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It's scary to think how much bigoted politics there is in teens lives nowadays. Sexuality/gender and political issues being top priority for 14 yos is just crazy
As a 13 year old myself, I became saved in Christ Jesus' blood back in November, praise Yahweh. Thankfully I have escaped the woke left rhetoric, although I am slightly more left leaning economically.
how are sexuality, gender, or politics "bigoted"? also, that just shows that kids are becoming more intelligent and mature faster than previous generations, which is a GOOD THING. learning to question your identity and understand yourself at a young age is very important. i don't understand why conservatives are so strongly against people figuring out who they are early instead of having a midlife crisis later on.
@@Rolando_Cuevait will never fully die out at atheist birth rates suck, like for a worldview that has most emphasis that casual sex is fine they aren’t popping out anything. Also another hardship time could bring on spiritual revival, good times produce people that don’t find a need for God
I’m glad I grew up in Arizona… I mean most of them were moderate liberals as you mentioned however there were a few good teachers. Strangely enough History class for me was always filled with conservative teachers.
As someone who's also in Arizona, i can mostly agree. The area where i live is a mixture of conservative churches and heretical churches, I've seen two Jehovah's witness kingdom Halls, many LDS churches i lost count, a few Seventh day Adventist and one Nazarene church
I'm a Catholic also in a public school in the nyc area, I always thought my school was pretty leftist, but after watching this i realized a lot of kids are conservative Christians. But the left wingers are very radical, especially my health teacher.
If you go to college attend somewhere in the Midwest. It will still be a leftist playground in terms of professors yet most of the students are quiet conservatives.
I 1000% relate to you. I go to a EXTREMELY liberal public school in nyc. I just transferred here for my last year of middle school and high school. They are really good academly but they are extremely anti religion. They are 99% atheist who explicitly hate Christianity. There is only one other "Christian" kid that I know of in the entire school. I hate it here
John 15:18 "If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you." if the world hated Jesus, it will hate you as well. Pray for your enemies and forgive those who sin against you. God Bless
I'm danish and let's just say public school in Denmark is incredibly different from what you are describing. In denmark there's literally a subject called "kristendom" which means christianity where you learn about mainly christianity and it's teachings and the bible but also other religions like nordic pagan religion. So I've read parts of the bible in school and learned about it. I find it very interesting despite not knowing whether to believe or not yet.
In Spain we also have it, but in public schools is an optional subject, thoguh the country is filled with christian (catholic) schools where it is mandatory and we would actually take part in celebrations (in my particular school we had both a chapel and an oratory), so there is the option
I'm currently 3 weeks in a trade school. 1 of my classmates is a hardcore satanist, and I already overheard a large group of them talking about how much they hate the bible. I'm gonna be in this class for 2 years.........pray for me....
I may be a hardcore atheist, gay gen Z'er, but I can still agree with a lot of what you said in this video- 100% yes Gen Z is unfortunately nihilistic. I'm not going to lie. I'm am as left-leaning as the next, and I even felt some frustration seeing your channel. However, I thought "Why not look at his video? I could agree with some of what he says". I think coming from one of the most Conservative parts of my Midwest state has given me a unique perspective when it comes to being open-minded. I've learned to cherish the things I may have in common with people whose views may be the antithesis to my own. Obviously, I do not agree with most religious rhetoric but I completely respect the community and rhetoric you spread here. You don't shove it down the throats of non-believers and you do not go on irrational rants about the sinners of the world. I respect that. I am a complete history nerd and I'm not going to lie, I totally 100% agree that history, especially, has been whitewashed in schools. I believe showcasing the evils of the whole world is super important to insure a safer and more prosperous future, and if that means exposing the evils of christians, muslims, atheists, jews, hindus, etc.- all that should be talked about. I am a strong advocate for individual discernment. I cannot stand when a teacher has an obvious bias- even if they agree with me. Sure, it's great that I can rely on them to agree with me and have bias-affirming conversations (we're all guilty of those). But, I almost cringe when a teacher has a liberal or conservative bias. We are at school to LEARN, not to debate (unless it's a debate in a class lol). A quality education should be able to involve controversy without implying one bias over another. Students should be able to formulate their own opinions and debate amongst themselves. I am genuinely sorry that you went through such discrimination at your High School... Some of my closest friends in high school were devout Catholics and I wouldn't lose them for the world. Obviously it was sometimes uncomfortable when we would voice our opposing opinions, but I cherish being able to just be friends with people who others like me wouldn't even dare to speak a word to. I'm sick of people living their lives judging others for one aspect of their lives. Life is so much more rich if you can look past those disagreements and maybe see what you have in common. It's one thing if they disrespect you or if they're spewing actual hate, but it's another thing if they just so happen to believe in god when you don't. Much love and respect! :))
I completely agree with you. Even before I re converted to Christianity, I noticed how different I felt from the rest of gen z (I'm gen z myself). So many of them seem to be nihilistic (and not in the good way like "life means nothing so I should be happy" but more like the "life means nothing so I'm going to be sad" philosophy) and want instant gratification. I dabbled in a bit of this stuff too but I still felt like an outsider lots of the time. However, when I re converted it all seemed to make sense to me that I didn't want to be part of this crowd.
@@davidmckelvey2601 Calvin started the line of thinking that salvation is predestined. GOD knows all that occurs, he knows your life from start to finish and if you would accept him before you were even born. As we are all sinners and GOD grants his mercy and grace to be free of judgement to only some people, those people are considered the "elect". GOD has a finite number of people who will be saved and others do not receive the gift of salvation. Some think it's cruel, but the reality is some people never change, in sure you know the type. They wouldn't accept the holy spirit and the death of their ego to become born again. At least, that's what I understand on Calvin 's theology (Calvinism).
@@davidmckelvey2601 The majority of people who have ever lived are not saved, they embrace the world and its ways. People who are not accepted by the world and who are not like the world, tend to be more likely to reject it and accept Christ truly.
It's stories like these that really makes me grateful to have been in the High School I went to. I'm South African, and while I cannot speak for all South African schools, my high school years were probably some of the best years of my life, and I loved my high school to bits. I know, crazy radical statement right? It seems like every zoomer (or even millennial) has some horror story of their high school experience. Of course, there were both good times and bad times in my high school, and everyone's experiences WILL be different. But for me, all of my good experiences far outweigh the bad experiences. Coming out of a chaotic and troubled childhood, this high school brought stability for me and a chance to experience a somewhat normal teenage life. I've made two best friends, and although sadly we stopped being friends by the end of high school, I still appreciate them being part of my life at some point. The school culture was that of respect, self-discipline, hard work, teamwork, spirit, and a pride in our work and what we do. Our school slogan was literally Labor Ornat, which means 'work beautified.' Almost every teacher was a teacher of quality, and my favourite teachers are people whom I will always remember and have a gargantuan respect for. Our register/homeroom class became like a family. And the best part of it all was that the majority of us were Christian. It was a mainstream/public school who states in their school guidelines that they follow the Bible, and parents are made perfectly aware of that fact when they want to enrol students. Every morning our register teacher (or homeroom teacher) opened the day with a piece out of Scripture and the class prayed together, then we went about our day with our classes. Wednesdays were dedicated days where students from the school's student leader board came to each class to do a special or themed bible reading in the mornings. I feel like there's a weird stigma among non-christians where they think that all that christian schools do is indoctrinate students with religious allegory/influence in each class subject. But while there was always room for my teachers to give their own Christian input or perspective in a subject, our classes were still fairly standard, mainstream teaching. Math was math, science was science. We were taught the same standard requirements for each subject as is layed out by the government's education department. In fact, my high school was named part of the top 100 high schools in the country at some point, so it wasn't like we were just a bunch of 'stupid religious nutsacks' lol. My biology/life sciences teacher was a devout Christian herself, and when it came to discussing evolution, she always kept it matter-of-fact and according to the text book, but assured us of ways that evolution can line up with how God created everything. My experience in high school is a far cry from where I am now in University. Here, almost everyone is woke, leftist or liberal and religion-hating. There are of course exceptions, and I'm thankfully not the only Christian in my class, but the University is left-leaning and often teaches woke rhetoric (at least in the Visual Arts Department) and it's so demotivating. I wouldn't have enrolled here if I had known it would get this bad, but I need to wait it out as its also the only University where I can get a degree in my chosen career, and thankfully this is my last year. But I don't feel safe expressing my beliefs. I miss my high school. Mad respect for you to have survived that environment for 13 years. Thankfully it sounds like you're in a better environment now. You've come far, brother.
howzit novaei, I'm a south African too and what I've noticed is that South African public schools are WAY better than American public schools, but my opinion comes from what ive heard American schools are like, because our schools (or atleast my previous high school, Jeppe Boys) was actually open minded to all the different cultures and views of different students, it didn't matter whether you were Christian, Muslim, athiest or whatever they cared for the students as people and when it came to teaching they focused on making sure that the students understood the work and taught tricks that could help us get better marks. Another thing is the brotherhood that was a focus that my school had as they wanted all of us students to be one REALLY huge family, this would be done with things like school warcrys (if you're interested in how the warcrys are like then you can search up South African school warcry and see how the brotherhood is like, personally i find the boy highschool warcrys the best). As from what I hear American schools are like, i hear that they don't really teach properly their students unless its the leftist ideology and I see evidence of this when those videos of students who would graduate from college can't answer a simple question like which star is the closest to the earth etc. now as for my current university experience (i wont say which to avoid doxxing myself) the school is still open minded but the students tend to be more left leaning, anti religion and pro LG TV but we still treat each other as people as we have bigger things to worry about then fighting each other about our ideologies(trying to finish our projects in time as they are WAY more stressful) but i still find like minded people there but we seem to be in the minority of the school but i do feel bad for the americans we tend to see them as a dumber nation but i believe that its because they have a worse education system that doesn't even teach them well and many students dont learn how to teach themselves and so they go believing whatever believing whatever society tells them to believe
I have a long history with christianity. I was baptised as Orthodox Christian, but found myself more protestant leaning. When I was but a kid I went to church with my grandmother. I was unaware of anything and was just getting tired of standing in crouded church. Then I read a kid's friendly edition of Bible. Even though I liked it a lot, it hasn't left too much of an impact on me, because I had bigger concerns as a kid, like playing outside with my friends. When I first got taste of internet I startet getting a lot more liberal, then after history classes (I''m from Belarus) I looked up some soviet music and that's funny, because I too became "socialist" and started larping with my friend in school, sharing food, drawing stars and hammers and sickles on chalkboards, also got more hardline becasue of general resistance to western progressive values in my region, also some things like church corruption present in Russia made me more reluctant to christianity. But somewhere around 17 years I looked back at myself and started searching in ways to improve my character, as I decided that only through imrovement of human character we can go further, and not through revolutions and ideological clashes. Then I looked at some Jesus's quotes from the Bible, and started reading full version of the Bible. My christian friend from Ukraine helped me to get more into christianity and now I returned to my christian ways and stray further from the extremes. Bible is now my source of wisdom and faith, and I pray to God to give me strength on my earthly life path, although old habits die hard, and I still sometimes question myself about faith and church. (Sorry for my poor english)
What you went through is hard, but don't let it kill your desire to share the Gospel! Often God surprises us with who is open. Someone can appear completely against Christianity, and in a matter of days come to saving faith in Jesus. I don't think any generation is doomed. I went through a similar thing in early college where I lost most of my friend group when they found out some of my beliefs, but I'm trying not to live in fear and still make friends with non-Christians and share my faith.
I know that it’s possible for someone to be apparently completely against it and then come to saving faith in it within days because that’s what happened to me. Never give up hope, the Holy Spirit is powerful!
Ecclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. The craziness of our present generation isn't anything new. God isn't surprised and His plan is not compromised
Hey, amazing video! I rarely commented on videos but i wanted to comment really bad on yours. I am a Christian in a leftist high school; but I'm Indonesian. Therefore, I'm Asian. I also experience the same things you experience and came to the same conclusion. What surprises me is that we, "Easterners" have our own culture, we have our own value system. For example, we value community over liberty, responsibility over freedom, etc. and what shocked me is how quick our "Eastern values" are also erased by the Leftist values. What the West doesn't know about the East is how much Easterners despise Leftist values and what's kinda sad is that we Easterners start to see Left values = Western values. Hence, we see more and more countries becoming Anti-American. Israel and Saudi Arabia, is a notable example. Even in my home country, majority of people, nearly all politicians, across spectrums and religions, even Christians are supporting China over America. The rhetoric even at most churches are on the lines of "look at the Westerners and how far they fall from God!" As a zoomer like you, your thoughts and voice are an amazing sight to see. Keep it up! The West HAVE to get in touch with their roots again. But if it's not; then let it be, for it is written in the Book of Revelations that there will be a day where the entire world will march on Israel. Oh yeah, feel free to get in touch with me. I would like to hear your thoughts back. God bless.
They're absolutely right though. America was founded by an Exodus of puritans who forming the nation on the basis of congregational churches and the values of God. Now though barely a fraction goes to church let alone embodies the scripture. New institutions rose and became just as corrupt as the institutions they had left behind.
@@kriegjaeger I'm not American but I understand the "Shining City on the Hill" speech being one of the main foundations of American society. When did American political doctrine changed from "let's show the best version of ourselves so that they may be inspired" to "you have to be good like me and you are going to like it." You have no idea how much the Chinese respected the "Shining City on the Hill" idea. So much so, that they are copying it into their soft power diplomacy. In the East, we really see how China brands itself as this high-tech yet culturally conservative big brother, an alternative to American wokeness and bully (since America also had many interventions in the past, like that one time they coup us for example). Since the Chinese unknowingly used many Christian-based principles, it is not surprising why China will soon become the largest Christian country in the world in the upcoming future. I am incredibly sad by the degradation of the Christian values in American society. Incredibly sad. It used to be one of the most powerful philosophy that altered the course of mankind.
@@juanpisente7464 America was truly a new Jerusalem and the founders knew this. Their faith is not taught in schools anymore, only humanism and gender theory. Parents have become absorbed in the pleasures of life rather than in being parents, if they aren't outright aborting their children. A sacrifice to moloch for all intents. As a people we are no longer taught our history, only what's convenient. Satan delights in twisting God's prized possessions to an earthly will to demonstrate what failures men are and America has been twisted since some time in the 60s or even 30s.
@@juanpisente7464 The Americans until recently understood this nation was a gift from god and it is he whom our blessings were derived. Somehow in the last half century we've all but forgotten, it's no longer taught and we see the decay of our nation from it. Only a miracle can save us as a nation now.
That is a very interesting perspective, Jaun. I am surprised that some christians would even consider the idea of china being better despite the historical hostility (both in the past and by the current government). As for myself, I can only speak from a limited perspective from a young African American Christian who's 22 years old. Our cultures do have a high view of Christian values as well. However, ever since the 1960s, the black community has become very divided. I would argue that there may be 3 or so different perspectives on how to move forward as a society: the Marxist view (represented in groups like black panthers and BLM), alternative religious/cult groups (Malcolm X, Black hebrew isralilists, Buddhist, etc), and historical Christian views like MLK Jr. Generally, we have a culturally Christian view, and it's been the majority for some time. However, this has slowly been dewendelling due to a lack of males within the church, no theological/philosophy teachings, and the breakdowns of family structure. If a child does not see his own 2 parents promoting or participating in values of his own faith, he or she is less likely to continue in their faith. Plus, we also seem to have this disconnect between the values that we have and the people we vote for. We may have a situation where we personally don't support abortion, no fault divorce, or LGBT ideologies, yet we vote for people that do. This is partly due to our perception that left leaning politicians in the past have helped give new laws that helped with racism. However, nowadays, they do not help with promoting our values, and many of our young men and women are falling victim to nonsense either because of ignorance, a lack knowledge and teaching, or outright promote of these ideas, which in the end doesn't help anyone.
I've found that in my walk recently, I have been much more in the middle when it comes to politics and what not. Been watching many videos from many different people of the faith lately and it's been really eye opening to see how other believers think. Thanks for putting your thoughts out there in a digestible manner
A year ago I was a liberal atheist, but I began to feel empty and that I needed religion in my life. Now I’m a conservative Lutheran by the grace of God. All praise be for him! Amen 🙏✝️
When I was a middle schooler my school had a protest for abortion or whatever, and being the mature middle school boy I was, I made a sign that said “Baby Lives Matter, BLM” on it. It was immature, but I love looking back at it. This was also in the middle of class, around 12-1 or so.
your experiences highly mirror my own. I was a huge leftist during my early years of middle school and high school in a very left wing part of Canada. but in my last two years of high school I became way more Christian. I still have some economically left views and I’m very concerned about the beauty of the environment that god gave us, but I’ve become way more conservative.
I'm the opposite. As a kid I was pretty apolitical. Then in 2016/2017 I was groomed into the anti-SJW/GamerGate/far right croud that exploited my fear and naivety for profit. Then around 2019 I broke free from their culture of fear and hatred and became enlightened, all thanks to good-ol facts, logic, and science. School had nothing to do with my political beliefs, school was completely apolitical for me just teaching facts and I live in a very liberal area. (DC) It was all the internet both deluding me into a culture of fear and hate and is what also let me out of the pit I found myself in to find and embrace the truth.
I'm a gen-y'er and I'm so glad I don't have to go through public school today. Even in a rural school district in the Midwest we did get some amount of leftist propaganda, but nothing like now. I know of a student getting detention for ACCIDENTALLY "misgendering" a "non-binary" middle school classmate who would wear alternating name tags depending on the day. I could only imagine the punishment for deliberately refusing to validate her. Definitely going to sort the wheat and tares, I suppose. EDIT wording
I was always technically a Christian considering I always believed in God and I have always confessed that Jesus is my Lord and savior. But other than confession I wasn't really consistent and I kind of just accepted what the mainstream said about the Bible and those quote on quote "Evangelical nut-jobs" and I was mostly politically left leaning because my family was ,and the only church I attended was megachurch that was also heavily left leaning, my attendance was irregular at best (I was baptized though). I considered myself a democrat up until about late middle school. I even voted for Obama in a mock election that my school had. And then around high school when I actually started looking into politics I became a heavy conservative (to the dismay of my mother.). And then when I got into my senior year I actually started taking my faith seriously and became very conservative Christian. Like Young Earth Creationist conservative and I started reading and studying the Bible. And now I fully believe the Bible is true word of God cover to cover. I would even debate people in my school about the Bible and other related topics. Like gay marriage, abortion, etc. I have fully accepted my faith as Christian and truly believe in the Triune God. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit are the 1 true God. I even started studding what other religions believe, philosophy, hermeneutics, advanced theological concepts, and watching debates that are 3 - 5 and hours long so I can understand their talking points and address them (I didn't study grammar though lol.). And now I attend service at my new church every Sunday when possible, and go to Sunday school and have became a usher for my church within the last year or so.
Millennial here just on the border of being Gen z. I remember seeing the hardcore nihilism really kick into gear around 2015. I would love to see change, but we’re in a downward spiral that has a lot of momentum behind it. And the further we stray from God, the more likely we are to face judgment.
Went to public school in Texas, my experience wasn't as bad as yours but it still sucked. I had friends from church I went to school with who slowly fell away, and I was willing to argue my disagreement about gay marriage and abortion and such. I slowly lost those friends over time so I had no close friends. My parents moved me to a Christian school for the last two years of high school which was much better. But college was like being thrown into the same thing all over again; it was a very lonely time. I graduated college a year ago and am so glad to be out of that environment
Sorry to hear that. It’s a little similar with what I’ve seen (but it’s been much less severe for me, going to a Christian school and university); I’ve been shocked to see how people I care about have fallen into secular leftist values completely, or adopted aspects gradually, knawing away at their spiritual walk.
Why do you believe that "Christian" beliefs should be impressed on non-believers' lives? You don't see Paul out there fighting for the Roman Senate to ban gay marriage. He talked to Christians about what they should do, not what Christians should impose on others.
@Joel Gardner I would counter first that that has nothing to do with my comment. Second, if you fight for people to legalize gay "marriage" you're forcing ab idea of marriage into all of society as well. Either way, whatever your beliefs are, you fight for your ideas to be reflected in society. There's nothing wrong with that. It depends on what the ideas are.
I’m a Russophile, on a cultural level I really do romanticize Eastern Europe, Orthodoxy, Old Church Slavonic, the Soviet Union, I adore the composition of the soviet anthem, but I am still very critical of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin, and even the Russian Orthodox Church.
Conservative high-school student here. I’m the only ‘born-again’ person in my school, and I’m often referred to by my eastern orthodox peers as the “Christian guy” because of how devout I am compared to them (muslims are more devout than them, but I’m more devout than the muslims). My formerly edgy friends grew warm to leftist ideologies, and those that did not now follow Andrew Tate’s teachings. None of my church mates that are my age go to my school and whatever remains of my autism makes it hard for me to talk about theology or witness. As a result, I do feel alone at school. I myself grew sympathetic to left-wing causes but I still believe in right-wing solutions and insist the innocence of Christianity, instead blaming whatnot on how people in power used it. For example insist in literature class that “guys we Christians are better than this, the way we’re represented in these texts totally contradict the Bible - here’s a scripture proving me right!” Thanks for releasing this video, it helps me know that while I might feel alone at my school, I’m not alone in my situation and of course God is with me in this. God Bless, Redeemed Zoomer.
None of us are alone in our persecution brother. They will call you 'autistic' but what they mean is you are a dangerous, disciplined and intelligent threat to the devil and I envy your condition. Praise God eternally and give thanks for the persecution that produces faith. A beautiful sculpture cannot be chiseled without breaking some marble. Praise the LORD.
Dang, this is nothing like my (current) experience in High School. Grant it Private/Homeschooling in the Suburban Bible belt is pretty different to Newyork. In my CO-op and youth group people pride themselves on how homophobic and based they can be, I'd be pretty scared to walk into my church if I was a leftist. Bismillah you will prevail brother.
Isnt that just as wrong but 'the other side of the coin'? That's just being surrounded by people that claim to be Christian but don't follow Jesus much at all
@@diehard2705 I think it depends on what he means by being homophobic. In a liberal perspective, Christianity is inherently homophobic, so he could mean it in that way. It also could mean they treat someone who is homosexual or atleast talk about them like theyre less than human. In the latter’s case, I agree with you.
@@lebleu8843 We're also called to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, therefore priding yourself in being homophobic is arguably not very Christian
Trust me dude I’m in that remnant, I went to a public high school for a year and by the time I grew out of the stupid leftist apologist phase I got fed up with it and just went to a military academy, much happier there now.
bro i feel like in have the same story as you,i grew up in quebec canada, (it’s very atheist) and i became christian at 13 but my parents aren’t christian and i don’t really know any christian people or (at least i don’t know that they are christian) so i’m kinda alone in this.
Find a good old fashioned French Catholic Church. French Catholicism is one of the most beautiful expressions of the faith ever, don’t be afraid to commune with only older folks either.
This video hits so close to home for me. I have gone to public school my entire life and experienced very similar things as you. I was a Trotskyist who had read the theory and was educated on communism until my Junior year of high-school. I met an Orthodox Priest who changed my life. I stopped debating politics and started learning about Christianity. My best friends who were incredibly leftist completely ghosted me after I converted. My school in the midwest is on a side of town that is incredibly liberal where out of 1600 students, my God-brother is the only other believing Christian I know. I love the older folks at my church but they don’t know the danger of the hedonistic gen-z culture. I fear for their children that they may fall away from God.
Just found your video about the 12 sects of Christianity that went super viral. I thought I would look through your catalog of videos, and this one seemed pretty interesting because it mirrors a similar situation I had growing up in a private Christian school and in a very Christian family. When I would have questions or not fully agree with some of their points I was answered with incredulity and disbelief and some shunning instead of actually answering my question. that frustrated me and was definitely one of the causes for me leaving the faith. It's this kind of us vs them mentality and incredulity about someone expressing a different opinion that is the real issue. It causes people to not actually address arguments and irrationally dismiss people because they've been taught they're right and the other side is wrong their entire life without an accurate representation of the situation or a way to actually back it up if it comes under scrutiny, even if they are right and the other side is actually wrong. It just leads to more tribilization on both sides because of frustration that the other side might have some valid points and it isn't all black and white. It happens and I've seen it happen on both sides all the time. It's pretty exhausting to try to take both sides into account and not jump to conclusions when every little issue is politicized. Idk if it's worth it sometimes 😅. I'm a sophomore in college, and while I have become more left leaning and a small a atheist, I love to have discussions and would hope that I'm open minded enough to be convinced by arguments for any belief including Christianity if they're true!
@JS Lavertu to be fair I wrote this comment in a daze at 1 am but I can give you a point I disagree with. I'm a bit confused on what you mean when you say I disagree with peoples rights to exist as they are so if what I talk about isn't what you meant lemme know. I see the lgbtq community and I see a group of people who are struggling. People say they're pretending (especially trans people) but I don't see why someone would just pretend to be marginalized like that and there is imperical evidence like evolution, psychology, genetics, and sociology to support these peoples experiences. If being another gender makes someone happy or helps with gender dysphoria and they aren't seriously hurting anyone else and they're reasonable when people accidentally misgender them or have questions then I don't see anything wrong with it. Right now the main way I look at morality is based on happiness. Ig it's a bit more nuanced than that but if these people just being who they are (without hurting anyone or being an asshole) I don't see why we shouldn't let them do that just because a tradition says so. Ofc lgbtq people are human too and can be assholes. In fact, you could probably argue that they're more likely to be assholes because of the horrible stuff they've been through. But If people are against lgbtq rights, just because Christianity or tradition or whatever tells them its bad, I disagree with that. If they can actually give testable and falsifiable evidence (scientific method stuff) to back up that claim and have actually talked to people in the lgbtq community or experts in the field and still think it's bad then they're welcome to have their own opinion, but I'll also have mine.
@@jslavertu also a big problem I have is if some God made us who we are for a reason, and then condems people to death who are gay, that seems like a pretty big contradiction to me. It seems like the solution to that is to either say the Bible (because of a contradiction) is wrong or that these people are lying and actively trying to sin against God and just want attention which is stupid and seems to be the argument most Christians take.
You may never see this since this is an older vid, but i have watched a few of your vids now and I'm really loving them so far! I am also a Christian, and while it seems im a little older than you, i imagine its not that much of a gap. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a good Baptist Christian school (and one that had actually really good academics if i might add) so i cant relate in that way, but i definitely can tell what things are going on now and its very evident that the stuff you are saying is all true. Also, i agree with many of the points you are mentioning, whether its just your general Christian beliefs or how society is functioning in a given manner with things like Gen Z. I look forward to watching more content of yours and i enjoy your talking points. I'm editing this because i actually found one of your videos discussing what my question was.
I was totally fine in a secular high school. It got even better in college. Ngl, surprised even me a little. Most people are pretty OK and reasonable. I guess you just went to fairly odd schools.
I went to a gorgeous Presbyterian church that held a Jordan Peterson discussion Meetup. I want to be Christian but find it hard to accept the Nicene Creed. Hopefully I will find a way, your videos make me want to go back
This video is so great to open the mind of us that are not in School years anymore and are parents ourselves now. I visited two churches in Manhattan, Hillsong Church and Redeemer (Tim Keller church) and I was so relieved to see many teens and young adults there but now, after hearing all this from you, my heart melts on knowing that prob all of those kids were only faking church for their parents. 😪 this generation is worse than i thought🤯
As a Roman Catholic who's been growing in my faith since last year, i loved hearing about your story. I have a bunch of friends who have been the greatest people I've ever met but many of them are either god haters, Atheists, part of the LGBTQ+, etc. I do not wish to replace them, not at all, they've gone many great things that will forever be in my memories. But i am aware that not many will agree with my beliefs, they are all aware that im growing my faith and also wish i don't turn "homophobic, xenophobic, etc phobics" and stuff like that. I guarantee them that i won't but even if i can defend the bible in what many people today see as acceptable that the bible condemns, I'll still be me, I'll still be the same person i was before getting religious. My personality won't change, I'll still be the same ol' friend they love and grew up with. My elemetry and middle schools have been very liberal leaning (during this time i knew little to nothing about the bible), but my prevous highschool, which I'll admit was ghetto, was more on the conservative side with a few patches of LGBT students in it (where i started growing in my Catholic faith and getting more involved in it). Although the conservative kids were mostly either gang members that vaped in the middle of class or full blown racists with zero respect for others, which all schools have so it wasn't all that surprising to me. My high school now is a mixture of both conservative and liberal in terms of Christian beliefs with a few groups of muslims and jews and I'd say it has helped me a lot in my growth. Sorry for my blabbering, have a good day
I'm probably a decade older than you, a very late millennial and it is weird to hear from you and other zoomers on how much things have changed systematically. My town was a soft red town in a deep blue state, but the public school was definitely left leaning. However, orthodox woke-ism hadn't really taken hold and people were open to my more conservative opinions. Teachers were left but again most were open to debate. It's sad to see that gone downhill so fast. I'm in a weird position as I went to college deist/culturally catholic, joined a Protestant church in college and then left a few years after college. Even though I consider myself agnostic, I think that the church is a much better option and provides better community than woke-ism. It also I think is a good force in many people's lives. People say we need to remove religion from our culture/society entirely, an institution that's been around since we had people, but fail to have a reasonable replacement. I liked your conversion story and this video as it gives kind of a weird alternate path perspective to my life's journey. I do think there's a chance of a revival in the next few decades as it seems to happen every 100 or so years in the US, but I think it'll be with gen alpha or gen beta (if that's even thing yet).
I know it's a bit of a meme that millennials complain about their generation (and I'm not saying we didn't get somewhat screwed over too), but having spent a lot of time around Gen Z lately I feel confident in saying these kids are FAR more worse off than we were... :( In so many ways but even just in public school alone, the quality dip in the past decade is EXTREME. The stuff that happens in public schools these days blows my mind!! I'm not saying my high school was amazing, still lower standards internationally like most American schools, but man compared to school now it sounds like we were years ahead...
I have an atheist friend, we are both 22 year old. He is just as much a conservative and traditionalist as I am. Atheism in the West seems to be different from Eastern Europe atheism in some cases. Also, I had no idea that americans made a differnece between leftism and liberalism
Thankfully, I don’t have to worry about this because, despite going to a public school, I live in a more conservative area in Texas where most people at my school are Christian or at least conservative. Can’t imagine having to think about being in a leftist public school :/ I pray for the kids having to go through that 🙏❤️ God is with us
*It was called the Dark Ages not because of it being dreary and bad, but because due to a lack of historical sources. A lot of historical information went dark and so we don't have much to rely on in terms of historical sources.
Not really Dark ages were called Dark because they were horrible. But the Inacruaccy is that medievil and dark ages are 2 diffrent periods. Dark ages (450 ( fall of rome) - around 1000ad) Medievil (1000 - 1500 ad). In dark ages Christian europe was getting attacked from all sides : North from the Vikings, south from the muslims and east from steep nomads. Whole of North africa and a big part of middle east were Christian territories that got lost to the muslims, Muslims conquerd spain and almost conquerd France. Than around 1000 ad Christian Europe pulled itself togheter and fought back, crusades were launched to reclaim former christian territories, some succseded some did not but in general Europe was doing pretty good in the middle ages while Islam and Viking golden ages were in European dark ages and at Europes exspense.
@@zexfafa2794The modern scholarly use of the term is the period in which we have few historical documents, from the Fall of Rome until three centuries later when the carolingiians rise
I live in South Carolina and in my high school we have the same exact problems. This video is so amazing, I'm so happy the algorithm recommended this to me. Maybe it was God doing this.
I grew up as an atheist in rural Alabama. It's surreal how completely opposite your high school experience was to mine. You learned about slavery in school? Like, at all? Good for you, man. My classmates all thought I was a devil-worshipper. My teachers were mostly moderate (let's say George Bush-style) conservatives. The big exception was the history teacher, who was a Catholic (and therefore considered by my classmates to be practically be some sort of alien being). She couldn't really talk about slavery, though. The drugs, sex, and parties were the same though.
This video changed my perspective It had almost nothing to do with what you said but the deeper parts between the lines really helped me put a few pieces together and you can't search for that you need to luck into it I do love the retake mainline Protestant church's meme Christian's fleeing a thing has a effect I've just never thought of till you pointed it out In the long term I think people like me are winning and this doomeristic video gives me some good feelings when I think of that despite the overall vibes Real thanks for all that
Its not all the schools. I live in a rural town in a conservative state. Our public school had a mix of pretty much every opinion, but mostly non-political and not super religious. My school even had a morning Bible study for a while, where a youth pastor came out. It's really disheartening to see what its like in the city and how that is slowly bleeding into everywhere else.
I was raised an Atheist leftist then i became more conservative and became a greek pagan, now i am in the process of becoming a catholic and i’m much more conservative now
I'm Filipino and I went to a semi-private high school, and a majority were also left leaning. I remember one time during social studies class, my teacher asked who doesn't support divorce, and it was only me who raised a hand. Although today I realized supporting the legalization of divorce is inevitable, I don't regret what I did back in high school because I had the chance to explain why marriage was sacred and divorce was never a plan of God. Also, I was blessed with a Christian World History teacher and she inspired me to love history. I remember her integrating christian values on the ideas of morality and freedom throughout history and really made lessons a lot meaningful and thought -provoking. She was also honest with her views on ideologies that have evolved such as feminism, and she opened up about her struggles of submitting to her husband and still pointing out that submission was necessary despite the difficulty of doing so because of women empowerment in the modern age. She made me proud to be a Christian among the ocean of gen z atheists/agnostics/skeptics.
My mom was miserable in her marriage with my father. My father too. They just didn't get along and had such different beliefs. Their divorce was greatly beneficial for both of them and they're both 100% happier for it. Yet my mom constantly gets insulted by other so-called "Christains" for a choice she made that was greatly beneficial for both parties. My dad is now a lot better of a person and my mom is a lot more independent. None of us kids were bothered that much by it and it was a relief to see my Dad transform himself from a lazy, alcoholic abuser addicted to porn into an actually good person. That wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for the divorce. And what about abusive relationships? What about the real history on the origin of legal marriage where it was specificly designed to be a legal way to barter and trade women for land and traced with religious teaching posthumously to justify it? You seem to be ignoring all that.
@@krimsonkatt Hii,, Never intended to call for the removal of divorce in the law, rather I think it's inevitably necessary for us flawed humans and our imperfect relationships. Back then, I just didn't support the "idea" of divorce and until now I wouldn't encourage and hope for anyone's marriage to break off, but unfortunately, I've learned that many marriages can't be forced to work out if it's never going to, so the inevitable separation must happen for the better. However, as I mentioned, I do not regret saying I didn't support its legalization because I was able to explain the sanctity of marriage and why it was never God's will for marriages to break off to my high school class. About the origins of marriage, I believe it was always sacred and a covenant between man & woman, however sinful men can twist anything good to bad, and the construct of marriage was just one of those.
As a non-Christian coming from a Muslim country, you really help improve the image of a Christian in the eyes of an outsider. With gay pastors running around and some churches actively supporting abortion in their doctrine it becomes increasingly harder to view Christianity, particularly Protestant Christianity, as a geniunely believeable religion however actual Christians like you help redeem the prestige of the faith
My High School Biology teacher never mentioned the possibility that evolution was 'just a theory'. My Middle School science teacher did, but not my High School teacher. I'm also the only practicing member of my denomination (to my knowledge) at my high school. The more I think about it, the more I realize how much leftist ideology has, albeit a bit more subtly, seeped into the minds of both students and teachers at school.
Evolution is a proved theory at this point. And theory in scientific terminology is the highest level that cam be achieved, a theory isn't a mere hypothesis, but an idea supported by evidence. And in the case of evolution it is a theory supported by a LOT of evidence
On the topic of preserving christianity. Sure it's a good riddance to strengthen more conservative branches, but christianity should never be silent. It should have it's impact on information field. Like Jesus said "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners" (Book of Mark 2:17). Also, as it's said in The Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians, chapter 10: "And pray without ceasing on behalf of other men. For there is in them hope of repentance that they may attain to God. See, then, that they be instructed by your works, if in no other way. Be meek in response to their wrath, humble in opposition to their boasting: to their blasphemies return your prayers; in contrast to their error, be stedfast in the faith; and for their cruelty, manifest your gentleness. While we take care not to imitate their conduct, let us be found their brethren in all true kindness; and let us seek to be followers of the Lord (who ever more unjustly treated, more destitute, more condemned), that so no plant of the devil may be found in you, but you may remain in all holiness and sobriety in Jesus Christ, both with respect to the flesh and spirit." So we should preach, we should pray, we should do good deeds in the name of Jesus Christ to show that we are not evil, like they portray us, that it's they, who were misleaded from righteous path.
Canadian Muslim here, had a kinda similar experience, in Canada most people in public school were leftist, (I still consider myself leftist but thats besides the point), this led to me, a socially conservative Muslim being flamed whenever I brought up an opposing view point
Hi I really liked your video you did recently where you went over the different denominations of the church and of course it's heretics and on the fences. I was wondering if this video idea would interest you I think it would interest us. Basically it would be you going through the different positions held by both parties in America and you can comment if their positions that would be biblical, unbiblical, or non-biblical as in the Bible doesn't really speak directly or indirectly about this issue at all.
There's a difference between full retreat and living to fight another day. Where I live, there are a few big private schools and the public schools. What I found is that the supposedly more conservative private schools are ironically worse than the public schools in terms of leftist crazy. There's only one or two classical academies and they tend to raise good Christians, but education is mostly a losing battle. My personal opinion is to consolidate strongholds of Christianity and ride out the storm together. We need to build up the strength to launch a cultural crusade all together or rebuild after the collapse of the West. Worst comes to worst, we're all martyrs, and I'll take martyrdom to quiet silence anyday.
I'm from Argentina and I used to attend a secular school. Unfortunately, the "atheist" were predominant (there were people who followed the Christian church regardless of their denomination and some who didn't but at least were more respectful) and I remember being mocked at by my beliefs especially by a classmate who even though he wasn't leftist, he defended the Nazis and made me feel as if I were stupid and weak because of my beliefs. It was a good school though. Just because a school is secular DOESN'T MEAN that school is ANTI CHRISTIAN OR ATHEIST.
Gen Xer here; grew up in small-town Iowa. I think the best points you made in this video are that 1.) people are too nihilistic nowadays, and 2.) too many conservative Christian organizations seem to be less interested in having folks do the right thing, and more interested in indoctrinating new believers into loyally following them so their leaders can ride the gravy train on the backs of their clueless membership.
K through 8th grade I went to private Lutheran school and then to a public high school, thankfully the county I lived in was fairly non-leftist. So glad I graduated when I did though, it was just before all this extreme leftist stuff started creeping in.
My public school in Northeast Tennessee is conservative enough to refuse to teach macroevolution as fact, instead they teach it as history, or as what scientist thought at the time (with the implication being that modern science refutes it). If one of our schools was as liberal as many of the others described on here, our students (who are almost all conservative Baptists) would have a revolt. Many of our teachers are openly Christians, either by hanging crosses or verses of scripture on their room walls, or by openly speaking about the gospel in class with students.
I like to listen to your videos while I do my work but honestly this one just made me sick and depressed. It feels so hopeless. I have so many friends who seem hopelessly trapped in this awful quagmire you've described. I feel like I'm going to throw up. I feel angry. I feel like the Christians who came before us failed my generation. How many people that I love will go to hell because their parents couldn't be bothered to raise them correctly? I feel like I've just been left alone to pick up the pieces.
Why do you think gen Z can't grow out of being anti-Christian? We don't really know what the generations before us were like when they were our age, and even if they can't understand what it's like now, that doesn't mean their experience is any less valid than ours. Your points still stand, and it's not like there were never times even in the Bible where God's people turned against Him, but our generation is young enough to still be molded, our time is ahead of us and not behind.
Can you explain to me why evolution should be taught and that it fits with scripture? I don't want this to come out as an attack on you I just want to know your reasoning ty.
I'm so glad that I went to public school in a more conservative state. (Nebraska). Even though there were a lot of the kids in my High School who were liberals, There were plenty of conservative kids as well. (Myself included). I had the sense that most of the kids were either moderate or apolitical. There were some kids who were definitely radical leftists though. Luckily it didn't seem like very many.
I grew up in Australia as a trans kid and was Greek orthodox. Now as a trans baptist adult I struggle with the idea that my mere existence isn't compatible with God's law. It's very difficult being queer and religious because I have no idea how I can live without leftist ideals . But I know I also definetly won't survive without Christ. I'm just not sure what to do? I mean my queer community hates me for being religious. But my Christ community hates me for being born. Whatever, my walk with Christ is a personal one and all I need is him I'll be okay. I just wish the church was kinder to leftist Christians. (Also yeah history in public schools are AWFUL)
If you could become comfortable with your natural gender, would you want to be? I'm just curious. I know you don't think it's possible but let's just pretend. Would you want that?
@@redeemedzoomer6053 Oh my goodness yes absolutely! If I could be just a normal girl I'd do Anyhting! I don't want to be gay or trans I've prayed for years. I remember going to my church and confessing. They told me "ah you're clearly repentful so the disease hasn't fully taken hold don't worry you'll be okay". But after 11 years of worship and therapy Im am unchanged. It took me a psych ward trip to realise, maybe instead of being gods daughter and can be his son. my relationship with God and overall health has improved astronomically since. Unfortunately I was shunned from 3 local churches and lost a lot of family. (But yes to answer your question if I could be not queer I'd take it in a heartbeat)
@@despinadinos8813 I also wish churches would be kinder to you. I don't think a church has to accept transgenderism to accept a transgender person into their church family -- I will pray that you find a family of believers to be a part of.
I have an objection to what you said about evangelical Christian schools. most of the schools in the WELS are actually some of the better schools in my state ie two of the best high schools in the county belong to the WELS (one of them is the oldest Lutheran high school in the country but that's beside the point) (and the world was created in 6 24-hour days)
I think public schools are too far gone in every sense, if possible we should try to completely rebuild schools to actually teach people to think (and be more Christian)
Yeah being christian in a public school is crazy. People get annoyed if i even say im catholic. Which i do the same when someones really woke but like i dont make a facial expression and glare at them
Something funny is that most Christians at my school identify as Southern Baptists including myself, but the only people with whom I can actually discuss theology without having to explain a bajillion things are either Catholic or Presbyterians. I think that might be a sign or something.
I am atheist and in high school and generally religion is not really brought up by teachers or students ( I know some who are religious) but that school was why to anti religious
I disagree with how you see churches. I'm a Christian but I see the future as more church plants, with older church denomination buildings being demolished or converted by these new church plants. Thats exactly what is happening in my city. The older mainline denominations are dying and being occupied by more contemporary non-denominational types.
@@redeemedzoomer6053 I'm kinda biased b/c I literally go to a non-denominational church that took over a former lutheran church. But I also grew up presbyterian usa and have no desire to go back.
@@redeemedzoomer6053yep, that’s a nightmare. The church plants with the hip leader are a quick sugar rush that die out. I’ve seen this in the Houston area. Build the old back to new.
Im not a believer myself , tho i am highly interested in theology and religions and think It teaches really good values and morals and that's why i found tour chanell wich i really enjoy...and i have to say that i never felt so reflected un a video in my Life...the situation here in Spain with public schools and pregressive leftism is just as bad and i had to get trough It for most of my Life basically for rejecting from a logical perspective all this genderish nonsense , defending my Christian Friends from this cancelling culture and being a very firm anti drug anti alcohol/party mindset/modern hedonism gen z thing, wich was really bad considering that apart from school i am in the underground hardcore scene of my city (in a band , playing gigs and attending concerts) wich is some times worse I can confirm that those kind of things kill your social Life but It never bothered me because It grave me time yo search people Who actually make a positive influence in me . Thanks for your awesome videos and good luck with the reconquista! You are one of a kind here ! Very inspiring for me!.
I was in a public primairy school and religion class was optional and i took it. Also wrnt to a chrisfian highschool because i noticed the people there where kinder
