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My mom claimed she was "Pro Life", because she believed that people could choose what to do with their life. I was like: "Mom, that's Pro Choice please don't tell people you're Pro Life 😬"
It's funny how they use language to control and identify with something they absolutely are not. PRO CONTROL is a lot more accurate. This is not about killing babies. It is about misogyny and the subjugation of women.
A conservative Italian gentleman once had a rather strong opinion on me wearing a skirt and his wife literally turned to him and told him "Jesus wore a dress" 😂
@@trankertrank4751We don't know if Jesus was asexual or if he was allosexual but chose not to marry because of "Gods plan". The apostle Paul was asexual though. He literally says its a gift from God to not feel s3xua1 desires but that not everyone is blessed in the same way as him
@@trankertrank4751 Him being canonically single technically doesn't necessarily mean that he was asexual if that is what you're alluding to. People choose to be single for all kinds of reasons.
As someone who is currently pregnant, at 6 weeks, a fetus looks like a slightly melted jelly dinosaur. Also, they aren't pro-life. They are pro-forced birth. They couldn't care less about the already living, sentient person, they couldn't care less about that fetus as soon as it enters the world, they couldn't care less. If they cared, they'd be fighting for paid parental leave, lower/no medical costs, better support systems, affordable childcare, affordable housing, livable wages, and so much more. Most of them are completely against changing those things.
they're not pro-forced birth they're just anti-woman. they view women as inferior and subordinate to men and they believe women should be punished for the sin of being women. that's really the long & short of it.
Yes, 100%. But with all due respect, having studied sonography and now radiology, I'd say they look more like an alien until they are (almost) fully developed. Then again we don't know what an "alien" would look like and we do have a good idea of what dinosaurs looked like so... I guess your version makes more sense
You are precisely correct. My parents are alt right and they spent most of my childhood both vilifying abortion and criticizing women with many children. It’s a mind fuck and it usually comes down to white nationalism for some of these republicans.
I have an uncle who is a devout Christian. He attended seminary where he learned Hebrew and Koine Greek. He reads the Bible every day. He is adamantly pro-gay marriage. He feels so strongly about this that he actually left his church, because the church declared that they would never allow gay marriages.
An actual Christian who gets the teachings of Christ. It's so refreshing and appreciated, when finding true Christians that aren't twisting a faith based on love into a mask for hate. So tired of the hate-fueled nonsense, not comfortable going to church with anyone only pretending to be Christian...and my kin wonder why I stopped going. 😆
depends on what term the fetus is, lol. a fetus is any growth stage once they've outgrown the embryo stage. I think anything before the second trimester they still look like a tiny alien blob creature but once they're in the second trimester they do look like a very tiny baby
Jammi looking his normal self and wearing a plain shirt with "sensory overload" written on it, while sitting next to someone who chose to have ALL of the fashion flourishes, is already pretty funny.
Honestly, based on that contrast alone, I think these two should do like a detective duo show or something. It'd be amazing. Jamie's character is the soft-spoken professional with very dry humour, and then it smash cuts to Roly in the wildest, most colourful chase scene/shootout ever put to film.
You trust em agreeing w legally castrating kids? Wow. It's sad how ppl have a mindset that conservatives are untrustworthy but Alot believe in saving human lives.
Roly is spooky looking... but then you see the Sonic tattoos (And Spyro!), the neon lights and then hear the voice... You know you're in a happy place. Roly is awesome! Average conservative hates tattoos, probably hates neon lights and has a boring voice, definitely not a happy place.
They do balance each other out quite nicely When Roly was being nice telling people to subscribe to Jamie because he's a beautiful trans man I just went tsk, aw roly being a supportive friend reminding Jamie he does deserve success haha
My dad is straight straight and gets a manicure and pedicure every two weeks. Hygiene is mature and responsible. Claiming it's "gay" from your homophobia is childish. My dad also let me put him in drag makeup and a wig. He's more of a man than any of these "men" claim to be.
My favorite homophobes are the people who are completely certain that being gay is a choice because "everyone has same sex attraction" and you're just like "grandma, i got good news and bad news"
@@phoebedarker I don’t remember what I commented but it got deleted which means I said something ignorant/hurtful and for that I apologize 😅 Was checking notifications and found that comment was deleted.
Funny thing related to the topic, I thought to myself once, “I would only kiss another dude to piss off homophobes.” I think I should’ve taken that as a sign.
Haha. I had a similar moment, when I was young there was a talk show with a "who would you turn gay for" segment. Appropriateness of that aside, I remember thinking back on that segment and wondering how people narrowed it down to just one option. Took me another 5 years to figure out I was not straight 😅
@@randompersonontheinternet1435 yep, turns out that "other girls" weren't just overreacting to hating being mistaken for boys because "both of them feel the same to me, get over it", because it wasn't "other girls", it was girls and I wasn't.
I'm currently learning biblical Hebrew lol Also, I'm only a few months into a theology degree but so far we've not looked at homophobia but we have discussed David and Jonathan. The Bible is gayer and more trans-affirming than homophobes think
If y'all are interested, I have some videos talking about Torah stuff in an inclusive context. And I run my ideas past my rabbi first, in case that matters. 🙏❤🏳🌈🏳⚧🟦
I love the concept of Btzelem Elohim, too: *everyone* is made in Gd's image, including LGBTQ+ people. (Also that you're the only one who was created to be you, not to be a clone of everyone else, so be the best, most you-you that you can be! 💜)
@@MachaMongRuad love that concept!! i’m a queer jew and my extended family is fairly homophobic, but that concept helped my dad’s sibling come out to some more accepting family members
I knew that bc thats what we called them in elementary school, and I'm American. Ours was awesome, I still remember him and I'm 34. He used to spin the sign and do different moves, blew his whistle in a funny tune...and when it rained he used a giant umbrella that looked like a rubber ducky.
Sad thing is, a girl here in the states (10 years old) was r@ped by a family member and-because the right essentially claimed that if she wasn’t ready to carry one, she wouldn’t have been able to make one in the first place and that the life of the baby was clearly the most important thing here, they were trying to make her carry to birth. She had to travel out of state to get it “taken care of” because her own state was one of many that had outlawed said procedure. It was a whole publicized thing. On a similar note, one right-wing politician said later on that child marriage should be absolutely legal because “in his experience” it works just fine, and he is friends with a guy that is still “happily married” to the person he married when she was a child. (Supposedly, she’s equally as enthused about the whole situation.) ‘Murica! 🙄
Literally.. vile, disgusting, how does someone say something so horrible? A 10 year old was r’ed and they want to force her to give birth because apparently if you’re able too that means “you were meant too.” Not even going to get into how braindead that train of thought is.
@@Lord-Griff actually, if enough people report their comments they get deleted. The owner of the channel will then get a warning stating that their comment was deleted. If more reports come in about their comments after that, then the channel can temporarily lose it's ability to comment. I know this because it has happened to me. I do not know much about other social media sites, I don't use most of them, but I can state with absolute confidence that youtube's reporting feature does in fact do something.
@@sophiejones3554idk about other sites but TikTok has/may still have a very bad habit of just nuking an account and perma-banning them if they get reported too much, unfortunately used for ill amongst the cosplay community, but if YT is that scared of controversy then the accounts will probably also get nuked for being too problematic if muting them doesn't work, so yes, it's worth reporting them and we need to keep doing it. I'll also add as well, if trolls or bots keep attacking Jammie's contents then going onto the channel itself and reporting it directly can work to get them removed and not just silenced for a bit, but it's dodgy on mobile and you can't report certain things, I found that out trying to report a channel for animal abuse and found I actually couldn't, but harassment and hate speech, 100% can report that, so I always report the channel itself with impersonators because it is kiiiinda identity theft even if it's not physical
Lmfao and the funny thing is, they want Christianity in schools, and to have people read the Bible, but then want to ban the exact same things in the Bible that's other books have in them LOL. Most of the books they're trying to ban aren't even HALF AS BAD as the Bible in terms of "horrible content," btw.
@@KrimsonKattYT yep, I had three different bibles as a kid, they were all whitewashed and scrubbed clean. Bible stories for babies, kids storybook, and a teen Bible. My parents slipped them in to some stuff they dropped off and 🤢 it was so bad. Like I remember having snacktime during religious camp listening to Noah's ark. We even put on a fun Noah's ark play.
Where I am religious texts aren't allowed in schools (kids can bring them but staff can't unless it stays out of sight). These are the only books that arent erotica that are banned to my knowledge (so no 50 shades)
18:00 What's really horrific is that I read a post from someone who worked at Planned Parenthood (or somewhere similar) and they had seen so many people who were outside every day protesting bring in their daughters and young relatives to have abortions, or even had abortions themselves, and then go straight back out and protest again. They were literally thinking "No, I'm an exception. Nobody else has good reasons, just me and mine." It's a complete lack of empathy. Like, an active resistance towards understanding nuance and complexity exists outside of themselves
There was a person (I forget her name) who had an abortion at 19. She was/is vehemently anti-abortion. When questioned why she was allowed to get an abortion but not others, her response was, “because my life would be totally different. I was not ready for a child” Just…bro Edit: she also in a conference said children getting abortions don’t count as abortions cause they’re not old enough to care for a baby.
A while ago my boyfriend got pregnant and he literally couldn’t have the baby because it would kill him. And he would have loved to have a kid. Yet there were still people who were yelling and really assuming anyone who went into the planned parenthood was getting abortions and my boyfriend was so scared. It’s disgusting how obsessed some people are about other’s bodies.
My mom was a high-risk obstetrics nurse practitioner. She delivered babies from 5 EIGHT-YEAR-OLDS. This is going to become more and more common now. They did an infant study since Roe has been overturned for over 9 months. The infant mortality rate has significantly shot up (especially in the states with the strictest anti-choice laws), because people are being forced to give birth.
Oh shit, I didn't even know girls could get pregnant that young, just thinking about myself or my cousin at that age giving birth just crushes my heart. How can someone be such a monster as to impregnate a young child!! And then force her to go through that pain!! I hate humans sometimes.
@@laurainathunderstorm in really rare cases kids get their period extremely early. (Too early Puberty is usually halted with blockers until the person is older.). It's beyond cruel to force someone to give birth, especially a child.
@@laurainathunderstorm the youngest recorded child to give birth was 5 years old. She was impregnated when she was 4. There is a medical condition called precocious puberty that causes the body to start puberty extremely early. Since the 80s hormones have been used to treat those dealing with it.
@@Just_Reading_Comments And heart breakingly, the same legislation that will prevent trans kids from receiving affirming care with those drugs will also probably take it away from cis kids with precocious puberty.
"I create the good, I create the evil. I create the light, I create the darkness. I the Lord do all these things." Goes to show bigots dont even read their own book. Though as a satanist(tst), I can't say they're fully wrong about god not creating me lol
I love Roly. It cracks me tf up because like… you look at that exterior, and Idk exactly what I did expect to come out of it… but it is not what we get! He’s such a queen 👸!!!
On the topic of pro-birthers changing their minds when its personal; There's so many stories of anti-choice women berating and insulting abortion clinic staff, WHILE THEYRE GETTING AN ABORTION. Seriously, they go there for their help and then while theyre talking to the staff they continue to say they're murderers. They dont even change their minds when its personal
Two weeks ago I had to have a life saving surgery to remove my 9-week pregnancy. I’m very blessed to live in a state (Oregon) where my health was taken seriously. As hard as it was on us mentally/emotionally, I cannot imagine the poor women that are forced to put their life on the line because of government ruling. Access to fair, safe, and unbiased medical treatment shouldn’t be something women have to ask for.
what I truly hate about those people outside of Planned Parenthood and such is that they're "pro life" when it's a clump of cells and the whole time it's in the uterus, but as soon as it's born they're against government assistance or taking care of kids in the foster system or helping them with healthcare or good housing or anything. it's not prolife, it's pro-while in the uterus
Also if they were pro life they'd care about the life of the mother/pregnant person. Yet they never care. At best they claim SA is a partial exception although that's also rare. Jayzus
That is actually a big lie. We want the government to help pregnant people after pregnancy. Don't believe that fantasy in your mind that we're just "heartless monsters"
A laughable moment of my 5th grade lunch table is hearing the most popular girl in school lousy announce “my mom says democrats eat babies” in reference to abortions
As a person who was raised to believe so much shit about abortion (though not THAT at least), I'm so sorry for the crap we say. There were a few I didn't believe, like that people would get pregnant for the purpose of having an abortion (like do they think people have abortion kinks?), or that people should go to prison for life for having one (I figured the guilt was punishment enough). Thankfully I got out and discovered the "real world" wasn't actually the satanist orgy hellhole I'd been warned about.
My 72 year old Grandma is a minister and she joins me at pride parade every year. Next year I might make her some "Jesus loves you for you" cards to hand out, with the second "you" in rainbows. I'm not Christian, but I do love her Christian positivity and support it makes me happy.
I may not know your grandma but this is a great example of what a true Christian should be acting like 💚 we are not the judges here we don’t determine what happens to people once they pass so just love them while they’re here. This life is already hard enough without people who claim to be Christian throwing nastiness around.
@@hanktrill I do appreciate that and, although I wouldn't go as far as to call any of my own experiences religious trauma, I've had a somewhat turbulent relationship with religion myself and my gran has always been respectful of that and tried not to push her views on me. I wonder if there is a way to do the same idea without the risk of triggering, at the very least, some unpleasant memories 🤔🤔
The comment Jamie said about childhood amnesia until you are about 3 made me think about the fact that humans are actually born a little undercooked compared to most other animals. As they can pretty much walk right away.
yeah we’re popped out undercooked because otherwise the fully fused skull of the baby would break the pelvis of the birthing parent! it has to be a little squishy. And all this is because we decided one day to be exclusively bipedal which caused a severe narrowing of the pelvis and decrease in the birth canal. and it all went down from there :)
Guess my neurodivergence gives me memories from before 2. Well, at least I don't remember being in the womb. That would be quite traumatizing, I imagine.
I find it absolutely mind boggling that people insist on such extreme adherence to the bible, especially the old testament which was written in a language that was dead for like.. nearly two thousand years! there are copious translations of it which are all different, how do you surmise what is the actual "word of jesus". This dosen't even touch on the FACT, and yes it is a fact, people who study the languages the bible was written in as their career have confirmed it, that the greek word translated into "homosexual" does not actually mean homosexual at all and it's translation in the original martin luther german rendition of the bible is boy molesters, AND the ever so famous line "man shall not lie with man" actually says "man shall not lie with young boys as he does with a woman, for it is an abomination". They also tried to at least partially correct it in a further revised version of the standard english bible in 1971 by changing the translation to sexual perverts, but by then, the damage was already done.
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals 2 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindler will inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6:9
@@violetrose5845 The Bible, in its current state, has been translated nearly 700 times and into thousands of languages. It has been changed and rewritten many times. It has had texts added and taken out. In that time there has been many mistranslations.There is no word for “homosexuality” in Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek, the main languages that the original texts that became the Bible was written in. As pointed out by @AliceBunny05 many scholars have already pointed out that Leviticus 18:22 was also mistranslated and was meant as a warning against pe*ophilia
@@Just_Reading_Comments The Bible talks about homosexuality many times: 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:10 Romans 1:26-27. Just because something is in a different language doesn’t mean it’s not giving the same message. Language is in different languages it doesn’t mean speech isn’t valid.
I straight told a man once, "as a woman, I would NEVER let someone with nails like yours, f**ger me! That is an INSTANT infection!" Lol, in hopes that he had a shot, he clipped and cleaned his nails immediately. 😂😂 It was HILARIOUS!
I am a trans bisexual atheist dude who took his extra ECTs at Uni studying the history of Christianity and the historical figure of Jesus Christ simply for pure interest. I bet I know more about the bible than 90% of these homophobes quoting it (and I fully believe JC was gay)
At the very least, Jesus had to have been a pothead and dealer. I mean, the signs are supposedly there: long hair, beard, sandals, a carpenter's son, hung out with 12 dudes with no visible means of financial support. Someone had to have been selling gram bags back then. It would certainly explain why some of the most frequently mentioned healings were of blindness. I bet he had the payments go through Peter.
17:58 Unfortunately, often they still don't. My family is Catholic. One of my aunts was married to an abuser and her own siblings encouraged her to stay when they KNEW about the abuse because "you have to save your marriage." They had 10 children, and she'd been thrown down stairs causing miscarriage more than twice. It disgusts me.
My friend and coworker was at pride this last summer and there was this group of homophobes trying to protest pride (as there usually is here) and he had his own group there drowning out the homophobes’ ramblings with a megaphone siren
I remember watching a short interview with some members of the WBC and the reporter talked to a child (probably about 7-8 years old). He asked her if she knew what her sign meant and she said no, but her parent told her to hold it.
The hypocrisy when it comes to pro-life people is always staggering to me. There have been a few stories that I've read over the years about people who are pro-choice until a pregnancy affects them. There was a pro-life governor (or similar law maker) who pressured his mistress into having an abortion after he got her pregnant.
My parents are so prolife that not only are abortions apparently terrible, but if you are dying slowly and painfully of cancer, you shouldn't have the choice to take medication and die painlessly on your own terms. Telling people that God wants you to die in agony and raise children as a legal minor, what a great way to get people to believe in your religion
@@Gunkle_Jeb They were visiting Sudan. One of them got it, and being the -idiotic- good evangelical Christians they were, they refused treatment. It quickly spread to them all. Subsequently, they all died.
When I was in school, they told us that Mary was 14 when Jesus was born. They stopped mentioning her age all together after several kids asked why God would choose a literal child to give birth to his son.
I actually heard someone say that Mary was submissive and naive so god would choose someone who isn’t experienced with the world, hasn’t done anything, hasn’t even experienced anything new, to carry a kid because he couldn’t find any grown woman who wanted to do that
I just love all the moving, glowing and otherwise stimulating things in the room as a contrast against Jammis pullover with the writing "Sensory Overload" xD It really made me chuckle xD (Edit: typo)
I grew up Catholic in Midwestern America. Those people think that they're helping people by telling them they're sinful. They've convinced themselves that in doing so, they're helping someone not go to Hell. It's insane.
Just got back from this private college tour (Im a queer christian), and didn’t know much about the campus so didn’t realize it was conservative until I got there- it’s WILD to hear people tell you how much God loves you while also saying you’re this evil unholy creature. On the bright side I got roomed with probably the only gay person on campus, and we spent the night eating raw cookie dough in their dorm :)
Avoid that school like the plague. I was 17 when I went off to California Baptist University (It was the early 90s). I assumed everyone was taught compassion for others and hate is never okay. I was wrong and I got seriously bullied because of how I looked (goth) and for assumptions of my sexuality. They also spread rumors (it came even from people who were staff) that I was the leader of a Satanic coven. It took a terrible toll on my mental health and I turned to drugs to cope with the hell i was being put through. I was actually a youth director at my church and when i showed up to the state youth conference with my group, they were shocked, but the bullying continued. I didn't transfer because my Political Science professor was amazing, but I really should have left. I would hate for anyone to go through what I did. Trust that this place showed you who they are.
2:10 the thing is - the person we all think of as Jesus, isn’t actually Jesus. It was a model from like the Gothic era of painting who popularly was associated with Jesus. It’s like thinking that Robert Oppenheimer must look like Cillian Murphy because that’s who played him in the film.
Just FYI: as far as I understand, Westboro genuinely believe only people in THEIR church will go to heaven. No other churchgoers but them specifically. They spoke about how even other churches turn a blind eye to sin and don't do as much to spread the word and so aren't truly worshipping as they should (or something like that) a few years back.
Fun fact about Westboro Baptist. In the early 90s, I think some regional governments must have come together and agreed to ignore them completely. No lawsuits (Fred was a lawyer, he never broke the letter of the law.), no media coverage, just dead silence. That's when they started to travel. ETA: Fred had dementia at the end of his life, which is probably why he forgot his church grift and reverted to his earlier beliefs. Behind the Bastards did an episode on him a couple of years ago.
When people find out that a fetus is a tiny clump of cells, they usually don't consider it a baby. Many people are shocked to find out that the fetus doesn't resemble anything like a baby until about the 3rd trimester.
I'd be all for it. I'd love to see Roly, Kaya (Toxic Tears), Click, Jamie, One Topic, and whomever else would be down for a fun hangout time together. 💖
Same. It's so fun to agree with people that I'll never be a woman, and then agree that I'll never be a man, and watch them have a breakdown that they can't misgender me "correctly" if they don't know my gender.
As a professional translator, to not even consider what meaning is lost after multiple translations, things are lost or just vague/disputed/up to interpretation after *one* translation. Translators make a lot of choices subconsciously and consciously when working, whether it's referencing their own interpretation of the original material or making a choice among several synonyms in the new language. That all affects the result. And that's a *lot* of choices being made when a work is a full book. That's all to say that even just the *first* translation from the original text could look completely different depending on all those myriad choices. When working in academia, I avoided using translated sources for this reason. If I couldn't read the actual source material, then it wasn't for me to reference. Things just change too much with even the best translation (which is a subjective standard anyway).
This exact point started me seriously questioning pretty much everything I’d ever learned about my religion at the time. It’s horrifying to think how many people have been straight up murdered because of what essentially amounts to mistranslated fanfic.
I've read several translations of the same book (long story), and they are VASTLY different from one another. Imagine translating that back and forth?? Reminds me of that old video where they translated the theme song from Fresh Prince to all the languages on Google translate and then back to English. If you're old like me, you'll remember.
@@kalierisI think about this all the time. Like how many gay people alone have been straight up murdered, attacked, persecuted, abused because of a mistranslation in a book. When you think about it this way, it really is so ridiculous. I really question the intelligence we have as a species.
It's sad they think they're doing the right thing, when actually, forced births could probably make things 100x worse. Increased population, more waste, etc etc.
No it isn't, we just dont believe in killing kids. You also have a choice in using protection or not so its your fault for getting pregnant in the first place.
@@goodpeople25 wtf are you talking about consent for? What I'm saying is true, the more you do it raw the more likely it is to get pregnant, if you don't want kids then don't be stupid. How do you not understand how simple sex health works.
Oh my gosh them eyes, Roly! I low key want those contacts, but my eye doctor told me to stay away from them due to how fragile my eyes are. I also adore the dynamic here. Roly is like: 😈🤘🏼🖤 Jamie is like: ☺️🌸💙 Ps, reading my comment made me realize that’s literally how my bff and I are. She’s the soft cinnamon roll lolol
Roly, as a cis het woman, if my man doesn't clean himself properly (fingernails and every other nook and cranny) he getting the boot. Benefits of having extremely severe OCD, especially pertaining to washing hands and body, is that I notice that stuff way way more. I don't even let my own mother hug me so my man got a lot to deal with when it comes to my mental health, probably why I've never been in a relationship or even kissed a man before. 😅😭
I got an ad on this video for something called "The Straight Mug", apparently it's for people who are "tired of woke advertising"... wrong place guys LMAOOO
First one is in Korea...😅 and yeah those guys at the back are police officers to prevent the situation escalating to violent incidents.. they protest EVERY SINGLE YEAR at the Seoul pride festival so we just reached the point where we vibe to their drums and chanting loll. It'll just go like 📢: "HoMOsExuAlitY iS SiN" 🏳️🌈: YeAHHHHHH~~~ 👏🏻💃🏻🕺🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Childbirth can be deadly to any woman, so many complications can occur during labor or birth. My first time giving birth, my baby wouldn’t come out because of my pelvis was too narrow. They waited so long to do a c-section that he almost died. It ended in an emergency c-section because they waited until the last possible second. He was in so much distress, for hours, and his heartrate kept dropping. It wasn’t until his heartrate wouldn’t come back up to normal that they did anything. He had lasting effects from the experience for months after. I’m still bitter.
I'm a bane for these kinds of Christians, I'm a Bisexual Pagan who supports Pro Choice and bodily autonomy XP When I was in Sunday School as a kid, I got in so much trouble by asking too many questions. The Bible stories never made any sense to me and the final straw for the teacher was when I questioned the Ark and how it sounded ridiculous; how could they know what a penguin was or a moose, or beluga etc when they don't have those creatures in that part of the world, and how could only a few people build something that big out of wood when trees weren't exactly in massive abundance? Teacher was pissed and told my parents I wasn't welcome anymore and that I think too much lol. My parents taught me to learn and question everything, so yeah, that was the start of me leaving Christianity. When I was in High School I got into Paganism and tried to learn all I could about every religion. I had a teacher that assigned us to do a powerpoint on any time frame in history we wanted. I chose the Salem Witch Trials. I read so many books on it and told how none of the people accused were actually witches, they were just outsiders or people that crossed the accusers in some way. The teacher, a very racist/sexist black man, he did a lot of crap over the years, snorted and said that they were bad people that deserved it because clearly if they were accused then they were in the wrong. I couldn't stop my mouth from running and told him then based on HIS logic the slaves deserved everything they got put through because white folk thought they were lesser beings...the room went silent and I almost got expelled. The principal ended up just changing my class but my goodness that teacher was furious with me and every time he saw me after that he glared like he wanted to pop my head off my body XP
When I was in Sunday school, I asked one of my teachers if Adam and Eve came before or after the dinosaurs. She took one look at me and said we don't ask those kinds of questions. In the military I had a flightmate ask me what church I went to through basic. I said I went to the Wiccan sermons (which they do actually offer). She scoffed and pretty much said "So you learned about blood sacrifices and killing babies? Christians don't do any kind of sacrificing". I looked at her and talked about Abraham, one of the very first books about a man who listens to a voice in the sky telling him to sacrifice his only son to prove his belief. And when Abraham is about to kill his son, the voice says he believes him and tells him to go sacrifice a sheep instead. She started stammering and huffed off.
@@Cyberia15 Awesome XD I love pointing out the cherry picking righteous Christians tend to blather on about. Judge me for my lifestyle? Well Karen, you have tattoos, don't cover your head in church, you've cheated on your husband a few times and you've stolen before, what does your God say about that stuff? Oh, right, he doesn't approve! Love the look of shock on their faces XD
Ah, I also have fun memories of being the only progressive thinker in the bible discussion moments. My ending reasoning was the following; God can't be good, omnipotent, and omniscient at the same time. Sure, he can be 2 out of 3, but not all 3. Simply because there's bad things in the world. If God is good, he would want to do something about it, he's omnipotent so he can actually do something about it, and he's omniscient so he knows about it happening. These are in direct contradiction. If God is not good, but he is omniscient and omnipotent; he knows about it and can prevent it but he simply doesn't care. If God is not omniscient, but he is good and omnipotent; he can prevent it from happening and wants to prevent it, but he doesn't know about it. If God is not omnipotent, but he is good and omniscient; he wants to prevent it and knows about it happening, but he literally cannot do anything about it. Christians like to believe in God as this powerful, purely good being. But that's simply impossible
I recall having a conversation at university with a rabbi who was also a professor of Middle Eastern history and ancient languages. He said the earliest known written versions of Leviticus, in the verse most Christians refer to (18:22) when condemning homosexuality is more properly translated as “A man shall not lie with his brother as he lays with a woman, both shall surely be stoned to death”. The word used for ‘brother’ literally means ‘male sibling from the same mother’. This really makes a lot of sense in context of the rest of the chapter which is all about sexual activity between family members as part of a fertility festival worshiping the Babylonian deity Molesch. It’s not saying don’t be gay, it’s saying don’t worship Molesch.
Roly is like a living emotional support demon. Some might be scared upon hearing about/seeing either (tats, piercings, contacts. "demon"). But actually both awesome and not scary at all
