New Jehovah's Witness kids propaganda is hilarious

[@MrTimelord77]

I've always found it so disturbing how Caleb and Sophia always question all the normal things like having fun or being labeled as being different. It's like talking to someone who is stoned or was turned into a robot from the Stepford Wives. The wives were made 1950's TV housewife perfect, yet the husbands and children were still heavily flawed because they weren't meant to be converted.

[@murakawa-san2279]

Stoned? Ok, nazi.

[@_mimyohan]

It's even more terrifying when JW kids are taught that when they were born, they are already considered enemies to Jehovah when that's not true...

[@John73John]

Just the absolute glee of "It's the three Hebrews in the fire!" If that artist isn't a psychopath then I don't know who is.

[@colbyboucher6391]

I mean, the point is that they were safe. So I don't find that _that_ strange specifically.

[@afroatheist-isnowafroantit6154]

​@@colbyboucher6391😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@JesusIsMyAgape]

I didn't know JW are starting to agree more with Austrian painter who became Chancelore

[@rissaarei5336]

@@colbyboucher6391 Yeah, let me tell you, "they are fine" was not what I thought when they first showed the picture. 😬

[@colbyboucher6391]

@@rissaarei5336 But they are. That's the point of the story and JW kids already know that. These three men refused to follow Babylonian customs that went against their faith and were protected by God from the consequences. Something that pisses me off about this channel in general is that it and many of the people who follow it barely seem to understand what JWs believe or, like, basic Christian myth. If you want to dismantle it you should understand it. If you don't, you'll be _rightly_ dismissed and laughed at and won't get anywhere.

[@Callie_with_a_bible]

"I know I can talk to you about anything" Except (in this girl's case): Friends with outsiders Being a lesbian Being trans Having a HINT of anger at Jehova or the priests Being SA by any high ranking officials Other religions and probably more I forgot

[@gooeydude574]

Or fictional wizards

[@jayo1212]

Or celebrating holidays...

[@RavenPeake]

Don't forget having thoughts of your own.

[@solosynapse]

Having a birthday Science existing Having empathy for other human beings

[@BianchiRoadshow]

She's a lesboss?

[@mistressabysstress]

"Oops they went to eternal hellfire, but that's a happy little accident." - Evil Bob Ross

[@FrogsForBreakfast]

When I was 8 years old, one of my best friends was JW. We couldn't play with her after school, but at school we were inseparable. We traded letters and drawings and took turns writing in a shared journal. One day, I was finally allowed to go to her house. We couldn't play outside and her auntie made me uncomfortable. I don't remember why. It was overall kinda boring. That next week at recess, our teacher approached us and said that I was no longer allowed to play with her, per her mom. We were devastated. For background, I was being raised in a modern US Roman Catholic church, which at the time were much more liberal than other denominations. We went every Sunday. The religious instruction my parents gave at home was more history and ethics than catechism, so I knew about how the bible was originally written in different languages, how there were multiple translations and potential errors, the tetragrammaton and the vowel thing, etc. I was coached how to respond to "Catholics aren't real Christians" claims with bible passages and history. Basically I was ready to tango. I also felt righteous child outrage that they couldn't participate in holidays or birthdays. "Jesus celebrated weddings and holidays. Just because our culture is so commericalized doesn't mean we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater." (everyone cared about Christmas commercialization back then) All my classmates knew how I felt. Our third best friend was just as passionate, even louder than me if anything. So yeah I'm certain I said something that made her parents realize I'm a bad influence. Any attempts to convert me would have been extremely unsuccessful. I don't know why else her mom would ban me. We continued passing notes and a week later began brazenly hanging out at school again. The teacher didn't stop us but at the end of the year she moved schools and I never saw or heard from her again. We had been best friends for 2 years, literally a quarter of our lives. She was really smart. I hope she found her way out.

[@Stormy_Seaz_dragonz]

I honestly hope she found her way out too

[@witchypoo7353]

The fact they’re forcing children to be lonely then teaching them that they have to witness is the only way they’ll have friends is if they try to force other kids into that life is so tragic

[@redfern6013]

Ain’t no way the painter was like, “It’s the three hebrews in the 🔥🤩FIERY FURNACE!🤩🔥”

[@S4BRINA_0N_PAWS_666]

Owen: gets shocked about the painting of the Hebrews burning People who watched Happy Tree Friends as kids: *I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you.*

[@ironyelegy]

Lmaooo God true

[@scottwebster5211]

Wow that would be a super cool name for a band

[@miuki2721]

And not be disturbed by the gore

[@Red-jl1qr]

Happy tree friends wasn't an "educational" video aimed at young children 💀

[@Clandestinemonkey]

@@Red-jl1qr nobody grew up watching happy tree friends lol

[@theunintelligentlydesigned4931]

That's what I want, a friend who bosses me around and won't let me be happy.

[@dwaneanderson8039]

Teacher: What are you painting Johnny? Johnny: Three Hebrews burning in an oven. Teacher: ?!!!

[@solosynapse]

Johnny, with a German accent*

[@GiveMeMyLunchMoney]

I wonder if Johnny is from Austria?

[@Waldo-in-walls]

@@solosynapse I draw ze little three hewbrewens in the hotenboxen, ja.

[@fairisblue8051]

This literally shows just how hypocritical the watchtower is They copied the art style of a 'worldly show' about demons and witches and magic, and used it for their danm propaganda. It sickens me to see the owl house art style used in such away

[@Mr.happy689]

"people call us weird and different, and that's bad" Meanwhile: "gays are weird and different don't be gay they a cult"

[@alexv3372]

No cap this got me upset fr 😤 Ain’t nobody dissing the owl house in my house

[@aporue5893]

the term ''worldly'' feels racist to me for some reason.

[@agentblackbird9435]

@@aporue5893Because it kind of is, at least in this context (The definition is “Someone who is concerned with material values or ordinary life rather than a spiritual existence” and considering these are JWs, I think you can fill in the gaps)

[@aporue5893]

@@agentblackbird9435 OOF

[@RavenFilms]

18:19 This part here is almost exactly how I almost ended up baptized. I took an interest in religion around 7 (but I only knew of a few). I knew about the door knockers and I asked my mom if I could accept study next time. That’s what happened and then it started to suck my mom in too. Our family was never religious before this. Oddly enough, my mom’s mounting drug abuse is what saved me from this. The congregation gave up on us because of the drugs. Who would have thought drug abuse was the key to saving children 😂 Ok, not really the right lesson, but that is what happened. I continued to take an interest in religion (dozens at this point) and still do to this day, however, once I developed actual critical thinking skills I was atheist by 19.

[@mbrown7361]

I'm glad Owen also noticed that their budget went into the lollipop visuals.

[@kellymeadows353]

It looks like a Charms Blowpop from the 1970s, had bubble gum in the center

[@wtos9153]

I would say lack of effort/budget. It looks more perfect and tasty because they didn’t take the time to model the uneven markings that come on a real lollipop.

[@thephantomeagle2]

How is this NOT child abuse? I never knew any JWs, having grown up in towns of 350, and 1200, the nearest JW hall is one town over, in two directions. (the towns I lived in and currently live in are 7 miles apart. The sound effects in that insipidly stupid JW video are so annoying. I hate sound effects in most instances. This is among the worst ever. I am currently reading, and marking "Understanding JWs" by Owen. I just started and it's already frightening. I just can't understand how anyone can be happy when they're not one of the 144,000. "you just know you're part of it", is the excuse.

[@MrTimelord77]

This is terrible. Sugar-coating a difficult biblical topic is nothing short of blasphemy and hides the fact they used aspartame. I believe in Owen Morgan.

[@michaelsanchez169]

I agree with you this is awful

[@MrTimelord77]

@@michaelsanchez169 But Owen is awesome for bringing the light.

[@michaelsanchez169]

@@MrTimelord77 Correct

[@PorchPotatoMike]

Every time you go into the description of the origin of “Jehovah”, I think of the stoning scene in “Life of Brain” and it cracks me up.

[@katarinatibai8396]

Same 😂😂😂 I can literally see the old ass bearded weirdo dancing like crazy and singing Jehooowa 🎶Jehoowa - JEHOOOWA 🗣🎶

[@Mr.happy689]

8:40 the irony in this they are complaining about how jw are different and they are weird But then they call us gays weird and different like 🫠 Come *ON* man

[@MrBlakBunny]

note how sickly the 'other kids' look compared to sophie and calleb, and usually the worst of them the "bullies' will always be eating something or going on about something food related

[@vectorwolf]

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to broadcast 'temptation' implications... all this sugar they want and can't have. Better than the alternative (s3x)...

[@katarinatibai8396]

Especially chips, hamburgers, candy, or cupcakes. All the things which a good JW should not eat. Just because ... 🤔 No one really knows. They are just anti fun or enjoin anything,I guess, because it's "worldly." This world is ruled by the devil. Therefore, worldly = demonic. Basically, the most normal everyday things are evil.

[@reeseseater12]

"He will protect us, but even if he doesn't we still won't worship your God" So pretty much they're beyond reasoning, some things never change

[@ir4zs]

Kinda like how war... war never changes...

[@LiloMoss05]

As a European, I've noticed that JW's are drastically different here. My little sister is in 10th grade and she has a JW classmate, he already invited her to bible study but I of course told her to refuse. But she told me that he's quite popular in his class and has lots of "wordly" friends and seems to participate in activities. Which is extremely odd.

[@aubriannataylor]

i dont think that they are all bad just some are a little extreme

[@xyz1087]

as an European, same! i had a middleschool classmate who was a JW, she not only was very popular, she also smoked cigarettes all the time 😭 and she was definitely JW bc I saw her knocking on doors with her parents once. wild things

[@mouthshovel]

Do you know if it's the same religion or if it's like a different thing with the same name? i.e. thong

[@LiloMoss05]

@@mouthshovel No no it's the same religion, he specified that he was a Jehovah's Witness, and even till now he keeps offering my sister to join their bible studies 😂😂

[@cmndrkool321]

0:06, Austrian artist upset 1939 colorized.

[@ladybarberkla1862]

Look up the “Stories that Live” cassette tapes . In the 90’s my mom would put them on for me to fall asleep to at night as a child . It was Bible stories like these . Now looking back it’s no wonder I had such vivid nightmares of burning pigs and all kinds of crazy stuff . The stories were terrible. People burning and being killed and betrayed . It’s crazy to think back on now !

[@jennifern1453]

-me looking at the names of the Hebrew dudes- wait, is this a rip off of that Veggietales tape lol

[@malachibrezina8375]

The bunny?

[@sylverrob]

Ouch. HAHAHA, religious trauma.

[@carebear1324555]

@@malachibrezina8375 The bunny!

[@thatliquidthing1903]

From what I’ve seen, that lollipop looks like a Grape Dum-Dums pop. And yeah, that’s easily one of the best flavors, among Cream Soda and Blu Raspberry.

[@1JayAkki]

Drunk naked Noah being found by his grandson

[@Raztiana]

The whole "Jehova's friend" thing still sounds creepy as hell!

[@katarinatibai8396]

SUPER creepy 💯💯💯

[@aporue5893]

even when someone's on the toilet,he can see them 💩🚽

[@FOADa6c6a6b]

No mention of the Scandinavian yule practices christians "borrowed"

[@azsli2]

Thats what i was thinking!! The trees came from yule and so did the date. He completely disregarded saturnalia and yule.

[@Sarah-kc3fb]

@@azsli2 It was also first used in Germany

[@CertainlySukrose]

That’s why us Danes still call Christmas “Jul”

[@misterauctor7353]

Explain.

[@misterauctor7353]

​@azsli2 Proof?

[@BATCHARRO]

It could have helped if the 3 Hebrews in the fire looked calm like in the story and not "AAAAAAAAAAGH"

[@patriciamulroy8119]

The veggie tales version is better retelling. Though the story is still probably not kid friendly story.

[@Phoenix-np1iu]

the bunny...

[@sugarjay.cherry7823]

I had a friend in grade school, Jahaziel, who was a JW. Every time i went to his place, his parents would make us study with him. He wasnt allowed to partake in any of the class celebrations or even say the pledge of allegience.

[@nostaldec4705]

When I was thinking about Bible stories that get marketed to kids, Noah's Ark definitely came to mind first, particularly the version you always see on children's books and toys - a wooden boat about the size of a ferry, loaded with two smiling elephants, two smiling giraffes and as many other pairs of smiling animals as the artist can fit, plus a rainbow in the sky. Sure the water is actually all full of drowned corpses, but popular culture has made it so hard to get the cutesy image of Noah's Ark out of my mind.

[@lunacurtis780]

the moms are "STUDYING" together

[@SnarkyRC]

More like scissoring.

[@whitegamma5106]

FANFICTION INCOMING!!

[@gingermaniac5484]

"im not that guy! im not going to say it i was thinking of saying it but im not that guy"* he says nearly every video owen very clearly is that guy, he needs to accept it before he combusts or implodes or something trying to contain a comeback one of these days. *(paraphrasing here, not quoting)

[@epictrismegistos3695]

I would be like, "Three Hebrews get cooked on fiery furnace?! What is this? An history lesson about Auschwitz?!" 🙆🏻‍♂️😆

[@pepperplz783]

Literally though. What the actual hell is wrong with these people?

[@langreeves6419]

Yeah....damn

[@katarinatibai8396]

😱🥶🥶🥶🥴😵‍💫😵

[@wtos9153]

@@pepperplz783Just some speculation here, this is just one of many possibilities for why it would be this way. Consider that kids often mimic what they see in cartoons to try to understand it better. Kid sees it in the video → later at school they’re bored and have a pen → draws it on paper → teacher asks what they drew, maybe planning on giving a complement → kid says exactly what it is → gets in trouble → does worse in school This reflects the possibility that they want kids to NOT enjoy school so they won’t seek higher education.

[@marge2548]

Great video. These JW kid's videos and their approach to teaching the Bible to kids is really something else. Some years ago (and in fact, for some years) I was studying the Bible with a woman that would come to our house regularly. I had told her that I had no intention whatsoever to convert, ever, and she said she did not mind. (And I actually think that's true, I think she was using this as an opportunity to talk to outsiders.) I was fully aware that we could only talk as long as the studies lasted, so we studied. And when she moved to the other end of the country, someone from the same 'congregation' took over (with whom I had a similar experience). And it sure was interesting. (I am agnostic tending towars atheism, btw.) But. Had I ever really considered joining Jehova's witnesses, I would have thought twice about it because of the way they teach their kids and the way they make use of their kids. I first had an older storybook, which was full of gruesome stories (with pictures) like the furnace story here. And later Caleb and Sofia... my goodness. I think it was partly my adamant refusal to show these videos to my kids to have them manipulated like that that eventually led to me being kicked off the study roster. (And it never would have worked. When my eldest son was in 3rd grade, he came upon the "Watchtower" and read an article in it. Paused and then said: "Ah, well. This is all about how they are so much better and all the others are bad and God loving only them and disliking the others. I don't think that makes sense at all." - 🤣 Now, who am I to correct him? )

[@teleriferchnyfain]

What makes me laugh is that they somehow think that no one else has ever read the Bible. I was brought up as a Methodist & knew all these Bible stories - little Pagan me has read the Bible in 4 different versions. I took comparative religions in college as well as the Bible as literature. I remember gently pointing this out to a JW girl at work - she was shocked.

[@RamonaQuinn99]

VeggieTales also did the story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Rack, Shack, and Benny in the VeggieTales universe). They included the trio getting thrown in the furnace for not worshipping a giant statue. VeggieTales is not innocent from telling disturbing stories, even if they get parodized.

[@wolfwing1]

it wasn't blasphemous to say yaweh it was more like reverse voldemort, names had power, and saying the name wrong would invoke it the wrong way and cause problems. it's like how latin can accidently summon demons if said wrong j/k.

[@Odinarcade00]

Words have power but not near as much as the Catholic Church and other religions and cultures thought 😂

[@wolfwing1]

@@Odinarcade00 what you saying that the pope isn't gods word on earth!!!! ahem :> alo of things arn't as much as religions thought hehe.

[@WolfgangDoW]

If an infinite being gets upset at a speck of dust that is a human being saying his name or mean things about him, then his ego is so fucking fragile it's actually cosmically comical XD

[@miuki2721]

TromedloV

[@johnnygreenface]

​@@WolfgangDoW Enough people saying your name wrong would annoy anyone. I'll give him this one

[@Robohead-z6z]

The Bible is rated R.

[@Mr.happy689]

Wait do religions books get ratings. . .?

[@dude_uncool_6969]

@@Mr.happy689 it's a joke due to how many violent crap happened in the Bible

[@Mr.happy689]

@@dude_uncool_6969 I mean... you have a point, I can't name a single child friendly story in the bible.

[@kidwolf0015]

I'd argue that it's closer to NC-17 than R! There's unironically COUNTLESS examples of drug abuse, child abuse, rape, "inappropriate" language, etc... Usually, rated R stuff doesn't have the "inappropriate" stuff as *the mass majority* of the content. The Bible low-key has like 85% adult content at least. Honestly, I'd go further to say that even the majority of NC-17 movies are basically "cleaner" than the full, uncensored Bible. Like, I figured out the real reason why most "heavy duty Christians" are the least likely to have analyzed the Bible when I tried... It's honestly really disturbing what you'll find within the first few chapters. As for a child-friendly story, I guess the Lydia's could count so long as her inviting apostles (which are men) into her house for the night doesn't bother you? She is a reputable business woman (she sells purple dye which was extremely valuable) who ISN'T condemned for being a leader and leads her household even after being converted. It's an EXTREME oddity in the Bible...

[@Chelaxim]

I was allowed to celebrate Valentines but I never got one lol. I'm not crying...YOU'RE crying.

[@Trigger99X]

It’s a bit sickening that this tells children to indoctrinate other children

[@solosynapse]

JWs belong to a cult

[@Mr.happy689]

I think every big religion is just a small cult 🫠

[@Melissa0774]

The music gives it the feel of a 90's PBS show.

[@Cocreatewithus]

It's presented as though Camille has never heard a darn thing about God. Like it's totally new information. I bet though she grew up Baptist or something.

[@mariekatherine5238]

The JW kids in my school were sent to the detention room and given extra work when there was a party or special activity. I don’t know why the parents sent them. On Field Day, they’d have to stay indoors, do busy work, and eat their own lunches when everyone else was outside competing, playing games, having recess, having sing-a-longs, and the barbecue followed by ice cream cones or sundaes. Lots of parents would show up to cheer, volunteer, and leave directly from school. About a third of us got dismissed at the regular time, but there was no work. We’d return to the classroom for maybe an hour. Our teacher usually treated us to Koolade or High C, and led us in party games like 7-Up, or Duck,nDuck, Goose. The JW kid would sit in the corner doing nothing. I also remember JW’s being absent so often that they usually failed tests and got 0 on projects that needed to be worked on at home. They just didn’t do them. When I was in the lower grades, I thought JW parents were very poor and illiterate. The kids were nothing like Caleb and Sophia. They almost never spoke to anyone unless it was required. To their peers, they were plain rude or just weird. They dressed weird and isolated themselves. I don’t recall them being bullied, just ignored. I tried to befriend a few girls, sisters, one of whom was in my third grade. The older sister in fifth grade told me on the bus to not talk to her sister. They weren’t allowed to be friends with kids from school. Why? Just because! My mother explained it to me that they worshipped a fake god who made up too strict rules, like not making any friends or having fun at school. It made me very glad I was Catholic!

[@aubriannataylor]

i get the holidays but why field day? thats not religious at all

[@adrianblake8876]

​@@aubriannataylorIt's not about whether it was religious or not, that's just an excuse. It's a cult, and you should only socialize with people outside the cult in order to withdraw them in, otherwise they'll withdraw you out...

[@aubriannataylor]

@@adrianblake8876 yeah ive just never heard of that before and my family is jw

[@mariekatherine5238]

@@aubriannataylorWell, birthdays aren’t religious, not field trips, not events like school concerts, etc. Playing on a school team, joining a school club like crafts, choir, band, service club, school farm, was forbidden. They came to school, did some of the work and left as soon as the bell rang. They turned down invites to play at other’s houses. Or if in the primary grades, the mother would call to arrange what we now call a play date. (Back then, even first and second graders went on their own from school to other’s homes. If you lived on the same bus route or could walk or ride bikes.

[@mariekatherine5238]

@@aubriannataylor.I’m referring to in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

[@KoreaSCR]

The animation looks like Max Design Pro

[@shannonmayer18]

Why is that girl always holding a sucker?

[@dinohall2595]

It's a classic bully archetype for some reason.

[@wtos9153]

@@dinohall2595I think originally it was less about having the sticker and more about how they were consuming it. Usually gross and slurp-like or messy, sounds many kids hate. The idea is that if they don’t care about how they sound, they must not care about how others feel.

[@JARV9701]

That change in animation reminded me to the Telltales games. Turned into a zomby would be a better ending than turning into a JW, especially as a kid.

[@polcommwatcher]

Oh, Owen this is heartbreaking. Thinking of little kids being told that Jehovah does not want them as a friend anymore is just sick. Don't good parents try to make sure a child always knows that while a behavior may be bad, the child her or himself is not? The idea of J forswearing the child like this goes absolutely against this bedrock principle of decent parenting.

[@baddie1shoe]

I remember feeling so sad for the kids who didn’t celebrate Christmas. I was also wholly confused about a Christian religion excluding it.

[@user-vo4wc2jz8g]

I also remember being sat by myself in the school library while the rest of the school was having fun 😥

[@unicornjibs2623]

2:18 the dog is freaking me out

[@unicornjibs2623]

18:18 my mom is catholic and she warned me about JWs since b4 I understood religion (she told me to respectfully say no)

[@Clandestinemonkey]

yeah those two cults famously hate eachoither. They are in competition for most pedophiles enabled and protected.

[@devinreis5811]

I fib and say I have to go to work.

[@ironyelegy]

Having the emotional maturity to hang out with children who are obviously isolated is one that I commend but that's not what that first bit is about...

[@Kitty4u]

When i was a young teen my neighbors were JWS, 4 girls a bit younger than me. And i always played with them. I remember one of the girls sneaking me in their house when their mom wasn't home, it never occurred to me that them being jw was probably why i wasn't supposed to be in their house. Although their mom never seemed to cared if i hung out with them outside, but i did notice they had no friends besides me.

[@Peaches328]

How did your parents come about becoming Witnesses. You say they didn't care about you. Do you feel it was only bc of the religion that they didn't care. Were they always religious..

[@OwenMorganTelltale]

somebody knocked on my moms door one day and she studied with them. she forced my dad to join. its a long story but FYI, i talk about it in my book at length if you want to hear the whole story. owenmorgan.com also, i dont think they care because of the religion primarily

[@haileybalmer9722]

Man, I’m trying to piece together the Hebrews in the Feiry Furnace, too. I went to AWANA as a kid, and they taught us about Daniel and the Lion, which is basically the same story but less terrifying and with fewer uncomfortable parallels to the Holocaust.

[@MarxistMomentum]

27:33 This reminded me of the ExJW Panda Tower edit of this scene.

[@polcommwatcher]

Yes, the cartoon of people engulfed in flames, screaming in terror and pain with their wide-open blood-red mouths is truly disturbing. I would find it shocking even in a movie for adults and would personally choose not to watch in that case.

[@industrialcathedral]

Ok, I am Catholic, I used to draw biblical scenes as a kid, but three Hebrews in a furnace? 😂 What's going on 😂

[@louisng114]

The wolf showed his teeth and said "then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your furnace down." So he huffed and puffed and he blew the furnace down. Hananiah ran away to the second furnace. The wolf showed his teeth and said "then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your furnace down." So he huffed and puffed and he blew the furnace down. Hananiah and Mishael ran away to the third furnace. The wolf showed his teeth and said "then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your furnace down." Well! he huffed and he puffed. He puffed and he huffed. And he huffed, huffed, and he puffed, puffed; but he could not blow the furnace down. At last, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah are burnt alive! That's how it ends, right?

[@alexv3372]

No, but I like the creativity you got in here

[@lukewarmninja9767]

I have a lollipop with a galexy in it. Doesn't taste very good, but i opened it, so i have to finish it before the ants come. Very fun design, though.

[@arcellgreen4754]

What JW don’t know is that during Russell’s rule holidays were celebrated

[@mandolinbee]

all the kids in my neighborhood growing up were pretty close and played together in large and small groups all the time. One family converted to JW, and the older girl kinda told me about it. Then basically none of us ever saw them again. They still lived there, but they were gone to all of us. It was so very sad. No idea how they're doing to this day.

[@solosynapse]

JWs tend to isolate themselves & their children from other people, to reinforce dependence on the church. It's a common cult tactic, unfortunately.

[@bananakingcomment6651]

Why does it seem like the watchtower is like 30 years behind on video effects

[@ultimate_pleb]

20:40 the paint on his paint brush isn't the same colour as the paint on the canvas. The middle guy's shirt is too bright and the left guys hat / undershirt is too dark. So here my conclusion, that's not paint

[@alexv3372]

Then what is it then?

[@rebeccazegstroo6786]

I had that one as a kid, the three young men in the fiery furnace. It had a craft project with it that brought the 4th one in. It was in a United Church of Christ church. It must have been particularly puzzling since it is one of the few I remember.

[@jenniferbrower]

I bet Sophia’s mom is letting the girl study there in exchange for free after school care.

[@carenxatu5962]

I always thought that the origin of Christmas, came from Pegan culture. They would bring in a sapling and care for it during the winter, giving it decorations that honoured spirits. Then when it was spring, the beginning of a new year, they would plant the sapling. And I think the birth of jesus was actually at a different time originally, but then was changed.

[@lexyprince5772]

I have a curiosity question. Since you were an ex Jehovah's witness. How was it handled when you kind of were forced to celebrate?? Like you're in school learning, math or something and all of a sudden the teacher comes in with pizza saying "pizza party!" Do you ask if you can leave the room or what?

[@thorpe55]

The tree is German pagan originally

[@solosynapse]

Yup! Also, German pagans knew how to party

[@roarinfireball]

Christmas, and Halloween are both originally Pagan holidays. But a good majority of The Bible is influenced by Greek, and Nordic mythology; written in Latin. All of it was adapted from Hebrew beliefs, so really you could say none of the Bible is accurate to any ancient religion, only reminiscent. So if Halloween was the celebration of the crops “Hallows Eve,” then why not just be thankful that you have food on your plate. And if modern day Christmas is about giving gifts; why not just give a gift? It’s human nature to change that which already exists through a gradual process of cultural appropriation. “My Country Tis” is a parody of “God Save The Queen” essentially. It was adapted by Americans to take the negative views of a Theocratic Monarchy, and changing them to a positive message of celebrating a Secular Democracy.

[@EnigmaticLucas]

And “God Save the King” is itself based on a French song celebrating Louis XIV’s recovery from anal surgery (I’m not kidding)

[@Phoenix-np1iu]

@@EnigmaticLucas bless this world lmao

[@roarinfireball]

@@EnigmaticLucas That’s how we work as a species; we innovate new ideas with old ideas. You could argue the Jesus himself is the cornerstone of cultural appropriation, not just Christianity, but the prophet himself. I hate that cultural appropriation is always used in a negative sense, because if we didn’t have it; anime wouldn’t be popular, Mexican food wouldn’t exist, hotdogs wouldn’t exist, the camera wouldn’t be invented. All of these things we have created would never exist if we didn’t take old ideas, and create something new.

[@pilyglot3037]

wait they didn't even finish the story??

[@Cros.crypt25]

Anything christmas related is pagan origin nothing to do with Jesus whatsoever

[@misterauctor7353]

Proof?

[@MorrowMoon_thenightwing]

I love how they just leave that last one on a cliffhanger, like those guys are literally about to die. Kids watching this are probably expecting them to be saved, but since they arent saved at all, the is literally just teching them that obeying god gets you killed in a furnace. Probably not the message they were going for

[@lukewarmninja9767]

The story i remember most from my childhood was Noah's ark. (Very much glossed over the deaths) Another i remember is the loaves and fishes and the story where they're fishing and not catching anything and then Jesus is all like "let's try the other side" and they catch lots of fish.

[@aporue5893]

at least the fish story is positive

[@allychu19]

10:22 "boring as sin" is hilarious, I've never heard that before!

[@kenirainseeker539]

That food looks great. They should be grateful they were given any food at all. They could have been given nothing and starved instead.

[@basicbluetrash]

15:50 They just copied Spider-Verse. Only there it had the purpose to help show Miles' growth as a character.

[@KaitlynDavis466]

20:35 they look happy in the painting

[@monkeygod7503]

21:52 id say the best story i took away from the bible was the one where josephs brothers sold him into slavery but he ended up forgiving them and helping them in the end. It was not half bad in how it was written and it actually gave some touching insight into the feelings of some of the characters. The rest of the bible can be dumped imo

[@BullShark-i2z]

17:18 That cat looks like one of my cats. That cat definitely looks happy on a cat tree in a sunny area.

[@mylife-23]

I stayed after school in highschool to hang out with my (ex) bfs, freinds and the LGBT club. I told my mom i was studying with a freind.

[@billymanilli]

...how about the one where 42 children are mauled by two bears for making fun of "J-dawg's" boy's bald spot? that one is pretty wholesome!

[@lifeisbannanas]

That story makes you think, if God can cause young teens to be mauled to death by a bear, can't he prevent people from being mauled by a bear? Evil spaghetti monster sauce

[@BeanzUndToazt]

my mom makes me hang out with a witness kid my age, who stood around doing nothing while I got SA’d in front of them, and gets mad at me when I spend 5 or more hours at the house of Worldly friends who have proven many times they’d go apeshit if someone even touched me. just shows she cares about religion more than her own son.

[@ascatman]

Was that story of the furnace only in the JW Bible? I swear I remember hearing it when I was a little kid and I was forced to go to my grandparents' fire and brimstone Baptist church

[@teleriferchnyfain]

The date of Christmas totally came from the solstice. Sol Invictus. Because of Constantine. The ROMAN Christians acted like Romans always had, incorporating older religions into their new one. The Catholic Church managed to preserve a large number of Religio practices (as well as the other foreign practices they’d adopted).

[@markandrews6054]

I'm 57 now. 30 years ago I was df'ed for questioning the organization you're not allowed to question under any circumstances. I was born in 3rd generation. Childhood growing up in that mind control cult was a daily never-ending psychological torture. It felt like spiritual rape. I felt dissected as a kid one part of me wanting to grow into my own unique sense of self identity, the other part of me any semblance of individuality was beaten out of me on an almost daily basis. It was a childhood I would not wish on my worst enemy.

[@RavenFilms]

21:15 The picture of that in the yellow book scared me more than most, for some reason.

[@unfollowtheinstructions6360]

I feel like every Caleb&Sophia episode ends with an adult character smiling in your face like: "And this is why having fun and being happy is evil :):

[@aporue5893]

markings of a cult:''I think this,therefore you should.''

[@Twentydragon]

20:00 - They might be using the alternate names as a way to further insulate their parishioners from the outside world, like how creationists do with alternate terms for evolutionary concepts. I didn't recognize the names either, and it would have caused some discomfort in conversation for the names to be questioned.

[@vectorwolf]

Is it just me, or was way too much CGI rendering time spent on the blob of drool hanging out of the dog's mouth? Why did that even need to be there?

[@juliav.mcclelland2415]

If you can't do better than the Veggie Tales version of a story, just don't bother.

[@HulluRichie]

It seems there are layers to strictness when it comes to Jehovah's witnesses. Only as an adult did I learn that they were a cult; your videos have been eye-opening and your work so important. As a child I had neighbhours who were (and still are) witnesses, and the older girl also went to the same class as I. She and her little sister were allowed to play with us and they'd often visit our house without their parents. We played together for years and the only thing I found odd was the fact they didn't want to watch Pokémon with me, saying it was against their religion. And I didn't mind that as I wanted to respect everyone's chosen faith. And I really did think their faith was chosen by themselves. I'm from Finland so maybe their "laxness" has something to do with that. The older sister did text me two years ago and tried to lure me into a "bible study" right after I told her that I had left the church and was reconnecting to my native faith. And that I was both trans and queer. "Hate the sin, not the sinner" she told me. I of course declined the offer. It was a sad thing to learn that she'd only gotten deeper into the cult.

[@Kee900_]

That second video is WILD 😂😂😂

[@PhoenixDragon327]

Christmas Trees were from a Pagan sect in Ireland . Just some FYI

[@aporue5893]

can't believe that kids are even allowed to watch this.That's totally disturbing.

[@adrianblake8876]

21:00 Ruth is the most wholesome story, if you ignore the exposition (A family goes abroad on a famine, the sons get married to local women, the father and two sons die)... But really, most fairy tales are actually gruesome, so this makes MOST of the well-known stories in the Bible child-appropriate...

[@azsli2]

The story of zaccieus was wholesome

[@AnthonyArena-g7l]

If I were the cartoons animator, I would be fearful that some child might climb into a basement furnace or stick a body part or head in a oven to "prove" that Jehovah loves them. This does not seem to be responsible children's television to me. Media for kids is supposed to contain no recipe nor instruction that is likely to cause injury to the child.

[@Peaches328]

I think J. W.'s are pretty decent in the sense that they really believe their shit. It's not for everyone. Do you know how many baptized Witnesses have left the religion. Like a lot have left the Catholic church. 👍👍 Kids miss out when they're raised in the J.W. religion. Like you Some chikdren are more sensitive than others and really are sad. But you have cone a ling way. Look where you are now 👍👍💗