"building churches in minecraft and talking about christianity" sounds like the kind of shit i would do as a kid just to convince my mom to let me play a video game on sunday (i was raised mormon)
I say this with all due respect but also knowing that we both know what being in ohio is like- People saying "people in the midwest are the best people" can only be A. Conservatives glad that they have people around them that are ignorant enough to stay conservative in the isolation of rural/rural adjacent living. or B. A cope because we all know being stuck in the midwest is fucking miserable because there's simultaneously everything but really nothing to do in the most extreme ways. Everything is either available but too far away, or what IS available sucks dick.
"We welcome the outcast", while RZ goes onto describe predatory behavior targeting emotionally vulnerable people. His kind are dangerous, it's no wonder SA is so popular for them, they have the gall to wonder why their breed is dying.
The thing is it used to be that nobody liked these kind of people even in the church but now everyone not like this are leaving, only the cringe lords remain.
@@n0etic_f0x Converts to a religion are some of the most dedicated and usually fundamentalist while those leaving religion are the least dedicated/attached. Religions use this as a filter to have a increasingly dedicated following that would do anything for it - thus why we are seeing a rise in fundamentalism and religious extremism, it is religion's natural course.
A rather sociopathic view of other people. The religious mind virus that causes its hosts to see only other people as more potential hosts for its propogation.
7:35 I always get a little bit thrown whenever I hear people just outright say “the left is satanic” like Redeemed Zoomer does right here And how dismissively he says it too like holy shit. I genuinely don’t see how he could be friends with anyone he sees as leftist purely because of how much obvious contempt for the *concept* of them he has
I found this guy before he got big when he made a legitimately pretty cool video comparing all the christian denominations. I’ve been subbed out of a sense of dark curiosity ever since.
Dude, I loved that denominations video because it was genuinely well researched and presented, like it could be a real educational tool. It wasn't until the last minute or so that he drops that insanely sexist and homophobic stuff, and it's like... Why do you have to be like that?
@@LundunDansquawhile I agree that most American Christianity is that way. Not all are. There are some that do not such as many non-denominational churches. I personally think basing your beliefs around a sky fairy is silly.
@@ObliviousMalodi nope. People don’t get to claim Christianity and go “well those stories we don’t listen to” when all the rest do and use the “nice” christians as shields to claim unjust persecution. The “nice” ones are just as complicit in Christianity’s crimes and bigotry. Religion is a cancer.
He comes across to me as someone who has been taken advantage of by the religion. A lot of people can be frustrating or even infuriating to listen to, but this is just kind of heartbreaking. It's like listening to a grooming victim talk about all the gifts the groomer gives them.
Excuse me, is this the cult? Oh no! We just want you to prey on the loneliness of those around you to compel them to join our... Yeah... this is the cult
When he said that there weren't any christians at his high school, i bet he just means that there weren't any "true" christians, in his eyes, that is, there weren't any evangelical born-again christians. I bet he tried to start a "christian club", but none of the other more moderate christian kids wanted to make one with him because he was so weird and obsessive about it.
This should be epic AF. Christian ideas of friendship are... bad. The thing is they are bad and an adorably naive way. You have to be very into women but also totally averse to sex and it is hilarious. The worst part is it stays like this until you are twenty-five this stuff is so weird.
I remember ruining a friendship as a former christian child (no longer either of those lol) because I kept trying to convince my pagan friend to convert and not just accept her how she was with her beliefs. So yeah, christian ideas of friendship are kinda f'd
@@KalinTheZola see I was the heretic. Just be nice to the people and talk about how happy you are so they know Christians are not evil. I was told to preach to them but I didn’t want to because I knew they don’t want to hear from the Bible. It’s why none of them could make friends who are explicitly not Christians. It just became Bible Bible Bible after a while and people would just ignore them. One thing I notice has changed is there are many Christians who have said after you are preached to once move on that was never preached prior to me hearing it about three years ago and now it’s fairly common. I think so many people have told them to just leave them alone that they are giving up. They are seeing less Christians so they can’t give people as much time as used to.
@@n0etic_f0x ngl I was just (in tears) legitimately terrified my friend was going to burn in hell. I really think that is such a potentially damaging thing to convince children of.
@@KalinTheZola Oh definitely. It’s why I was so fervent against using the Bible, it makes it into a sales pitch and people tune out. I would watch the interest fall from them and it would just start depressing me because they just got pushed further away from Christianity. I never thought of asking what was really happening from their perspective but once I saw that it was all over. Oh they see us as we see all other religions… why though? Oh it’s because we act just like them! Wait… wait. No this is not supposed to be a possible conclusion… oh no. Well… this sucks if we are just like Islam and Islam is false… oh, well that was a waste of time.
@@n0etic_f0x religious beliefs, especially ones that are so steeped in the actual culture to the point that even people who aren't Christian in the us are likely raised to be "culturally" Christian, those seem to inevitably lead down that path. I'm never going to tell someone to not follow their religious beliefs (I mean as long as they're not hurting people with it) but especially as someone who grew up in that environment, it's nothing more than socially accepted lunacy that does potentially irreparable harm to the psyche of those who grow up under it, particularly the worst aspects of it.
If Christianity is uniquely suited to building healthy communities, how come other (apparently wrong) religions, such as Islam and Judaism build communities which are just as strong, if not stronger? Why do cults also tend to create a powerful sense of community? Could it be that we, as humans, have social needs, and religions and similar groups hijack these social spaces to spread and control people? That, maybe, finding likeminded individuals feels good, no matter if they’re religious or not?
"I don't like the mental health movement." he forgot to add "Because mentally healthy people don't seek religion to fill the gaps in their lives if there aren't any gaps to fill"
25:40 that time period makes it even more interesting because youre absolutely right about the chaos, that wouls have been around the bronze age collapse, when society pretty much collapsed all around the eastern mediteranean
Why does Redeemed Zoomer hate the "mental health movement," and what does he mean by the "mental health movement" anyway? I ask so I don't have to watch one of his videos and give him views he doesn't deserve.
See here’s the thing. I live in Wisconsin and I’m Jewish. And even I’m gonna have a new rule for Christian friendships. Because I play the guitar. And for modern day guitar players, one style that is just all over the place is gospel. So I gotta try and learn it as best I can. Because those gospel players, they go out into secular music, pop and R&B and become hired guns. So I need me some Christian friends, if I can find em, who can show me how to play that gospel quartet style of guitar.
Weird how my clinical depression symptoms were overwhelming during my time as an active churchgoer in my early adulthood, but it's been a long time since I have been active or depressed as well. Correlation may not be causation, but...
Id recommend watching essoterica's videos on the origins of the storm war diety that eventually turns into the old testament's "God". Really shows just how christianity is just a religion amongst other religions, no matter how special Christians think they are
bruh that channel is one of the memes of all time, at least they found a way to connect video games to christianity, if this was 20 years ago that zoomer nerd would be called a devil worshiping satanist
If you think about it the Golden Rule is kind of just the inverse of the Eye for an Eye philosophy so, really not that groundbreaking. Kind of like the idea of infinity; it is just a matter of seeing something that will eventually end but going, 'nah.'
Wow, he gets close to actually bringing up a good point when he points out that people are missing community because churches used to be the only one a lot of people had. Maybe we shouldn't center our entire social culture around your backwards superstition and we should make some other communal spaces.
Why did RU-vid recommend me a video with a guy who multiple times calls my religion and my brothers who practice it freaks? Is the recommendation system broken or something
He’s calling this zoomer guy, who is obsessive, bigoted and condescending a freak because he’s acting like one. Yes he criticises the religion, but not the people in it, well maybe some of the more extreme people… And nah the recommendation system is just basic sometimes, it’s probably just because the topic is religion and the title of the video itself is pretty neutral.
Your stance on atheism is strangely restrictive. I cannot believe in any higher being or power (or similar), so I'm an atheist. My knowledge about Christianity is just a nice bonus, and I don't think we should require it for someone to not be a "fake atheist" Also "thou shalt not kill" isn't Jesus, it's one of the ten commandments, so old testament stuff