"Believer's" First-time hearing Bo Burnham - From God's Perspective (Reaction!) 

I concur :)

Ive found people who believe in an afterlife just use that as an excuse to not care about this life. Its sad but no one wants to die so I guess we have to have this global scam so people can pretend they get to keep living when they die. So many christians are only christian because their country had gold when the Spaniards arrived.

@@SebsDuran What you said in response as to why you are religious is how you can tell the charlatans from people who take the best messages of religion to heart. Coming from a scientist/atheist, it seems to me what is happening is that people will either use strict adherence to dogmatic literal-ism as their guiding star out of fear of damnation, making them little more than rule making, overbearing, authoritarians. But those with true empathy and conviction will distill the text down to life lessons that make things better for the entirety of creation, and at that point, who we think did the creating doesn't really matter to me, it's still a positive process...Thank you for your honesty, just two cents from a different angle. It's very reminiscent of the line from Bo Burnham's God song, "My love's the type of thing that you have to earn, and when you earn it, you won't need it." If you're a good, empathetic, and compassionate person, you won't have to worry about God's love saving you...Peace bro...

@@42Mrgreenman I think you've kinda summarized the good and the bad of Christians perfectly without even being a Christian lol. I did see a lot of people with that same idea though that the "my loves the type of thing" line means that if you're a good person, you don't need God's love, though that isn't true. The only way to heaven is through God and his love and grace, not your own good doings. I guess that stuff wouldn't really matter to you if you aren't a believer though lol. I do wish that others could see Christianity as you do though because a lot of people look down on Christians and think we hate everyone, which is mostly because of those of us who use the Bible to condemn others rather than use it to spread a positive message.

Yeah it's called being good for goodness sake

As a former Christian now Atheist/Satanist this song while not the only thing, was definitely one of the things that pushed me to abandoning my faith. It definitely holds a special place in my heart.

It's very eye opening

I love you!!

​@@SebsDuran I also found the treadmill to be very unique. If I could very humbly suggest, have you ever considered decreasing speed juuuust a tad so that you're not quite so winded during videos? Not trying to backseat on your workout man, just think it would improve the quality slightly. In any case, thanks man and have a good one.

@@SebsDuran Is it hard to write replies to the comments while walking on the treadmill?

@@DarthBil1 he never stops

Hmm, that's why I stopped watching it he was breathing heavy before it started

Quite beautiful. I dig that.

I cant imagine any other way to take that so grats?

That's the way I've always seen it too. Most simply, if you want God's love, you want to be a good person. But if you are truly a good person, you didn't really *need* God to tell you to be good, that kinda thing

Personally i thought of it as to earn the love of god you need to be a good person, not for god, but for yourself. So if you are a nice person for youself and not for god then the fact that you earned his love won't matter.

This was the line that hit me so hard.

Sighed as in "They're not wrong you know"?

Bro heard the word gay and couldn't take it 💀

The issue is the bible. It says gays are an abomination, but religion forgets that men wrote and edited the Bible and its absolutely fallible

@@coreyg3658 And it also says eating shrimp is an abomination. So being an abomination can't be all that bad.

And in recent years he’s identifying as a little more agnostic than atheist. The distance from overly religious people can soften that strong opposition

​ @John Brown Atheism / Theism deals with belief or lack thereof. Agnosticism is regarding knowledge (actually not even specifically relevant to religion). They're not mutually exclusive terms because of that fact. This is one of the biggest misconceptions, or logical fallacies rather, people have these days it seems like. Atheism means "lacks belief in a deity". It's what everyone is born as. It's not a "strong opposition". It's just a word that has to exist because Theism is a thing. I think the confusion comes from thinking Atheism means "believing a god doesn't exist" as opposed to "lacks belief". "Not believing" is not the same as "believing that it's not". One introduces belief, the other lacks it. Again, it introduces confusion because we use those terms interchangeably in day to day conversation. But realistically, they're quite different. Basically, what I'm getting at is, Agnosticism, how it is used today, is just incorrect and doesn't make logical sense. If I ask you "do you _believe_ in a god" and you answer "I don't _know_ if a god exists or not" you're answering a different question. I asked about belief, not knowledge. So, if you respond "I don't know if a god exist or not, so I don't have an opinion.", you aren't actively believing (believe is a verb after all). You are therefor, by definition, an Atheist. Until you, potentially, figure out you want to believe that is.

@@ProxCyde true. I was using the terms as they are colloquially understood today. Atheism, in the general public’s eye, is “there is no God” while agnosticism is “is there a God?” It’s not a perfect definition, but it’s generally understood this way.

@@XboxJohnBrown Yeah, I get that. But regardless, it's a logical fallacy. No matter what the general public thinks of it. 🤷‍♂️

@@ProxCyde so when i believe there is a "god" but dont see the reason why it simply existing should be reason for me to worship it, and me therefore not following any religion, I am theist?

I truly appreciate your "rant" but not one at all. I am sorry that that happened today and any of the times it has happened. This flaw of us people of wanting to find moral superiority by any means necessary is quite gross, yet unfortunately seemingly impossible to eradicate. My DMs are open any time. And your words were beautiful.

@@SebsDuran Thanks man! I appreciate you!

I'm so sorry that the bad ones are the loudest ;w; my grandma for instance is a wonderful woman IMO, but some of the stuff she says about others when we get to talking about religion... no wonder so many people think we're hateful people! I swear she loses herself when she talks about the LGBTQ+ community. The problem is that some Christians would rather use the Bible as a weapon instead of using it to spread positivity. Many Christians take parts of the Bible out of context in order to push a certain view of theirs when, in reality, the Bible probably doesn't actually say what they claim it says at all... it's mostly older Christians who already have their minds made up that certain groups of people are just damned to hell. Most of the younger ones are much more open and accepting.

@@howdoesonesocial I agree completely! I grew up as a Lutheran, so I was taught certain specific things that I couldn’t wrap my head around. My mom became a pastor later in life and she even told me about verses left out of the Bible. The church she preached at opened up to the LGBTQ and we had some members leave because of that, however, the meaning of the book is always love an acceptance. If we ever go against love and acceptance, then we’re trying to become the judge of someone and that isn’t Christian at all. Blows my mind the people that will go to church but then say hateful things about anyone as that is the opposite of what you’re taught. 👍

@@matthewzimmerman5064 Right 😭 Breaks my heart tbh.

Made my day, Andrew. And I’ve studied a lot of Buddhism and many of Its practices have truly enriched my life. Thanks for the comment.

Andy, never even heard of him! I feel like I've lived under a rock. Will check it out.

I also highly recommend The Fence and Some People Have It Worse Than I! And, for something that truly hits the emotions, check out White Wine In The Sun. It's essentially an atheist christmas song. Tim is absolutely incredible.

@@SebsDuran Australian comedian. Not so big as he once was... He played Friar Tuck in the latest Robin Hood adaptation, funnily enough. ;)

love ur profile

what do you mean?

I've seen reactions where they get real nervous and seem relieved when he finishes the thought lol.

Same lol

I really don’t understand how some people misinterpret the first line “You shouldn’t abstain from rape just ‘cause you think that I want you to”, it conveys the same thought as the line following it.

@@absolutelyrandom4978 some people take the first line "you shouldn't abstain from rape" as potentially saying "it's okay to rape", but the line confirms he means "actually no"

Sorta. When you are the type of person worthy of god love, you don't need it cause you know yourself your a good person and gods opinion doesn't matter. "MY (gods) love is the type of thing you have to earn but when you earn it you won't need it"

Just like a commenter on the original video said (paraphrasing) « "But no one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you" I'm an atheist and that still hurt» lol

Church was always weird to me. "Body's a temple", right? You'd think the best connection one could have with "God" would simply be themselves, not an acoustic building.

I don't think WASP, as he says in his song "Rant" that he was surrounded by Catholicism growing up.

@@ModernArtery you're right, he graduated on the honor roll, in the theater program and campus ministry program of st John's prep school which is a catholic school.

Nah he not even funny he just shitting on religious people. He shouldn’t be a comedian.

@@memoramos4833 hey that's your opinion. In my opinion he only hates on the hypocritical religious people. You know, the ones violating human rights 🤷‍♂️ comedy is subjective so everyone likes different things. I appreciate your input but you don't speak for everyone. You're the first person I've heard take offense to this in that fashion and I watch religious people react to it on a weekly basis lol

@@js01141 and how is that funny?

Comedy is not subjective. Funny is funny. Ageeing with someone with the same ideology is not.

This is just a Anti religious Ted Talk

I love that song!!!! Blast from the past

I'll check it out!

He seems like just a good dude. I've really enjoyed learning of this guy.

@@SebsDuran He is a good person, it sucks that Fame has did some really bad things to his mental state.

His "religion" is morality, more or less.

@@KumaChrisVT Depends on how you look at it. The mental state would have existed regardless just triggered by different things, at least with the "fame" there was constant connection and reaction of people showing him love throughout his hiatus and in a place to where he could work on himself and become better because of it. Without the fame things very well could have gone differently, detrimentally. All about perspective, ironically.

Not talking about any individualor their actions,its about humans and people as a whole.

That's inaccurate

@@ericb9252 no, it’s not. It’s pretty clear. Even if you hit me with you can always ask for forgiveness that’s still a “rule” you’d have to follow. Asking for forgiveness. So, I mean take it how you want.

and actually having a sense of humor!!! Yeah that said , i don't get the absolute hate for the man. People don't seem to know that the reason some of the greats retired is that they were being censored or going to be censored. It's now too politically correct to even have substantial jokes ( talking about late night and or huge company comedy productions in general). So they have to keep it tame , though i get frustrated when talents have to subdue themselves , Mel Brooks being one of them.

@@Zarryon12 I never said I liked Jimmy Fallon..lol

but also probably healthy. nice