Largest Christian Prayer App Has DARK SECRETS | Hallow

[@EmmaThorneVideos]

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[@newtwoup4293]

but what if ground news has a bias? ..then what

[@justynmatlock8873]

IF you're going to do a vid on C.S.Lewis, (and you have mentioned it before), and are going to touch on 'The Problem of Susan', youtuber Jill Bearup does do an interesting take on this. I don't whether you like her or not, but it's worth a look. It made me rethink the issue at least.

[@TheFinalFanboy]

​@newtwoup4293 Is this a hypothetical or do you have a reason to suspect that Ground News has a bias?

[@dwgray9000]

Marky Mark Whalberg having some, err, history is fairly old news. I mean, he had some success in music in the 90's. Iirc that was derailed when him being a stereotypical racistism/thug came out. His bro being in new kids on the block and an actor? Hes not even the best whalberg. Also The Happening. That was a thing.

[@Windchanter420]

i can tie this whole thing together.... opus dei they are a bucnh of trad caths and this thing reeks of them

[@CraigJudd]

As a pedestrian, a car that says "GET READY TO MEET JESUS" definitely reads as a threat!

[@John.0z]

I was wondering what happens when one of them is involved in a crash. 🤣

[@bobunyun]

But it is a perfect caption for a Hispanic talkshow host called (for example) Jesus Morales!

[@humboldthammer]

My Karma just ran over your Dogma

[@kyle9401]

Why has this not been used in some apocalyptic movie or something? It's gold.

[@humboldthammer]

@@kyle9401 In Star Trek, this is our Pre-Star Trek moment. Mankind either ends war now, thus paving the way for a marvelous, worldwide civilization OR men and women are forever forbidden from the stars -- perhaps even our souls, bound to earth with the beasts. Q, just as Q-wizical as ever, says, "I don't believe men have souls. If they do, it's barely discernible. This time, Jean-Luc, it's not up to you and your crew to save the day. It's up to them -- souls or not."

[@davidkeller6156]

“Pray every day! 30 days free.” Really? I pray everyday and it’s always free.😂

[@thehellyousay]

"whaddya mean i don't believe in god, i talk to 'im, every day ..."

[@c.a.t.732]

You beat me to that one!

[@Brams2777]

Ikr?

[@georgelayton6641]

The only time I believe in God is when I'm blaming it for something stupid, I did.

[@discontinuedmodel232]

Sure, but are you praying alongside Dirk Diggler himself 🤩for free?

[@brb__bathroom]

Someone should never, ever, ever tell Vance that Jesus Christ was without children

[@DoubleDragon539]

Lol, yeah, don't mention that Jesus got to hang out with lots of guys all day long either...

[@georgem2334]

And he wore a dress.

[@richardh8082]

@brb__bathroom And he was Jewish, and not white! :)

[@ravenna9969]

@@richardh8082🙄

[@bydlokun]

According to early myth, Jeebus had two children, but this part was recognized as non-canon to make Jeebus' image of innocent virgin. So, basically he's a conservative governor.

[@phillyphakename1255]

"make sure you're prayed up" will never not seem capitalistic.

[@JovanDacic]

It sounds gamified, but I am perhaps coming from a biased perspective -- a game I once played had a prayer system as a game mechanic, and players would say "I'm all prayed up and ready to group!" regularly.

[@thehellyousay]

cue some hillbilly banjo and a fiddle -- "y'all cain't get to heaven if yer prayer tank ain't full so you better drop down to yer knees and grab hold of yer bible then get yer ass a'prayin' or else you'll go to hell y'all cain't go to heaven if yer prayer tank ain't full ..." heaven insurance; don't you dare die without it ...

[@apinkandblueshark]

I'm on that prayer grind. I speak in tongues at 2x speed.

[@darkstarr984]

It’s literally something I vaguely recall being warned against in the Bible, something about not praying over and over, you were heard the first time.

[@annafaulkner9879]

And Christian organizations will say they are being silenced but they are the only religion I’m having to consistently press skip to get their past their ads, or have to see billboards, or hear radio stations in businesses. So targeted and attacked let me tell you 😑

[@simond.455]

So you press "skip" to *_silence_* them! Ha! 😆

[@Aliyah_666]

​@@simond.455Wouldn't it be a grand world if we could press skip on those people in real life lol...

[@ErinWinslow]

The only thing missing is Kevin Sorbo! 😂

[@lloroshastar6347]

it's less that they are being silenced and more that those of us who want nothing to do with them are telling them to SHUT UP and leave us alone.

[@amykh7647]

And that there are more of us rejecting Christianity than in any modern time.

[@peterhausmann8337]

Jesus said:"Make not my Father's house a house of merchandise."

[@SheeplessNW6]

And then he did a sponsorship read for Surfshark VPN.

[@Snoogen11]

Meanwhile in the Vatican...

[@Alt-mb3uc]

yeah well... he also told his disciples he's be back before they died, so...

[@Colddirector]

@@Alt-mb3ucJesus went out for a pack of smokes…

[@Soundbrigade]

You can’t cherrypick the holly book, that is left for the christians to do ….

[@MegaFrog]

Any institution that can afford super bowl ads should be revoked of its tax exemption.

[@kencarpenter1363]

Churches should not be tax exempt. There is nothing that will corrupt any religion faster than being in bed with government. In fact, any religion should refuse tax exemption for the sake of the purity of their own faith. Besides, they are always saying "god will provide". So let him. Wouldn't that be a persuasive argument for their faith?

[@thehellyousay]

should be investigated criminally

[@owlintrenchcoat]

Hallow is a private app. It isn't a project of the church.

[@darren.mcauliffe]

You could argue that Mark Wahlberg is an actor, and his latest role is to play a catholic person.

[@w5winston]

He has G.U.I.L.T.

[@thehellyousay]

@@w5winston he has fear, ironically, of nothing ...

[@Ardith50]

What? No…

[@sarahmartin7181]

Well after I read he beat the shit out of several people as a teen and young adult (old enough to know better) my feelings about him changed. Wanting to meet the men he beat and apologize isn't enough.

[@vasquezz5438]

Lmao yeah he fell of bad, i do not want to pray with you real quick mark

[@scorpionderooftrouse]

How did Catholicism manage for 20 centuries without this App?

[@feralnonbinaryautistic]

Exactly! I was brought up RC (1970's). We prayed from memory (even as very small children) because the material had been drummed into us. The Rosary (multiple repetitions of the same thing) was counted off on the traditional string of beads, or on our fingers. So glad I left all that while still a child, but wonder how you're supposed to concentrate on the divine while gawping at your phone.

[@taylorswan8587]

Overwhelming violence, mostly

[@matthewhorrigan5848]

​@@taylorswan8587can't forget the child abuse!

[@thehellyousay]

they had the sword, the cannon, the smallpox ...

[@nmappraiser9926]

Suppressing science and free thought?

[@MichaelCaine-py9rb]

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross" ~ annon

[@thehellyousay]

that was an almagamated "quote" built from several opinions along those lines. it was close. when fascism came to america, it was groping a flag and wiping kfc grease from its fingers with pages of the bible ...

[@njhoepner]

@@thehellyousay Standing in front of a building he would never enter, waving a book he's never read, to fool people he neither likes nor respects...and they fell for it. For the most part he's an idiot, but as a con man he's all that.

[@dahlinthefiend]

@@njhoepner fortunately for him, a con man only has to be smarter than his mark.

[@definitivamenteno-malo7919]

Fascism always comes like a hero-looking warchief, wrapped in a flag and carrying a religious symbol. Fascism is when capitalist, theocracist and nobiliary go hand in hand together

[@EphemeralTao]

@@thehellyousay It was originally attributed to Sinclair Lewis, and definitely sounds like something he would say; but there's no evidence for it. The closest is a quite from James Waterman Wise, Jr. in the _Christian Century_ (Feb.5, 1936), "If fascism comes, he added, it will not be identified with any 'shirt' movement, nor with an insignia, but it will probably be wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution".

[@MichaelCaine-py9rb]

Prayer for profit. Stuff like this was why Jesus braided a cord and cleared out the temple. The right is off the rails, a collective psychosis.

[@thehellyousay]

jesus did no such thing. fictional characters do nothing

[@SharienGaming]

@@thehellyousay i mean...to be fair the guy is a documented historical person - its just all the mystical stuff thats fictional and its tricky to separate the actual events from fictionalized retellings across the gap of milennia but jesus of nazareth having existed is as far as i know historical consensus

[@mirandarensberger6919]

​@@thehellyousayWhether he existed as a real person or not, the character version of him did that in the story. The character is who they are worshipping, so the comment is making a valid point.

[@Colddirector]

⁠@@mirandarensberger6919Put another way, it doesn’t matter if you believed it happened, it matters *they* believed it happened

[@thesun6211]

Pretty gauche of the company behind Hallow to effectively charge a fee for Fellowship, especially when what it purports to offer its users could probably run on donations indefinitely as a webpage instead of an app.

[@OnnieKoski]

Nothing is funnier than knowing Caviezel got struck by lightning while on the cross during the filming of Passion 😂

[@bemasaberwyn55]

See, at the top end, I didn't find that extremely hilarious.But now in hindsight I definitely do

[@juliaboon9741]

My father once said "I think God didn't want that film to be made." and honestly, I agree

[@thehellyousay]

certainly explains a lot ...

[@Morqana]

No way 😮 omg I gotta look this up 😂😂

[@honestvillain1141]

"It's not my place to forgive OR forget, because... I'm white." really cooked

[@davidg4288]

That sounds horrible out of context, but in context it's perfect.

[@axel1957ll]

Paul Newman had a business that made salad dressings. He donated the profits to charity. Are all the charity givers dead?

[@njhoepner]

Well, you know, capitalism is god's will...it's right there in the bible somewhere.

[@Eric-rb7rg]

The company still exists and its profits go to charity

[@blairbrown4812]

Unless you count the fictional character Bruce Wayne.

[@DrJReefer]

​@Eric-rb7rg Paul suffered an existence failure, though

[@caseyjude5472]

They still exist, although there’s been a shortage of their Ranch dressing occasionally over the last few years. They also make frozen pizzas, pasta sauces, cookies, lemonade, pet jerky, olive oil, salsa…. We get their pizza & fig cookies when they’re on sale, they’re so so good.

[@kenrathbun9383]

Cannot BELIEVE Mel Gibson isn't somehow a part of this. It can't be that his name is still too toxic, given some of the other 'celebrities involved .

[@thehellyousay]

maybe he just sobered up ...

[@kyleepratt]

Mel’s dad is one of the anti-vatican 2 catholics. In other words, the catholic church is no longer anti-semitic enough for papa Gibson. That might bleed in to Mel not wanting to be involved in a standard-catholic app.

[@webgiant7123]

@@kyleepratt Mel Gibson was raised a sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic, the full term for what you just said. However, his views of mainstream Catholicism have changed repeatedly, at one point accepting Popes. He's a divorced Catholic though, no annulment or possibility of getting one (he had seven kids with his first wife), so technically he's not supposed to be receiving the Sacraments and probably wouldn't be a preferred spokesperson for Hallow. Bigotry, especially homophobia, is fine; divorce is not.

[@dinosaysrawr]

Yeah, and especially given that anti-Semitism is arguably less taboo now than it was when Mel had his meltdown.

[@XealotCoils]

I think the reason why people turn to religion so easily when they go to prison is because the courts look at religious people more kindly than non religious people.

[@CesRaisons]

Also when you got nothing to do for years you might as well read something

[@jacktadash]

A nun lectured me about smoking weed so I kicked the habit.

[@fredbarnesjr.1044]

😂😂😂

[@icravedeath.1200]

I would've continued out of spite

[@matthewhorrigan5848]

​@@icravedeath.1200 nuns wear a garment called a "habit", so the joke is that he kicked the nun.

[@icravedeath.1200]

@@matthewhorrigan5848 oh, lol♥️

[@desperadox7565]

🤣👍👍🤣🤣

[@dalesampson2662]

The sound of freedom bs was literally an excuse for him to take advantage of women and to stage gross scenes involving minors.

[@humboldthammer]

FREE DUMB YeeeHawdi. Sounds of Silence Then the sign flashed out it WAR ning With the words that it was FOR ME ng can you "hear" me now?

[@michaelprozonic]

do you know how much a super bowl ad costs? ($7M for 30 seconds). Shouldn't they be feeding the hungry or something?

[@alexlewis5365]

All the money for me, only thoughts and prayers for thee.

[@thehellyousay]

@@alexlewis5365 literally the least they would ever do for me ...

[@rlsxs4ever]

@@michaelprozonic this question is made all the more relevant because of tax exemption

[@Ominousheat]

I saw Ewan Mcgregor as Obi-One Jesus for only half a second and was sold. And I'm athiest.🤪. Now imagine (cough) an A-list movie star that loves using mothers fave look of smouldering intensity, a Cameron-style music score and the attentive fervour centred around the biggest sporting event in the US calendar and that fee is probably recovered in way less time than 30 seconds. It's purely business. A very toxic, divisive business.

[@kamaha0010]

Hallow is owned by a private venture capitalist firm. The Hallow app has a free version, and the only thing you get for subscribing to it is celebrity narrations and music produced by the Catholic Lofi (yes, really). It should be noted that all of this other stuff is also available, for free, elsewhere. So where does the money go to? Well, it goes to paying the investors, it goes towards paying the developers of the app, it goes towards advertisement for the app. This isn't exactly some Church funded app, this is just a bunch of Catholics collecting prayers, hymns, and 3 English translations of the Bible, and 8 translations of the Bible in 8 other languages, and putting it in a free to own app.

[@ewagawthrop3674]

I’m an ex-Catholic and a huge part of what resulted in me losing my faith (apart from being queer lol) was the hypocrisy around materialism. My priest always had the latest iPhone despite having taken a vow of poverty… I realised how many ‘devout’ Catholics would preach and judge others and refuse to acknowledge their own hypocrisy and ‘failings’

[@esasaurus2456]

You have no idea how impatiently I’m waiting for you to drop the C.S Lewis dis track.

[@simond.455]

The way C.S. Lewis is stalking Emma, he's practically begging for it. 😉

[@Colddirector]

It’s honestly wierd how much reverence they give the man when his arguments really aren’t all that great. The man can write - I actually enjoy the screw tape letters, but pretty much nothing he says will convince someone who doesn’t already want to believe.

[@juliaboon9741]

As a Christian I also wanna see the dis track. I hate Lewis

[@darkstarr984]

I also want this and I like C. S Lewis, lol.

[@jeanvandenberg8986]

Jesus is coming 2 thousand years of edging. Gonna be one massive coming.

[@mutamirmukhzani1240]

What the hell mate

[@AmonTheWitch]

​@@mutamirmukhzani1240 ohio sigma rizz skibidi toilet fanum tax only in ohio

[@jeanvandenberg8986]

@@mutamirmukhzani1240 Joke be funny. Joke make you go ha ha.

[@humboldthammer]

hint: Jesus was crucified in 30 AD. 1,994 years ago. The Vernal Equinox of 2030 marks the Beginning of the third, 1000-year Days of Heaven. 2 Peter 3: 8 See John 16: 7-15. This is NOT the 2nd Coming in the flesh. It is the fulfillment of Jesus' resurrection on the Third Day. And we have been told SOONER. 09/23/26 is exactly 3.5 years sooner. 10/10/26 is 42 New moons sooner. Hundreds of millions deceived by the False Prophets of the NAR on Christian Network TV. Matthew 24: 24. Trump is an antiChrist. The Dems CANNOT save us. So MANY so Horribly taught.

[@justynmatlock8873]

Well Jesus said he would bring, "Not peace, but a sword,". I didn't realize "sword" was a euphamism.

[@dylanbosley4139]

Last year, I was at a school-wide prayer service at my Catholic school and the head of campus ministry (who started to really push the hallow app by hanging flyers and such) wrapped up the service by what could be described as an irl ad read. That was just so surreal, and words can not describe how weird this felt

[@yeoldegunporn]

😮 that sucks

[@EmiliaEmilia-r6b]

Same thing happened to me at my Catholic school. Just that they made us all complete a Hallow challenge in one day

[@Colddirector]

That’s capitalism baby, who has time for piety when there’s money to be made?

[@gregoryvn3]

WTF

[@EphemeralTao]

Two important things to keep in mind about the "easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle" Luke 18:25 passage: 1) At that time, there was a common aphorism, "it's easier for a rope to go through the eye of a needle", which was used to indicate the impossibility of a task or event. So hearers at the time would not have heard "more difficult", they would have heard "not possible". 2) More importantly, the word for rope in Aramaic (the language Christ would have been speaking) is "gamla", while the word for camel "gamlo". So Our Lord and Saviour took a common expression and _added an awful pun_ for emphasis. Interestingly, this pun actually survives translation to English, since the loanword "camel" (Aramaic by way of Greek and Latin) is used for both the animal, and for the terminal end of a rope (although the latter has effectively become an archaism). The "adrenochrome" thing irritates me more than it probably should, compared to other forms of blood libel Q-cultists use; because adrenochrome is typically extracted from *horses* . It needs to be extracted from a large animal, because that's the only way to get useful amounts of the stuff. The amount that can be extracted from adult humans is too small to be worth the effort, and children produce even less.

[@kencarpenter1363]

I also find the other verses interesting. They asked what they had to do to enter the kingdom, and Jesus said "sell all that you have, give it to the poor and follow me". They went away sorrowful because they were wealthy. I'm paraphrasing.

[@fimbles4211]

I get adds for this app, and as a Christian, i found it suspicious because... I don't feel i need an app to connect with God.

[@DoubleDragon539]

Gotta be a profit incentive in there somewhere. I am atheist so colour me suspicious, but I bet there does!

[@simond.455]

That was also my reaction to Emma's question: Christian Prayer App? Why?

[@No1Armadillo]

Nailed it!! 👍

[@DoubleDragon539]

@@noahclaycameron Ads of course, thats good money, then there is user data...also good money.

[@fredbarnesjr.1044]

And they charge 80 bucks a year too, so definitely prosperity gospel centric especially when they offer hillsong music as “praise and worship”

[@joshua-we9xr]

Poor Jesus. It must be exhausting to be coming that much.

[@Aro_Ace]

I had to pause the video to laugh 😂

[@Sageminty]

goddamnit that got me good

[@janerkenbrack3373]

There's a sucker born every minute. Paying seventy bucks a month to have people to remind me to pray? I mean, if I don't think of praying, I probably don't have much to pray about.

[@JeffreyChadwell]

It's not $70/month. It's $5.83/month billed annually. That works out to about $70/year. Even at that price, it's still not worth it.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

@@JeffreyChadwell Thanks for the correction. You're still right.

[@njhoepner]

It's like paying someone to come in and set your alarm for you.

[@johnthompson6374]

Siri, set alarm... LOL

[@kellywalker1664]

That's what loudspeakers in minarets are for.

[@Fluoman_]

I can't, for the life of me, understand how they can say "catholic & christians". Catholics are christians, ffs.

[@ruthspanos2532]

Seriously, they could just say ‘Catholics and other Christians’ instead of ceding the argument to Protestants.

[@Fluoman_]

And it's specifically a USA beef too.

[@Soundbrigade]

Sure about that?! Their god is actually living and well in Rome …..

[@Fluoman_]

@@Soundbrigade the pope is not and never has been god.

[@eric2500]

Hearing that one from Protestants all my life - the far out ones anyone!

[@quaidrowan]

Kenneth Copeland: “…so you’re telling me there’s a chance.”

[@iHeartThe90s]

Fucking LMAO 😂

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

My ex-girlfriend lived at the Playboy mansion for a while in late '99, early 2000. She said that Mark Wahlberg was borderline obsessed with her, couldn't take rejection, and was creepy as F. 🇨🇦

[@Soundbrigade]

Oh, like a christian?!😊

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

@@Soundbrigade Pretty much.. lol

[@zackamania6534]

Yeah I saw FEAR too !

[@saulteanuts-vg8iu]

@@zackamania6534 Does Zack have a secret? lol Derp

[@cobrasys]

No wonder Marky Mark was actually decent in Fear. He was just playing himself.

[@itstybear]

I got a Hallow ad for this video 😭

[@fredbarnesjr.1044]

Me too

[@skepticsinister]

Block the ad. I blocked the ads immediately, it’s almost totally gone.

[@nicholase2868]

A prayer app having equity and investors is so bizarre and backwards.

[@CplAnguadaEarth]

Tom Ballard of “The Sound of Freedom” is actually in court right now for being quite a bad person. Carah Burrell is covering that all.

[@njhoepner]

Yet another holy righteous perfect conservative christian whose skeletons are getting out of his closet. Wow, what a surprise.

[@JaylukKhan]

Monetizing prayer sounds like something from a Bible story that ends with a gruesome death for the people responsible.

[@robertpetrovich6776]

The money changers in the temple, the selling of indulgences...it keeps following the same path

[@dstrctd]

Public service announcement about 30 day free trials with annual billing on iOS: if you forget to cancel, you can go to the support website and request a refund, and one of the reasons in the drop down list is: “I forgot to cancel before the trial ended”.

[@urbanred]

If Margaret Attwood had written The Handmaid's Tale today she would have included something like this app. Nothing about these people surprises, not even the depths of their depravity. Thanks, Emma, for keeping up with this stuff and helping to keep the rest of us caught up. You do great work!

[@VoidR]

I recently saw a vinyl decal on the back of a car that said, "I hope you follow Jesus as close as you're following me because you're about to meet him"

[@Jogjosmowwdkfs]

When I think that there might be someone in my home, even though I’m not Christian myself, I check everywhere in the house saying stuff like “You better start praying if you don’t wanna show up at the gates unannounced.” “You know god? Cause you’re about to meet him.”

[@maryeckel9682]

Good God

[@cordeliacullen2621]

Every car I see that has that bumper sticker tailgates other drivers so bad they're constantly almost hitting them.

[@iparizotto]

Grifts, hate speech, conspiracy theories and scams are EXACTLY what comes to mind when someone says "Christian tech product"

[@thatbritishguypatrick]

Brand never held a conviction he wouldn't abandon or sell for personal gain. The fact so many people were taken in by his pseudo intellectual thesaurus mashing monologues is, frankly, concerning.

[@fepeerreview3150]

35:50 Re. Russell Brand, he went off the deep end in 2020 when he went down the anti-vaxx, cowid conspiracy rabbit hole. I believe that is what marked the total transition from a drug using, woman abusing "comedian" to real danger to society in a grand way. In 2020 he figured out he could use what shreds of name recognition he had left to build up a new audience base. And it worked.

[@MichaelPalin]

I remember a few years before that he became an outspoken anti-porn advocate for a little while. Maybe he was trying to get ahead of sexual assault allegations by prepping an, "It wasn't me! It was the evil porn!" defense.

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

Not to mention his on-air abuse of Andrew Sachs.

[@zuglymonster]

He's completely nuts

[@misterocain]

Kenneth Copeland and that "eye of a needle" response. What a pr*ck.

[@jlighter1]

“Okay, but what if…just let me…so, what if you take a _really big_ needle, like an _giant_ needle, and a _really small_ camel, like a baby camel. What do you call a baby camel? Anyway, really big needle, baby camel, pass it through, am I right? Right? My brothers in Christ, we’ve figured it out.” - Kenneth Copeland, probably

[@taylorswan8587]

To be fair, i can’t help but admire Copeland’s ability to fleece the sheep

[@nicholase2868]

I got goose bumps just thinking about it. He's so creepy!

[@AmonTheWitch]

i mean his name is literally *Cope*land

[@thehellyousay]

i see what you've done here.

[@DJJD669]

I’ve been an atheist for 10 years, and when the Super Bowl ad started playing my brain immediately switched into “prayer mode” and it kinda freaked me out lol

[@corralescoyote]

“Build a habit, not that kind of habit! Ha-ha!” 😂

[@bobcharles1204]

I agree. It seems they are more concerned with making money than helping people

[@Author-dad-veteran]

“Hello fellow cynics” I’ve never felt more at home!

[@MeUrWishGranted]

I think the vast majority of Christians are genuinely good people. There's the percentage of higher-ups that are OBVIOUSLY exploiting those below them. It's part of why I can never go back to religion at this point.

[@ec9833]

Doesn’t make sense to me. If the majority are good…wouldn’t you be able to find a place for yourself? -IME & observation…the majority, led by something, someone as everyone is influenced & not so very original, have never truly been on the side of Jesus type teachings. Not in all of the history of Christianity. The Bible was an exaggerated writing from the beginning, in order to impress a certain sect of ppl and reel them into an agenda, it seems, as countries everywhere wrote hugely exaggerated books describing their histories all for the same reasons.

[@MeUrWishGranted]

@@ec9833 I don't disagree with you. I can't go back for many, many reasons so that is only a small fraction of the reasoning.

[@ec9833]

@@MeUrWishGranted oh I wouldn’t wish that on you for anything. Even if good Christians exist, whatever that means to whomever…what a risk a person takes, trying to find them. Every moment of influence upon another person is very real and very impactful. It’s how humans “work”. And that’s very precious space within us. We’ve all got so much undue struggle on our shoulders as is. Idunno your reasons but…I would never tell anyone to try and find a place within that when the risk is more guaranteed to deliver consequences than the reward is to be found. -I hope you’re okay. I wish you the best…& the best, most loving, kind and supportive relationship within yourself, to and for yourself. That’s where I’ve found reward, anyway. Like no other, really. 💕

[@shybard]

I'm shocked. Shocked! Well... Not that shocked.

[@CodeNameX001]

Adrenochrome is like the hollowed-out husk of where adrenaline USED to be. Getting an adrenoline high off of adrenochrome would be like making on omlette out of exclusively eggshells.

[@AnotherCraig]

Wasn't using it as a drug something Hunter Thompson made up for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, anyway...?

[@davidg4288]

@@AnotherCraig It's unsurprising that their conspiracy would trace back to a work of fiction.

[@maryeckel9682]

​@@AnotherCraigyes, to show how nuts they were.

[@Mad_Elf_0]

Catholic: "Are we monetising our faith?" The Reformation: [sheds a single tear at being forgotten]

[@petervickery6290]

As Spike Milligan once said in an interview, he was a catolick ,because he could sin all his life and on his deathbed confess and say he was sorry , and he would be forgiven for all his sins, what a religon

[@Eric_01]

But what if he was shot in the head and never had a death bed?! WHAT THEN?!

[@DavidSmith-vr1nb]

​@@Eric_01 That didn't happen. He told you he was ill.

[@Eric_01]

@@DavidSmith-vr1nb The question is "what if". So, what if?

[@dizzylilthing]

sadly, you have to actually confess, repent, and seek forgiveness. And if you don't do it earnestly, you die without seeking repentance for your sin and you go to hell even if you did pull the rip cord in time.A

[@Eric_01]

@@dizzylilthing The good news is that none of that actually happens. This entire thing is manmade. You should find great comfort in that.

[@direktive4]

they're monetizing prayer now, jesus christ

[@Forest_Fifer]

They've been monetising prayer for centuries...collection boxes at church anyone?

[@danjohnston9037]

As a Non-Christian Person in the US I would like to hear more of JD Vance's connection to the app and his investment in it ( Full Disclosure ; with the desire of seeing him " outed " about it in US Media )

[@DrumWild]

If they were decent Christians, then they would forgive Liam Neeson.

[@ec9833]

If they were decent Christians they wouldn’t judge him in the first place.

[@RunesandReapers]

Homophobix, xenophobix agoraphobix, all the phobics....its terrifying all the hate man all that christian hate...

[@lemonflavouredquark]

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each, I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints; other times there was only one. During the low periods of my life I could see only one set of footprints, so I said, “finally!!!! That bastard has given up and left me alone. Damn stalkers!!!!”

[@thehellyousay]

*standing ovation*

[@njhoepner]

THAT one made my day...thanks!

[@rexr0b0twars80]

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each, I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints; other times there was only one. i throw a seashell at his head every time but the bastard keeps coming back

[@chriswest6988]

When there was only one set of footprints, that was when you let your premium subscription lapse.

[@twalrus1]

God, My prayer to you is, "Please make Conservative Christians pay more attention to their bibles. They seem to be ignoring that part where Jesus talks about them protecting The Least Of These. They also seem to be ignoring the part about the $billioniare not going to Heaven (eye of a needle and all that)".

[@Eric_01]

It doesn't actually say rich people canNOT go to heaven. It's just harder, so why burden yourself.

[@twalrus1]

@@Eric_01 It's hard for a $millionaire....a thousand times harder for a $billionaire. The average person on the street has a 10,000 times better chance of getting into Heaven than a $billionaire. So, following an average person off the street gets you 10,000 times closer to Heaven than following a $billionaire.

[@Eric_01]

@@twalrus1 I don't think there's any difference in "hardness" once you've reached a million. Your numbers are complete nonsense. 10,000 times closer to heaven? LOL

[@twalrus1]

@@Eric_01 Cool, as long as you are ready to use that excuse at the Pearly Gates to defend your pathway choice.

[@Eric_01]

@@twalrus1 That's never going to happen. You literally believe in pearly gates, too? Based on what? A poem you read or some drawing you saw? That's not even biblical.

[@dalesplitstone6276]

Hmmm. Number One App for Christian and Catholic Prayer? This implies Catholicism is not Christian, otherwise they could just say Number One App for Christian Prayer.

[@kencarpenter1363]

Many evangelicals and Catholics consider each other as fallen heretics. Not all, but many.

[@Forest_Fifer]

Well plenty of Presbyterians consider the pope to be the antichrist

[@rebirth_mishap]

jesus has been coming soon for a little over 2000 years

[@thehellyousay]

nah, he's just breathin' hard ...

[@Batz-on-paws]

Maybe he's having trouble getting out of bed knowing what kinda people he would have to deal with

[@nathanyou1899]

I hope they patch out that whole being murdered by romans thing in the new update.

[@redarrw1633]

The longest known development hell in history. Maybe they should just scrap and start over.

[@AdventuRyn_]

Something really ominous in seeing 'get ready to meet Jesus' on a car on the motorway o.o

[@marshallmkerr]

Quite apart from the obscenity of monetizing the practice, even an atheist can read Matthew 6:5-6 and discover the gentleman from Nazareth exhorted us not to be hypocrites by praying "to be seen of men"; but to retire to our closets, shut the door, and pray in secret. Mouthing along formulaic words suggested by anyone else is the opposite of effective prayer, which can only be spontaneous, personal and earnest opening of the heart to the love of God. Again, even an atheist like me can understand and appreciate the simple wisdom of many things Jesus recommended, while scoffing at the many people constantly loudly calling His Name in public and glossing over all His actual advice in practice.

[@stonykark]

Silicon Valley investors would sell their own children to anyone who promised a profit margin, they’re decidedly not religious (not in the traditional sense anyways, they worship wealth). Investing in a religious app makes a lot of sense tho. It has a captive audience that’s conditioned to accept microtransactions and pointless subscriptions. 👍

[@christiananimepunk4793]

What does this have to do with Sillcon Valley? It's just a TV show. That show isn't about selling children.

[@jaspersagem9469]

Someone donated the app to my Catholic school and the administration forced all the teachers to use it so we just had weird background music while we did our classwork.

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

Pay up to prey up.

[@rickpapineau5939]

Did you intentionally use "prey" instead of "pray"? Vicious.

[@JimFortune]

Charging people to pray. Do you think Jesus would have kicked the whole lot of them down the temple stairs?

[@DanSlaughter85]

Pro tip almost all apps and or services that do a trial you can cancel as soon as you sign up and still get all the way through your trial. So you can't forget because you do it when you open it. Order for some reason you don't trust that stick it in your phone calendar. You can set a reminder notification for the day before it ends.

[@Trottel9]

As a catholic communist I can only say: Wtf? Praying and participation in mass has to be free by the rules of the Codex Iuris Canonici, the catholic canon. In Germany we usually make fun about the money hungry determinists, Calvinists, but American Catholics are different.

[@shelliegilbertson9828]

No thank you. I don't want "christ" anywhere near my life

[@gspoiler]

I found in my experience as an American that grew up in a Cristian/Catholic vaguely background. (My parents made us go very irregularly) That the shittiest people in my family still believed in their redemption .My father is a pretty terrible person that has quite a record, but would spout absolutely nonsense about talking to god and asking forgiveness is all you need to get into heaven. Despite the many literal crimes the man continues to commit he fails to actually take responsibility for what he does. Yet he thinks I should change my views and beliefs to the church. There is a large dissonance between their thoughts and their actions.

[@juliaboon9741]

I believe that it's Catholic doctrine that only true repentance receives forgiveness so just a "I'm sorry" doesn't cut it and it requires actual work and a commitment to not do the action again. I'm sorry your father is like this and I hope he one day he learns what it actually means to ask for forgiveness.

[@bogscholar691]

⁠​⁠@@juliaboon9741 I wish! I was raised devoutly Catholic and my parents never even got to the “I’m sorry” part… they outright *demanded* to be forgiven without doing literally anything to ‘earn’ it. Forgiving them was an obligation for us kids, but of course never went the other way around. They were absolved of all their personal wrongdoings because “we are all sinners,” but never treated us with the same leeway… Catholics are some of the most entitled and self-righteous people I know, in my personal experience. I know not all are like that, of course, but it was enough for me to avoid Catholics altogether for the sake of my own peace. Like OP said, there’s so much dissonance and hidden nastiness in many Christian beliefs and practices.

[@juliaboon9741]

@@bogscholar691 A lot of the time I've found, it's less the doctrine and more the practitioners who use it to their own advantage in order to absolve themselves; therefore often doctrine does contradict the everyday experience of a lot of people wherein there is no real basis for a belief except that it "feels" correct such as demanding forgiveness.

[@QueenLizardSparkles]

A little off topic but Emma's American accent has gotten SO. GOOD.

[@terilily]

Thank you for putting this out. I was a Hallow subscriber in early 2020... For a brief moment it looked to me like they were trying to be a rare moderate presence in the Catholic online space 🙃 Awful to see how it’s gone down an ultra conservative and conspiratorial path instead, but it makes sense when you talk about the money involved.

[@charlessmarr7107]

Yes but Vance did not say that being America's Hitler was a bad thing, did he?

[@cobrasys]

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[@42percenthealth]

Even when I was an all-in Christian I noticed that many people did the breathy voice whenever they talked about anything spiritual, and it drove me crazy then too.

[@melissaspradley8901]

Jim Caviezel is famously bad at memorizing and delivering lines. He is almost certainly reading the lines for that ad off a card.

[@martinmckee5333]

I do wonder how he's been hired. I've never been impressed with his acting... it's always forced.

[@damianwhite504]

True. He can barely answer simple questions in an interview

[@juliaboon9741]

I liked him in Person of Interest but then again he was playing a wooden and emotionally stunted killer so...

[@foofieviolet]

To learn more about JD Vance I highly recommend Fundie Friday's episode on JD. They go deep into his entire life story and how he got to be where hevus today, from a poor boy in the rust belt USA to Yale graduate, then a moderate conservative with bipartisan appeal that hated trump, to now where he's a conspiracy theory peddler and running mate with trump. It's a WILD ride!

[@Procrastination87]

1 second into the video, i love your top. It reminds me of those funky graphics 90s tv had.

[@darrenkeady6570]

And she’s gorgeous as well.

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

​@@darrenkeady6570There's a difference between complimenting someone about something they've chosen for themselves versus genetics they didn't.

[@thehellyousay]

@@noneofyourbusiness4616 beauty captures the attention, personality captures the heart ...

[@kingboarhog]

​@@darrenkeady6570Unnecessary dude.

[@darrenkeady6570]

@@kingboarhog . Complementing a beautiful woman is not a bad thing.

[@felixthefish]

I was raised Catholic in a very left leaning household and all of this is wild to me. It makes me realize that the left leaning catholicism I grew up with isn’t the norm. Especially with the discussion of abortion, my parents are very pro choice and are still Catholic to this day. So I always thought that if you were Catholic you were pro choice (until I became a teen). I always viewed fanaticism as a Protestant thing as a young teen. All of these aspects of my religious background make learning of right wing Catholics and Catholic extremism incredibly interesting.

[@Troisnyx]

Lefty Catholic here, I grew up in Southeast Asia (not going into specifics) and I was formed by a priest who was a civil rights activist who nearly laid down his life multiple times for his work. Complications from a routine op took him in the end, but I digress. The problem is that nobody seems to listen. Laity, clergy, many have a preconception of Jesus that suits them, and they'll banish people to the shadow realm for ever calling them out on it.

[@noahclaycameron]

0:36 Some of the most annoying youtube ads.... that's what pops into my head

[@esasaurus2456]

The number of times I’ve shouted, “leave me alone, Jesus! I’m not buying your stupid app!” at my phone…

[@darkstrifequeen1458]

Ikr I’m not paying for Jesus to stalk me for a month. Go away!

[@hardryv3719]

"Waste of time" -- that comes to mind immediately. One of my atheist buds used to get upset when I mocked / misinterpreted (on purpose) mentions of "Jesus is coming." Body & Blood transubstantiation humor followed. He would get quite upset before he illuminated his way out of that crazy cult.

[@Jogjosmowwdkfs]

Every time I hear “Body and Blood” I think of the Ghost song lol

[@juliaboon9741]

The best jokes are when you are Christian and are making fun of it yourself. "God is not to be mocked" nah he loves a good joke! He made me. 😂

[@kevinmlevites8429]

Hello, Ms. Emma. I always love your youtube shows. Regarding this app . . . isn't it amazing that the almighty creator of the Universe needs an app to be prayed to? I'm sure the money for the subscription makes the prayers extra holy. I'm sure that my credit card will help me get into Paradise when I die.

[@thisgameissoesey]

Hi there! Letting you know as requested that yes a Russell Brand deep-dive would be super interesting! Thanks! :D

[@dutchess406]

I agree

[@Morrislover.they.xem.]

I FUCKING KNEW SOMETHING WAS OFF ABOUT IT!!!!!!!! I hate those ads.

[@hexed_pepper]

Ain’t no way I got a Hallow ad on this video :(

[@fredbarnesjr.1044]

Yup cause I did too

[@carlclark3167]

The way I see it: Hallow is paying Emma. I'm in favor.

[@mutamirmukhzani1240]

Kek the irony

[@turingmachine7905]

Same here

[@darkstrifequeen1458]

Wow, way to promote Emma’s channel with your religious app propaganda crap, hallow app!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@mitochondria558]

Your questions about monetizing your faith remind me of the song that I still really love by DC Talk "is this one for the people? Is this one for the Lord? Or do I simply serenade for things I must afford?" I appreciate that they acknowledge the conflict

[@KenS1267]

Evangelicals have now made up that "eye of a needle" was a gate into Jerusalem, which there definitely was not, and not the literal meaning to change the passages meaning. That's how desperate they are to make being rich ok.

[@prototype102010]

I remember learing this in bible college, with pictures of the "gate" as well.

[@KenS1267]

@@prototype102010 There are something like 8 different Christian churches, all inside what was then the city of Jerusalem, claiming they are built on the gate or have the gate. Obviously there is slightly less evidence for the validity of all of those than there is for the Shroud of Turin.

[@tj2375]

Wtf really???!

[@georgesmith4768]

Actually medieval theologians (don’t remember which) first made it up Though yeah definitely not correct, in fact we have other texts from around the time sometimes from peoples with no connection to jerusulum it was definitely an aphorism meaning impossible

[@neriumkristina]

Not recent. Was taught that decades ago.

[@rlsxs4ever]

"i'm being stalked by jesus" i am actually surprised this phrase is not more common, given the omnipresence atributed to jesus. i know i would feel stalked if he were real

[@juliaboon9741]

I've definitely heard this on the Christian side of tumblr so it just depends where you lurk

[@RoundPi]

Being raised Vietnamese Catholic, I wasn't expecting a reference to that kind of hate crime 8 to 8.5 minutes in. 😭 I shouldn't have been surprised american christianity and irony go hand in hand (in prayer).

[@yeoldegunporn]

The money, the flash, the celebrities, it’s being an App, this all feels sacrilegious. 🤷 like, idk.

[@AllThingsFilm1]

Timing is everything. Russell Brand came out a "born again Christian" not long after the time that news of alleged victims of sexual assault spoke out against Brand. Coincidence? Yes, I would definitely be interested in seeing you make a video about Russell Brand. Thank you.

[@ej4347]

Dang! I didn't think of that twist when I was reminding people posting on Hallow ads on Facebook that RB was a rapist. People countered my posts with the idea that the accusations came out around the time he was flirting with Christianity.

[@BenK12345]

charging for a prayer app is peak Christianity.

[@ricoaioa]

6:15 I'd say that "GET READY TO MEET JESUS" sounds way more threatening. Especially if its on the front of the car 🤣

[@JambleBramble]

This is the least surprising thumbnail I've ever seen

[@sarahr8311]

I enjoy the fact that "#1 app for Christian and Catholic prayer" implies that Catholic prayer isn't Christian.

[@FourthDrawerDown]

Brought to you by Hallow fresh 🤦‍♂️

[@robertcox1835]

One of the many differences between Catholicism and largely American evangelical/Pentecostal/fundamentalist Christianity is how far the right to life extends. Not only does the Catholic Church oppose abortion but the current leadership is anti-war and strongly against the death penalty.

[@metralla]

You have a very swinging 60's London vibe today!

[@andrewrogers5289]

Emma you are a breath of fresh air. I was born and raised a catholic and dragged to mass every Sunday. Fortunately my great father gave us the option when we turned eighteen to make our own choice. I immediately stopped going to church because of the hypocrisy I had witnessed, which if anyone who cares to look into it, the bible is full of.

[@Scatscar1985]

Mark Wahlberg peaked with The Funky Bunch.

[@Ann_T_Social]

Nothing screams "Good Catholic/Christian/I love Jesus" like making bank off prayer and bigotry, amirite? But my biggest question is ~ where are Jon Voight and Kevin Sorbo??? Sure, they have Caviezel and Brand and Marky Mark, but it's not high-quality Jesus/Q product if Jon and the Sorbs aren't involved.

[@MrBBub]

Emma - please don't say "JD Vance" anymore. His name sounds so pleasant in your accent. As an American, OF COURSE a catholic/christian prayer app is about hate, Q-anon, violence, etc. That's what American christianity IS!