Girls Gone Bible: Making Christianity Sexy Again 

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It took me a while to get it but when I did, I giggled😭😭

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...it is so big, she looks like one of those worship leader's girlfriends... but ya know, who understands those worship leaders? They only talk to her because she looks like a total Sunday school teacher, okay? :D

Cauldrons uwu~

Or with Christian memorabilia

Look at how heavy those crystal balls are😮

@@sarahthesarah2850 Rub them, see your future

I would absolutely buy that shirt. Hopefully, someone who's good at graphic design sees this and posts a link here.

And as if Christmas wasn't a pagan thing before the Christians made it Jesus Birthday and swallow it. 😂

EXACTLY!! It’s always so funny when Christians shit on Halloween for being ‘demonic,’ yet it’s literally the exact opposite

I was so confused when I read the backstory of Halloween and that it was actually a religious thing

that’s what pagans do, not christians. it’s contrary to what Christianity teaches too because what scares the demons away is by using Jesus name. there’s nothing hilarious about it, you simply don’t understand all the nuances and differences on the christian and pagan sides.

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday

That really burns me. No hate like Christian love. I have a semi colon tattoo on my wrist. I hope it will help to destigmatize mental illness somehow. Maybe someone that shakes my hand needs one day needs to talk to someone, i dont know. But of course my family only sees an unwillingness to read my bible and pray more. Ironically i know the bible far better than any of them.

I would feel triggered too. I was interpreting it like: you are selfish if you end your life, love God more. Along those lines it was explained to me when I was clinically depressed in my teens. Different era, different continent, but same bible.

I’m so sorry that happened. Your response here is so gracious and compassionate, but that kind of demonstration from folks was clearly tone deaf and inappropriate. There are SO MANY other things they could have put on those signs that would have been kinder, gentler, and totally appropriate for the occasion.

That's horrendous.

This would also really upset me. I’m also very sorry for your loss ❤

Yep. Also, mistletoe, holly, Yule logs, possibly even the tradition of giving presents. And, of course, there's the tiny matter of the "Holy" Roman church tweeking the date to celebrate their messiah's birthday so it would coincide with the pre-Christian celebrations and not piss of the pagans 🤣

Church being on Sunday. Instead of Saturday. There are multiple inconsistencies within Christianity.

Christmas trees came from medieval German plays about the Garden of Eden

the first mentions of christmas trees, specifically, and more broadly of people cutting trees or branches for decoration in the winter, is well past christianization in germany. yule logs, as well, show up centuries past the area being christianized. The sad reality is we actually have very little record of non-roman european pagan traditions pre-christianization and have very little knowledge on how many different traditions came to be. Religion For Breakfast is a channel with great information on what we do and don't know about the origins of christmas and easter especially

@@amberbydreamsart5467 Exactly and most "evidence" for "preChristian pagan" Europe comes from at best the 1800s from essentially Victorians making things up -I was a pagan who found this out the hard way

I'll be the devil's advocate (pun intended) but it could absolutely boil down to something like dyslexia. Might not, but it could.

They are not trying to come across as overly smart as that would be off-putting to the target audience.

Well also it's something she has personal experience with and at least partially has made a part of her personal brand/identity. Like, if she had even watched a documentary or something about the topic she would have encountered it before. 😅

I agree, I sometimes struggle to pronounce things but if I was going to be doing a podcast or a public talk I would learn how to pronounce the words before I put it out there.

Mispronounced words indicate you haven't HEARD it before. Why would you think it means you haven't read?

As someone who was born and raised catholic... yeah. If she's actually a catholic, her catechism was a joke and whoever taught her needs to get his/her act together 😅

It’s so funny. I’m not even a native English speaker, English is just my second language, and even I know how to pronounce Catholicism… idk just thought this was very funny for some reason.

She’s an idiot omg

I disagree. A lot of people are "raised Catholic" but know nothing about the religion. She may have gone to Mass on Christmas but otherwise never interacted with the Church. Plus I suspect this woman's primary problem is that she's semi-literate, so big words give her a lot of trouble.

I can actually see it if they only went Sundays. Because I don’t think I ever heard “Catholicism” said in church. I heard Catholic, but that form of it never came up in the service that I remember.

i am so glad I deconstructed

@@narcissistinjurygiver2932 I love your username so much! give ‘em hell❤️‍🩹

@@narcissistinjurygiver2932I love your username SO much!❤️‍🩹

You became toxic yourself bcz you were trying to be religious instead of being a Christian There's a difference between a Christian and a religious person

@@millycleniakaze8103 yeah you're right. That was my problem.

haha this comment!! i’m really surprised the daily wire has yet covered them are candance owen’s calling them a hoe for how they dress hahaha 😂

I know right?! By most mgtow alphabet guys standards these ladies are already too old 😂 I think I've seen some of them say the ideal age is between 16-20! But I tend to assume all those mgtow boys are just pedophiles.

Yep

The girls are followers of Jesus unlike the daily wire

And the 34 year old sounds so infantile and immature, my 15 year old daughter sounds more mature than Ari.

Horny right wing conservatives who don't have any principles. You can find them all over obvious articles such as the NYPost.

There's been a lot of Christian influencers

but but scary

@@yucky-yucky lol

You know she doesn’t. 😅

Given that she couldn't pronounce "hymns" or "Catholicism", I'm going to say no.

No. These people don't bother to educate themselves about the smallest issues.

Gasp!! 😮 YOU’RE RIGHT! Evangelicals have been saying we’re all evil dirtbags for YEARS. The skulls were the problem! (Seriously, that part sent me. Haven’t laughed that hard in awhile. 💀💀💀☠️☠️☠️)

I wonder if Jesus had bones as well... 🤔

@@prudentreality🤣🤣🤣

We are all born evil and sinners aren't we? XD

Yes. Maybe I’m obsessed, but I take my own skull everywhere I go. /s

Agreed. I lived in L.A. and really wasn’t getting much work. I decided to travel and live abroad. Around the same time I visited an actor friend in his studio apartment in Hollywood and it just sort of dawned on me that this is an actors life if you aren’t successful. Constantly trying to get work to pay rent in a tiny apartment until you die. I didn’t want that. I still want to act, but I balance that desire with the desire for financial stability and a home I can love. Still don’t have either but I’m trying. 😂

Man thanks for sharing. As another LAer in the same situation l, It made me feel not alone and like a total loser

Positive vibes only is cringe.

Also, isn't it suposed to work the other way around? Back in the day, I used STDs to explain the transmission of computer viruses.

Im a psychologist and porn is proven to have negative effects on the brain. I am an addiction counselor and it can have the same effects as cocaine. I also worked for a company thay delivers hiv prep to cleints and the amount of people putting their life at risk and getting tested every 3 months and getting bad news because of promiscuity. Its not a good life, it’s sad to hear every time they dont get their medication on time and their life is literally at risk and they cant stop having sex due to work or addiction.

It's true. How can something so simultaneously dopey and cringe not be satire?

Yeah no this is 100% a gift. For two people wanting to get into acting, I haven't seen much worse outside of high school theater lol.

@@presentfuture7563Perfect description. It’s like a perpetual second hand embarrassment generator.

like it comes off sooo performative, but it's also weirdly distracting since they keep breaking character. Like I don't care how new you are to a religion your supposed to be comfortable enough to podcast about it, not being able to recognise and pronounce hymn and catholicism is very odd.

It IS a parody. Of itself. Which means it's technically not.

Ironic, considering Mexico is super catholic

​@@AlbinoTuxedo not ironic, in Europe the oldest churches had skulls etc as part of recognising our mortality.

​@@helenr4300 wasn't there a church made out of bones??? In Europe I think.

Look up Orthodox skulls from monasteries, and they follow Christ!

@@hagendf she would be a church chonga in Mexico

Exactly

Soul ties are REAL.

​@@lauricamaurica45No.

​@@lauricamaurica45nope

They 100% can be real. SEX = Sacred Energy Exchange

Yeah, unfortunately the party hosts don’t like it when you lift the sheet and reveal the ghost projection machine. Something about “ruining the vibes”… So unfair.

Same exact thought!!!

Yep! I thought the same thing!

I mean it sounds gay to me

@halley8105 the more you learn about them the gayer it is, johnathan literally ran away from his family to live in the desert just to protect David (from his homophobic father)

@@halley8105 Gay AF, and beautiful!!

Fundamentalist Christianity has a pretty nasty tendency to infantilize women so much that by the time they're actual grown-ass adults they still have the kind of mentality that thinks spoopy skeletons and black cats are genuinely scary things (something a fucking 13 year old should have already grown out of) I'm all for keeping your inner child alive, but that looks more like watching cartoons and getting stuffed animals than literally being scared of generic Halloween decorations

American Roman Catholicism definitely believes in the supernatural.

@@someonerandom256 Genuinely fascinating! Gotta look up if there's some studies on this

Mexican Catholics are also steeped in spirituality outside of Church teachings. From Brujeria(witchcraft/magic) to a non-canonical saint. Also Haitian Catholics feel comfortable with Voodoo as part of their faith.

Amen

Amen ❤❤❤

How ironic that you say that xtians aren't robots yet y'all regurgitate the same talking points

AMENNN!!!!!

There is no free will in xtianity or worshipping your god. I mean your god created evil in the first place, so your cherry picked verses really have no validity in the reality of your god's own words.

i agree you about judging their past. they very much could have walked away from that lifestyle. obviously they can't erase past jobs and images from the internet. it's a battle that they'll have to face for a while. it's what happens with every new convert with a past. i wish the criticism in this video wasn't so focused on that because it's unfair to these two ladies

@@JasmineDiaz 🙌

Amen!! 💜✝️💜

Well said this is the second video I’ve seen of this woman just talking about them, they’re changing lives and doing very well and God is working on them.

@@thewelshprincesses5661 It's getting them views so they will continue.. I personally love GGB! Their podcast actually made me go back to church. It's so unfair that you picked on Ari for mispronunciation of catholicism. Some people have issues with pronunciation and for you to pick on it was really uncalled for - even when you mentioned she is new to faith. Growing up catholic could mean that she just knew about church and was babtized, nothing else - we don't know!

They still post thirst traps

​@@phantom1finisherlet's not judge. At the end of the day it's a process. Following christ Dosen't make you perfect.

@@vanessateghen3778 I have an opinion and will speak on it

Thanks for saying this! erveryone has a past, working through the present to have a better future. As an apprentice of Jesus, I love how you pointed out that following christ doesn't make you perfect. I needed that reminder :) @@vanessateghen3778

@@phantom1finisher and i have one as well, and mine is that you should keep yours to yourself… no one cares.

God wants people to be happy and holy If someone is in an abusive mariage the important thing to do in that case,is to divorce

Yep. Rejoice in your suffering, it produces endurance; God is refining you; you need to forgive and examine the plank in your own eye. So much gaslighting, especially if you are a woman.

HuH? You can divorce just never re marry and you’re ok idk why you all complain

Your understanding of this is incorrect. God does not call us to stay in abusive relationships. We can separate and stay single if the marriage was a covenant marriage. Remarriage is adultery. God does not call us to stay in a soul sucking job. If there is a purpose to be in a soul sucking job for a season, fine. But He does not call us to a life of this. God does call us to holiness. Premarital sex is sin, Remarriage is adultery. We are expected to yield to the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives to rid ourselves of fleshly tendencies, AKA sin. Also, God can use adversity to do a work in us if we manage it using coping skills. How many people chase happiness and pleasure and never really find it for long? God has a better life for us. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. Amen.

that’s not true God doesn’t just want us to be happy he wants us to be joyful because hapinesss is temporary but joy can last forever

Hey now, someone’s gotta be in God’s Not Dead VII: What is Dead May Never Die.

​@@HowToTrainYourDuncan God's Not Dead: Less Dead and More Angry

No they will use some serious mental gymnastics to justify them to keep acting/modelling because it’s what they want to do.

Nah Kevin Sorbo and Kirk Cameron will recruit them to act in horrible holier than thou movies that will be marketed as “better than Hollywood” 🙄😂

As a Christian watching this; I have so many answers to the questions that you have. You asked how a Christian could be protected by Jesus but yet be “afraid” when they see things such as the exorcist’s poster, witchcraft etc.. & then you went on to doubt the ability to be protected by God. First of all I’d like to start off with saying that God gave us all free will. We weren’t created to be robots, or to be enslaved. When someone loves and follows Jesus they follow him willingly. Which means that they accept him as their lord & savior & then become saved. However God tells us to stay with from witchcraft, black magic & those evil spirits that we might not be able to see. He tells us this to protect us, so that we may be aware. Since he knows that nothing good comes from it and that it is harmful he warns us to refrain from it. Now if a follower of Jesus who knows this decided to rebel against him and partake in those things then that is their own doing. They know it’s wrong but they’re doing it anyways so then they’re hurting themselves. Now if you’re saved by Christ and if someone else were to do which craft on you or if there was some sort of evilness (physical or spiritual) trying to harm you, then they will not be successful because you’re a child of God, and God protects his children. Hence Isaiah 54:17 “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” & Romans 8:37 “If God is for us, who can be against us.” That’s why it’s very important to study his word, because a lot of it has those answers that you keep on asking for in your video.

My thoughts exactly HAHAHAHA

That’s misogynistic!! These are two beautiful blond women, calling them identical is what misogynistic people would do trying to devalue them

I always thought Ari was younger than Angela because she's not as smart and she comes across as very naive and child like. Turns out she's six years older than Angela! She acts and looks younger yet also looks very much like Angela. Despite being two different races they could be sisters.

That’s why they’re always wearing modest clothing!

Same here! I love to mummify things, and I have a raven that is half skeletal while the other half still looks alive. I have it sitting in a wrought iron birdcage, and it looks lovely! As well as a lot of other strange and macabre things, along with a lot of pagan ritual items and a few alters set up in my house. I always laugh when I hear religious people talk about how scary Halloween stuff is when their faith is far more violent and batty than any pagan ideologies that exist today. I think they just want any excuse to be scared and have a scapegoat for their ridiculous self imposed outrage.

Gosh, yes. I love them and their channels so much. I don't know what I would've done as a new, terrified atheist in the "bible belt" a few years ago ( I'm a former fundamentalist Baptist like Drew was) without Genetically Modified Skeptic videos to get me through some really rough days when I felt all alone. Their channels both feel like warm hugs and hot mugs of tea on a cold day to me 💙

Mom & Dad for real! Love their videos together!

Stop the 🧢😂

​@@Niskquintanait's just a specific aesthetic that may not be yours

She has a link in the description

That's exactly what they said in some recent podcasts -- that God was using them because everything they're preaching against are things they used to partake in. So they're speaking from experience, especially the soul ties thing, which they admitted they fumbled on that hard even up until they started the podcast.

@@Billy-bc8pk soul ties are so bad I think one was with Matt rife and I heard he had such bad demons

@@Billy-bc8pk soul ties are so bad I think one was with Matt rife and I heard he had such bad demons

This was the first thing I thought! Like- you're emotionally vulnerable, let's try to convert you while we're helping you feel supported. Super manipulative

Or instead of nefarious intentions she genuinely believes in her religion and saw it as a way to help????

It could easily be either one, so I'd be cautious. I'm cautious of everyone now days though.

​@@someonerandom256Exactly. Don't assume the worst, but remain aware of the possibility.

Shh...you're saying the quiet part out loud 🤫

No, he came back to life. He is not dead, we celebrate his resurrection. Please get the facts right!

@@lifewithmel5962 "back" to life...from what state, lol?

@@jakeking3859 We believe in the fact that Jesus loved us so much that he gave his life for us. But on the third day he rose again. We believe that he is the way the TRUTH and the LIFE! John 14:6 we believe that he is God because he is the only one in history who defeated death. We don’t go around praising death we praise the fact that he DEFEATED death. Whether you believe in him or not, that’s fine. But don’t say that we glorify death when the fact of the matter is we glorify that he defeated death.

To give you better context of this. When you’re watching a super hero movie. At the end of the movie the people praise the hero for saving the world and defeating the bad guy. People are not praising or glorifying the bad guy himself. So to say that Christians glorify death is incorrect so if you’re going to try and bash someone’s believes get the facts right please.

Your relationship isn't fractured because of a concept but because of a choice you don't want to be culpable for. If you can reconcile that, then you will understand where you went wrong.

I also hope God will speak to me one day. Evidence of Christianity would make the world so much simpler. Until that day, I will keep an... open mind. For now, I prefer to find truth in complexity.

Hmm. Interesting. I believe in waiting until marriage as a choice and abstinence can still mean having autonomy over your own body. Ironically, seeing promiscuity and its effect is another thing that motivated me to be abstinent. A girl in my friend's university got HIV and as revenge, is having sex with everyone she can get to sleep with her. Anyone who slept with her is having autonomy over their body, yet they're going to get an incurable disease for the rest of their lives. It's just not worth it. I don't think the "sacredness" of sex is a creepy thing. Sex is an extremely vulnerable position to be with someone. In that sense, it is sacred and special. Even in humanism, people are told that they should sleep with people who care about them because we have recognized how physically, emotionally and spiritually sex connects people. I'm saying this from the perspective of a more liberal Christianity. Girls go to university and are encouraged to work, people are encouraged to ask questions and people can leave church.

I very much agree with you. Many religions are just big cults with the exact same rhetoric as small cults. "if you don't believe in our god(s)/leaders/practices, you are bad and will suffer" is the basic for literally every religion, even those that believe in reincarnation, because they have rules and guides and leaders that tell you how you must live to do ✨the thing✨ (no matter what thing that is) When I went through my confirmation (I'm not religious, but I was trying to fit in), sex never came up because it was Lutheran teachings. So, I was lucky I that way. Many cult leaders will use bodily autonomy, sex (as a seperation thing), intimacy, money, jobs and person choice (outside of bodily autonomy) to control their followers. The "there is an enemy and I must never look upon them for I will fall" mentality is also very common in cults, because it makes it harder to leave. I am asexual and something that I always found interesting is how the actions that are mostly like Jesus (Jesus never canonically had sex in the bible I read), but me doing the same thing is "bad" because I'm not "following god's plan"... I am just a not-religious nun, let me be in peace, Christians Just some of my thoughts :)

​@@phi4721That's not a consequence of being promiscuous, that's a consequence of not using protection.

@@farkasmactavish it is the consequence of being promiscuous and protection can fail

I mean aren’t marriages supposed to be forever? If you don’t like marriage don’t marry…

Also can we acknowledge how dangerous telling alcoholics to "just stop" can be? My uncle past away due to horrible alcoholic withdrawl syndrome. He was a lifelong alcoholic, and had been convinced by my devote Christian mom that Jesus could cure him of his addiction. He died in 2 days a horrible death, he was put in a coma to calm his pain. I hate this "just stop with Jesus" crap. It's dangerous.

@@necroflowers2244 That’s important. If you have an extreme addiction to alcohol (or any other muscle relaxing drugs) you need to be weaned off to avoid lethal seizures. Muscles get used to muscle-relaxing drugs, and your neurons need time to build back a decent supply of GABA. You can only “just stop” if you have a strong enough support network & good enough reasons & do NOT have a severe physical dependence to cause lethal seizures. I’ll edit my comment.

Hear hear!!!

​@@whysocurious7366I've got a neuromuscular disease and am on relatively high doses of muscle relaxers. Currently going through withdrawals and it's certainly no joy ride. My doctor made me make an appointment for later this week to get my refills. It's absolutely terrible. For context my neurologist lived on the other side of the country but now I'm someplace remote with only family medicine and in state insurance.

I don't know if I was "alcoholic" but I abused alcohol regularly and drank almost every day, even if it was a couple glasses of wine. I didn't quite "just stop" but I used an app called Sober Grid for community and read a lot of evidence based addiction/habit stopping information and lots of books from people who didn't use the Higher Power/steps. I thought about going to AA to make friends but I found the whole higher power and Oxford Group evangelical "you're a bad sinner who can't fix anything without a higher power AND this program" stuff made me feel hopeless and wanting to go get drunk. I became an atheist in this process, and basically embracing the neuroscience of habits and rejecting the supernatural was a huge part of quitting. Losing my former faith was a catalyst for me - the waffling back and forth stopped and after one last time going out for drinks where I paid attention to how I really felt instead of the script I'd sold myself about alcohol before, I stopped entirely, and that was almost four years ago. I do totally agree with the warning about using a doctor's assistance if you have severe physical dependence.

I gotta wonder where they've been sticking that thing ?

Can you accept the responsibility? Big shoes to fill, or eight little ones.

like 'Dante's inferno' literally defined hell and hellfire peaching from that point onwards, and that's like the darkest self insert fanfiction ever written

Exactly! Most churches in my city actually keep old bones etc from holy people to worship them (German here). It does not make any sense 😅

Wait until they realize that *they have skulls in their own heads.* Now, that's spooky stuff, right there.

Unfortunately, most “Christians” tend to demonize anything dark, loud or gothic-seeming/adjacent. I am a Christian, and have a skull tattooed on my leg along with those exact words. They come from the title of my favorite album by Flyleaf 💀 It does remind me constantly that I am mortal and God is immortal, so I need to lean on Him to keep me humble. Also, that album just goes hard. 🖤

@@mebemea they distance themselves from historic expressions of the faith - the arrogance that only they , and only in present day, is the true Christianity. I am musically illiterate - as in never listen, from classic to hip hop, to goth, so can't comment on the album. I am a church minister in UK and a good friend during training had various tattoos, marking her ordination with a new one!

Yea it struck me odd that the supposed soul tie verse in the Bible sounds like it is talking about a romantic relationship between two men in the Bible.

Lol stop it 😂

Agree there’s a lot of hate in here. People just don’t understand them.

If they're new Christians, they should be focusing on their own walks with Christ, not teaching others things they clearly don't understand. I agree, the insults are a bit much. The discussion ideally should center around how it's problematic when the ones teaching are inadequately educated.

@@b3thamphetamine I’d normally agree but I’ve been Christian for like 10 years and I follow girls gone Bible and have not seen any wild contradictions or false teachings. They may be recent Christian’s but I do believe they are blessed at speaking about the gospel and seem to have a deeper understanding then I ever did when I was a newer Christian. But I do agree generally newer Christian’s probably should learn all they can before they teach.

@@marissagimble6119I’ve watched their Spirituality and Demons video and there are several things that stood out to me. They endorse guys like T.D Jakes and Steven Furtick, and these guys are false teachers. They preach a gospel that is about them and self-centered and not about the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Their sermons contain several passages taken out of context and there is not a proper exegesis in them. Some of the things they said were true and I do believe God has taken them out of their old life, however the Bible warns us about these false prophets and that we need to test everything according to scripture. Also her saying (the girl on the right) that "It’s all Jesus" when it comes to denominations and Catholicism, Protestants, etc is simply not true. The whole doctrine is different. They’re new to the faith, but they weren’t properly taught, they shouldn’t be teaching the word of God if they lack the proper understanding. That is my issue I have with the Christian influencers.

@@marissagimble6119 I bet they barely know about history especially from different countries and their cultures or language or they will end being those white saviour complex.

Even accepting that dubious claim of hers, "not normal" doesn't mean impossible. :-) PS Gg on the willpower it must've taken. 👌

It's literally abusive manipulation on God's part. We're supposed to have "a personal relationship with Jesus/God" which means we are in a toxic, abusive, narcissistic relationship with someone/something we've never seen, never actually heard with our ears, can't actually prove is real...etc... literally mental illness in a toxic abusive relationship with an invisible best friend/Father. It's insane. The further I deconvert/deconstruct the more I'm shocked I believed all this. I'm even more shocked I was able to leave it.

God is a textbook narcissistic abuser. Look at what he did to Job.

You do realise that people who live in difficult circumstances tend to be more religious right? Take a look at Afghanistan. Their belief is so strong not even the US military could beat them. No wonder the Taliban managed to gain power.

Imagine if those 3 words you used as an example were applied to understanding the relationship of a child and a parent. Would you view that as being abusive, or would those 3 words suddenly become valid and applicable?

​@@YizzERRclearly didn't understand what they were saying. But of course your too close-minded to think otherwise.

I was going to comment this same thing. That necklace!!!!

How do you deal with that, ignore it, mumble agreement and move on, or something else? I'm taking it for granted that you don't share her views due to the way you wrote your comment. Thanks 💚

@@DaveB-hg7el She doesn't know we are out. But she does know that we are very liberal and don't agree on most things. So I just laugh and say "ok mom. My kids are still trick or treating." And move on. And she doesn't argue with me after that. She has learned that all of her kids are more argumentative than her.

@@Mrs.Rachel.C_5th_grade Your ending made me laugh out loud. I wrote it out because I truly appreciate the sentiment. Thanks. Peace 💚

Thank you! It’s from Tunnel Vision.

@@theantibot I was hoping you would spill about that amazing necklace! TY

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I second this. I had more anxiety and compulsive behavior and emotional valleys when I was still a practicing Christian. There was so much pressure to do and believe the right things that I tied myself in knots trying to be "christian enough". And you can stay christian while getting therapy. There are many ways to hold belief...or not.

@@not_you_i_dont_even_know_you Yeah, going into therapy and taking care of your mental health anyway other than ‘trusting God’ is heavily looked down upon in Christianity for some reason. It doesn’t matter how good your faith is, it matters how good they think your faith is. And if you’re going to therapy, they think you just don’t have a good enough relationship with God. Which is totally why people struggle with their mental health :/

I relate to this so much. My issues with anxiety were crippling when I was in the church. I couldn't talk about it because nobody understood and it just 'made people uncomfortable'. I finally confided in one of the leadership people whom I thought I could trust. She then turned around and told the head pastor who thought it would be a good idea to call me up in front of the entire congregation and 'pray out the demon of anxiety'. I was mortified. And I was expected to be better after that which of course I wasn't. I'm so glad I left all that BS behind, got therapy and started living an authentic life faaaar away from all that.

@@lauryn8766 Good for you for getting away and getting proper help, but holy shit that’s so fucked up. Doing all of that in front of the entire congregation is probably one of the worst things they could’ve done to ‘help.’

As a Christian I apologize that you felt that you needed to prove yourself to be healed. I believe that God heals and I also believe God can use therapy to heal. So many people think that being Christian is following a bunch of rules but it’s having a relationship with Jesus( seeking Jesus and getting to know Jesus like a friend) and following Jesus. You could be doing all the right things and still be distant from God. That’s why religion without relationship with God does not work. We are not saved by our works. We’re not saved by how much we pray, how much we read our Bibles or by how much we attend church. ( although great tools to use they do not save us) We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.” Before you get in the shower do you clean yourself? No, you get in the shower to get cleaned. Same thing with Jesus you don’t clean yourself just come as you are and He will wash you. He will change you if you let Him. He did not come for the self righteous He came for the person who realized that they need help and can’t do this on their own. He came for all of us, for we are all sinners and fallen short of the glory of God, Of course Jesus is a gentlemen and won’t force you to receive Him. I apologize for anyone who asked for help and didn’t get the help that they needed and for misrepresenting Jesus to you. As Christians we are to be compassionate and loving to one another and speaking truth and life over each other. Scripture says in 1 Thessalonians 5:14 And we urge you, brothers and sisters, warn those who are idle and disruptive, encourage the disheartened, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Galatians 6:2 2 Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ. James 5:16 16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. We weren’t made to do life alone. He created you for community. I hope you have received the love and the support that you need. I believe that Jesus heals and is the great Physician. I also believe God can use people to heal. Who am I to confine God In a box. As a follower of Jesus I miss the mark and I ask the Lord to teach me how to love like Him. I hope you know that Jesus loves you and truly cares about you and I’m sorry that people or things in life made you think otherwise.

I actually like that she mispronounced that.... it shows she's human and not just doing things for the production value. I'm a lot more likely to keep watching someone who is honest rather than someone who is merely professional.

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woah.. you definitely just shifted my perspective 👏🏾.. never thought about it that way..