you may as well have a celebration to show for it.

[@TheBlackfall234]

@@isaacjames379 fairy tails, i see. An ignorant one. If you would be smart you would realise that our science is telling us the same fairy tails. Just with different words. What you are saying, you should apply to yourself. You know nothing, you turn on the TV and let other people determine what is right and wrong. Then you pretend youre a critical thinker. Because youre a believer of Science and when science is talking about string-theory, multidimensions and Aliens its a totally different thing then Heaven and Earth and Angels and Demons. No sir, this is not a problem of me lacking the ability to analyze and think criticially, this is a problem of you not being able to understand that old myths work in Analogies and you certainly seem not able to understand Euphemism. Nothing to back up the Story claims ? Yeah, you dont now anything. Just type into KZbin "the real Mount Sinai" and get your mind blown. "no proof" my ass. You need to learn a Words true meaning, instead of falling for Euphemism and then calling out other people as dumb and ignorant, while you dont even try to think. Youre a pretender.

[@TheBlackfall234]

@@isaacjames379 Also its not like the Bible is the only old Book. All Myths share similarities. Literally all of them and if you think that is just because of "random", then maybe just stop telling people they lack the ability to critically think. Youre most likely the type of guy that would just dismiss as every possible proof for the old myths as "just a coincidence". Look around and tell yourself that all of this is just a Coincidence and then call out other people for the "lack of critical thinking", while believing in Coincidence is literally the easiest and cheapest ticket to not critical think.

[@kyleepratt]

Dude's gone straight back to"demoniac" as a valid diagnosis. Wow, that's some New Testament era shit.

[@austinhayman7023]

This was a fun video. Never thought I'd see Ni No Kuni 2 on a shelf on this channel, you have great taste!

[@britnicox3929]

And honestly even if we did end up believing that shortening words was “formal” communication, human communication started out as hieroglyphics, and symbols/characters are used in languages across the world. There is an interesting conversation here to have about how very Eurocentric the issue is to begin with and how the implication that symbols are somehow less civilized or educated is classist in and of itself

[@nicolab2075]

I think he just doesn't like change

[@angelikaskoroszyn8495]

Tbf I don't think there's classism involved. At least not directly. In every culture people change their outfit, behaviour and speech pattern depending on situation. Written formal language is another manifestation of it And usually anything considered formal (whether it is outfit or written language) is pretty conservative. It's out of respect for tradition, making old people happy and not introducing potential confusion Aaand it's worth remembering that what we now see at "formal" and "traditional" was new years ago. Who knows. Maybe in future we'll write CVs with emoticons

[@BaronBytes]

I love the early black and white camera footage of two actors reverting to casual real 1920s speak once the take is done.

[@suitov]

It's clear where the guy sits on the prescriptivism/descriptivism divide* but he's just objectively wrong. Code-switching is a really useful and necessary skill for anyone, and he can see it in action when he sees his pastor preach vs when he hears his pastor talk casually. Everyone does it. Kids learning the differences between formal and informal writing/speech is a great thing. *(Basically, whether you want to apply set rules to language or whether you think the rules are altered over time by majority usage.)

[@Iquey]

Yup, not to mention China/mandarin characters and Japan/kanji are basically formal single image/compound symbol words.

[@mohanthegay4398]

If you believe in the devil, wouldn't you attribute their work to crime and abuse, poverty and genuinely horrible things that happen? I'm confused as to why the "worst" things the devil does is making children use their phones when so many much ore pressing problems exist within the world and even within youth. Also, I'm pretty sure almost all of the examples he used were not youth-specific? I wonder whether he still walks to the library or whether he uses Google.

[@gloriadell3416]

I’m as old as that guy and I definitely use Google. Someone should tell him the card catalog is now online.

[@prajwalkrishnabhat5539]

You want to know why? It's because the target demographic of these videos are middle aged women, who live in a home, in the suburbs, with their kids and have never really seen the ugly side of cities, you'll be surprised how much of such women exist. So the biggest "problems" for them are things like "my child may be using too much phone" and not about poverty or unemployment or corruption.

[@johnathanwalker8395]

@@prajwalkrishnabhat5539 same women who feed their kids to men like Epstein as long as they are paid by a church or have lots of money

[@Bundle0fNeuroses]

I think he uses a magic eight-ball to gain all his brilliant insight.

[@davidbradley834]

Even though the OT says God does good and evil

[@someonerandom256]

These people aren't really afraid of their trans kids going to Hell, they are afraid that their church friends will find out that their kids are trans, and judge them. They aren't afraid of Hell, they are afraid of embarrassment and ostracism.

[@AllThingsFilm1]

I really love your commentary. So glad I came across your channel. You really pulled the curtains back on Allen Parr. :)

[@dieseljester3466]

People like Allen Parr using Fear Tactics is one of the main reasons why I started pulling away from the church. I couldn't deal with the mental abuse that I was getting all the way up to my 20s. At it's worst, I nearly took my own life over it. Its sad to see that they're still doing this to this day and others are suffering metal anguish just like I did.

[@MrSeedi76]

I left for various reasons. One was that the normally pretty liberal Protestant church in Germany (I'm German) released a number of papers arguing that homosexual couples shouldn't be allowed to adopt children, because...? I don't know really. "Sola Scriptura" seems to be largely forgotten but "we defend family values" - not that Jesus was ever much of a family man, or Paul for that matter. If you scratch the surface both denominations are largely the same. I still consider myself a Christian but I don't belong to any church even though I studied theology actually. I make up my own mind what the Bible wants to tell me. I have studied for exactly that. And homosexuality isn't in the Bible. No matter how often the clobber verses get quoted. I'd loved if these extremists (I don't call them fundamentalists as they don't know what the "fundamentals" are) would quote the verses about forgiveness and love for your neighbor a bit more often.

[@user-mq7de6vu9s]

Hey man, sorry to hear that. It is really a shame when people use fear tactics to manipulate people. Really shocking to read that you nearly took your life because of that. But i do believe Jesus died for you and me. He still loves you to this day and will never stop loving you! Is it because of your bad experience that you dont believe that the bible is true, or was it something else? Would love to hear from you!

[@dieseljester3466]

@@user-mq7de6vu9s please don't preach to me about God/Jesus' love. It just makes me angry nowadays. As to your question; its a combination of both. I wanted to justify my faith and have facts to back up what I was saying, so I started looking for evidence that supported the bible. I didn't find any. Combine that with a list of people both in my family and in my congregation that were some of the most hateful people that I know and I started losing my faith really quick. The final straw for me was when a minister at my congregation not only forgave two convicted child molesters, but also asked a local judge for clemency for them based on their 'good christian nature', I fucking lost it and renounced the religion right then and there.

[@Winter-mj7tq]

Massive "kids these days" energy from this guy.

[@daniellamcgee4251]

I really appreciate this video in every way. Emma, you picked up on almost every point I wanted to respond with. I have just turned 50 yrs and no longer feel old after listening to Allen! But it must be handy having Satan to blame for the results of inadequate parenting. Personally, I take responsibility, accountability and have a conscience, rather than scapegoating the devil. Maybe we should just blame Conlor for everything!

[@lessonsinfailing]

I absolutely love your critique on this video. I hope all is well across "the pond".

[@trikitrikitriki]

I'm a high school teacher. While I've never seen students use text speech in assignments, many do misspell things endlessly. I think it's the fault of autocorrect. They're used to their spelling being automatically corrected, and the website used by the school for posting work purposefully does not have autocorrect. And of course, it's worse on paper. Honestly, I just wish English was an easier language to spell. A lot of students refuse to even try to sound out words when reading a new word or guess the correct spelling. In other languages, sounding out a word is not a thing. In Spanish, every letter makes only one sound (with a small amount of exceptions that follow consistent rules) so you don't need to sound anything out. You just read it. You don't have to guess at how to spell something.

[@marshmallow4646]

Yeah, because of autocorrect I'm not constantly recalling the words I've memorized, cuz that's all we're doing when we spell :/ cuz sounding out the word doesn't help all that much with English, I write down like three versions of the word in the corner of my paper and see what looks right 😅 visual memory sometimes helps more Also I don't think cuz is formal language 😅😅 but most people don't talk formally either, so in normal conversations whether it's text or speech I don't usually bother trying to be formal

[@muschiemom]

Autocorrect & predictive text was definitely my downfall. I have forgotten how to spell the easiest words. For some reason, it works horribly on my new phone (no spaces, keeps correcting to=tio). Luckily, I have 2 teenagers so, I just ask them how to spell something that I've forgotten.

[@zephie531]

I have always had trouble spelling, I’m dyslexic, so autocorrect is honestly a lifesaver for me. Before I had access to it I used a spelling dictionary but autocorrect is so much easier. My dyslexia isn’t bad enough in that area that I get an adjustment for it in exams though so I practice by writing letters on paper to a friend of mine (also so they’ll have them when we go off to Uni in a year) but I regularly use the autocorrect on my phone to check. However I never had much of a problem spelling in Spanish because it’s phonetic. English is just a nightmare Frankenstein’s monster of a language with more exceptions than rules.

[@AVspectre]

Yes, I think spelling erodes a bit for most of us who primarily write on a computer or device. It’s interesting to think of the situation for kids. They are likely writing more than before outside of school (social media, texting,…) but via electronics instead of analog pen on paper). I can imagine learning spelling in this environment could provide a bit of a unique challenge. Thanks for sharing your experience of what you see in your classroom.

[@EternalDensity]

Autocorrect is definitely the worm of the devil. Edit: *work

[@polarbearzonthemoon]

I find myself wondering if Satan is actually a good guy, like Satan is made up of several stories where he always seems to be on the humans side. Maybe satans not so bad

[@rhiwright]

Satan's other name is Lucifer. Lucifer means "light bringer" so is he actually derived from the ancient Greek story of Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods to give to humanity to make things easier for the humans?

[@raven_g6667]

I don't see how you read anything about the bible and identify god as the good guy.

[@seagreenm]

Hail Satan 🤘🏽 🖤

[@hannahbrennan2131]

Yep. Satan, if he existed, would definitely be the good guy.

[@KellyLoom1s]

I’ve learned being in a relationship with a jealous partner isn’t healthy for me, so I stay away from the “jealous god” of the Bible. ETA: never has my profile pic felt more appropriate 😅

[@jadetoulon7949]

I find the family disfunction thing sort of funny because I’ve never met my biological father and I barely speak to my mother. My mental state has actually been better since the day my mother and I stopped talking to each other so often

[@alisonmartin3856]

Thanks for sharing this! I feel like we ignored the fact that his attitude towards mental health is extremely dangerous, given the high rate of suicide in children. Parents who think their children's mental health concerns come from the devil are not usually the most supportive and helpful. Also, we are ignoring the fact that a lack of acceptance for LGBTQ+ youth directly affects suicide rates. :(

[@theoutsiderhumanist8159]

Reverse Pascal's wager: What if God is not an evil space monster?

[@nealwoods3482]

That first graphic had me so confused. The red outline only "attacking" made me read it as The enemy is our youth" like four or five times over 🤣🤣🤣

[@t.estable3856]

I mean.... Given that younger folks are more likely to reject their ideology and spread that rejection to their peers.

[@z0rrofan9]

That actually makes a lot more sense, really.

[@queenmotherhane4374]

My friend, who teaches high school English, sees “text message” writing in her students’ essays on a regular basis. She considers it a teaching opportunity.

[@gullyfoyle3253]

Really enjoyed this, thank~you!

[@2_Gay_Rats_Kissing]

As someone who texts like im illiterate, but im literally getting my PhD in English Lit, i find his issues with text language incredibly funny.

[@bbear2695]

my dad (in his 60s) came to me recently and was like i know why people started playing video games so much. He said if young people were wandering the streets and doing the things he was as a kid, theyd get arrested. and he's not wrong. young people standing around chatting outside or walking around usually summons a squad car after a while, and the kids are told to break it up and go home. also why cant we just drink, hit our kids, and ignore our mental health like our parents did.

[@ewan8bit174]

the irony is that these days with auto complete and keyboards(not keypads) on modern phones Teens Don't tend to use abbreviations because the phone makes it quicker to not use them

[@Roman_Adrian]

He sounds like he personally hit a spiral of his own and now he thinks ALL youth will hit the same spiral.

[@THATGuy5654]

Libraries only being opened during work hours! I hate that! Our local library even has limited hours on Saturday, and Sunday off!

[@NamiNuitsuki]

I hate that Sundays our library is closed too! That's when I did the most work in middle and high school and they had the audacity to close >:(

[@leyrua]

It's almost as if they hate people reading? 🤨 I have no idea.

[@BB-yn1nb]

My 71 year old grandma is the only person I know who uses “u” instead of “you” in text messages 😂

[@lorifiedler13]

Emma, love the cauldron mug!

[@BeatzByMK]

I was told I was going to hell for being bisexual when I was 15, I was very confused because Jesus preached all about loving others so why would God send people to hell just because they happen to love someone who has the same genitalia they do??