Freethought Matters - Zeke Piestrup

[@26beegee]

Recently discovered Satan’s Guide to the Bible. I absolutely loved it as it brought back so many memories of growing up in church through the 50s and 60s and having taught Sunday School and VBS in the 80s and 90s - felt board, songs and all!! Oh how indoctrinated I was and then did the same to my children and the children of others. I’m so sorry kids!! Thank you rational folks at FFRF and all the KZbinrs for leading us out of the cult.

[@jasonb7330]

A great interview. I look forward to hearing more from Zeke!

[@sage4nowty129]

Hello. I love the title of this documentary, Satan's Guide to the Bible!! Haha!!, lol.

[@dawndead9591]

Thanks to ZP, that was as loosey-goosey a session of FM as I've found; he's quite a character, and I was hugely enchucklelated. Shall certainly search out his work. It's gratifying that there's so much honesty in the scholarship; I wish honest and scholarship-affirming pastors had safe and non-denialist employment opportunities, I could respect them and the congregations far more for possible humanistic benefit & be much less Scroogey about it.

[@RoLynn-v4b]

About 10 years ago a Protestant minister from western NY State spoke to our Humanist group. He'd stopped believing and eventually let his congregation know that he'd lost his Christian faith. He said that seminary is where religious belief goes to die.

[@SATANSGUIDE]

J. Gresham Machin wrote that seminarians often have "a crisis of faith." To that I'd add a cool quote from Lauren Stuckenbruck, "New knowledge always rocks us, and makes us rethink what we think we already know."

[@rychei5393]

I saw his youtube vid as soon as it posted, and have been sharing it; love it!

[@Amazing_Mark]

Ugh, the Bible: all those hundreds of hours wasting my time in that worthless book before I finally saw the light a couple of years ago and became an atheist.

[@joqiii3]

It’s not really wasted because once you know all their bullshit, you can use it against them. I am totally atheist because of George Bush and his invasion of Iraq. You and I probably know more about the Bible than 90% of the “Christians” sitting in the pews.

[@coloneldarren999]

So right. I bet it's so freeing not having faith in anything and thinking that everything came from nothing. Congratulations

[@c.a.t.732]

With all due respect to Mr. Piestrup, Harold Camping may have been nice to his staff and given good hugs, but he did massive damage to a lot of people. It's one thing to say "Jesus is coming soon" and another to count down the days while building fear in ones followers as he did.

[@EzekielThirtyThree3]

Is it? I fumbled the log line here (forgot it): "40% of Americans think Jesus is coming back by 2050." My point was did Harold do that (the 40%)? Personally I don't find much difference between date-setters and people who claim "we will witness the return" of Jesus. Date-setters and generation-setters should all get the same failure treatment. And if no perpetuation of the Second Coming, no Harold. I think date-setters are easy targets, but the real issue is the perpetuation of something that will never happen. There will never be a Second Coming.

[@c.a.t.732]

@@EzekielThirtyThree3 It wasn't just that Camping set a date. it's that he counted it down day by day and built the fear of the Apocalypse. Many of his followers sold their possessions and gave the money to him, and others killed themselves.

[@EzekielThirtyThree3]

I did not say Harold was blameless,@@c.a.t.732. If there's a blame pie, I'll give Harold a 10% slice. Date-setters are easy targets bc nonbelievers & believers despise them. But they're no different than your typical pastor (ala Raul Reis) who says, "We will witness the return of Christ."

[@jamesschneider2091]

Every time I plug the Holy Bible into the scientific method, I get the same repeatable result - fiction & fairy tales ... and by the way - how is it that this Jesus of Nazareth character looks more like Hans Christian Andersen?🤔😉

[@thosethatcan]

5:06 😂❤

[@Dustin_Bins]

Wow, with that animation near the end it kind of reminded me of DarkMatter2525's work. Although, I would admit that he's a bit more vulgar about it and I doubt that would work on FFRF.

[@littlebitofhope1489]

Funny, I never saw Jon as vulgar at all.

[@Dustin_Bins]

@@littlebitofhope1489 I was thinking of his animations, although they only showcase things that truly are in the bible and while vulgar isn't the right word, religion sure is a curious thing for people to still be following it to this day.

[@kleenmaint]

It's all good until the dogma start seeping into our lives w/o invitation. For me I guess it is karma as I used to be a Jehovah's Witness. lol In all fairness it has been over 40 years. I should be absolved by now. :)

[@weston.weston]

Was the guest under the influence of some illegal substance? It doesn't matter if he was, but I am curious.

[@littlebitofhope1489]

Why do you ask?

[@CaryChilton]

This guy is not a believer is Christ ....he is not a biblical scholar nor a third rate theologian, his sources are laughable.... Bart E. - atheist and another fellow who dont understand scripture well.........