@@skyeprophet3564 but intelligence tells you that the world couldn't have been created 6000 years ago, that life evolved, that there was never a flood, etc. So thinking opposes faith.
@@skyeprophet3564adam&eve got curse/sin coz eat a fruit (knowing good/evil), then God prevent them to eat fruit from life tree (could live 4ever). Had intelect(serpent share its intelect to eve) was the origin of sin in human being didnt???.... Bible said these...
"The devil makes you think this way" is the biggest conversation stopper. If you say "I don't believe in the devil", you get "The devil tricked you into saying that". True story!
"God works in mysterious ways" and "you just have to have faith" turned me into an atheist around the age of 8, and angry that I was being lied to. Now 52 years later, I've come to realize that not everyone is wired to accept illogical things, overriding rational thought with complete nonsense.
You were too brave. When I was 7 I already started realising that an all-loving god couldn't have created a world where cancer, multiple esclerosis and earthquakes existed (had close experiences with the 3), but kept "believing" because I was afraid of hell. Definitely threatening a kid with hell is thought-terminating.
@@eprd313 My parents were liberal Catholics, so I got a pretty tame version, and don't recall threats of hell, but yes that certainly can be thought-terminating. My parents more or less passed on the religion, feeling obligated to do so at the time, in the 60s-70s that was what they thought was required of parenting. So I stayed a closet atheist until age 18 or so, suffering through Catholic school and weekly mass, catecism, slept through most of it. I left home at 18 to be free from it, although today my mother is still living at age 93 she's not that religious anymore, doesn't go to church.
I totally agree…I think this whole religion/god business only works for a certain type of brain/thought process…I guess some of us are divergent in that way.😄
@@hkkrr I think there's a study that proved there was a gene that determined if people were more prone to be religious or not. I'm autistic, and from my perspective I simply know that many believers, specially fundamentalists, indeed live in totally different kind of brain.
@@hkkrr Yea I think so, I've had so many Christians say to me "you just don't want to believe, you just want to disobey god", I try to explain that disbelief isn't a choice, I can't make myself believe something that my critical thinking compels me to reject. But that also tells me that there's a lot of people out there that just believe stuff simply because they want to, regardless of facts and reality. And quite honestly people like that are really scary.
Except outside of religion people believe all kinds of things which arent true. Most of your confirmation bias isnt associated with religion at all. The best friends push you to question your assumptions about everything.
Atheists, Agnostics, and fanatic members of all Christian and non-Christian Religions KNOW that they are - 1. NOT worshippers of the Creator 2. NOT believers of the authority and teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead". The Creator and his Christ KNOW that they have nothing to do with the beliefs, traditions, teachings, doctrines, and claims of Atheists, Agnostics, and fanatic members of all Christian and non-Christian Religions in the world. What will the CREATOR do for his worshippers and believers of his Christ? ANSWER - The Creator KNOWS that he will freely and willingly reward and honor all his worshippers and believers of his Christ with Eternal Life and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death on a safe, secure, and peaceful earth without arrogant, cruel, and merciless persons, without liars, deceivers, slanderers, hypocrites, traitors, and murderers. What will JESUS CHRIST do for his believers and worshippers of the Creator? ANSWER - All human beings will just become worthless and useless dusts on earth after their deaths but all worshippers of the Creator and believers of his Christ who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and many others will not remain as worthless dusts on earth forever, instead in the right and proper time, Jesus Christ KNOWS that he will freely and willingly resurrect them back to life so they can all happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "Kingdom of God" and fully enjoy his and the Creator's eternal love, kindness, goodness, compassions, generosities, favors, and blessings for eternity under his loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection as the Creator's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth.
Not long ago I picked up a tee shirt at a thrift store that reads "Think while it's still legal". It applies to both religion and politics, which are combined way too often.
No, the shirt applies to what's coming from the UNITED NATIONS AND WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM. They will likely kill you for thinking. Jesus won't kill you for thinking.
Whenever someone says to my sister "I'll pray for you," she is tempted to reply "I'll think for you." I'm gonna forward this vid to her. She'll love it! 😇🤔
0:00 Intro 2:28 1. "God works in mysterious ways" 5:32 2. "You just need to have faith" 7:26 3. "The Bible says so" 9:21 4. "You just need to pray" 12:18 5. "The devil is trying to deceive you" 17:40 Outro
When I was growing up in the Pentecostal church there were two old men who would get information about me from my mom. They would then relay this information to me allowing me to think that God had given them this information via revelation. My mom played along because she thought it would be good for my faith (actually, I think she was intimidated into playing along). Anyway, this is the level of mendacity that is played at all levels of these cults.
A church pastor got busted taping a woman’s phone calls to do the same thing. The recording device was found buried on the side yard of the house connected to the landline. This was back in the late 70’s when landline was all everyone had.
@@jaymcgee520 I appreciate your message. She was intimidated by these two old men. They had a way of making you think they were at a higher level of Christianity and really connected to God. They also could make veiled threats that God would punish you if you didn't do what they told you to do. Of course, these days when I have been approached by intimidating figures like these, I send them packing and make them wish they had not confronted me. I guess much anger has been built up from my childhood.
@@undrwatropium3724Thanks for your message. No she really didn't apologize. But she did express regret because of the bad impact this had on me. She was very intimidated by these two old men as was I. They were fond of making threats of what God would do to you if you didn't comply with their orders.
You hit on the big ones here, Kristi. Religious Faith is summarized in the statement, "God's ways are not our ways." That blanket statement is design to get a person to stop THINKING.
@@user-kw5nl3ct3v You follow a worldwide cabal of wealthy elites who demand a tenth of your income, brainwash you into worshiping an authoritarian tyrant, via promises of eternal bliss that you can only collect by dying, under threat of infinite torture for finite wrongs, as a means of enforcing control over all of society via a network of indoctrination centers on every other street corner, who claim to teach you to follow the will of an invisible, unknowable, unjust, magical, wizard who happens to believe in the very things that give these lying frauds outrageous wealth, power and control over every aspect of human life - and you have a problem with _this youtuber_ getting a tenth of a penny per view??? _That is an immoral belief system!_
@@desireedebellis6766 Some Christians encourage intellectual lazyness, it is not very noble (Acts 17:11). You should have reasons for what you believe. 1 Peter 3:15. I welcome Kristi's questions, but I think they are sometimes misdirected or are coming from the wrong place.
"Lean not on thy own reason". "We walk by faith not by sight". This is the language of blind faith. These are some of the red flags that are driving so many away from the religions. The idea that disbelief is equated as evil as murder. This says quite a bit about the story being told, and the ones telling it. It brings a popular thought that reading the Bible will create more Atheists and Humanists than even Darwin's Theory.
@@skyeprophet3564 I know the Bible plenty. Christianity is a man-made term. God never mentions the word. Not even Jesus mentions it. Christianity is a faith -based belief system. I mentioned Paul's writing about walking by "Faith not by sight". Because faith is most important in a belief system. Faith in something/someone that might not exist is indeed what Blind Faith is about.
@@skyeprophet3564bro, if someone tells me to not question something & that I’m going to burn for having questions I’m not gonna want to stick around. I think I’ll stick with the questions. 🙃
@@torturedsouldepartment says: *bro, if someone tells me to not question something & that I’m going to burn for having questions I’m not gonna want to stick around. I think I’ll stick with the questions. 🙃* Where in the bible does it say that we can't ask questions? Do you consider the following verse is telling us to stop asking questions or to stop thinking? 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV): “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” How can you prove all things if you stop asking questions and stop thinking?
@@torturedsouldepartment There is quite a disdain toward disbelief in the Bible. Paul especially. In one of his letters, Paul emphatically tells his followers to stay away from unbelievers. Maybe the question to ask is why was Paul so dismissive of them. Maybe these unbelievers saw through him. Or just weren't buying his nonsense. Why in Revelation does John write that unbelievers shall have their place in the Lake of Fire? These are questions to ask.
@@Justas399 Good point. The faith you have should be supported by expanding knowledge and the growing feeling of freedom that comes from unhooking yourself from nonsensical beliefs that can't hold up to scrutiny.
The cognitive dissonance of people who think the most powerful being in existence can't be questioned in any way baffles me. Unquestionable authority figures inevitably have horrifying outcomes.
@@ChristianApologeticsProject that's just an attack not an argument. Don't you find it strange that I could hurt the most powerful being in existence's feelings, and that you think you have to defend it? Either that's a very weak and pathetic god or 2000 year old books aren't a reliable source of information.
@@zachreads Actually, I simply exposed your hypocrisy by using it against you. It is what happens when those who don't have an argument descend to your level of irrationality.
@leonhanekom2623, Or like the Catholic church’ pogrom against the Protestants, the Protestant pogroms against Catholics , both church’s mistreatment of women , non binaries and other non Christians, . The only reason they don’t do it today (much) is because it’s illegal in most majority Christian-population countries . This abuse of others by Christians is seen in some African areas ( witchcraft murders) and in some Slavic countries
When you said how most deconstructionists (or whatever we are called) only got to this point of relinquishing our faith because we wanted to be better christians …. That really struck me! I can’t relate more. I have seen myself go from fully indoctrinized to progressive to my own accepted version of Christianity to agnostic in less than 2 years. I never meant to give up my faith or my beliefs but you can’t fight when you start to value different things and ethically find holes deep within Christianity. Moving on has made me feel free, strong, capable, like the world has so much more to offer. Thank you for being open and sharing this! We deserve community that understands how multidimensional the experience is going from one extreme of belief to another.
@@jezebelvibes REPENT For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. A lot of Believers are praying for you. I didn't want to send you this reply but I have to do what Our Father leads me to do. 🙏
Okay: Just... fulfil John 14:14, first, however? And then you will - stand out... from the innumerate, other, claimants, out there, from... sect after sect... who make, exactly, the same, claim. And sometimes, even, set specific dates, too? And maybe some prior ones, too - might have... joined, the, ah, Inquisition? You never, know.@@lionheartmerrill1069
"Wanting to be a better Christian" is a red flag indicator of a shaky foundation. Christian faith should be founded on God's goodness, not ours. We can never gain salvation by being "better", only by coming to God as we are and receiving his love and forgiveness.
@@jezebelvibes Hey, Zoroastrian here. A few months ago, two born-again evangelicals tried to convert me and said the same things you describe in this video. Mind you, they said that I was turning away from my culture to Iranian culture, essentially, (in all fairness, I, in fact, did. I even changed my name from an American name to an Iranian one) despite them being black. Yes, really.
@@jezebelvibes Look...I'm a Christian and I have never stopped thinking since becoming a Christian, so stop lying to people because you were never a true born again Christian to begin with to even understand what you are even talking about. God gave us minds to think with and nowhere in the bible does it command us to stop thinking and just take everything by faith in fact it tells us to do the exact opposite with the following verse... 1 Thessalonians 5:21 (KJV): “Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.” You can't prove all things if you stop thinking. So stop lying in your videos and actually learn the truth because it's going to bite you in the end if you don't.
Christians will say “you don’t understand God.” Then you ask them why God let’s children starve to death or die from cancer--“oh,….. we can’t know the mind of God…..”
The LIVES and EXISTENCE of LIARS, CRUEL, and MERCILESS ENEMIES of GOD and HIS CHRIST ON PLANET EARTH All Atheists, Agnostics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, SDAs, Baptists, Born Again Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, and members of all kinds of Religions in the world who trick, mislead, and deceive their own families, friends, and neighbors to rebel against God and reject his Christ's authority and teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" as worthless and useless and submit instead to their authorities, power, and control and believe their own lies, deceptions, false claims and teachings about "Armageddon", "Trinity", "heaven and hellfire", "rapture", and "reincarnation" are the cruel and merciless enemies of God and his Christ on earth who are not bothered at all and just don't care even if their Satanic arrogance, hatred, lies, deceits, hypocrisies, and cruelties hurt, offend, insult, humiliate, and degrade the lives and dignities of their own families, friends, and neighbors that cause their sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and deaths. LOVING, KIND, and RESPECTFUL WORSHIPPERS of GOD and BELIEVERS of HIS CHRIST WILL LIVE and EXIST on EARTH FOREVER LOVING, KIND, and RESPECTFUL persons on earth who rejected Atheism, Agnosticism, Evolutionism, and Religious Fanaticism as worthless and useless and believe instead the authority and teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" as written in Matthew 28: 18, Luke 4: 43 and John 11: 25, 26 are definitely bringing upon themselves God's favor and reward of ETERNAL LIFE and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death on a safe, secure, and peaceful earth without liars, traitors, immoral, perverts, and murderers as written in Revelation 21: 3, 4 and 21: 8. All human beings have no immortal souls but just become worthless and useless dusts on earth after their deaths just like the animals as written in Ecclesiastes 3: 19, 20 and 9: 5, 6 but all of God's worshippers and believers of his Christ who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and many others will not remain as worthless and useless dusts on earth forever, instead in the right and proper time and as written in John 11: 25, 26, Jesus Christ will resurrect them back to life so they can all happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "Kingdom of God" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, compassions, generosities, favors, and blessings of God and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as God's Anointed King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth as written in Revelation 11: 15.
“Three bad reasons for believing anything” - “tradition,” “authority,” and “revelation” - particularly as they apply to religion - Richard Dawkins You know? I often wonder how many brilliant minds we have and will miss out on because of what religion does to the mind. It forces one to not learn how to think critically and logically.
Taking the language of the Bible, as I do, to be mythical, it nevertheless shows, as language is always sure to do, in any age or country, the true standard of the then ruling morality. And I may safely assert that, as a rule, the greater the amount of religion, or which is the same thing - ignorance, the lower the standard of morality; and vice versa. the greater the amount of intelligence, the less there will be of religion, and the standard of morality will range higher. To many this may seem odd, but it is true, as all history will prove.
No it's not. When you meet on going traffic, there is really only a short space between you and cars you meet. You have faith that the driver you meet isn't going to crash into you. We don't have tomorrows promised to us, we hope for the best.
I wonder if it would blow the mind of a Christian if I said, "What if the devil wants you to believe blindly in nonsense so you can say and do horrible things on his behalf? Wouldn't God want someone who will do the right thing regardless of what everyone else believes? People used the Bible to justify slavery. Since you blindly believe what people tell you, you would have thought slavery was acceptable. Me, as a free thinker who feels strong empathy for others, would have fought against that idea and said slavery was bad regardless of what religious people said." Probably not, though. They're a pretty stubborn lot.
I got "you just have to have faith" from my parents as I was growing up Catholic. I was questioning the theology when I was a little kid, and I never stopped, to the annoyance, I'm sure, of many around me. Also, why doesn't this all-powerful God just kill the devil and be done with it? No one was ever able to answer that.
Because the God of this world who rules it, IS the devil. The true God of divine love is a feminine entity, and SHE has been purposely oppressed/ denied recognition, because the devil is the one who desires exclusive devotion. I know this, because the person I learnt this from came from the true source of divine love and knows the feminine God entity personally, just as Jesus did. She refers to this God as Source because she is the source of all life.
It’s funny how they ask us to essentially “what would jesus do” and still tell us we can never know what god is thinking. If god and jesus are the same person how are we supposed to “what would Jesus do” if we can’t understand what god would do
As a man who was raised in church, now deconstructing the Christian doctrine, one of my biggest fears was, "what if i become homeless again?.....what if I get back in my addiction and this time I die because of it?,.....what if they're right and I'm no longer under his wing?" But you know what?..... I don't see a lot of you- tubers going downhill who woke up, if anything I see them succeeding more
When you leave Christianity, just get ready for every Christian you know to throw you under the bus. That's how "the love of Jesus" works. Just remember, you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free - free from the bondage of Christianity and fake friendships.
When I have critiques and questions, MY puny human brain is supposedly too evil and small to understand or judge God properly, but whoever I’m talking to thinks that THEIR puny evil human brain is somehow understanding and judging God perfectly. How are they so certain that their supposedly evil brain is right, and mine is wrong?
Great job Kristi! Im on this journey after a major life event. I was told to "pray about it and have faith." Many people were praying. So when the major life event occurred and i experienced alot of grief I was then told, "just wait, have faith, God will work things out." Nope. Im done with this.
Same here, but multiple major life events. If God is in control, then He never cared about me and psychopathic. Praying did nothing to change situations, sometimes situations got ten times worse.
The average lifespan in the world is 72 (78 in US) and these lying Christians have been propagating their BS for 2000 years. You feel me? Do these Judeo-Christians have brains at all? Just curious.
Yeah, it's pretty ironic that to be a faithful christian, you have to be a robot. Follow your programming, don't think for yourself, perform your little rituals and even commit horrific crimes in the name of.
Words cannot express how grateful I am for your videos. You articulate the things that have been on my mind for years better than any other RU-vidr (in my opinion). From time to time, I get caught in a debate with my evangelical brother, and it seems like no matter how we start it off, it always boils down to "Christianity is true because Christianity is true" although not that stated quite that simply. Usually the question is raised, "By what standard can you claim that Christianity is false?" to which I respond "The same standard you use to claim Christianity is true" and then he says "My standard is God [and/or] the Bible" and when I question how he determined that standard to be effective, it goes round and round. And when I address the circular reasoning, he doesn't understand why it's a bad/unproductive thing (he's 2 years older than me). It's like a mental trap. 😬
Next time you talk to your brother try this question on him. It is a purely logic based proposition and demonstrates that the Bible cannot be trusted to be true; It is a bit long so rather that read it out to him you could ask him to confirm that he agrees with each point before you get to the main question. I wrote it for believers so that is the way it is formatted . If we select fifty Holy Books including the Bible where all the supernatural events from each book 'contradict' EACH OTHER then we can only come to two logical conclusions. 1. All fifty books are fake and not one of them represents reality.(The most logical conclusion) or; 2. Forty nine are fake and one is true. Now that we have established that at 'least' forty nine (if not all fifty) are fake we have to then logically conclude that the authors of the 'fake' books were either; A. Delusional or genuinely mistaken and wrote what they did, genuinely believing that it was true, even though it was in fact 'not true', or; B. They were just dishonest and knew that what they wrote was not true but they wrote it anyway. C. Or most likely a combination of A&B There is no other explanation. We also know that the faithful believers, from each and every book will claim with utter certainty that 'their' book is the 'true' book because it says in 'their' book that it is true, (or words to that effect) and that they have 'faith' that it is true. "My book is true because my book says it is true" is a circular argument which again must be invalid for at least 49 if not all 50 books and the book's followers. Since ALL religious people say some sort of version of "my book is true because it says in 'my' book that it is true" then why would you think that this is a reliable method of ascertaining whether the Bible is actually factually and objectively true or not? I assume that you reject all the other books that contradict 'your' book as being fake. Now I will hazard a guess that right now you are thinking that of course it is the Bible that is true. So here is the question; "Could you tell me the exact method that 'you personally' used to establish as an undeniable fact that the Bible was NOT written by delusional, mistaken or dishonest writers just like ALL the other Holy books?" If you think you can answer then please don't quote from the Bible itself as I have just clearly demonstrated that this is a circular fallacy and is not a reliable method of ascertaining if any given book is 'actually' true or not. You will need some empirical outside evidence to back up your claim. It is objectively true that people write fake holy books and have done so in the thousands throughout history, so why on earth would 'you' believe that the book that you have ( most probably) been exposed to as a child is true when all the others are clearly not true? They cannot all be true but they can all be false. If you use it then please let me know how you got on.
@@sulas548 I appreciate your response. I’ve created a similar thought experiment before, but any time it gets remotely difficult for him to process, he shuts it down with “Arguments will never lead to salvation, so I’m not continuing with this.” Because in his mind, he has no interest in considering my view to see if his holds up, but instead, he’s looking for literally any way possible (regardless of if it makes 0 sense) to convert me back, and if at any time it seems like I won’t be converting, then he’s completely done with the conversation and is usually angry. And it’s very frustrating for me because tbh I don’t care *that* much what he believes (I mean I do a bit because he’s family and I care about him, but not so much that I’d be really trying at that point) but the problem is I have a boyfriend and he has great issue with that, and I’ve done my best to demonstrate why I am completely justified in being with the one I love, but of course those words go in 1 ear and out the other. It’s just so sad that I can’t have a normal family and like celebrate my birthday with them and my bf in the same room at the very least.
@@sulas548that's a great setup, I try to lay things out in the most logical and clear manners as if I'm teaching a class. But too often the "students" aka believers when led to this do or die type questioning and thought provocation; at least in my experience, will somehow weasel out of the conversation. Get an important call, have to go run an errand, if theyre cornered and forced to answer it I usually get personally attacked. For example a family member when approached with a very similar argument thought she "won" the debate with telling me "You were such a good person til you went of to college for sTuPiD pHiLoSoPhY hurdur". Or blame the music I listen to, friends I hung out with, not being happy about my life (which I often prayed and begged god to make better as a young adult). They have to resort to that to try to knock us off our game or distract us or get us so flustered that we "put a pin" in the conversation for another day. I find its just mentally and physically exhausting to try to have an adult conversation with them, and they 100% use that to their advantage.
Recently I left Christianity but I still have those feelings of guilt. And that God will punished me for doing that. But I know in my heart that I made the right decision and I need to move on. Your videos help me a lot Kristi. Keep up the good work
Been there. Now the most important phase of your deconstruction is to investigate the origins of the bible, learn the contradictions, and come to the realization that it is all nonsense. Once you get through that, you will quickly be ready to accept that without any reliable source material, the entire concept of god is just ridiculous. Then the guilt is no more.
Do you think that any guilt felt by ex Muslims has any justification in actual reality? If you fear punishment from the god that you used to believe in then think about the fear you have for all the other gods that you have never believed in. If your fear of punishment from the 'other' gods is zero then just add your 'ex' god into that pile.
@@Eric_01Yes, when I found out this book’s original is actually not found at all, my mind blew! What I was reading and believing was not from an ORIGINAL😅and we were calling it a true source😮then my “careful reading started” realizing how ridiculous the stories actually are😂believers are just cherry picking😅I realized some good words in this book must have been written by some people that was morally good than others since any human with different religions can think of good words, phrases, poem, and sentences.
@@cyberneticbeast are you a believer? Did you know Christian are said to be happy being persecuted, so it’s actually you (if a believer) who are happy punished yourself too. By the way, why are believers happy being persecuted? I as a loving parent will NEVER tell my children to be happy being persecuted for me, but a God that claim he LOVES, loves watching his followers be torturously persecuted for him. A God who claims he will protect or save but expects to watch his followers be persecuted physically too. Don’t you feel something is wrong about this?
Wow…hearing those phrases brought rage and tension back into my body just like that. It is shockingly disturbing how deep religious trauma can be. When you think the work is over, a phrase can be so triggering and draining. Great talk and topic, well done Kristie 👏🏽
Whereas it's very much understood, where it serves as the benefit to this all is you being able to see where you are now and personally define the truth for what it truly is. Your pockets are no longer fallen prey, your Sundays are claimed or how i'd assume your family had given their days and lives heavily to that church of choice. In seeing other hit their knees with meaningless reason are you able to call yourself what even some'll, unfortunately, never be. And like myself as I can gladly embrace, and that's being a rarity.
@christophergibson7155 Something is objectively true when its value is independent of personal opinions, biases, feelings, or beliefs. It's based on verifiable facts and evidence that can be confirmed by multiple observers using reliable methods of observation and measurement. Something that's not influenced by an individual's perpective.
@@christophergibson7155Try using the same standards you use to choose a Dr., dentist, car, or everything ELSE? ❤️☮️ THEN you can have TRUST instead of faith.
@christophergibson7155 You really can't think of any methods for observation and measurement on your own? 🤨 I worry for you. Just to name a few... experimentation, surveys, data collection, statistical analysis, sampling, etc etc.
Growing up as a Christian, I frequently heard my pastor use the cliché, "Don't believe the words of those so-called 'intellectuals.' They may deceive you into thinking they have a 'big brain,' when in fact, compared to our God, they have the tiniest brain." Clearly, the pastor anticipated that children would eventually grow up, attend higher learning institutes, and face the dilemma of whether to believe the teachings of these "intellectuals" and consequently embrace logical thinking, or to adhere to the beliefs of the Holy Bible, which is so illogical that they border on "black comedy." When combined with the undeniable reality that our lives are far from being a "bed of roses," and they require "comforting words" and community of like-minded people, and the fears surrounding aging, death, and belief of burning in "hell," it's not surprising that my pastor used the above words and that many still follow his words.
We all have brains of the same size. There is no difference between those of us who attended higher learning institutes and became Christians, and those who did not. Your attempt to rationalise why some of us made the former choice is way of the mark. I need no comforting words, no like-minded community and have no fear of Hell. Aging is a bit of an inconvenience I admit, but that is something none of us can avoid.
@@ChrisSmith-xh9wb Reread. It's talking about preachers dumbing people down by telling them their ability to think is dangerous and education is a ruse of the devil. The preacher is who it's about, the dismissal of human reasoning is the what. Preacher has a teeny weenie brain though, and preacher is what we have to say god is god, so god has a dummy brain because that's all the dummy speaker can preach on. If we had reality based factual findings of deities we wouldn't need dummy bumbly brains to speak for divines, yet here we are.
Thank you for another thoughtful post. I was one of those unthinking Christians who just accepted whatever my pastor said until about 3 years ago. About then I, for one reason, started thinking about what I really believed. I am on a journey to find out what makes sense to me-not what some apologists say it is.
I strongly recommend two short books: "All That's Wrong With the Bible" by Jonah David Conner, and "Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth" by John G. Jackson. Those books will help you see what's really going on with religion.
As a thinking Christian I wish you success on your journey. Make sure you stay free of what other people want you to think. Now you are free, don't get dragged unthinkingly into the opinions of other people . Be critical of everything you read.
Now that you have decided that faith is actually worth thinking about, are you just using it as a veneer to reject God or are you seriously and earnestly seeking for answers as to whether you should believe or not? There are lots of good books about God. Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis is good. Dick Dowsett's God that's not Fair is also a helpful book, explaining the Christian doctrine of Hell. Both are available as ebooks to borrow on open library.
If you are a creationist and you want to examine those beliefs, I’m gonna recommend “Finding Darwin’s God” - by Kenneth Miller . Miller is the biologist who testified at the 2005 Dover Trial . He’s a devout Christian. he also explains why Intelligent Design is a pseudoscience like astrology in the Dover Trial transcripts which are online
I am lucky that my childhood indoctrination didn't take hold of me. I think this was because I was a voracious reader, particularly of science fiction, so I was introduced to many different worldviews. Most were more plausible than the idea of God. Even so, I went through all the rituals in the church as I was expected to, but as soon as I grew up and became a free agent I stopped thinking about religion until a decade or so later when I realized I was an atheist.
There are only two worldviews. Jesus said, "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." There are believers and unbelievers, or as the Apostle John wrote, "children of God" and "children of the devil." All you're confessing here, Robert, is that you have never been "with" Jesus, but always against him; a practical atheist all along. Worse yet, you claim to be an atheist, even though you know God, since you were created in his image, just like all human beings are; you're simply incapable of honoring him as God. So, you create your idols to worship, centered on yourself, and here you are boasting of your exploits. Thinking of yourself as wise-a so-called "free thinker"-but yet, you're a fool. A rebel without a cause, with no hope and without God in the world; a model moron in the hands of the prince of the power of the air. Human existence just doesn't get any better than that, now does it?
True Christianity is NOT a cult...it's a relationship with God. There are false religions and then there is the true relationship with God that you acquire through believing (trusting) the gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). When you have a relationship with someone that relationship gets confirmed so that you know that you have it beyond all doubt. When you get saved and acquire a relationship with God you know that you have it beyond all doubt that's why for true born again Christians it's impossible to become an ex-Christian.
@@danielblair4413nah man I already tried to get saved and I felt like absolute garbage so I abandoned it after a week and by the by Christianity is a man made religion
You nailed it at 15:30. I am convinced they become infuriated because they don't want you to get them to start thinking. At this point, some of them get very nasty because you are threatening everything that allows them to make sense of life and the world and why they are even here. I can well imagine their fear, especially if that is all they have known their whole life.
The millionaire pastors are also afraid of losing their livelihood. The collection plates might become empty and their extravagant lifestyle might start to crumble - fewer private jets, yachts, cars, mansions etc.
This is a good case for sympathy! I tend to think of the religious as arrogant bullies, if only vicariously. They are frightened, though, like the old lady in the Twilight Zone who didn't know what would happen to her after Robert Redford made her unalive. Maybe they need a more compassionate approach, and respect for their fear.
An open mind is like an open sore. Do you know what happens to an open sore in an unclean environment? You can't just accept everything you hear. Are you stupid??? Study the bible properly. You only have one chance at this. You're going to squander that because some disgruntled hubris filled wannabe encouraged you to????? Each person is the master of their own boat. Steer it well. Study properly. Get study tools and take it seriously. Your salvation is at stake. Don't let bold scoffers get the better of you.
“God works in mysterious ways” reminds me of a movie quote from the character Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) in Caddie Shack: “There’s a subtle perfection in everything I do.” 😂
It’s ok to use our brains to think critically when choosing a religion but if we choose the wrong religion then we are told you’re thinking too much. Great video Kristi!
Why did Jesus Christ live and exist on earth thousands of years ago? ANSWER - Thousands of years ago, the Creator authorized and sent Jesus Christ from heaven to earth to teach and preach the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" to imperfect, suffering, and dying human beings. What is the worth, value, and importance of the authority and teachings of Jesus Christ to imperfect, suffering, and dying human beings? ANSWER - Jesus Christ KNOWS that all imperfect, suffering, and dying human beings who freely and willingly submit to his authority and believe his teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" will be favored, honored and rewarded by the Creator with Eternal Life and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death on a safe, secure, and peaceful earth without arrogant, cruel, and merciless persons, without liars, deceivers, slanderers, hypocrites, traitors, and murderers. The Creator KNOWS that all his loving, kind, respectful, and submissive worshippers and believers of his Christ who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and many others will not remain as worthless dusts on earth forever, instead in the right and proper time, Jesus Christ will freely and willingly resurrect them back to life so they can all happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "Kingdom of God" or His Kingdom and fully enjoy his and his Christ's eternal love, kindness, goodness, compassions, generosities, favors, and blessings for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as his Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth.
I was born into a Muslim family, but raised Agnostic... Looking into the ideas and values of religion, especially on Christianity just to gain a deeper understanding of what others' beliefs are like, was a really dark and depressing journey for me. I spend every day battling Thanatophobia and fearing what my afterlife is gonna be like, not knowing if I'll ever see my friends and family again or if we'll even be the same people... Please keep making these videos, Kristi.
Islam actually tells us to ask questions. But anyway may you mean by being raised agnostic? Do you mean your parents didn’t raise you with religion? (Not being judgmental by the way😅)
@@harharharharharharharharha240 Yes. I wasn't raised under the strict religious customs. I think my mom was worried because of how harsh and strict my perfectionist father is, she didn't want my vision of God to be distorted or twisted into something I would fear angering over the smallest mistakes (which ended up not working out when I got a little too curious). I'm not saying that is how I think God is, but other people describe him blindly optimistically in the way I would describe my biological father and it both terrifies and upsets me, because no matter what I was interested in or how hard I try, I was never good enough for my father.
Islam may pretend to tell you to ask questions, but if you ask, for example, who made god, you get accused of not respecting the religion. That's a forbidden question. If you are skeptical about the historicity of Muhammad, you get accused of insulting the religion. You are right in saying that islam asks you to ask questions, however the flip side is that in practice you are not allowed to.
I was just talking to a friend about this last night about the dissonance I constantly endured as a young kid. Sundays pretty much was to not think, just memorize Bible verses but Monday through Saturday was all about thinking. In school, at home, playing with friends. But don't engage that at church or you'll go to hell. No wonder children act out. The cognitive dissonance is the real struggle.
Explains why certain people rally against educational institutions as well. They resent them for fostering that creativity and curiosity in people. Or do their best to counteract things learned in educational institutions.
I was raised in the Catholic Church, and I lived through that for 18 years every single Sunday, with Sunday school & Then also doing confirmation & all of that. I did it all. Around 13-14 I started to question everything, I tried really hard to understand but I couldn’t, So I’d ask questions but as soon as I would, they’d be shut down REALLY fast. So… Living in my own at 19, I started to live by my own rules, I still wanted God in my life, I still wanted to follow & read the bible and pray. I begged God to give me a sign to be there for me to do something. & It never came…. Then I got into spirituality… then I said bye to religion as a whole. & Here I am Watching this videos feeling more understood then i’ve ever been in my entire life. Thank you. ❤
@@maggiebarrett7300I just like to believe of course that everything is energy, so Honestly my spirituality just comes from me doing the best I can for me, Like wellness & Meditations.
Christians don't usually choose Christianity. It's the default setting in too many places. If you never examine other beliefs, then you never truly chose. You went along with. You bought in. But you didn't make a choice.
Honestly, it's how I feel about my aunt and her husband who became pastors once becoming baptist; while since their youth of embracing religion were they pentecostal. A major head-scratcher there.
Yeah, I got to choose Zoroastrianism. (I left new atheism for it. I am glad I did, because it was Zarathustra that brought me to the far left, and away from the anti-SJW cult)
I was not raised in church. However when I first started watching Kristi Burke's videos a year ago I found that even though I never considered myself religious I still had a lot of internalized Christianity because I was raised in the bible belt. My daughter converted to Islam and I accidentally became an atheist while studying multiple religions
I was asked to leave a Read the bible in a year class because I was asking too many questions and they were afraid I would confuse other people in the class.
My first big wake up call was when my 36-year-old sister lost her 8-year battle with breast cancer. I was her baby sister, and we did a lot of things together. I was the nanny to her baby girl right after the diagnosis. I worked for them for 4 years. I was SO angry when she transitioned. The majority of my church "friends" chastised me. Some of them even went so far as to say that Sister died because we did not pray believing. After about 18 months of being told what a horrible Christian I was, I almost died by my own hand. I later joked that I wasn't even a rebel because I was still alive. Instead of lovingly supporting me while at 26 I struggled to make sense of it all, they left me to my own devices wagging their fingers and shaking their heads in disapproval. My beliefs were forever changed.
“God is greater than you are, and you’re little human brain just can’t get it” Nailed it right there. And according to their logic, how do they know so much about how god works then?
It always gets me when they say read the Bible, ummm, I did. I watched two different videos from two different religion pushers. One claimed that demons are what wakes one up in the middle of the night. The other one claimed that god is waking people up in the middle of the night to pray. I commented on both of them that it is my bladder waking me up in the middle of the night. I also mentioned the oddity of each others video.
@@johntiggleman4686 Yeah, I don't stop drinking fluids at 8pm or such. Though when I wake up there are no good or evil beings anywhere near me. It gets kinda lonely.
This reminds me so much of my very first girlfriend. She was, and to this day is a devout Christian. Once we were talking about the fact that I am not, and never have been a Christian. The whole idea of faith came up and she tried to frame it in the context of me getting into a car with a friend of mine, and hoping that they will get me to my destination. She points that out as having faith. Well, no, it’s more that this person has shown themselves to be reliable many times in the past, so I have no reason to believe this time is going to be any different.
I just read a funny satire titled "You Suck" by Paulie Amigo and he said something about religion I never considered... everyone thinks they're right. Not just in Christianity, but almost all religions claim to know the "truth" with such zeal, passion, and conviction. And none of these people seem to ask the question, "What if I'm wrong?" This applies to New Age stuff and everything. It's rare to find someone who says, "I don't know." I have a feeling that if you took the most faithful and zealous person from each religion and put them all in a room...they wouldn't debate...they'd feel at home with each other, they'd have a strong bond...even though they consider each other damned.
She's not saying she doesn't know. She is quite clearly saying Christianity is wrong. She's not questioning, she has transitioned from one faith to another and is trying to get others to transition with her. She is an atheist proselytizer. She is not open to Christian teaching she is open only to opposing it. She is making all the excuses in the book to not believe in God.
@OP. Right and wrong exist. We have a word for each. These words have definite meanings. If you don't know the difference between them, perhaps you should spend more time finding out.
@@Abcdefghijk1705 Sure she has every right not to believe in it. She has every right to try to convince others regarding her view. However there is proof that God exists. Just not proof she accepts.
What a waste of time, I didn't invite the guy. While here on earth why did he not make inventions, internet etc, that would have been used to preserve the bible at least. Think about that.
Why talk on my behalf? You not my spokesperson, I wouldn't even condone that. You met Jesus personally and talked to him or just regurgitating same old lies and fallacies of 2000 long years? How can people still believe in this murderous and genocidal religion. Read the European religious wars when you massacred yourselves? Good for you.
Kristi Burke, have you ever thought about doing a video on all the failed doomsday predictions that religious people talk about? I remember as a kid when I was still going to church and what not, I was so scared of these end time prophecies afraid of not waking up the next morning. I also remember all the craziness and frenzy around the Y2K millennium bug and how the religious people kind of used that to scare people.
Goes back further. In the year 999 many in Europe were sure Jesus was coming back in the year 1000. So they did not plant crops. They stopped working and went to the hilltops and mountains to pray. I guess they figured they’d have a front row seat as he was supposed to come “on the clouds.” New Year’s Eve wailing and singing floated from hilltop to hilltop. Midnight. No Jesus. Maybe he’ll come at dawn so we can see him. Dawn. No Jesus. Well, of course he was always going to come in the full glory of the sun at midday. Noon came and went. No Jesus. Some stayed in the mountains for days. Spring came. But no crops had been sown or stored. People starved. Europe starved. *** So we repeat history. “End of the world” fears are projections of one’s own inner fears. We’ve seen a lot of projection of fear in recent years.
Jehovah's Witnesses predicted the world would end in 1975, ushering in Armageddon. And when that didn't happen, as any sane person expected, they began speaking from both sides of their mouths. This murderous, genocidal religion (Christianity) has been the greatest threat to humanity for 2000 years.
YES. Whenever I talk about these things with people, I always consider what they have to lose if I win the discussion vs what I have to lose if THEY win the discussion. I don't ever have much, if anything to lose if I can't convince them of what I'm saying. But if they are convinced about my argument, they have their religion, their community, their security, sense of purpose, sense of safety, worldview, God and best friend, and perhaps even spouse to lose... And a lot more than that, especially if one is being financially supported by someone religious or if they have a job in the church etc...
Until…. They realize they can be good law-abiding neighbors WITHOUT giving 10% to the scam artists and wasting their whole life trying to make sense of the conflicting doctrines. ❤☮️
Even though I’m Christian, I hate using or hearing these sorts of cliches myself. To me, the worst one is all things work together for good, quoting Romans 8:28, and then second only to it’s all a part of God’s plan. I mean, try telling that to someone whose house just burned down with their whole family inside, or to someone whose brother got hurt or killed in a wreck, yknow?
Yes, and I wonder why most believers can say God bless to the mourning ones who especially is harmed by crimes, accidents, & disasters. Why is it not best to think, God why hadn’t you intervened? Only if you had STOPPED it.😢
You spark so much in me Kristi with what you talk about. (I apologize for over commenting) I was literally told to 'SHUT' up and asked in one Babtist church to leave for bringing this passage up. (I was in my early 20's/I'm 64) Mathew 14:26-31 Peter supposedly walked on water. I asked, 'Why don't Christians have the faith at the very least to walk on water as Peter did?' That didn't go over well with everyone. Nearly 40 years later, NO Christian will (Logically) respond to this. That was the moment of my Christian deconstruction... You ROCK Kristi! (Can I still say that at 64?)
The implication you suggest is Peter alone walked on water, the typical teaching is Peter was aided by the lord, and Peter partially sank because Peter had fear of drowning. There are many jokes about this very issue, however if you must accept the jokes as factual events that will likely ruin the joke.
@@DM-zq8qy The bible often teaches through parables, the problem is when people won't accept that and insist the story must be literal. Every year I see Santa Claus, and some years I participate in Easter egg hunts, and that is not a problem as long as I don't need the two real events to based in literal entities.
When I asked questions I was told: You don't really want answers, you're just trying to make trouble. Or even worse, they run out of the room, hands over their ears yelling help me Jesus.
@@BlankmanJ-5 Okay. If the Gospel message is so powerful, then why was virtually every believing Christian alive today born into a Christian family and/or community? And why does virtually every member of another religious faith still belong to the same faith they were born and raised into? And by virtually everyone, I'm talking about somewhere north of 95% -- probably 98% or more. What use is the Gospel or free will if they cannot overcome basic childhood religious education?
Yes same here, I was told we don’t think logically about God😅even though they will preach as God is WISE😅also when I bring up Lot’s story, the disgusted father ever, they will never answer if it’s morally right or not😅
You are amazing..and very well spoken..I read the Age of Reason over ten years ago..Its by Thomas Pane..one of the Founding Fathers...he goes through the entire bible pointing out error..I hope all your fans listen to the audio book or Actually read it.
I'm compiling a list of reading recommendations for a future video...I'll definitely have that one on the list. I probably would have deconstructed faster had I read it when I first started questioning 😄
The Age of Reason is a true classic, one of the best books on this subject i've ever read. One of the fascinating things about Thomas Paine is his writing style. Even though he wrote in the late 18th century, his books could easily be mistaken as from the 20th or this century. He used very few archaic words so it is crystal-clear to understand. His books were for me a great pleasure to read, not a chore unlike certain other very long old books i could name.... Reading Paine's works was exhilarating, as if many bright little light bulbs were being lit up in my mind!
Deconstructing = abandoning reason and embracing stupidity. If you want to be stupid, listen to this lady as she tries to convince you to become an atheist. She wants to convert you to atheism.. quite obviously and is using the term "deconstructing" to somehow pull the wool over your eyes to give you an excuse to embrace atheism's cold hard bosom. How could you not see that that is what she is doing. She is not "deconstructing" from Christianity, she is self justifying and putting her own sense of morality above that of God. Maybe she should go listen to some Jordan Peterson or something. I commend her evangelistic zeal, but it is misplaced and she is endorsing the wrong religion.
I love when they say, “read the Bible for your answer..” Then I politely come back with, “I’ve read it cover to cover thrice. Which is why I cannot believe.” 💜
The thing is as a ex christian I always had to believe on what people told me, there always a chosen one that God chose to speak his words, but when I started losing my faith trough knowledge I payed for years to have a sign or just to make me have faith, but for years I never got an answer so one day I got fed up and stop everything religious and mystical, because I realize that if God exist he don't want to save me, I spent years asking for just have faith, not a fancy car, a hot good wife or money, I just asked what I was told to ask that was necessary to be saved, but nothing. The church tell us to ask and you will be saved, but I asked, for years and nothing, but at the same time I see people saying that God spoke to them and their life got better in every aspect, financially, emotionally, professionally and so on. While my life didn't change and I was begging all days non stop, and those "chosen" people just had to say a word and God give everything. After I realize that I was done with this mystical thing and if God exist and decides to punish me for not believing, this God is not a God of Love, because I kneel before him every day begging to be saved and he didn't do anything to help me, he made me with flaws and powerless and although I was humble to beg for help and admitted that I was wrong in every step, he did anything to help and if he exist and punish me it's not fair at all.
How do you know that you are not saved? All that is required is to accept that God has already paid the price of your salvation. (There is no guarantee that your life will become materially better, but you will have the assurance of being embraced by God's love for eternity.)
God didn't make you with flaws. His enemy, Satan, ensured those things would enter the world. Furthermore, your education is incomplete and there are things you should know before you make such a rash decision about your fate. The Church is false, but not in the way presented on this channel. There's something they leave out, which would fill in some blanks for people just like you.
I admire your courage, your authenticity and your brilliant way of laying out these insights in plain, accessible and compelling language. I was raised without religion, but it reminds me strongly of some things I am in the process of learning, late in life, about dysfunctional family relationships: an all-powerful figure who demands blind faith in authority and in unfalsifiable claims implanted in childhood, trading love for obedience, gaslighting, programming, narcissistic abuse, shutting down rational thought, etc.
I’m a Christian and happily so. But you ain’t wrong, everybody should deconstruct. Love your channel: lots of intelligent and knowledgeable common sense. Keep up the good work, please!
I’m a “Christian agnostic” EXCEPT: I don’t believe or accept the quote in Matt. 10:34 “I have not come to bring peace, but a sword… to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother…” Also have doubts about any “supernaturally powers” the Bible authors attempt to sell. He was just an honest rebel.
@@xydanmusic That’s a damn good question. The answer is personal experience over a 20 year period has left me with a certainty of the existence of God and Jesus. But…I find Kristi to be absolutely correct about the contradictions in Bible. And I can’t reconcile Jesus with the meanness of the God of the Old Testament. God must be abiding by some “rules”, thus He is not all-powerful. Were it not for my personal experiences, and maybe I’m crazy, I wouldn’t believe. My faith isn’t backed up, much, by the Bible and I certainly do not support the meanness of nearly all Christians. But I seem to be inline with the Jesus of the Bible. Incidentally, I find Atheists to often be a lot nicer, much more knowledgeable of the Bible, and a lot happier than most Christians. Thanks for asking. I love that you seem to have asked because you want to know, rather that due to the desire to start a fight.
@@DM-zq8qy I hear you, DM. As far as Matthew 10:34, I normally find that my disbelief in the inerrancy of Scripture puts me at odds with Christians and my belief in Christ sometimes puts me at odds with Atheists and those of other faiths. I actually believe in the resurrection…due to personal experience that has given me faith…so I don’t really have a problem with the supernatural.
@Michael_May thanks for your elaboration also. I guess as for myself,am in a sort of a state of confusion, which is very clear to me is that all of this religion stuff don't add up and most likely made up. But then if it is made up,what's the appropriate way God wants or has to be worshipped. Either that he doesn't exist. I was born into a staunch Muslim family. My dad is a sheikh,pretty much wanted me to become one like himself.
There is no such thing as objective truth in philosophical pluralism, much less its stepchild, deconstructionism. So, what you think was said actually means nothing at all.
@@iMilhouse Just don't tell that to a philosophical pluralist or a deconstructionist (e.g. Kristi Burke), as he/she contradicts him- herself over and over again by making absolute statements about anything, when in reality he/she should say nothing at all just to be consistent with his/her worldview.
Just discovered your channel, I have a very similar religious background, but after years of service I Ultimately walked away. I appreciate that we are using our Free Will and our Capable Mind to at least question, the Big Questions. Also, I feel Its ok to not know Everything. To just Enjoy Life and Respect Life with Love Knowledge and Reason.😌💙
What you said about deconstructing starting as wanting to be a better Christian is soo true that’s how I started on this journey I wanted to understand what it was I believed in exactly and wanted to reconcile the good and the bad parts to come to the truth but I’m slowly coming to the realization that you can’t completely reconcile it without some pretty big theories. And also much of what we were always taught as kids just isn’t supported by the text.
One of the favorite things I've realized recently is Yahweh shares a shocking number of traits with Darth Vader. lol. Destroyed a planet, don't dare question him, disobedience results in death (and usually a curse with Yahweh), join the Empire OR ELSE, and on and on. lol
@@johnhavel7685 Ohhh I know I'm right. I made a whole list about it! Once my brain made the connection, it refused to stop. lol Vader condoned slavery for his chosen people, the Imperials. (Yahweh condoned slavery for his chosen people, the Israelites.) Vader committed genocide by blowing up Alderaan. (Yahweh committed genocide by flooding the earth) Vader is never to be questioned or he'll kill you. (Question Yahweh and not only will he likely kill you but curse your entire family.) Vader killed Jedi younglings. (Yahweh killed every first born in Egypt.) Vader tried killing his only son. (Yahweh actually succeeded.) Vader was born to a "virgin." (Yes, I know that was an intentional reference to Jesus but it still counts. Both Vader and Yahweh/Jesus were supposedly created by the Force.) Vader steals your free will using the Force. (Yahweh steals your free will using magic.) Vader thinks he's a great guy who believes the ends justify the means. (Yahweh literally thinks he's the greatest thing ever created. Every time an innocent person is harmed or killed, it's all part of his "plan" and totally justifiable. Ends justify the means.) The Force. (Magic.) You can only be saved by joining the Empire. If you don't WILLINGLY join the Empire then you're CHOOSING to suffer and die. (You can only be saved by joining **insert religion here.** If you don't WILLINGLY worship and serve Yahweh / Jahova / God / Allah then you're CHOOSING to suffer and die.) Vader didn't follow the Jedi Code - at all. (Yahweh doesn't follow the 10 Commandments HE made.) People think Vader is awesome despite the above. (People think Yahweh is awesome despite the above.) People know Vader is fiction. (Yahweh is fiction but people think he’s real.)
From @potholer54? - interesting. I first heard "people who don't want you to think are never your friend" from @TheraminTrees - I wonder who said it first 🙂
You have become one of my favourite RU-vid channels pretty fast. I love your delivery and explaining in common English. Even for facts that I had already known, I really do enjoy your explanations. I also love that I can listen and laearn while it is playing in the background while I am working in Canva or any other work. I really do appreciate you. Thank you.
Although I was not raised with christianity, it sucked-me--in once for about a year when I was in my 30s. I had what I thought was a "spiritual experience" involving the "Holy Spirit". It's frightening to think about it now. I have never told anyone about this weird year of my life. Atheism is now growing at a steady, fast pace. I believe that the internet, and particulately youtube channels like this are doing tremendous good for our country and the world. Kristi is doing important work and doing it well. Great video.
I deconverted about 3 years ago after 33 years of being an “on fire” Evangelical. I haven’t spent much time with a group of believers since. Until I went to the funeral of a friend who tragically died unexpectedly at my same age. I heard “God works in mysterious ways” and “God’s ways are higher than ours” over and over at that funeral. As someone whose mother died when I was 1 and was told that all my life, it broke my heart for her 5 year old sitting there having to hear that.
Yep. I’m 38 and fortunately was only involved in it for a couple years. My deconstruction started there in church during services lol. I started seeing things, and people, as they really were. Instead of being blinded by the feel good atmosphere and music. It’s quite literally insane. I won’t say this about many of the congregation because I feel like a lot of them are just being deceived and longing to be a part of something. But the leaders? Most of them are ironically the societal cancer that they constantly preach and speak out against
Hi Krista,once again a great video. The pastor at the Baptist church would say if anyone said Satan made them do something, his response was always "Satan has better things to with his time than be bothed with you!" Said the same thing about God.
She's not explaining the fallacies of religion. Religion is literally a link between Creator and created. You can have true religion or false. She's substituting one for the other as an excuse to leave it all behind. Worse than this, she’s engaged in crafted mockery and scorning, desirous of plaudits and adoration.
When I first picked up a bible and to see what was actually in it, I was a teenager. At that time my father told me that I shouldn't be reading it, that I should just go to church and let the Priest tell me what it says. I love my father, but he isn't known for brilliant answers to life's issues. I've been reading/studying religions and bible(s) for decades. The logical path to deconstruction is in those bibles.
No one is forcing the Atheists, Agnostics, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, members of all Religions to worship the Creator and believe the authority and teachings of his Christ. No one is stopping all Atheists, Agnostics, and members of all Christian and non-Christian Religions from mocking and degrading the Creator's Sovereignty and his Christ's authority and teachings as worthless and useless, no value whatsoever in their own lives and existence. Atheists, Agnostics, and fanatic members of all Christian and non-Christian Religions KNOW that they are - 1. NOT worshippers of the Creator 2. NOT believers of the authority and teachings of Jesus Christ about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead". The Creator and his Christ have nothing to do with the beliefs, traditions, teachings, doctrines, and claims of Atheists, Agnostics, and fanatic members of all Christian and non-Christian Religions in the world. The FREEDOM and FREE WILL of the CREATOR The Creator will freely and willingly reward and honor all his worshippers and believers of his Christ with Eternal Life and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death on a safe, secure, and peaceful earth without arrogant, cruel, and merciless persons, without liars, deceivers, slanderers, hypocrites, traitors, and murderers. THE FREEDOM and FREE WILL of JESUS CHRIST All human beings will just become worthless and useless dusts on earth after their deaths but all worshippers of the Creator and believers of his Christ who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and many others will not remain as worthless dusts on earth forever, instead in the right and proper time, Jesus Christ will freely and willingly resurrect them back to life so they can all happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "Kingdom of God" and fully enjoy his and the Creator's eternal love, kindness, goodness, compassions, generosities, favors, and blessings for eternity under his loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection as the Creator's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth.
This video really brought home a point for me: That there is a heckuva lot of thought control going on in Christianity. Maybe more than any other world religion, perhaps. I have always believed that faith and reason need not be mortal enemies, that there is common ground on which the two can meet if you are bold enough to seek it. Intense thinking and wondering about the ultimate questions of existence actually provoked some of my most amazing spiritual experiences in life. Christian mysticism calls this process Kenosis, or a spiritual questioning or emptying of oneself; they also call it the Dark Night of the Soul. You might even go so far as to say that those who have never questioned their faith don't really have true faith.
"You might even go so far as to say that those who have never questioned their faith don't really have true faith." If you have to not question your faith in order to keep it, then are you not just living in fear of what would happen if you questioned it?
Kristi, you really have highlighted so much of the gaslighting that goes on in the Christian Faith; all of which has left us feeling sinful, inadequate & insignificant. A loving God, a loving FATHER should want MORE for his children than for them to have to constantly confess THEIR faults; while praising HIM for being an all powerful, all knowing, faultless creator. This is the epitome of narcissism and I fully support the idea that critical thinking is exactly what needs to be applied here.
There is so much in your statement that is wrong.....where to begin....who is gaslighting you? You don’t understand The Gospel or someone hasn't given you the correct information. When you become a Christian, you have been forgiven, by Christ's sacrifice at the cross, of ALL OF YOUR SINS! YOU ARE FREE! YOU WILL LIVE FOR ENTERNITY IN JOY, HAPPINESS, PEACE, AND LOVE! Our Heavenly Father wants you to use your brain and ask questions! Kristi should have a reputable Rabbi & Pastor on her "show" to refute her claims!
@@BlankmanJ-5 Don't preach to me about the basis of the Christian belief. I was a Christian for many, many years and I believed what you believe. For many years, it did not sit right in my heart. I now choose critical, logical thinking over blind faith. There is no freedom in God's forgiveness when we continually confess our sins and ask for forgiveness in church every week? We all pray to be better people because we still think we are not enough in God's eyes. Where was this loving God when my family was being sexually, physically and emotionally abused by my Christian father?! Where was this loving God when my best friend died of cancer at a young age? Where was this God's love when he chose to kill ALL of mankind; bar Noah, his family & 2 of each animal, in a devastating flood. Why did this loving God set Adam and Eve up in the Garden of Eden with the Tree of Knowledge, when he knew in advance that they would partake of it? He set them up to fail and then punished them, and every other human born thereafter, to toil on the land they worked; gave pain in childbirth to every woman and awarded every person, the guilt of sin, before they took their first breath on this earth. There are so many examples in the Bible of God's wrath; of thousands upon thousands of deaths in his name; of his disgust and intolerance of the people he created in his image. I refuse to accept this as love, nor the fact that he felt the only way he could forgive us all was to have his son killed. THIS from an all powerful, all knowing, loving God? I think not.
@@desireedebellis6766 I'm projecting nothing, since I'm basing my conclusions on Kristi's presentations, as well as years of experience in dealing with people just like her. In fact, I've been dealing with those whom God calls "fools" longer than she has been alive, and all of their arguments (or lack thereof) are the same.
Kristi I am loving your videos. You’re so well spoken and intelligent! I am still deconstructing from 2 years ago and your videos are really helping me. Thank you ❤
I remember once being at a ladies conference my church was putting on, the pastors wife was preaching. I don’t remember what about, but I remember she said “turn your brains off ladies, this is not something you reason through, this is something you faith through” and that was one of my first “wait. Hold on a second, that doesn’t sound right” moments for me
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Please continue speaking your thoughts. You have a brilliant mind. If only I thought this critically when I was in a religious private school surrounded by Baptist and Methodist teachings. You're uprooting the Bible and pissing a lot of religious youtubers off, but never be dissuaded. You really resonate with my perspective and I enjoy your profound ability to define it. We're definitely on the same page. Thank you for bringing logic to this naive world of religion.
I apologize for messing up the 666 like count. Amazing video as always. Your videos are always amazing and thought provoking. Keep doing what you're doing, changing lives, 1 christian at a time.
People go to religion because they want an afterlife, when you boil it all down. So, here is a happy thought. If this life can exist without a creator, it follows that you don't necessarily need a creator for an afterlife to exist.😊
Exactly, and I should’ve realized before indoctrinated, why this God wants to meet people after they DIE! Even will say ENDURE any horrific situations before you meet me😮😢The worst will not want to meet “any” even babies, children just cuz would not believe him😅
Think of the possibility of an afterlife as a further evolutionary step in existence. Not believing in God doesn’t negate the possibility of an afterlife, it just doesn’t define it. That’s why when I die, I just don’t know. And I will never know until I die, so there’s no point in worrying about it. And I don’t believe any book, or any person does know. There’s a number of different near death experiences that people have had, but they are more likely to be explained by lucid dreaming than visiting the afterlife.
In my experience, the church wants you to think (listening to their sermons, reading their publications, etc. requires thinking, after all) but only until you agree with the conclusions the church has reached. That is "good thinking", but that is where you must stop. If however you continue to think and arrive at conclusions that differ from those of the church, that is "bad thinking", and that is not allowed.
Thanks Kristi. You made some good points. It brings me back to thinking about the sin that led to the Fall of Man in Genesis: eating from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. There does seem to be from very early on an anti-knowledge bent in the Bible.
@@DocReasonable No. The example of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil shows that if you're exposed to the knowledge of evil, a process occurs which breaks down the fabric of life. Call it entropy, the tendency for things to become disorderly. This translates from the mind into the physical body, resulting in death. This is why you're meant to protect yourself from degenerate thoughts, doctrines and philosophies. Do you really think they promote immorality in every form of entertainment just for money? Do you really believe the enemies of God will not pander to your sense of pride by issuing complex, theoretical nonsenses, invalidating scriptural history and empirical evidence, in an endless regurgitation of sophistry that only you can appreciate? Kristi has very little understanding of these simple things. I believe she's acting in this way because part of her upbringing conflicts with the actual truth she discovered.
The starting point for my deconstruction was the question: "What happens to the people who have never heard the Gospel message?" and when I started asking Christians it wasn't long before I encountered my favorite thought-terminating cliché: "You should worry about your own salvation, not theirs." They seemed completely oblivious to the fact that if there was any chance of me being saved, it would come after I had received a satisfactory answer to that question. Perhaps if Christians had assured me that everyone would eventually be saved (i.e. the universalist position) I might even have remained in the faith, but it never happened. They didn't have an answer so they chastised me for daring to ask it instead. Occasionally I'd get another one: "Once you're saved, you will understand." to which there's the obvious follow up "Well, since you're saved, you must understand so why don't _you_ explain it to me?" which was typically met by radio silence.
This is your lucky day....lol...Hell was meant for satan and his demons, not humans, Christ in His discretion as a High Priest and King of Kings, will evaluate every individual base on such discretion.......
@@BlankmanJ-5Then why will Jesus “allow” different kinda Christian to say “We are the only true one”? Why did the innocent children had to starve for Jesus and die in Kenya Christian group, that was on news recently. How can the true one even ALLOW his name to be used in variety of Christian, even to the harmful ones? Don’t you think those children were actually afraid, but had to obey cuz they were using Jesus name, thinking they are evaluated by him? What was the true one doing, just watching?
@EnglishMike The Almighty has a covenant with Muslims as Children of Abraham via Ishmael. I have no idea what the Quran says, but God is The God of the Living & the Dead. It is His jurisdiction concerning the fate of each human. If you hear or heard The Gospel and rejected it, this imputed to your case. If you didn't hear The Gospel, this is also imputed to your case. God is the Judge.....
@@lh1673 Even Christ suffered for humanity. What happened in Kenya was horrible. I was in Watamu, Kenya when they were doing forensics and making arrests in Malindi. Why did Job suffer? Why do bad things happen to good people? There is a reality called evil in the land. There is the Adamic sin humans bear. I don't know how The Almighty runs His day to day operations, but I can guarantee this, there is a day called The Lords Day where nothing will escape His Holy Wrath and all those who were unmercifully cruel and enjoying their cruelty will have to answer The Almighty, face to face. Every human being always DIES! Jew & Gentile, Atheist & Believer, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, etc., etc., etc. and the fear is just the same......but what if you are wrong.....
"Don't think too much about it." That one is pure gold. Don't think about possibly the most important question in life that determines your eternal future. That would have gone over like a ton of bricks if someone would have said that to me when I was deconstructing lol.
"I'm going to spend thousands of dollars on my university education, and I'm trying to decide which university to go to." "Don't think too much about it." "One of my friends is trying to get me to try cocaine. Another friend is trying to get me to try heroine." "Don't think too much about it." "A married couple are a couple of my best friends. One of them is cheating on the other, and I don't whether it is my place to tell them." "Don't think too much about it." "I have a belief system that involves the origins of the heavens and the earth... and my eternal fate. This belief system is based on books that are thousands of years old, and these beliefs completely disregard all our modern day advancements and knowledge." "Don't think too much about it."
There once existed a rebellious creature who thought too much about things. True story. Imagine a pixel, on a screen, thinking about where it happens to be, in the hope of understanding what it is!
Good points. Simply expressed yet thought-provoking. You highlighted many of the responses by the clergy and religious community I encountered during my doubting / questioning days as a youth and later into my adult years. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and observations.
Deconstruction has really helped me to weed out what I don't believe, and validate the faith i still have. Now I feel confident in being unsure about many things and open to a faith of many interpretations. I just feel more open to other faith walks.
FREEDOM and FREE WILL Among thousands of Gods, the Creator is the Most High and Sovereign God who authorized and sent Jesus Christ from heaven to earth thousands of years ago to preach and teach the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" to imperfect, suffering, and dying human beings. Imperfect, suffering, and dying Atheists and Agnostics are free not to worship the Creator or any God and Gods. Imperfect, suffering, and dying Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, all kinds of Religions are free to worship their own God and Gods and believe the teachings and doctrines of their Pastors and Leaders about "Armageddon", "heaven and hellfire", "Trinity", "rapture", and "reincarnation". All imperfect, suffering, and dying persons on earth who submit to the authority of Jesus Christ and believe his teachings about the "Kingdom of God" and "Resurrection of the Dead" are also free to honor and obey the Creator as their loving, kind, and merciful God and Heavenly Father. The Creator is also free to reward and honor his worshippers and believers of his Christ with Eternal Life and existence without sufferings, pains, griefs, sickness, and death on a safe, secure, and peaceful earth without arrogant, cruel, and merciless persons, without liars, deceivers, slanderers, hypocrites, traitors, and murderers. All human beings will just become worthless and useless dusts on earth after their deaths but all worshippers of the Creator and believers of his Christ who died recently and thousands of years ago like Abel, Noah, Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Job, Naomi, Ruth, King David, Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and many others will not remain as worthless dusts on earth forever, instead in the right and proper time, Jesus Christ is also free to resurrect them back to life so they can all happily and abundantly live and exist on earth forever as submissive and obedient subjects of the "Kingdom of God" and fully enjoy the eternal love, kindness, goodness, compassions, generosities, favors, and blessings of the Creator and his Christ for eternity under the loving and kind rulership, guidance, and protection of Jesus Christ as the Creator's Chosen King and Ruler of the heavens and the earth.
If God was the actual provider of truth, he'd be actively encouraging questioning, scrutiny and curiosity. It the liar and con artist that wants to assuage scrutiny and curiosity. It seems that the devil has more invested in truth than God.
Dang. So good. Right on the money! You make so much sense and resonate for me so much! Thank you. Oh, and I love the Jezebel Vibes thing. That is hilarious! 😂
Why I love Kristi's channel. Kristi is saying what everyone is thinking. Apologetics: A biblical verse to justify there right and everyone else is wrong that questions their faith. The sexual perversion, the greed, the prejudice, the fear... is all justified by bible quotes. It's all allegory word play. Are these Christians fundamentalists possessed? Some of us has woken up to the deception and lies of this religious CULT! Love you Kristi, keep spreading truth!
No, Kristi keeps churning out these irrational videos because she is irrational and so is everyone else that agrees with her. The real problem for her and for them is revealing the root of her irrationality and then explaining why she thinks her brand of irrationality is more "rational" than their irrationality. But, neither she, nor they, are capable of getting to the root, because if she and they did, then a torrent of irrationality would stream forth that would reveal things that none of them want anyone to know.
@@ChristianApologeticsProject stop projecting .. It is you who needs to examine yourself and not worry about others who have no interest or believe in what you do... You are the irrational one.. 1 in 3 people suffer from RELIGIOUS TRAUMA SYNDROME... go research that...
Irrational? Tell this to your deities who committed genocide, infanticide, pogrom in your bible. Your ancestors who massacred Muslims during the crusades. Your ancestors who butchered each other in the millions during the European religious wars. Your ancestors who annihilated Indians and stole their land. Your ancestors who kidnapped and enslaved Africans. Y'all guilty of crimes against humanity and should be held accountable. Shame on you, Mr Christian Apologetic.
@@eprd313 That she was a former Christian. That's like saying, "I'm a former daughter of my parents. But, now that I have 'deconstructed' that experience in my life, that is no longer true." Those who know what the Bible has to say about becoming a Christian don't make those kinds of "irrational" statements.
