Crucify by Tori Amos is one of the best songs about all the harm we do ourselves. Love the line, "You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird." Christianity kills the bird faster than anything else!
Unlike yourself and a lot of people that come to your channel, I was only a Christian for two years before I began to deconstruct, yet I am going through the same thing. The fears and doubts keep coming into my mind even though I no longer believe. I am having to constantly work on my mindset to rid myself of the brainwashing, and it's watching your videos daily that is helping me with that. I'm really excited about the new things you will be doing with your channel, that's awesome! I personally enjoy the longer videos. Keep up the great work, Tim 👍
I would enjoy seeing your shorter videos but I also have found your longer ones and livestreams very helpful. I am looking forward to seeing your videos when you are walking especially if you are in nature. It would be nice to see the camera angle shift periodically to show the scenes around you (if you would be comfortable with this). Thanks for another great video!
Tim, a bit off topic but I have a question for you: is Evangelical and Protestant the same thing essentially? If not, how do they differ in their beliefs?
I know your question is directed to Tim, but maybe I can answer at least part of it for you. Protestant is a big umbrella category for the Christian denominations that came about as a result of the Protestant Reformation, as well as denominations that branched off of the original Protestant denominations. Evangelical is a smaller umbrella category of Christian denominations under the larger Protestant category. In other words, all Evangelicals are Protestant, but not all Protestants are Evangelical. Now, as for how they differ in their specific beliefs, I only know that Evangelical denominations tend to be more conservative, even fundamentalist, in their beliefs compared to other Protestant denominations.
@IntrovertAncom I appreciate you answering, thank you for that. All of these different dominations are confusing for sure. All Evangelicals are Protestants, but not all Protestants are Evangelical - that is helpful to know 👍 So do both take the Bible literally? Live according to what the Bible says? All I know is that the church and the people I was involved with, took the Bible word for word and were fundamental, I would say.
@Mim39034 This goes more into nuance about specific beliefs, where I'm not as confident in my answers, but I'll have a go at it. From what I've noticed, the more conservative a denomination is, the more likely they are to interpret the Bible (more) literally, and the more progressive a denomination is, the more likely they are to interpret the Bible (more) metaphorically. I grew up in evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity. My parents were devout members of a church that was a member of the Conservative Baptist Association of America. After I grew up, I left my parents' church and tried a few other denominations (Presbyterian, Episcopalian, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist) over the next 20-some years before realizing, and admitting to myself, that I'm agnostic and leaving Christianity entirely.
@@IntrovertAncom Sorry I missed your reply, I would have responded sooner. Thank you for your thoughtful answer, I appreciate it. I find it very odd, you would think that the Bible is to either to be taken at its word or not, it can't be both ways. I should add that before I was converted to (coerced into) Christianity two years ago, like a lot of people, I believed there could be a God and that was it, no following any religion. Wow, you have quite the history with Christianity! I'm sorry that you were indoctrinated into it at a young age but happy to.hear you have turned your back on it and found freedom. I'd be very interested to know what were your reasons for deconstructing, and if you feel completely at peace now with your Deconversion? I'm not there yet as I am still having to battle the brainwashing, but it's early days.
@Mim39034 I apologize for not being more clear. When I made the comparison between literal and metaphorical interpretations, I was thinking of a bimodal continuum rather than an absolute binary. Many churches are somewhere in the middle, with some things interpreted literally and some things interpreted metaphorically. I should've been more clear about that. My deconstruction was a long process that began when I was a teen, before I left my parents church, that continued until I completely left religion in my 40s. It began when I noticed problematic passages in the Bible that I couldn't get decent answers for, and I noticed a lot of contradictions, double-standards, and hypocrisy (both in the Bible and my parents' church) that I was expected to reconcile and accept somehow. I had a mental breakdown from the cognitive dissonance when I was a brand new adult in my late teens. After that, I left my parents' church and began my journey through other denominations until I eventually realized I no longer believed any of it. I think I've worked though most of the brainwashing at this point, but now I'm going back and finally unpacking and processing the religious trauma and emotional baggage in therapy.
Crucify by Tori Amos is one of the best songs about all the harm we do ourselves. Love the line, "You're just an empty cage girl, if you kill the bird." Christianity kills the bird faster than anything else!
Unlike yourself and a lot of people that come to your channel, I was only a Christian for two years before I began to deconstruct, yet I am going through the same thing. The fears and doubts keep coming into my mind even though I no longer believe. I am having to constantly work on my mindset to rid myself of the brainwashing, and it's watching your videos daily that is helping me with that.
I'm really excited about the new things you will be doing with your channel, that's awesome! I personally enjoy the longer videos. Keep up the great work, Tim 👍
I would enjoy seeing your shorter videos but I also have found your longer ones and livestreams very helpful. I am looking forward to seeing your videos when you are walking especially if you are in nature. It would be nice to see the camera angle shift periodically to show the scenes around you (if you would be comfortable with this). Thanks for another great video!
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Thank you Tim - enjoyed listening to this on my Sunday morning here 🇦🇺🦘
Nice! A lot of well put thoughts to digest!
Tim, a bit off topic but I have a question for you: is Evangelical and Protestant the same thing essentially? If not, how do they differ in their beliefs?
I know your question is directed to Tim, but maybe I can answer at least part of it for you. Protestant is a big umbrella category for the Christian denominations that came about as a result of the Protestant Reformation, as well as denominations that branched off of the original Protestant denominations. Evangelical is a smaller umbrella category of Christian denominations under the larger Protestant category. In other words, all Evangelicals are Protestant, but not all Protestants are Evangelical. Now, as for how they differ in their specific beliefs, I only know that Evangelical denominations tend to be more conservative, even fundamentalist, in their beliefs compared to other Protestant denominations.
@IntrovertAncom I appreciate you answering, thank you for that. All of these different dominations are confusing for sure. All Evangelicals are Protestants, but not all Protestants are Evangelical - that is helpful to know 👍 So do both take the Bible literally? Live according to what the Bible says? All I know is that the church and the people I was involved with, took the Bible word for word and were fundamental, I would say.
@Mim39034 This goes more into nuance about specific beliefs, where I'm not as confident in my answers, but I'll have a go at it. From what I've noticed, the more conservative a denomination is, the more likely they are to interpret the Bible (more) literally, and the more progressive a denomination is, the more likely they are to interpret the Bible (more) metaphorically.
I grew up in evangelical/fundamentalist Christianity. My parents were devout members of a church that was a member of the Conservative Baptist Association of America. After I grew up, I left my parents' church and tried a few other denominations (Presbyterian, Episcopalian, United Church of Christ, Unitarian Universalist) over the next 20-some years before realizing, and admitting to myself, that I'm agnostic and leaving Christianity entirely.
@@IntrovertAncom Sorry I missed your reply, I would have responded sooner. Thank you for your thoughtful answer, I appreciate it. I find it very odd, you would think that the Bible is to either to be taken at its word or not, it can't be both ways. I should add that before I was converted to (coerced into) Christianity two years ago, like a lot of people, I believed there could be a God and that was it, no following any religion. Wow, you have quite the history with Christianity! I'm sorry that you were indoctrinated into it at a young age but happy to.hear you have turned your back on it and found freedom. I'd be very interested to know what were your reasons for deconstructing, and if you feel completely at peace now with your Deconversion? I'm not there yet as I am still having to battle the brainwashing, but it's early days.
@Mim39034 I apologize for not being more clear. When I made the comparison between literal and metaphorical interpretations, I was thinking of a bimodal continuum rather than an absolute binary. Many churches are somewhere in the middle, with some things interpreted literally and some things interpreted metaphorically. I should've been more clear about that.
My deconstruction was a long process that began when I was a teen, before I left my parents church, that continued until I completely left religion in my 40s. It began when I noticed problematic passages in the Bible that I couldn't get decent answers for, and I noticed a lot of contradictions, double-standards, and hypocrisy (both in the Bible and my parents' church) that I was expected to reconcile and accept somehow. I had a mental breakdown from the cognitive dissonance when I was a brand new adult in my late teens. After that, I left my parents' church and began my journey through other denominations until I eventually realized I no longer believed any of it.
I think I've worked though most of the brainwashing at this point, but now I'm going back and finally unpacking and processing the religious trauma and emotional baggage in therapy.