SOURCES CITED / WHEN SIGHTED Allison, Dale C. Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet / 1:13:35, 1:18:23, 1:19:29, 1:19:44 Avalos, Hector A. The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics / 1:03:49, 1:23:30 Avalos, Hector A. The End of Biblical Studies / 55:50 Avalos, Hector A. Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence (since re-titled The Reality of Religious Violence) / 40:13 Avalos, Hector A. Health Care and the Rise of Christianity / 55:45 Collins, John J. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism Volume 1: The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity / 55:54 Collins, John J. Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/ 5:06 Collins, John J. Does the Bible Justify Violence? / 23:56, 38:52, 40:25, 43:53 Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature / 18:54, 53:58, 54:28, 56:50, 1:07:33, 1:09:47, 1:11:20, 1:14:46 Ehrman, Bart D. Forged / 59:03 Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus / 50:03 Ehrman, Bart D. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings / 52:18, 53:01, 56:31, 58:02, 58:55, 1:04:32, 1:09:41, 1:09:57, 1:10:32, 1:13:25, 1:13:46, 1:14:30 Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture / 49:59 Frykholm, Amy. Christian Understandings of the Future: The Historical Trajectory / 55:34, 55:46, 1:09:18, 1:12:08, 1:16:16 Frykholm, Amy. Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America / 55:53 Gagne, Andre. The Global Impact of Religious Violence / 55:34 Hendel, Ronald. Remembering Abraham / 8:31, 17:34, 20:25 Hendel, Ronald. The Book of Genesis: A Biography / 55:35 Metzger, Bruce M. & Ehrman, Bart D. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration / 55:48 Niditch, Susan. War in the Hebrew Bible / 37:40, 44:29, 45:51, 55:34 Wright, Jacob L. David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory / 55:35 Good starter book for folks leaving belief behind: Dan Barker's "Godless" includes many of the issues raised in this film. This is hardly a complete bibliography. But these books are both cited & sighted.
A close friend of mine was the most devoted person I have ever met. He didn't drink, smoke, did missionary work, was celibate and would give you the shirt off his back. After seminary he left the church altogether. All he would say about the experience is "seminary is where faith/the soul goes to die". Fortunately he's ultimately figured out that he was and still is an awesome person with or without religion. The belief that one can't be moral without religion is both ridiculous and damaging.
@@MrAndyhdz You know the comment you're commenting on is both as they put it "ridiculous and damaging". So we can still be an awesome person without Christ is what this person is saying, right? The belief that one can be moral without "religion" is ridiculous and damaging. Remember this my friend... it is written that "people will trade evil for good and good for evil." Take for example the riots in the different cities a couple of years ago. People committing arson and blowing up automobiles and attacking police officers and other people alongside of breaking into businesses and stealing their merchandise and just causing mass destruction. In their wicked eyes that was "moral" and "good". In their wicked eyes these same people are angry because Donald Trump wasn't killed in his assassination attempt. They were actually angry that he didn't get killed. You see they can't see their own evil because to them evil is good, and that's exactly what the Bible said people were going to be like. So think on this.... so you have to expect this Satan's Guide to be exactly that... it's of the Devil. What does the Devil do? He comes to steal and kill and destroy. To these people that's a good thing. These kinds of people yet again have proven the Bible correct. And I've asked this question to Satan's people before and I haven't gotten an answer from them, so I'll leave it here and maybe someone will respond, but I sincerely doubt it..... By who's Authority and by Who's Morality are we to see as "good" or "decent"? Is it the political? Well we already know the political is corrupt and they don't even follow their own laws. Is it individual? Well we already know when it comes to individual morality people can justify ANYTHING from having sex with children to rioting, to violence, to stealing, to destroying. So we can't trust that either. How about people groups? No we really can't trust that either and we see that with the violence of the BLM and even Pride Parades where in FRONT OF CHILDREN homosexuals are urinating in each others mouths, walking around naked and even performing falatio on each other... AGAIN... IN FRONT OF CHILDREN. We see this behavior with the Woke Community as well where anything is justifiable as long as their selfish behavior dictates their ferocity towards anyone who disagrees with them. So.... in the end they reject God, and they embrace the Devil. And... they don't even see it in themselves their wicked and vile and evil behavior much like Sodom and Gomorrah.
@@MrAndyhdz We can objectively verify the ounces, temperature and pressure of water. We all agree that water is real and we drink, cook and shower in it daily. No one has to take someone's word on the existence of water.
My parents gave me a Bible and said it was God's word. When I read it, they were shocked that I ended up with more fundamentalist views than them. They still insist they never taught me "any of that stuff." That's not how it works, folks. Give a kid a book and tell them a literal God wrote it, and you're responsible for what they learn from a straight reading of the words. I'm quite confident that neither of my parents has read the entire Bible to this day.
For me reading the bible is what actually got me out of christianity. Neither he old testament nor the new showed anything of the loving god I had been told about.
@Hugh.Manatee I didn't think God's existence was contingent upon whether or not he seemed loving to me. It was divine hiddenness, obviously fictional creation myths, and the contradiction of an omnipotent God _needing_ anything (blood sacrifices to forgive sins, etc.) that finally got me thinking.
I'm an atheist. I've been seeing this in my recommendations. And I assumed it would simply be anti-theist yelling, and ignored it. I shouldn't have judged it by its cover. This is excellently produced, and apparently has been in the works for over a decade. Great video!
Same. I'm an atheist and I'm not really interested in just having my viewpoint reinforced without any new substance so I skipped over this video like a hundred times. In fact the only reason I'm watching it now is because TH-cam auto played it at the end of the last video. For once the algorithm didn't fail me.
As a seminarian, I was taught, "Don't disturb congregants' beliefs. Preach the comforting verses and good behaviour. Keep the parishoners in the pews and filling the donation baskets. The facts are too complicated for the average layman." If you want more of an eye-opener, study the history of the Bible, and study biblical archeology. "The truth (reality) will set you free (of ignorant superstitions)."
Well Said!!! I haven't watched this vid yet I like reading comments first. I like this: "The truth (reality) will set you free (of ignorant superstitions)."
they have brainwashed you well themrfarkle ,gave a private doctor,better salary ,for the expensive private doctor you ve got,and lets not forget,credit life and seeding when being bored, being a less garbage than the rest 99 percent of humanity ,which is brainstained and some of them have evil spirits,greedy spirits etc. in their bodies if you re happy ,thats what counts the most
Beware of WordS! God’s word is Sharper than a double edged sword ⚔️… If you don’t know the Semitic language you don’t understand the power of numbers and language. Jesus never wrote one word that we know of and is the most exalted name on earth! The Torah is the only Semitic language on earth that was given to Moses in a code. Jesus came to share the code of truth with all those who wanted to know God. Not to abolish the Torah and Gods timeline… Instead, the so called church changed the language and the calendar and partnered with the government to form universities and an education system using the Greek Septuagint for language translation that’s now English to deceive the people and rule over the west using and teaching this false narrative of Jesus for a made up belief system that’s completely different from the original language that is still hidden in its original form. And to act as if it’s all good and of god, they put the 10 commandments of the original law on the White House and in every institution, church and government and military!
Forgive my troll but I'm half expecting someone saying in the comments that he got cancer BECAUSE was saying something against "the God" and everyone who got even slight thought of agreeing with anything he said will also get "wrath of god" 👀🙃
Wow, I’m an atheist with a very religious family and this video has made a profound impact on me. The hardest part about losing my faith was shaking the fear of hell. The church I grew up in didn’t say hell was eternal but all the fear mongering around the end of times stuck with me. Knowing that Jesus thought the end of days was happening in his time changes everything. This book is a STORY. The hell on Earth we are living in isn’t by design of an omnipotent creator… just like the Bible was created by human beings, a host of the world’s problems were created by us too. That thought is so frightening and empowering. We decide how life unfolds. I’m so grateful for mine.
@@SATANSGUIDE and full praise to you Satan! The work you put into this project is undeniable. Thank you so much! ^my mother would faint reading that first sentence 😂
It is pretty tough when your whole family is under the spell. I have to bite my tongue at gatherings. But the hypocrisy has always been deafening for me. But trying to tell a Black Mom (in my case 80+ years old) isnt an option! Stay strong girl!@chelseawilliams8588
@@MrDinFla1 Thanks and I can totally relate. When I told my mom and my dad about my beliefs, I was called the spawn of Satan, told I’d be disowned and that they would be calling the police if I didn’t immediately leave. It was tough and somehow, we’ve gotten past it. I too hold my tongue at get togethers. Anywhoo, it sounds like you have done your best to prioritize maintaining relationships with your loved ones despite the frustration and that’s important decision to make. We do the best we can. Stay strong too!!
I read the book Meditation for Dummies and learned mantra meditation. Mantra meditation is where you repeat a mantra in your mind and anytime your mind wanders you return your focus to repeating the mantra in your mind. Mantra meditation benefited me 10x more than the Mormon faith did. I went to church because it helped me be a better person, but mantra meditation made it 10x easier to be a better person. Many atheists meditate because it benefits them.
The seminary achieved their goal. You were too honest to become a minister after they stripped you of the truth. Seminary graduates are also atheist who become false teachers to deceive the sheep. They walk on thin ice, but they make a good living preying on God's people.
Reminds me of when our sunday school teacher taught us that only believing in god got you in heaven, and I asked, "Even if you were the best person in the world?", and she said "yes, even they would go to hell if they didn't believe. " In retort, I then said, "So the best person could be in hell, and the worst in heaven? That's not right!" and all the other kids agreed with me. Suddenly, I wasn't allowed at sunday school anymore, which my parents who only let me go because I wanted to, rather than to brain wash me with their own beliefs, were fine with. Taught me a very important lesson about religion and those who organize it.
Actually the Bible says there are NO GOOD people if you want to get REALLY technical in teh actual language the Bible calls our righteousness a pile of shit and a bloody tampon. Disgusting things to the eyes of a perfect and holy God.
The best could be in hell and the "worst" in heaven. That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9. The Lord in not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8. Man's view on the worst doesn't matter if He comes to Christ and believes in him and confesses with his mouth the Lord Jesus and believes in his heart that God has raised Him from the dead and repents for if he does that he is saved.
There is really no “best” or “worse” person in comparison to God’s holiness, we are all deserving of His wrath. Trusting in Christ for salvation is the only way to be redeemed and forgiven for your sins. Not one of us is good compared to God.
@@willyzook Ya but more even we are all born completely in rebellion and totally depraved. If your cute cuddly little toddler were bigger and stronger than you and you balked his/her will you;d be killed by that cuddly little heathen. Its ONLY in being born again and even then its his nature imputed upon us that makes us holy and good.
As an "abomination" myself, I wanted to express my deepest appreciation for your documentary. The meticulous research and clarity you brought to historical events not only shed new light on the past but also made it accessible and engaging for a wider audience. Your dedication to uncovering and presenting the truth is truly commendable. 💜
Yes the.....Skip the first book, only read some of the second book. Skim the third for things I can pick apart. And then say the people who wrote some of the books of the Bible aren't the people who the people the books are about. I can answer everything in the first 50 min of this video with. The reason why God had to tell them to kill the cannenites in Deuteronomy is because he had told Abraham, Isaac and Jacob a bunch of stuff when they first moved to Canaan from ur "witch is was Babylon. Cannot believe I have to say it but nobody said the Jews are from Egypt they just lived there for a bit" but Jacob and his sons kept disobeying him so all the cannenites hated the Jews so there would be no peaceful return to cannan. God has entered into a covenant with Abraham so he wouldn't break his covenant with them. So he told them what they needed to do to take the promised land now that they returned. Witch they didn't always do so it dragged on. Abraham and Issac were told to live in peace with the cannenites witch they did. They dug wells and built alters to God. Jacob and his sons disobeyed God multiple times so after that peace was no longer an option.
Non of us true Christians call you an abomination …. Whoever told you that is misguided . Probably a Christian by name only not by practice which makes him or her a non Christian incidentally.
@@stupotgorilla so you basically just said "sure, God ordered a genocide, but..." So if justifying genocide wasn't bad enough, your justification is "Because God told some guys a bunch of stuff"? Do you even realise how weak this is? You literally wrote it out and don't see any problem with it?...
The fact that you guys worked on this for 10 years, as a team of 3 is an achievement commendable beyond mere words. No money. I can only imagine the sweat and blood poured into these 85 minutes. From a random aspiring creator: congratulations to you all for this incredible undertaking.
As unnecessarily shocking as this video could have been (given the name of the channel/video), you made the decision to let the shock be in the content and not the delivery. You chose to approach the topic respectfully but firmly, in a way that communicated its information clearly. I have a lot of respect for the work you did on this monster of a video and hope it reaches as many people who need to see it.
@@justiniadonisi9290 eh TH-cam’s algorithm is a big fan of titles that drive engagement and this definitely did so (source: the number of apologists and counter-apologists who have responded to this video)
Seminary is usually three years. Here’s what I observed when I attended: 1. Students faith is ripped from them (for the better), 2. Students struggle to rebuild their faith, 3. Ignore parts one and two and accept the tropes and cliches because $150k in student loan debt doesn’t pay for itself. I know because I left. I was voted out of my church because I said gay people deserve to be loved too, from a mainline denomination. I’m free from someone else’s dogma!
@@slayerdeth0705 Oh ok. I totally made up the most painful period of my life, a 10 year career taken away, leaving the community of people I deeply cared for. I totally love all this student loan debt /s. I was the co-President of my student council at seminary and knew the inside game and the common struggle of ministerial students.
@@slayerdeth0705 Don't you take the resurrection by basis of faith in distant third hand eyewitnesses? Why is it a hard thing to believe the firsthand eyewitness before you?
I just can’t stop laughing at all these angry religious comments that say either “I didn’t watch the video but Jesus loves you” or “you’re so wrong and this is unfair” with literally zero counter points😭😂😂😂
I remember how betrayed I felt when I stepped outside the boundaries of what I was "allowed" to study, and learned this for myself 30 years ago. Then I had to decide whether to live life as a hypocrite, or give up ever speaking again to anyone I ever knew and loved. It was hard, but I'm no hypocrite. Hypocrisy, as it turns out, was largely a trait of Christianity. I've known several people since then who have doctorates in theology, including 2 Catholic priests. They were all atheists, even the priests. The conclusion was that you couldn't study the bible at that level with an open mind and still believe in the Bible.
Sounds like seminary is a long drawn out process of taking a pillow to your faith. "Shh, shhhh... it's not your fault." Whilst, at the same time; the cost of education is so ridiculously high that the sunken cost added on top of the prospect of having to retool for another trade (like say becoming an engineer) forces most seminary graduates to just continue onwards to become pastors/priests because... well we all need to eat and now you have student loans to pay off.
Everything isnt for everybody. I mean they crucified Jesus during his time. That's alright. As long you stay a good person. You don't need the bible to know how to do that.
"Let's take a few minutes to reflect on why we think genocide is wrong in the first place." Believe it or not, this is a great exercise to develop your own moral compass. Why do we think this thing is right? Why do we think it's wrong? Don't just assume it's right or wrong simply because someone told you so. Genocide is wrong. But WHY??? Answering this question will strengthen your understanding of morality.
Basic response: Genocide is wrong because I don't want people to commit genocide against me. Better response: Genocide is wrong because I recognize no moral system by which the wholesale extermination of an ethnic group or national identity could be justified. Best response: Genocide is OK if god says so.
I am best friends with a devout Christian who is very secure in his beliefs. He said there wasn't anything I could show him that would shake his belief in God. He was angry with me after we watched this together. Even got angry at one of the sections. We often have robust discussions and he never takes any of it personally. I've never seen him react in such a way either.
Very interesting. Please give an update, I'll be interested to hear how this plays out. Likely just a small bump in the road? That's my prophecy. As for why he got angry, I'll steal language from Ernest Becker (cultural anthropologist). People get super peeved when their 'symbolic universe' is challenged, bc our 'immortality project' is shown to be in error.
@@SATANSGUIDE This is it all the way. People react angrily when they're faith is, in fact, shook. That was a defensive reaction and he probably doesn't want to be pushed more, unfortunately.
@@franciscolopez1787 I think its just offensive to a believer to present them "satans guide", no matter how well it's made. Saying that as an atheist. I find it tasteless too. Why is that so? Simply because even if the video is right in all its points, they can't agree to something that satan supposes to them. And anger is often coming out of frustration and being powerless. There are so many sensible ressources out there. why pick this one for your friend? Not trying to diss the content of the video itself, but the stylistic choice is not to my taste. Again, saying this as an atheist.
Some best friend you are. If he is a real Christin and not some manufactured comment on yt, he'll start by looking at Daniel 11 12 - 13 and realise the opening claims in the video have nothing to do with Antiochus dying in Israel indicating the person/s behind this production are liars. No need to continue watching the whole thing. If you really are his best friend, bring this to his attention.
@@marcrahn4307 So we've been friends since 2005 almost 20 years. I sang in his wedding. It's foolish to assume this is the only context of our discussions on religion and non-religion. I didn't "present" anything to him in any way more than you "present" youtube videos you watch to your friends. I am also not atheist. I went to religious school as a child, and am no longer religious. I believe in evolution which is contradicted often by religions and their proselytizers . This does not mean I have 0 believe in higher powers. Also, this isn't Satan. Its a video made of felt and construction paper with a voice over. What it is, is information.
Weird conclusion to come to. Just because people claimed God told them to do something, that doesn’t discount the possibility of an eternal creator of all the universe.
@@albuquerquehotspot7835 there's always a possibility. we didnt find unicorns but maybe they're just really sneaky? if natural explanations work then why try to pin anything on the supernatural.
I remember when in primary school they gave us our own bibles and we were told to read it. So I did what an autistic 11 year old would do, I started at the beginning. I was permanently expelled from bible study class after asking why the book of Ruth glorified genocide. I had already been given detention for earlier remarks about old testament books saying infanticide, incest and involuntary copulation were seemingly fine. Guess I did the one thing they didn't want me to do. I actually went and read the bible and what little religion that was drilled into me as a child vanished. Not because someone told me religion was a hoax or wrong or even the historical inaccuracies. But because of simple first hand experience. I was bullied a lot as a child, simply because I was different due to my autism. Being bullied was not nice, the kids who did this to me were not nice people in my view. The teachers who could, but didn't act were bad people in my view. Then when our pet cat died I understood the grief of loss, again this was not nice. And I already knew that killing something or someone meant they'd be dead. Why would you want to purposely inflict such grief upon another, that just seemed wrong to me. So when I read the Bible and there was all this talk of genocide, infanticide, plague and pestilence. I understood very well, even as an 11 or 12 year old, that these were not good things. And there were so many things of which I didn't fully understand what they were, but they didn't seem nice. This made me question, if all of this was done in the name of "God" why should I follow these teachings? How does so much terrible stuff add up to something good? Well the more I read, the more it didn't add up. Empathy and "don't do to another what you wouldn't want them to do to you" were not difficult concepts to grasp even as a child. I never needed a book for that.
God doesn't bring upon the horrors of this world. Satan is the god of this world. Sin started when Lucifer let his pride overcome his purpose. sin and wickedness come from Satan.
It should go without saying that this is Season 666, just as @trinsit revealed, transmitted to us from the future via the dream-technology in John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness".
I was raised by atheist parents (from catholic and Zwingli families) in a deeply catholic country and during my youth, I tried to find my spirituality and was only faced with aggression and intolerance. Furthermore, the same people who called me a heretic and infidel when I was but 7yo, were the same who wanted to take me to a brothel to celebrate my 18th birthday. I don't have a problem with religious people but I do have a problem with hypocrisy. Great video! Definitively subscribing! :D
If the others already have a chosen religion, such as christianity or one of the other j religions, they will become uncomfortable if you are trying to chose a religion or find some spirituality. They prefer that you believe in the exact same thing that you do, otherwise, they become ugly, unfriendly, they stop talking to you. Well, you were only 7 y back then so you lacked a lot of information. I am an atheist in Canada and although the number of atheists is going up drastically (It was like 12% in 1998 and now, it is about 25%), I don't advertise that I am an atheist since I know that some theists are nasty people. When I worked at a certain place, I found out that one guy had a car and he gave a lift to a guy to reach the subway. The subway was only 3 min away by car, otherwise, I would have to take the car. So I asked if he can lift me as well. He said yes. During one of the car rides, it turned into a religious talk. I said I was an atheist. The other guy was an atheist. The car driver was a jehova’s witness. I do remember he said at one point he said that halloween is dangerous. Anyway, the next day he said he could not give me a lift anymore and I found out he said the same to the other guy as well. There you go. That is a jehova’s witness. I learned what a jehova’s witness was.
@@louistournas120 That sucks! Theists always expect their religiousness to be respected but don't seem to understand that it goes both ways. As a teenager, as we were walking home from school, I once had the village minister stop to give a lift for my friends but since I was the son of an atheist, he wanted to leave me alone on the side of the road, some 6km from home. Luckily my friends declined the lift and stayed with me as we walked home.
@@firbolgJesus teaches us in the Gospel that we need to love and forgive our enemies. Christians will face persecution, it will happen. This video is trying to make you think of God as some jerk who disregards everything, and does not care. Persecution is destined for any Christian, and I have been persecuted for my beliefs. Hypocrisy is very common within Christianity because that is how Satan works his hands into the minds of believers. You just need to accept the persecution because the road to heaven is NOT easy, but very hard. Do not let anybody stray you from Christianity. I recommend you look into the miracles of the Eucharist, which can show a lot.
I'm 61 and grew up as a baptist, methodist, and eventually jehovahs witness and so was hesitant to view this. But you really brought out concerns I've had simmering below the surface for years. And at 36 mins in, to hear these pastors justify the killing of Canaanite children as mercy..blows my mind. This is an amazing piece of work. And the way you chose to present it via a humorous mixed media format is just brilliant. It's 2am here and I'm hooked and will watch till the end.
Ya and it blows my mind that you find it calming to trust a caricature of Satan who also killed people, ruin people's lives, and is a reason why the world became crap. And who doesn't care about because Satan is a failure who screwed up and does not care about anybody but himself, and who is a jerk and the accuser of humanity, and who is afraid of Jesus Christ and his power because he knows that his fate will lie in the lake of fire, you trust the devil? a liar and a murderer. What I am commenting here is not lying about this channel or Satan himself, this is genuinely who the snake is,
Religion is opposite to relationship with God. Religion is all about performing outwardly for people, but not inwardly for God. Jesus said "With their mouth they honour me, but inside they are far from me"
I can picture the writers patting themselves on the back for that one. Probably the cleverest thing in the entire video. Almost made me chuckle slightly. Typical dad humor.
When I was about 9 or 10, my mom and stepfather would take us church hopping. One time we went to a non denominational church where they did the speaking in tongues and stuff. Well, i remember being in children's church with the songs and puppets, but then they had us all line up to go join the adults in the sanctuary. They lined all us kids in a row at the front, near the pulpit. And all the adults were howling and moaning and speaking in tongues, which was pretty alarming to me because I hadn't seen this before. However, i do remember mostly being quite curious about the whole thing. So i watch as the pastor goes one by one down the row of kids. He would stand in front of a child and speak in tongues, and then blow on their forehead, then the child would fall back onto the floor and there was a man behind the kid that would cover them with a blanket. Well i was pretty excited for it to be my turn because to me it seemed like a magic trick or something. He gets to me and he's all "shalahmama...." etc and then blows on my forehead. And im just looking at him. So he says some more gibberish, then touches my forehead. And im still waiting to fall down. Finally i think he got irritated with me because yhe next time he pushed my head back with his finger, so i just layed down and was pretty freaked out for the rest of it. But that's the first time i had any sort of feeling that maybe something wasn't quite like they always taught me.
I grew up in a “shamalama” church but one grandmother was Roman Catholic. We took this disabled grandmother to a Benny Hinn event, and she was on stage but didn’t fall when pushed. She was confused. He pushed her twice more before they took her off-stage. I was about seven and asked my mother why God didn’t heal grandma, why grandma didn’t fall. “Grandma didn’t know she had to fall.” This bothered me for years but I filed it away for as long. I’m atheist now and still wonder why she worded it that way.
Growing up in non-denominational/Pentecostal churches, this was always weird to me. Whenever someone would go to do it to me only thing I ever felt was social anxiety that I need to fall, too. Other than that, no feeling, no spirit of God. I think some people hype themselves up and can have a physical reaction, but I have to believe it's placebo in all cases where it isn't fake.
Thats pretty cool with the church hopping its always good to get a better perspective by triangulating the truth through multiple view points sounds like you had pretty cool parents. Its hard you had to find out the lengths some will go to to manipulate but im sure you grew alot and realized a bit more about the human condition from it.
As a Christian, I knew most of it. Actually, there's was a little more that you could have had covered, but withing time concerns, it's great as it is. I appreciate the fact that you mentioned only mostly established points, not conspiracy theories zeitgeist style.
@@greentoothbrush42 there's no nonsense at all. Several scholars reasoned out everything at least as far as II AD. The issue is that most people, including atheists, have a previous bias and are more focused in confirming their biases than figuring out possibilities. While this video has a slight atheist position, it's pretty much straight to facts and let the viewer figure out hypothesis at his discretion.
Sounds like a direct quote from Festus on Gunsmoke (he was illiterate but was a sponge for info)..He once asked Doc "How do yuh know thet yer readin the writin rightly, or ifn the guy what wrote the writin writ it rightly hisself..."
This could legit be shown on an educational adult swim the creativity and production are so good. Really hope the work and dedication that must have gone into this project gets the recognition it rightfully deserves.
@@SATANSGUIDE I feel like you went a little easy on the morals section. Doesn’t the Bible also advocate child rape, and you only mentioned slavery briefly once. Also, Satan is one hot daddy! What’s Satan’s stance on homosexuality?
@@YouKnowImtellingTheTruth as long as people don't realize to really understand Jesus they MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND JUDAISM, they're reading a book without the required context and understanding what they want, not what Jesus probably wanted to teach.
@@YouKnowImtellingTheTruth Yet the irony is that most religious people don't read the actual sacred texts. They usually expect some sort of authority to explain the "true" meaning of these texts, which is the also the main focus of this video.
@@pachucodrive7861why do you just assume? If you’re gonna say something like that it needs to be a fact “most religious people.” You have no idea dude 😂
My older brother (Rest in peace, had kidney failure.) was a muslim who was beat up by the Sheikh in charge during the lecture, for correcting a verse. (He was like 11) The Sheikh left a note for my mom with him that said, "Job well done, raising a peculiar child." My mom still tells that story as if it were her fault for raising her son to be curious. I know this ain't christianity, but I think it's worth mentioning cause these people's mindset, I think, is so very similar to those pastors.
When I started watching I was not expecting the level of content or video production I saw. I was only going to watch a couple minutes but stayed for the entire hour and a half. Incredibly well done.
Same, clicked on it to see what it was and ended up watching the entire thing. I watch a lot of counterapologetics content on yt and it can get very old, and I wasn't expected this to be amazing. But it was.
I can’t believe how many songs I learned as a kid to condition me into believing. It was kinda creepy and triggered many memories I forgot I had. Like singing those songs many times for the adults with the other kids for performances. Man, I’m so glad everyone didn’t have a camera in their pocket back then
I seriously cannot believe I watched this free of charge. This was amazing and thank you. I can’t express enough how admirable you are for this is. I’m looking forward to seeing this channel’s success.
@@SATANSGUIDEim only a few minutes in but i totally want to share this with my christian boyfriend, he looooves long and respectful philosophical discussion and also long content. i personally have a lot of trouble focusing on long content but i’m watching this all the way through because it’s so educational and high-quality. i will definitely share this.
@@SATANSGUIDE Hopefully yours won't get taken down like a few others have on here exposing this info. KnowMoreNews and Christendumb/truthhertz are now on other platforms (like Homer's "Odyssey"). Good job with this one!!
@@SATANSGUIDE How many middle men between you guys, and the money supporting you from Israel? I mean, you know, the American money, (which is siphoned from our taxpayers, including MANY Christians) and given to Israel, so that they can fund endeavors such as this?
@@UnityAgainstJewishEvil I feel like the video was actually pretty critical of the historical accounts in Judaism. Unless I'm completely deaf, I think it even mocked the concept of a "chosen people" which I'm sure isn't a thing a zionist would put in their secret spooky propaganda. Maybe I'm wrong. Either way, you should fully watch the video. Knowing the truth about what you believe should ONLY strengthen your faith in it. Be unwavering, Brumsly!
Recently my parents move out to the fundamentalist countryside and I was so worried for them. Then my father decides to study theology and I almost freaked out, but against my judgement, he just turned more left leaning and became an atheist. I was not expecting that, but I'm quite happy. I will send him these, luckily it has subtitles.
“The liberation of the Israelites and the genocide of the Canaanites are two side of the same coin.” Over thousands of years, humans have inadequately rejected the notions of “acceptable genocide” when sanctioned by “the right god,” as found in Joshua. It should come as no surprise that we see our failures come home to roost in the modern situation in Gaza. More than TWO THOUSAND YEARS and we have let authoritarian morality persist to our peril.
Thank you, I was going to post this exact sentiment! It's chilling the ways in which the Israeli authorities of today are using the exact same language against Palestinians that apologists use against the Canaanites. "They're bad people. Their culture is bad. They'd do the same to us. We can't coexist here because God has willed this land to *us.* They aren't capable of taking proper care of the land." And on and on. Folks over here in the US keep repeating "Israel has a right to defend itself," but they either don't research (or are ignoring) the things that Israeli people are actually saying: that either way their goal is to wipe Palestine and its people off the map. That's been the goal since the early 1900s and earlier (ie *before* WWII), since Zionism began. Wherever they decided their promised land would be (originally I think it was going to be in Africa?), the plan was to remove/eliminate by force the people already living there. It's religious zealotry, ethnic cleansing, and (oddly enough yet predictably) white supremacy at its core.
The worst part about it is that both sides are wrong and it's the same way in just about every war. One terrible religion against another terrible religion.
It was 4 years in the seminary and the things I learned there that convinced me that the Christian Church did not come from Jesus but from Paul (who never knew Jesus) and the Council of Nicaea (or Nicea) which was almost 300 years after Jesus's ministry. Christianity was invented by humans, not by God. Which makes you doubt not only God's authorship, but even God's competence. And, by logical extension, God's existence. Today I'm an Atheist.
I’ve been an atheist for pretty much my entire life, but still have a good amount of religious trauma because the people around me are not. This video helped me work through some of that, especially all of those kids’ songs and stage plays and etc. that are genuinely painful for me to think about. So, thank you. Even leaving that aside, I’m beyond impressed by the quality of the actual content here. The research, animation, and even just the joke-writing are beyond well done. While I personally didn’t learn too much new information from this, seeing it all packaged so coherently and thoughtfully honestly made my day. I’ll be sharing it around, too, as it seems really approachable, and addresses these points more confidently than I ever could. Truly brilliant work. ❤
Dude I almost started crying when they started singing “Jesus loves me, this I know”. The juxtaposition of my deconstruction laid bare with the living warmth I felt believing all this stuff in Sunday school. It hurts deep man.
@@SATANSGUIDE woah Satan himself replies! This video was *awesome* by the way! Most deconstruction videos I watch I find myself not fully agreeing with their arguments, but this one really solidly takes apart what I see as the genuine problems in the Bible. 10/10 would recommend
This is honestly the best line in this whole thing in my opinion. I don't even know why I find it so funny, I keep trying to explain the joke to myself but I don't get it, it's just funny.
@drpurple1337 It's because Jen's innocent ignorance is a metaphor for the Catholic church's tendency to prefer a lazy-faith fairweather flock, rather than a herd of tried-and-tested believers who understand *what* they believe in and *why* they have faith in it. And Satan's half-amused dismissal of her learned arrogance is a metaphor for how the real world tends to hold members of religious organizations to a certain standard of accountability, often without mercy. It perfectly illustrates how pitiful the "BELLIGERENT FAITH" reflex is against things like truth and reason. You can't replace (or defend against) an intelligent and well-versed observation by rebuking it on principle. You have to understand the morals and values you declare before you go around asserting them. Otherwise, you just end up looking stupid and being noted. ...Oooor it's because a whole-ass angel basically said "fukkoutta here with that shıt" to a little brat. Which is just funny. Idk pick your favorite.
I went to the Catholic University of São Paulo (largest catholic university of all America's) and we had mandatory Theology classes regardless of the major. The professor had a master degree in theology and studied to be a Bishop before giving up the cleric life for lack of faith. He was clearly an agnostic although denying it giving vague answers regarding his faith, yet was teaching theology inside a corpus of the church. He liked the "lore" of Christianity and believed in a quite loose definition of a loving god, but he regarded the bible as problematic and mostly fiction. When the most academics in your own religion don't believe or take your founding scriptures seriously, one has to stop to think what is even the point of institutionalized religion altogether. Most of these people continue in it out of convenience and tradition (as well as tax benefits, lol).
I had a very similar experience at a Lutheran college. I had to take more than one religion course, and we really dug into the origins of the Bible in a few ways - the documentary hypothesis, the synoptic problem, extra-canonical works, etc. It was eye opening to say the least. Anyway I was skeptical before but really skeptical after. The professors for these courses were usually ex-pastors or people who had dropped out of seminary to do real academic study. I also knew a couple of people on the seminary track but they couldn't envision themselves making a career out of [essentially] lying, so they switched majors late in their studies. Frankly I have a hard time imagining how anyone with a rational and skeptical worldview when given all the available information could still believe that the Bible is "the word of God".
The purpose I think for any religion is a sense of understanding, meaning, and reliability in a world that is inherently meaningless and chaotic. Its a psychological security blanket. Its also a great way to have a sense of community. The issue with it is when people take advantage of it and use it as a way to control people through fear
It's simply faith we believe the bible is the true word of God. A large Christian movement is on its way!!! Anyone who has felt The Holy Ghost knows God is real.
I like the character refusing to change their views no matter what is shown to them. It's a reminder that the goal of information isn't necessarily to convert people away from religion, but to hopefully prevent people from making incredibly poor decisions on behalf of themselves or others in the name of an ideology that demonstrably does not have their bests interest in mind.
@@wyattwillis8565 its strange how even in progressive schools the absolute number of trans people is absolutely miniscule. its almost as if no one is actually "teaching" kids to be trans, but that some kids become trans when exposed to the concept. its kind of like how gay, autistic, depressed, anxious and schizophrenic people existed before we could diagnose those things. almost as if our entire society has a gargantuan undercurrent of people who spend their lives never being told that maybe there is a reason why they feel the way that they do.
@@wyattwillis8565 you mean like how every situation could be interpreted? there’s nuance to every argument. also you irrelevantly bring up a transphobic remark? iunno kinda weird.
God gives his strongest warriors his toughest battles but I never asked to get cancer i never wanted to fight anything I never wanted to fight his battles I just wanted to grow up normal
No it's not satan did it with Adam and Eve and Jesus in the wilderness, all the times twisting/ changing scripture for his benefit. Hence the father of Lies
Satan never lied in the bible. And before you say "the serpent" - the serpent was not Satan (since the serpent had his legs cursed off and Satan still has his legs in Job, so that's ridiculous. It's just a primitive's explanation for why snakes have no legs, because they're weird) and even the serpent didn't lie. He said they wouldn't die if they ate the fruit, just that their eyes would be opened, which was true. The only reason they had any problems was because God was pissed at them, which is a whole new book of stupid. God said "If you eat the fruit, you will die". That was a lie. They didn't die, they had their eyes opened. Technically, the knowledge of good and evil is called "emotional maturity" and it's something we all get when we transition from children to adolescents.
As an agnostic I never expected to stay an entire hour and a half watching a video about the bible, but it was so damn good and entertaining that time passed flying. I learned a lot too
The funny thing about this is, the existence of the bible or whatever it contains has no meaning regarding the question if an omnipotent entity along the lines of a "god" exists or not *g* The bible is a great example of the length people WILL try to force, extort, scam and con other people into a position in which the forcing, extorting, scamming and conning people will hold authority about them
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv I am neither theist or atheist. I believe that humans can not possible comprehend the nature of the afterlife and God, if there is any, and therefore we can not prepare to what happens after death. But I still find interesting to hear about people interpretations about God and the afterlife.
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv I don't think you know what agnostic means, or you wouldn't ask the second question. It means 'I don't know'. Neither for nor against. I personally would add that I refuse to be put in a category of somebody else's choice.
@@rbdogwoodit actually means “without knowledge” someone can be an agnostic theist which claims they believe but they don’t know for sure, or an agnostic atheist who doesn’t believe in any god but doesn’t know for sure. These titles mean whatever the person identifying as them means though, so he was more asking how this dude identifies his beliefs on religion.
Almost like this is adapted from some of the ways evangelicals and the like have been brainwashing their own kids with religious children's programming.
Was given a kids Bible when really young, graduated to king James in middle school. Boy was it an eye opening experience. Needless to say, I left Christianity after seeing not one person follow teachings. Noticed Christians just picked and chose what fit their narrative best. All through reading the Bible versus just listening to a faith leader.
genuinely, thank you for making this. It's a wonderful resource for people to have and as someone who grew up in this community, I was constantly shunned and ridiculed for criticizing anything and this brings a lot of validation to me. Thank you.
I was not expecting to learn so much and then cry my eyes out at the end... Play I just didn't know and then the credits just slap me in the face with it... Rip Dr Avalos. The legend
I know this might be asking for too much, but please, could we get more of this. This video was so good, as a person who was a fearful believer when I was younger. I love seeing these types of videos.
@@KingCoon its lies and hate. And Satan, the hateful one. He does nkt care about us humans because we are Gods creation so he lies to ise to bring us to hell. Its the Bible. The Bible is the word of God. God would not let evil destroy his words or bad humans too. People can say soooooo much like its was bad translation but got no proof or have evidence and fail badly, like this video. Its crazy that people "enjoyed it" and sad too. Its people who are easily manipulated or brainwashed to think Satan is here to help and to think all is facts with no research done. Read the bible ❤️✝️
The study of religion usually ends faith. There are so many Clergy that, for all the intentions they had of serving humanity, now find themselves without faith themselves, because they usually have an analytical bent and are well ordered in their thinking. But now they say to themselves that while they may not be personally worthy of redemption and ascension into Heaven, perhaps they may assist others to do so, or maybe attain it by 'works.' I really believe they stay in it more because of the peer pressure than any particular belief, and in the company they keep, that peer pressure never relents. I have problems with calling myself an "atheist." You never hear people much these days talking about how they think that the story of Enki just doesn't strike them as true. I would just say that you're on the road to reason, instead of trying to name the recovery from your disease by naming it in honor of the cause of it, which in itself is an inadequacy of thought coupled with the very human desire to never cease to be. But, what do I know? If I have the time, I'll pray for you as I spend my eternity being consciously tortured in a lake of burning lava. Toodles.
@@SATANSGUIDE the songs were one of the few things I actually LIKED about going to a Christian school. The rest of the experience was more like a mild, watered down, lite version of Dante's Inferno that I was able to experience in real life. Hypocrisy was only the tip of that very large ice berg.
You should check out the midnight mass. Minister meets an "angel" (vampire) and brings it back to his congregation where it starts feeding on the people on the island. It makes excellent use of those songs to reinforce the horror element of the show. Truly spine chilling
I grew up with good, God-fearing, moral Baptists who believed that from time to time, God just had to kill some kids. Thankfully, using empathy and the Golden Rule, I rejected the twisted morality I was taught and instead learned to treat my fellow humans with deeper kindness and respect. Run for the hills kids!
@@freedom1557"You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another humbly in love." Galatians 5:13
"You can take any sentence out of any book and completely misconstrue the meaning of the entire chapter and authors intent."- Some librarian in some forum probably
@tripezius1 most 'Athiests' , which are really skeptics, are not against God. Nor endorsing a stance on the theological definition of God. Rather, it is a manifestation of long history of generational traumas the church has exacted against the public. The church has seldom been anything but an embarrassment to its God. The thought of having to survive in an eternity of torture or oblivion is excruciating, but the thought of having to spend eternity in a realm populated by Christians isn't any less so.
Ignore all the people giving you hate. This work you’ve done here is brilliant and is already something of a YT skeptics classic as far as I’m concerned!
Honestly when I Saw "Satan's Guide To The Bible" I knew it was going to be good. Satan's never said a lie, so I was ready. But I didn't expect this level of research, with sources, humor, incredible graphics, and a very attractive Satan. Congratulations to the entire team. You did good guys. Truly. Thank You for this. I am an atheist, so not so shaken
Satan is barely even in the bible aside from one or two vague appearances yet gets his reputation torn to pieces despite god committing mass slaughter time and again and worst of all justifies it
Oh wow. I put this on, thinking "I'll check it out but I'm not watching an hour and a half video." Correction: I'm not watching an hour and a half video on my phone. This is so good that I had to switch to my TV to watch, about 5 minutes in.
Going to church will never be the same again after this. One of the pastors in my church wanted to talk to me about my quitting of being a worker for Jesus because of unrelated problems in personal life and academics. He started spouting things like me quitting being the work of the devil and the likes. He said that if I really did put faith in the Lord, I'd be persevering all the way through. I guess I *don't* have faith in Jesus now then. Now, thinking about it, I think they just wanted free child labor and hiding it under "working for Jesus"...
Think carefully and pray about it before you abandon the church and God for individuals. It’s a road you’ll regret. Jesus will be there when no one else is, but I hope you call on His Name now ❤ God Loves you
The fact that Pastors learn all the Bible’s secrets at seminary and purposely withhold or amend knowledge when questions get asked tells you that they’re trained to be manipulators.
Thank you. I was a christian for most of my life and became ex-christian due to most things not making sense and i still never knew half of the things you mentioned here. Thank you for waking me up
You weren’t a real Christian if something this dumb could honestly honestly shake your beliefs he offered no real proof at all for anything he said just a couple professors they said no nope nope nope. That’s sad that you gave up instead of trying to build your face because there is a lot of evidence that the Bible is true. I hope you find your way back to Christianity and back to knowing Jesus the only way to heaven, but if you don’t, you don’t, you’ll see that you turn your back on Christ was wrong. Might be too late by the time you see it, but guarantee everyone that is blaspheming Lord will see it.
I've deconverted two Christians through teaching them what the bible says. One, an ex partner (I wish them well.) who escaped their cobtrolling parents, who treated their mental illness as something to be prayed away. And the other, one of my closest friends, who lost half his family to a pseudo-christian cult.
Any chance you could make a sequel video where Satan talks about how hes been confused with other gods like the devil, Hades, Pan, Moloch, etc? And have those dark gods on as the guest stars he debates with.
Fun Fact: This is sort of how The Great Schism happened in Catholicism. The printing press was invented, more people learned to read, and more people had access to Bibles. As people learned for themselves the started realizing pastors and other clergy members were withholding information and practically manipulating them. So lots of people broke away and started forming their own sects. That's why to this day there are still tons of minor practices of Christianity
Technological inventions, including the printing press, always lead to major upheavals. Martin Luther would have been a nobody if the printing press came along 50 years before or after. There would be some other dude wearing the Protestant crown.
@@dianamiller3307 To be more specific 1448 where Gutenberg first took a loan to fund his invention to mass production. Also i think the Author meant the Schism of the Protestant and Catholic church which happened in 1517 (Luther hammering his thesis on the wall of the Wittenberger Schlosskiche)
The problem with this hypothesis is that there is not significant spread of literacy in 16 hundrets HRRDN and the printing press was developed in 1448 by Gutenberg so there are 60 years inbetween those two dates. Apart from that there was no standard German dialect at the time. Luther used High German which is a sort of Middle German dialect but no one would understand it in bavaria (south) or Schleswig (north). I think what played more of a part here is just that people and especially counts were tired by the authority the Catholic church had. There is a good reason the Tudors started their own church in England.
i was not raised christian. i was raised muslim but i often say that islam is just part 3 of the abrahamic trilogy. continuing where christianity left off and adding more. I left religion about 8 years ago but to me this video is more important than disproving the lies of the abrahamic faiths. This book and its variants have completely shaped the world we live in today and you can see it in the way that genocides have been and continue to be carried out in the name of god. I believe that the abrahamic faiths from a historical standpoint have truly ruined our world and have lead to incomparable levels of bloodshed backed and led by these books of lies
what I think is interesting is, and correct me if I'm wrong, is no one in the video tries to refute the existence of God in the video, and yet the merest criticism of the ethics of God, Jesus, and Christianity on the whole is taken as a direct stab at God. I think that in itself is something to really think about when it comes to religion
Pointing out blatant hypocrisy and behavior of others isnt a stab at them if its accurate. If telling the truth about someone makes them look bad, its not slander, they’re just bad
Why do you believe in something there is zero evidence for? Just because science can't yet explain why everything in the universe is how it is, why does that automatically mean you can say with absolute certainty x....insert manufactured name here..... did it? Just because millions scared of the unknown falsely delude themselves into believing something is real, doesn't always make it so. No matter how comfortable that delusion, is not based in reality.
We used to act it out in church. However we did go to a simple Congregational church in Connecticut. It was how church should be. Then we moved to Florida and got involved in the Southern Baptist Church. Very confusing
My mother is an evangelical Christian... She and her "brothers and sisters in Christ" made my childhood and adolescence miserable. I grew up surrounded by violence and fear, her God was not a god of love and mercy, but a God of judgement and punishment.
@@jessafasel the body heals, though scars can be left but they don't hurt anymore. However, the scars left on my brain and my heart? They are there forever, and they still condition a lot... I'm taking therapy in order to improve, but it is hard. I hope you could heal as well, I'm so sorry that you also had to go through all of that. But people like us are strong, and fire tests the best swords.
I hate the Church, I love the Bible and not just the books that are taught in mainstream Churches. That would be like watching a movie with chunks taken out of it
News flash … having bad parents doesn’t absolve you from your responsibilities to God. Sounds like you didn’t like your mom. But how is that God’s fault? I know I know blame everything on everybody else… right? Angry anger full of resentment and vengeance and hate. Yet here you are putting all that same character blame on God…. Kind of ironic. Here’s the best thing I can tell you for your own good in a comment section…. You deserved worse, we all do. No one is a “good person” and anyone that says they are is a delusional liar. If I took your thoughts out and played them on a video you’d run from society never showing your face again. Christ didn’t die for good people. He died for a fallen race of men on the march to hell. Your mom was just one person. Don’t go your whole life and die a fool.
As someone who went to an evangelical school, and grew up in the evangelical church only to eventually leave it (receiving many unfortunate comments and threats in the process), this was very cathartic. I had already known about much of this, and seeing the subject being spoken about in such a well researched and comprehensive way was very satisfying. Thank you!
Yeah... If someone has to threaten others to keep them in a congregation, they need to reevaluate their whole belief structure, and probably their church too. I'm glad you made it out, despite the difficulties.
Congratulations on the victory in the fight for mental freedom! Also had a similar experience, but it was only an elective in junior high school (it turned out that the teacher was from the sect of Jehovah's Witnesses). But I was lucky with my parents - my mother simply went to the director and threatened to sue if this continued. In fact, everyone was happy as a result (I also came to similar conclusions just by carefully reading the Bible, and my tricky questions spoiled every lesson 😅)
On the outside, the religion looks insidious. It has all kinds of rhetorical traps designed to stop questions. "God's way is higher than ours" "Faith is a virtue." “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” - Luke 19:40-44 There is the unpardonable sin, which is pretty easy to interpret as a thought sin. Jesus also outlines other thought sins, so you are not even safe in your mind. The way it messes with the follower's minds seems pretty bad to me.
The thing about "eternal torture in hell" contra genocide is that genocide is real even if you have faith in a religion or not. Hell is a human made concept
You could say that genocide is a type of hell, but it's a stretch to say that it's a human made concept. Whatever your world view, surely the concept of hell, or genocide, existed long before humans did.
I think i recall that the concept of hell was adopted from zoroastrianism. People downplay the real and profound effect that the fear of ETERNAL torture and agony cause people. Today I think most church goers downplay all that, essp in children. As children we trust adults, it's literally hardwired into us so say when we are told not to walk off a cliff we don't try it first. Well when you take a child and tell them on a daily basis that if they don't perform these strange rituals and give up their sunday that when they die they will LITERALLY be raped by fire ants and burned in horrific agony FOREVER it SERIOUSLY messes them up! I 100% believe there should be a law preventing parents from indoctrinating children in these ancient myths. It's child abuse 100%.
@@Faceplantfloor no. Concepts, are basically thoughts. Without thinkers, they don't exist. Mind, some event humans would later LABEL a 'genocide' would exist, sure. But that's an event, not a concept. That event doesn't equate to the existence of the label, the concept, genocide. You could argue that IF hell exists, and existed before minds, it would predate people. The concept of hell, not so much. This would be more akin to arguing that the idea of black holes - not 'black holes', the thoughts of them, existed before anyone ever had any thoughts about them. Genocide is a human made concept, even it exists as an event. Concept. =/= the actual thing.
I became an atheist after diving deeply into the Bible and the history of religions, initially aiming to strengthen my faith. Now, I feel more aligned with promoting love, solidarity, and humility. Choosing atheism was one of the bravest decisions I’ve ever made.
If you ever decide to do a sequel, maybe Satan could talk about just how many different sins are in the bible. I feel like I am always constantly hearing about a new sin, like the eating shrimp thing.
Voting is open for the next SATAN'S GUIDE at SATANSGUIDE.com. 'New sin discoveries' is not currently a choice, but good suggestion! Hope you know that sin about mixing wool and cotton.
As a biblical scholar I struggle with the same arguments and the faith I was raised as a cornerstone of my morals. It doesn’t mean I don’t believe in The God of creation. It means I don’t believe in the ritual and rules of religion.
@@dylantyt6654 To be fair, God's said some pretty bullshit, messed-up, and absolutely asinine things over the years. It'd be a shame if he got cancelled.
I was kicked out Lutheran Sunday school as a kid and asked not not be allowed into church for questioning things you covered here. Thank you for making this!
As a Christian, I’m sorry your questions fell on deaf ears. It is necessary videos like this exist, to force a Christian to grow, confronting their beliefs and strengthening faith. It sounds like those Christian’s were afraid of having their ideas confronted.
@@supleh5937 it was 89' I asked the basic stuff, why kill everyone with the flood, why kill children, how come God is always mad at everyone? I also asked why we need to pay them money all the time. A friend of mine was kicked out because there parents didn't tithe and I kept asking them why. I had a little kid crush on her, so I was mad. As soon as one other boy joined me in questioning, they took me upstairs to my dad and told him to never bring me back again.
Hearing WLC rationalize the killing of the children is horrific. How perverse it is that a person will contort natural empathy and any recognizable sense of ethics to justify the acts of God as presented in the Bible. Disgusting!
Pro-genocide arguments from a supposed pro-lifer! Goodness. I guess WLC is only pro certain lives. To quote the Apostle Bill Hicks: "You either love all people of all ages or you shut the f up."
Natural empathy doesn't exist...and apparently neither does your abiltiy to process information. Try reading the source in context..instead of blindly believing the inane ramblings of someone who openly worships evil.
WLC is on record stating that he believe first, and evidence supports that belief. Because God is so real and the Bible is so trustworthy, no amount of change in the evidence would ever be enough to shake his faith. Eric Hovind, the son of the crazy Dino pastor Kent Hovind, says “As Christian’s we must presuppose that God exists and the Bible is the inerrant word of God. This is where our faith is, we then build off of that truth.”
Whoa whoa whoa, this video edited out the context! You see, WLC is actually a shock comic, like Andrew Dice Clay. This video leaves out the punchline at the end, where WLC shouts: "The Aristocrats!"
Pastor here. "Seminary secrets..." haha...I really liked this video. My New Testament class read that new testament textbook! I hope there is more videos to come. I find that this is very similar to some of the best church curriculums for teens. There are many many stories in the Bible that Christians take as fact when it is not meant to be. It simply is asking all the wrong questions and focusing on parts of the story that isnt important. I can say that the clergy I know want to help our congregants understand these things but we are also aware that there are proper contexts that it needs to be done. Small group, individual meetings might be a good place. In sermons, it is not as easy as when u say one thing that is controversial to someone, they stop listening to the rest. Its an art form. In my last church, I made a small group with college students and we talked about these things. They all grew up in the church and disagreed with the conservative church perspective but had not learned that their perspectives can line up with certain Christian traditions. The problem is that in order to learn this type of perspective, people need to spend a lot of time reading and learning, time that people are often unwilling to spend. Hence, "seminary secrets..." Not many people have the time, money, opportunity, to go to seminary. Of course, u also have to go to the right seminary. Its is unfortunat, though, that people hear this and automatically jump to the conclusion that it is all worthless. I have come to the conclusion that conservatives need it all to be fact in order to believe and hostile atheists also need it all to be fact in order for it to matter. Of coruse, the anger and hostility towards the church is absolutely warranted. I chose to stay and address it from with in. This work is not for everyone. In many conservation around beer at parties over the years, I have shared these ideas with people who no longer attend church. Dare I say all of those conversations have ended with them telling me they would attend church if someone like me was their pastor. I find that it all lands in the realm of hope. While facts matter in most contexts, it is not the be all of human existence. It takes a lot of intelligiance to sift through the Bible to find the nuggets of wisdom. I believe those muggets of wisdon are valuable, maybe not the only place to find it, but its in there, if we look. I dont need the Bible to tell me that murder is not a good thing. I might need a reminder once in a while that even my worst enemy are humans, that power corrupts, that somes, I judge others harshly while ignoring the plank in my eye, that money and power do not equal a joyful life, etc. Some people need that reminder others dont.
Atheists know it’s not fact. That why amongst ourselves we laugh at the ridiculous contradictory claims made in the Bible and question how anyone can believe them to be true. What we are not happy with is living in a society with a bunch of delusional fanatics that keep defending this nonsense and try to force the rest of us to live by it. At least Greek mythology has well written verse and interesting character development (and the capacity to criticize gods who are in the wrong). The Bible is just a bunch of badly written tosh, an attempt to copy from more complex philosophies by ignorant tyrants who had no interest in ethics, but clearly wanted to justify their oppression over their subjects and find excuses to murder and enslave their neighbors.
@gabrielamora6265 again, I dont take issue with atheists not seeing everything in the Bible as facts. I am Christians, a pastor, and I dont see it all as fact either. Again, we have to be specific about the words we use, or at least how we use them. There is "truth" like facts and "truths" like wisdom. I am not arguing that the Bible is wisdom; that is another argument. I am just pointing out that atheists and evangelicals alike are obsessed with "truth" as in facts. The Bible, as a literary content, was not written to communicate facts like we expect today in most of the genres we read. The Bible is a "theological history" of a specific people. They mixed in their understanding of science, behavior understanding, morality, etc. Yes, a lot of the factual things are completely wrong, God didn't cause earthquake and floods, we live in a planet where these events are a part of the planet's ecosystem. We won't be able to live on it if our tectonic plates didn't move. It is more like stories told around a camp fire than a text book. It was how culture and family history was passed down. In this way, stories had to be embelished, there had to be some kind of explanation for things without really knowing the facts. Reading the Bible is more like archeology than reading the newspaper if we want factual truths. We can understand how the people understood themselves, their community, their circumstance, etc. Its like reading a book based on a true stroy but things have been changed for entertainament purposes. Factually, people didnt write things down but mostly told sotries verbally. Details werent not important rather the point of the story, this side won the battle, this person was really strong, there were a lot of people, etc. As someone who has read the Bible and struggled with being religious all my life, I do believe there are huge differences between Greek mythology and Judasim. You cant just group all relgions together and say the why and the how they came to bc are the same. Some were used for control. Some were used to explain the unexplainable. Some were used to teach and explain community practices. I don't know what you mean that the Bible doesnt have interesting characters. I find the story of Jonah pretty interesting. He was a prophet who hated doing prophet things. He also is prophet who did the opposite of what God wanted him to do. In the story, he never changes his ways and the story just ends that way. It is an interesting story about how we all can hate our enemies so much and think they are the bad guys but we are really the one that need changing. I find the story of all the kings interest. They all were righteous at one time but fail in major ways. It's something we can all relate to. The Bible is filled with very human experiences we all can connect to. It's not a book of simple morals or simple "do this and you are good..." Again, the point I come back to, evangelicals read it and only see these stupid simple explanations and atheists belive what evangelicals are telling them it is. Its a bad game of telephone. All I ask atheist to do is look at relgion like a phenomena of human experience. I believe Neil DeGrass Tyson said to Ben Shipiro regarding lgbtq people. Who cares if it is fact or not? It is a human experience, it is interesting and we should understand it bc it is part of being human. I believe Christians who debate and try to defend Christianity or prove it is factual are uninteresting. Christianity is not the same as science, in that it is something to be proven. Then, it would be called science...or sudoscience. It is relgion. It's like measuring volume with in inches. In this, I am trying to defend science as much as I am trying to defend religion. Science doesn't have to disprove religion. I get why people try to bc Christians keep saying the Bible teaches them science. It's stupid. These people don't even understand the book they claim to uphold and love.
It's absolutely terrifying to have your worldview collapse in on itself. It can make us incredibly scared and angry, as to admit that we were wrong is to admit that we were tricked or deceived, it can leave us lost without a clear purpose or goal. I was never religious but when I was younger I became radicalised and indoctrinated into an alt-right group here in the UK. When I finally realised I'd been brainwashed I felt like such a fool, it made me very confused and depressed, but learning how to swallow my pride has helped me understand my confirmation bias, and has helped protect me from making the same mistake.
Ernest Becker's books The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil both deal with this issue ("terrifying to have your worldview collapse in on itself"). Here's a Philosophize This episode on Becker's enlightening revelations: th-cam.com/video/-43zh_za_eQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SfSx26ItWoF0wHRz
@@SATANSGUIDE wow! Really interesting, thanks for showing this to me. I just subscribed to their channel, and thanks for creating such a fascinating and eye-opening documentary.
@@lumberjackofalltrades Shellfish are “detestable,” according to Leviticus 11:12: “That which has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.”
@@pixill4ted593 - Oh, jeez! Leviticus, again. Guess that's where they list all the fun stuff that pisses god off. I love shrimp, lobster and oysters. Guess I'm goin' to hell now. It's like Rosanna Rosanna Danna used to say, "It's always something!" And if you don't know who she is, take a moment to search TH-cam. You won't be disappointed.
“I can’t believe this is free for everyone to see. “ The production value is indeed brilliant and was expensive to make probably, but I literally cannot imagine people having to pay to see an anti-Bible documentary. It’s kind of like reviews on yelp-if you get good service you might tell 1 person. But if you get bad service you tell everyone you can.
Expensive in hours, but no one was paid,@@Ark_bleu. I learned to animate for this film. Had to throw out the first 4 months of work, as I finally got decent. Animator tip: torso percentage increase/decrease really helps enliven the characters.
I was admittedly a little cautious going into this. I used to watch "skeptic" content in my youth, most of which has now derailed into less-than-progressive slop, and choosing Satan for the job was certainly very on the nose and in line with my previous experiences. Curiosity got the better of me, however, and after going in for a brief vibe check, I ended up watching the whole thing and thoroughly enjoying it. This is very educational, I learned a lot that I haven't heard before. I have a deep respect for the Bible scholars for challenging and working to prove (or disprove) their holy book, openly sharing any and all flaws they find with it. I also respect the documentary itself for avoiding mockery of the people who have been sold these lies by pastors and preachers. Thank you for your hard work! Looking forward for whatever else Satan might be cooking!
The skeptic youtube comunity started out strong, but monitization pushed a lot of the more popular people to start attacking anything that would get clicks. They started going after the SJW stuff because they could say things that would anger liberals and appeal to conservatives. This improved interaction and they eventually just started doing conservative content and gave up on the skeptic stuff. Dusty Smith called it in the early to mid 2010's, I think TJ the Amazing Atheist was also there but later to the party.
u know its satan when on the one hand he says the bible is pure fiction but then on the other hand he condemns what it contains as if those things really happened . when it comes to the contents of the bible , many people like to cherry pick what they believe and dont believe is true .
THANKS SATAN!!!❤❤❤❤ I was raised Baptist. I wish I could say I left the church because I “learned the truth” but the truth is, I left because I couldn’t be forced to go to boring ass church anymore😂😂 youth services were brutal and it only got worse as I got older. I still wanted to believe in god. And part of me hoped (I think) that leaving the church wouldn’t prove anything. If anything, if god was really real I didn’t NEED to be forced to attend. Weeks and months and then years went by and I only strayed further and further. Away from the church, I eventually also learned other things. I learned history. Real history with archeological and scientific evidence. I learned about evolution. And then I studied atheists and scholars and they were right. And I was still too scared to fully call myself an atheist (I’d obfuscate with “agnostic” or “spiritual” lol). And then I reflect on my time in church and i remember the only times I fully “believed” in gods were at the scariest moments of my life. When I needed something to comfort me and make me feel better when I was scared for my life or the lives of my family. And I thought about my commitment to Jesus and how during that pivotal service where I was asked to let Jesus into my heart. I remembered the fear that rushed through me. Fear of hell and eternal damnation. I’m now convinced that I never really believed. I was just scared and dumb. (Side note: I think the first time I truly started questioning the Bible completely on my own was when I was with the other kids learning the story in Acts 2 about “tongues of flame” appearing before people’s heads and them speaking in tongues…. Nothing I had ever seen in the real world made me think that was real. I could handle the metaphors of god creating the earth, about Adam and Eve. That was so long ago I could rationalize the authors guessing. But that story was supposedly real…..? No. No way lmaoooo The older I get the more atheist I become. And the more history repeats itself, the more I identify with “anti-theist”…..
You'd think more people would stop going to church because of how unrelentingly boring it is. I never really believed, either. The stories were crazy and the answers to my questions were contradictory. I don't think I ever officially told my parents but I stopped identifying as Christian at 12 because I couldn't shake the feeling the religion is sexist.
@JohnHamilton-s3c yup!!! i love history and art too, im in school studying theatre. theatre is so closely tied to our history with religion i'll likely never escape it. i enjoy learning about humans and our humanity so ofc i will welcome theological study but to continue to pretend that this is real life or REAL in anyway is just absurd to me
@JohnHamilton-s3c totally agree. i mean it isnt atheists or buddhists or whatever trying to bully their way into american classrooms crying about the ten commandments or creationism or abstinence lmaooooo
As someone who was brainwashed by an evangelical school early in my life...all of these children songs are triggering as hell. They are such a part of my core memories, I'm sure I'll never be able to forget them no matter how hard I try 😂
we used to sing these in primarily school (ages 6/7 to 13 or grade 1 through 7) at least every friday, and its just so unsettling to hear them and remember having sung without question or thought. Hell it wasn't even in the same language to begin with it was just translations for the most part (though one or two were still english)
where did you go for deprogramming??? people who are brainwashed can not just walk away from something by choice!!!! Its like PTSD, you cant just walk away from PTSD.... so where did you go for deprogramming??
I gently encourage all to also watch the video linked in this comment, not to coax anyone, but rather, to twice evaluate the teachings here. From a teaching perspective, this video doesn't truly educate. when presenting points and "evidence" the video allows for zero real counterclaims and doesn't address the counterarguments that argue in favor of the Bible. Should satans guide to the Bible be reliably educational and have good teachings, shouldn't it allow a counter argument that's properly formed? After all, if it's valid, there won't be any issue with that. It seems to give heavy favor to the anti Christian conspiracies (btw the scholars are all atheists) and no weight to any other argument, only presenting possible counterpoints in a mocking way. This video is one of a few that explains this videos invalidity in partial depth, and links other videos dismantling false claims about the Bible. th-cam.com/users/liveh6LDo-xTU4M?si=UoJnHagfARrXiKdb
@@josephbeauleau420 To make an extremely long deprogramming story only slightly shorter, I wound up going to a Catholic high school where I had breathing room to think more deeply about my unanswered questions. Also, the culture shock of being told over and over again from kindergarten to 9th grade that Christianity was the only one true religion...and then ending up at a Catholic school where this "one true, unshakable faith" was being taught COMPLETELY differently helped the realization/deprogramming process a lot. And you are absolutely right. I did have to deprogram myself. In fact, I am still deprogramming myself and have to periodically check to make sure that I'm not making decisions and judgements based on this belief system that was drilled into me at such a young age. My process involved allowing myself to ask those forbidden questions that I had always been afraid I'd go to hell for...you know the whole "questioning the will of God" thing. And if you really want to know...the very first question that popped into my head was during chapel in the 6th grade. I was listening to someone give a testimony and I had a vision of a preacher shoveling coal into a person's mouth while telling his trusting member that it was actually diamonds that they were receiving. Then the thought popped into my head..."If God gave us all brains, why wouldn't he want us to use them?" Thus and unbeknownst to me, my deprogramming journey had begun. That same year I came to the following conculsions/questions. 1. There are billions of people on Earth...If we are all God's children, why did he make himself available to only a few? That's cruel, unfair, and just plain bad parenting. 2. God belongs to everyone on earth and it seems like all the different belief systems and religions are man's attempt to describe him the best way they know how. Kind of like the blind men and the elephant parable. And that being the case, Christianity's claim to be the only way to God seems manipulative. 3. All the religions and beliefs systems have some form of the golden rule and that is the only principle that made sense to me so it must be true. 4. God may be perfect, but man isn't and man created religion sooo... 5. Blind faith is extremely dangerous. Anyone can tell you anything and say it came from God and that"you must have faith in his mysterious ways." So anyway that was the beginning of my deprogramming journey, you probably didn't even read all of that but you asked so I answered.
I now want to imagine kids actually walking into Sunday school and just seeing a good looking guy with wings and choosing to stay rather then question what happened to the regular teacher 😂
@@burnforeverandever yes? As greater men than I have said: faith without doubt is dead faith. And 2 Timothy 2:15 actually said that careful study of the world is how you find the truth of the world. So, like...
I'm a yankee myself and when that evangelical said he didn't know anyone with a sophisticated view because he's "from the south," followed by the audience laughing, I felt my skin crawl. I can't tell you how many crosses I saw between Tennessee and Texas when I was traveling the country and the open disdain they have for the people they're manipulating is disgusting
Born and raised in Alabama, live and work in Mississippi. The sad part is, he may not have even been saying that out of a sense of disdain for those whom he manipulates. He may have been, as are *many* of my fellow citizens, simply proud of the unshakable and deeply unsophisticated religious views he holds. It's a virtue around here to follow this, that, or the other authority figure without question, as long as it's the right authority figures. It's really sad here. But I'm not particularly skilled enough (or motivated enough, this place takes it out of you) to find gainful employment elsewhere without immediately jumping below the poverty line.
@@magicrectangleEnt: "It's a virtue around here to follow this, that, or the other authority figure without question, as long as it's the right authority figures." That line gives me the yikes.
@@SATANSGUIDE It's a yikes, to be sure. It's also a cycle, where parents around here typically raise their kids with "because I said so" as a default fallback, if the fallback isn't a backhand. So "I don't have a good enough answer, so I'll turn to an answer I can't question" is baked into our culture.
Excellent video. The scariest part, to me, about the American Evangelical movement is not that it’s a “return to traditional American values” it’s a movement to return to a medieval world where an illiterate society that took the word of their ministers as literal truth. The whole point of translating the Bible from Latin and making it available to everyone was to stop people from blindly following following false interpretations. Of course that eventually led to people realizing the Bible was mostly BS. But now, in America, we have evangelical leaders that say we “just didn’t read it right” and that we should only listen to their interpretation. It’s horrifying to me that we now have evangelical preachers talking about witches and demons as being real and living among us. The Salem Witch trials used to be something I saw as absurd and ignorant in the extreme but, now, it looks like it could actually happen again in the foreseeable future.
This is by far one of my new favorite videos on TH-cam, not only in the realm of theological studies but in general. Its ability to approach theology in a compelling and honest way while having such impressive production quality and wrapping it up with a perfectly kid-friendly bow helps me absorb the content despite a harrowing combination of ADHD and autistic symptoms. I often put videos on in the background and passively absorb their content, but I find myself proactively engaging with this video more than others, even while multi-tasking. This video is not mere background noise, but has the majority of my attention, and I am enjoying the entire thing. I'm only twelve minutes into the video and I am already compelled to like, subscribe, and comment to boost this video's engagement with the algorithm. I can see this video gaining millions of views, you have truly done a phenomenal job and I cannot wait to see more from you!
@@SATANSGUIDE I'm very glad to hear that, you sincerely did a wonderful and amazing job on this video and that effort deserves recognition! I hope to see many more videos of this style from you in the future!
As a former church leader that turned apostate, this hits on everything I was learning in my pre-seminary studies that was wrecking my faith. I am so glad a resource as well researched and acessible as this will be available for the next generation of people grappling with their own views of truth and god(s).
@@yokai-vr3jz I bet you feel so superior to these two. since when does anyone consider people who don't question and follow blindly to be greater than those with curiosity and a thirst for knowledge and truth? There are no accolades for sheep.
@@robertjohnston-mp5im I feel superior to you, because you clearly seek attention and argumentation. Plus, falsifying or misconstruing information for the sole purpose of manipulation and control is not pursuit of knowledge, and is it not sheepish to cherry pick which aspects of a particular faith you'll follow? Lol, you may want to debate someone else
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SOURCES CITED / WHEN SIGHTED
Allison, Dale C. Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet / 1:13:35, 1:18:23, 1:19:29, 1:19:44
Avalos, Hector A. The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics / 1:03:49, 1:23:30
Avalos, Hector A. The End of Biblical Studies / 55:50
Avalos, Hector A. Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence (since re-titled The Reality of Religious Violence) / 40:13
Avalos, Hector A. Health Care and the Rise of Christianity / 55:45
Collins, John J. The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism Volume 1: The Origins of Apocalypticism in Judaism and Christianity / 55:54
Collins, John J. Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/ 5:06
Collins, John J. Does the Bible Justify Violence? / 23:56, 38:52, 40:25, 43:53
Collins, John J. The Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature / 18:54, 53:58, 54:28, 56:50, 1:07:33, 1:09:47, 1:11:20, 1:14:46
Ehrman, Bart D. Forged / 59:03
Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus / 50:03
Ehrman, Bart D. The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings / 52:18, 53:01, 56:31, 58:02, 58:55, 1:04:32, 1:09:41, 1:09:57, 1:10:32, 1:13:25, 1:13:46, 1:14:30
Ehrman, Bart D. The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture / 49:59
Frykholm, Amy. Christian Understandings of the Future: The Historical Trajectory / 55:34, 55:46, 1:09:18, 1:12:08, 1:16:16
Frykholm, Amy. Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America / 55:53
Gagne, Andre. The Global Impact of Religious Violence / 55:34
Hendel, Ronald. Remembering Abraham / 8:31, 17:34, 20:25
Hendel, Ronald. The Book of Genesis: A Biography / 55:35
Metzger, Bruce M. & Ehrman, Bart D. The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration / 55:48
Niditch, Susan. War in the Hebrew Bible / 37:40, 44:29, 45:51, 55:34
Wright, Jacob L. David, King of Israel, and Caleb in Biblical Memory / 55:35
Good starter book for folks leaving belief behind: Dan Barker's "Godless" includes many of the issues raised in this film.
This is hardly a complete bibliography. But these books are both cited & sighted.
Respect for all the sources you cite. And an amazing piece of edutainment
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I thank thee for the sources, o Prince of Darkness ;)
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Only a couple minutes in and I have to say, the production, voice acting and animation are stellar. Satan's voice particularly tickles my ears
I like the baby lol
A close friend of mine was the most devoted person I have ever met. He didn't drink, smoke, did missionary work, was celibate and would give you the shirt off his back. After seminary he left the church altogether. All he would say about the experience is "seminary is where faith/the soul goes to die". Fortunately he's ultimately figured out that he was and still is an awesome person with or without religion. The belief that one can't be moral without religion is both ridiculous and damaging.
Amen! (re: The belief that one can't be moral without religion is both ridiculous and damaging.)
That's like a fish saying I'm done with water, I don't believe in water anymore and then swimming away.
@@MrAndyhdzSusan Sontag on metaphor: th-cam.com/video/OUQjxfeUXcc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=y5qvKHFg8RJBFhqd
@@MrAndyhdz You know the comment you're commenting on is both as they put it "ridiculous and damaging". So we can still be an awesome person without Christ is what this person is saying, right? The belief that one can be moral without "religion" is ridiculous and damaging. Remember this my friend... it is written that "people will trade evil for good and good for evil." Take for example the riots in the different cities a couple of years ago. People committing arson and blowing up automobiles and attacking police officers and other people alongside of breaking into businesses and stealing their merchandise and just causing mass destruction. In their wicked eyes that was "moral" and "good". In their wicked eyes these same people are angry because Donald Trump wasn't killed in his assassination attempt. They were actually angry that he didn't get killed. You see they can't see their own evil because to them evil is good, and that's exactly what the Bible said people were going to be like.
So think on this.... so you have to expect this Satan's Guide to be exactly that... it's of the Devil. What does the Devil do? He comes to steal and kill and destroy. To these people that's a good thing. These kinds of people yet again have proven the Bible correct. And I've asked this question to Satan's people before and I haven't gotten an answer from them, so I'll leave it here and maybe someone will respond, but I sincerely doubt it..... By who's Authority and by Who's Morality are we to see as "good" or "decent"? Is it the political? Well we already know the political is corrupt and they don't even follow their own laws. Is it individual? Well we already know when it comes to individual morality people can justify ANYTHING from having sex with children to rioting, to violence, to stealing, to destroying. So we can't trust that either. How about people groups? No we really can't trust that either and we see that with the violence of the BLM and even Pride Parades where in FRONT OF CHILDREN homosexuals are urinating in each others mouths, walking around naked and even performing falatio on each other... AGAIN... IN FRONT OF CHILDREN. We see this behavior with the Woke Community as well where anything is justifiable as long as their selfish behavior dictates their ferocity towards anyone who disagrees with them. So.... in the end they reject God, and they embrace the Devil. And... they don't even see it in themselves their wicked and vile and evil behavior much like Sodom and Gomorrah.
@@MrAndyhdz We can objectively verify the ounces, temperature and pressure of water. We all agree that water is real and we drink, cook and shower in it daily. No one has to take someone's word on the existence of water.
My parents gave me a Bible and said it was God's word. When I read it, they were shocked that I ended up with more fundamentalist views than them. They still insist they never taught me "any of that stuff." That's not how it works, folks. Give a kid a book and tell them a literal God wrote it, and you're responsible for what they learn from a straight reading of the words.
I'm quite confident that neither of my parents has read the entire Bible to this day.
"Looks like we got ourselves a reader!" - #BillHicks
For me reading the bible is what actually got me out of christianity. Neither he old testament nor the new showed anything of the loving god I had been told about.
@Hugh.Manatee I didn't think God's existence was contingent upon whether or not he seemed loving to me. It was divine hiddenness, obviously fictional creation myths, and the contradiction of an omnipotent God _needing_ anything (blood sacrifices to forgive sins, etc.) that finally got me thinking.
same with LGBT propaganda
@@justbass4 You're so right, there is no reason to believe that LGBT people exist, just like Yahweh.
Oh.
Wait.
Hey, you're trying to trick me!
2:41
“I rebuke you Satan 😤”
“Thanks Jen, noted.”
Two minutes in and I am LOVING this.
I'm an atheist. I've been seeing this in my recommendations. And I assumed it would simply be anti-theist yelling, and ignored it. I shouldn't have judged it by its cover. This is excellently produced, and apparently has been in the works for over a decade. Great video!
Un-humbled, thank you!
Same. I'm an atheist and I'm not really interested in just having my viewpoint reinforced without any new substance so I skipped over this video like a hundred times. In fact the only reason I'm watching it now is because TH-cam auto played it at the end of the last video. For once the algorithm didn't fail me.
We come together,@@dannonyogurt98, in praise for the TH-cam Algorithm!
@@SATANSGUIDE hail satan!
@@SATANSGUIDE - I couldn't possibly agree more. I'm only halfway through it and thoroughly enjoying the experience. Very well done. Thanks.
As a seminarian, I was taught, "Don't disturb congregants' beliefs. Preach the comforting verses and good behaviour. Keep the parishoners in the pews and filling the donation baskets. The facts are too complicated for the average layman."
If you want more of an eye-opener, study the history of the Bible, and study biblical archeology. "The truth (reality) will set you free (of ignorant superstitions)."
Constantine was a bit of an ass.
Well Said!!! I haven't watched this vid yet I like reading comments first. I like this: "The truth (reality) will set you free (of ignorant superstitions)."
Yeah unkle is a douche @@masakari
they have brainwashed you well themrfarkle ,gave a private doctor,better salary ,for the expensive private doctor you ve got,and lets not forget,credit life and seeding when being bored, being a less garbage than the rest 99 percent of humanity ,which is brainstained and some of them have evil spirits,greedy spirits etc. in their bodies if you re happy ,thats what counts the most
Beware of WordS! God’s word is Sharper than a double edged sword ⚔️… If you don’t know the Semitic language you don’t understand the power of numbers and language. Jesus never wrote one word that we know of and is the most exalted name on earth! The Torah is the only Semitic language on earth that was given to Moses in a code. Jesus came to share the code of truth with all those who wanted to know God. Not to abolish the Torah and Gods timeline… Instead, the so called church changed the language and the calendar and partnered with the government to form universities and an education system using the Greek Septuagint for language translation that’s now English to deceive the people and rule over the west using and teaching this false narrative of Jesus for a made up belief system that’s completely different from the original language that is still hidden in its original form. And to act as if it’s all good and of god, they put the 10 commandments of the original law on the White House and in every institution, church and government and military!
Mad respect to Dr Avalos for doing this interview even in the late stages of cancer. He was a real one. RIP.
I feel your post. I miss him greatly.
I thought that was what was ailing him. RIP.
I really enjoyed his wisdom and point of view
Respect
Forgive my troll but I'm half expecting someone saying in the comments that he got cancer BECAUSE was saying something against "the God" and everyone who got even slight thought of agreeing with anything he said will also get "wrath of god" 👀🙃
Wow, I’m an atheist with a very religious family and this video has made a profound impact on me. The hardest part about losing my faith was shaking the fear of hell. The church I grew up in didn’t say hell was eternal but all the fear mongering around the end of times stuck with me. Knowing that Jesus thought the end of days was happening in his time changes everything. This book is a STORY. The hell on Earth we are living in isn’t by design of an omnipotent creator… just like the Bible was created by human beings, a host of the world’s problems were created by us too. That thought is so frightening and empowering. We decide how life unfolds. I’m so grateful for mine.
Full praise for you, Ms. Williams!
@@SATANSGUIDE and full praise to you Satan! The work you put into this project is undeniable. Thank you so much!
^my mother would faint reading that first sentence 😂
It is pretty tough when your whole family is under the spell. I have to bite my tongue at gatherings. But the hypocrisy has always been deafening for me. But trying to tell a Black Mom (in my case 80+ years old) isnt an option! Stay strong girl!@chelseawilliams8588
@@MrDinFla1 Thanks and I can totally relate. When I told my mom and my dad about my beliefs, I was called the spawn of Satan, told I’d be disowned and that they would be calling the police if I didn’t immediately leave. It was tough and somehow, we’ve gotten past it. I too hold my tongue at get togethers. Anywhoo, it sounds like you have done your best to prioritize maintaining relationships with your loved ones despite the frustration and that’s important decision to make. We do the best we can. Stay strong too!!
I read the book Meditation for Dummies and learned mantra meditation. Mantra meditation is where you repeat a mantra in your mind and anytime your mind wanders you return your focus to repeating the mantra in your mind. Mantra meditation benefited me 10x more than the Mormon faith did. I went to church because it helped me be a better person, but mantra meditation made it 10x easier to be a better person. Many atheists meditate because it benefits them.
I spent four years in seminary and this is just the tip of the iceberg. I went in wanting to be an ordained minister and left an atheist.
It was catechism for me at 7😂
I had a similar experience except I was gone after a year.
The seminary achieved their goal. You were too honest to become a minister after they stripped you of the truth. Seminary graduates are also atheist who become false teachers to deceive the sheep. They walk on thin ice, but they make a good living preying on God's people.
That sounds traumatic af
@@wilderpowers6311you know this video is aimed at a specific genre of evangelical blockheads and not christianity as a whole right?
Reminds me of when our sunday school teacher taught us that only believing in god got you in heaven, and I asked, "Even if you were the best person in the world?", and she said "yes, even they would go to hell if they didn't believe. "
In retort, I then said, "So the best person could be in hell, and the worst in heaven? That's not right!" and all the other kids agreed with me.
Suddenly, I wasn't allowed at sunday school anymore, which my parents who only let me go because I wanted to, rather than to brain wash me with their own beliefs, were fine with. Taught me a very important lesson about religion and those who organize it.
Actually the Bible says there are NO GOOD people if you want to get REALLY technical in teh actual language the Bible calls our righteousness a pile of shit and a bloody tampon. Disgusting things to the eyes of a perfect and holy God.
The best could be in hell and the "worst" in heaven. That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9. The Lord in not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. 2 Peter 3:8. Man's view on the worst doesn't matter if He comes to Christ and believes in him and confesses with his mouth the Lord Jesus and believes in his heart that God has raised Him from the dead and repents for if he does that he is saved.
There is really no “best” or “worse” person in comparison to God’s holiness, we are all deserving of His wrath. Trusting in Christ for salvation is the only way to be redeemed and forgiven for your sins. Not one of us is good compared to God.
@@willyzook Ya but more even we are all born completely in rebellion and totally depraved. If your cute cuddly little toddler were bigger and stronger than you and you balked his/her will you;d be killed by that cuddly little heathen. Its ONLY in being born again and even then its his nature imputed upon us that makes us holy and good.
@@willyzook I was just talking about man's view of the "best" person and the "worst" person.
As an "abomination" myself, I wanted to express my deepest appreciation for your documentary. The meticulous research and clarity you brought to historical events not only shed new light on the past but also made it accessible and engaging for a wider audience. Your dedication to uncovering and presenting the truth is truly commendable. 💜
Yes the.....Skip the first book, only read some of the second book. Skim the third for things I can pick apart. And then say the people who wrote some of the books of the Bible aren't the people who the people the books are about. I can answer everything in the first 50 min of this video with. The reason why God had to tell them to kill the cannenites in Deuteronomy is because he had told Abraham, Isaac and Jacob a bunch of stuff when they first moved to Canaan from ur "witch is was Babylon. Cannot believe I have to say it but nobody said the Jews are from Egypt they just lived there for a bit" but Jacob and his sons kept disobeying him so all the cannenites hated the Jews so there would be no peaceful return to cannan. God has entered into a covenant with Abraham so he wouldn't break his covenant with them. So he told them what they needed to do to take the promised land now that they returned. Witch they didn't always do so it dragged on. Abraham and Issac were told to live in peace with the cannenites witch they did. They dug wells and built alters to God. Jacob and his sons disobeyed God multiple times so after that peace was no longer an option.
@@stupotgorilla Personally, Zeus was my favourite god.
Non of us true Christians call you an abomination …. Whoever told you that is misguided . Probably a Christian by name only not by practice which makes him or her a non Christian incidentally.
@@stupotgorilla so you basically just said "sure, God ordered a genocide, but..."
So if justifying genocide wasn't bad enough, your justification is "Because God told some guys a bunch of stuff"? Do you even realise how weak this is? You literally wrote it out and don't see any problem with it?...
Honestly the idea that Satan can teleport in when ever he wants. But needs to make his own echo is really funny to me
The fact that you guys worked on this for 10 years, as a team of 3 is an achievement commendable beyond mere words. No money. I can only imagine the sweat and blood poured into these 85 minutes. From a random aspiring creator: congratulations to you all for this incredible undertaking.
Prophecy: You will one day emerge from the deep valley of creation.
@@SATANSGUIDE wait this a decades old project, now that’s dedication.
All very well-known information widely available.
Standard stuff,@@mikemondano3624
Standard stuff...unless you're one of the sheep.
As unnecessarily shocking as this video could have been (given the name of the channel/video), you made the decision to let the shock be in the content and not the delivery. You chose to approach the topic respectfully but firmly, in a way that communicated its information clearly. I have a lot of respect for the work you did on this monster of a video and hope it reaches as many people who need to see it.
I feel like this information could reach a *lot* more people had this video been called something else. Just saying.
@@justiniadonisi9290 eh TH-cam’s algorithm is a big fan of titles that drive engagement and this definitely did so (source: the number of apologists and counter-apologists who have responded to this video)
Just admit your true satanic plan was that everyone watching can't get this "by the rivers of Babylon" Song out of their heads anymore 😂
Here here! 🤩
I rebuke you dinosaur, you never existed.🐊🦖🦕🐉
Seminary is usually three years. Here’s what I observed when I attended: 1. Students faith is ripped from them (for the better), 2. Students struggle to rebuild their faith, 3. Ignore parts one and two and accept the tropes and cliches because $150k in student loan debt doesn’t pay for itself.
I know because I left. I was voted out of my church because I said gay people deserve to be loved too, from a mainline denomination.
I’m free from someone else’s dogma!
I bestow praise & ethical props on you.
Doubt.
@@slayerdeth0705 Oh ok. I totally made up the most painful period of my life, a 10 year career taken away, leaving the community of people I deeply cared for. I totally love all this student loan debt /s.
I was the co-President of my student council at seminary and knew the inside game and the common struggle of ministerial students.
@@DoeDeer1 Is that the truth, who knows.
@@slayerdeth0705 Don't you take the resurrection by basis of faith in distant third hand eyewitnesses? Why is it a hard thing to believe the firsthand eyewitness before you?
I just can’t stop laughing at all these angry religious comments that say either “I didn’t watch the video but Jesus loves you” or “you’re so wrong and this is unfair” with literally zero counter points😭😂😂😂
Blessed are all who post.
@@SATANSGUIDE thank you satan❤️
Bless the algorithm
Hallowed be the algorithm.
@@mercurialsilver5688 …and where 2 or 3 come together…
I remember how betrayed I felt when I stepped outside the boundaries of what I was "allowed" to study, and learned this for myself 30 years ago. Then I had to decide whether to live life as a hypocrite, or give up ever speaking again to anyone I ever knew and loved. It was hard, but I'm no hypocrite. Hypocrisy, as it turns out, was largely a trait of Christianity.
I've known several people since then who have doctorates in theology, including 2 Catholic priests. They were all atheists, even the priests. The conclusion was that you couldn't study the bible at that level with an open mind and still believe in the Bible.
Props on your bravery. Painful when these issues affect friendships.
Is hypocrisy a trait of Christianity or people you knew who were Christians? Christianity makes it clear everyone is a massive hypocrite.
Sounds like seminary is a long drawn out process of taking a pillow to your faith. "Shh, shhhh... it's not your fault." Whilst, at the same time; the cost of education is so ridiculously high that the sunken cost added on top of the prospect of having to retool for another trade (like say becoming an engineer) forces most seminary graduates to just continue onwards to become pastors/priests because... well we all need to eat and now you have student loans to pay off.
ya but id rather starve then brainwash people@@gilian2587
Everything isnt for everybody. I mean they crucified Jesus during his time. That's alright. As long you stay a good person. You don't need the bible to know how to do that.
"Let's take a few minutes to reflect on why we think genocide is wrong in the first place."
Believe it or not, this is a great exercise to develop your own moral compass. Why do we think this thing is right? Why do we think it's wrong? Don't just assume it's right or wrong simply because someone told you so. Genocide is wrong. But WHY??? Answering this question will strengthen your understanding of morality.
Basic response: Genocide is wrong because I don't want people to commit genocide against me.
Better response: Genocide is wrong because I recognize no moral system by which the wholesale extermination of an ethnic group or national identity could be justified.
Best response: Genocide is OK if god says so.
Amen, @minetruly!
The golden rule of Christians is actually "do onto others before they do onto you."
@@shassett79 By what standard is genocide wrong?
Also, which group in the Bible experienced genocide?
@@shantilus By my standards. And a global flood comes to mind.
I am best friends with a devout Christian who is very secure in his beliefs. He said there wasn't anything I could show him that would shake his belief in God. He was angry with me after we watched this together. Even got angry at one of the sections. We often have robust discussions and he never takes any of it personally. I've never seen him react in such a way either.
Very interesting. Please give an update, I'll be interested to hear how this plays out. Likely just a small bump in the road? That's my prophecy. As for why he got angry, I'll steal language from Ernest Becker (cultural anthropologist). People get super peeved when their 'symbolic universe' is challenged, bc our 'immortality project' is shown to be in error.
@@SATANSGUIDE This is it all the way. People react angrily when they're faith is, in fact, shook. That was a defensive reaction and he probably doesn't want to be pushed more, unfortunately.
@@franciscolopez1787 I think its just offensive to a believer to present them "satans guide", no matter how well it's made. Saying that as an atheist. I find it tasteless too.
Why is that so? Simply because even if the video is right in all its points, they can't agree to something that satan supposes to them. And anger is often coming out of frustration and being powerless. There are so many sensible ressources out there. why pick this one for your friend? Not trying to diss the content of the video itself, but the stylistic choice is not to my taste. Again, saying this as an atheist.
Some best friend you are. If he is a real Christin and not some manufactured comment on yt, he'll start by looking at Daniel 11 12 - 13 and realise the opening claims in the video have nothing to do with Antiochus dying in Israel indicating the person/s behind this production are liars. No need to continue watching the whole thing.
If you really are his best friend, bring this to his attention.
@@marcrahn4307 So we've been friends since 2005 almost 20 years. I sang in his wedding. It's foolish to assume this is the only context of our discussions on religion and non-religion. I didn't "present" anything to him in any way more than you "present" youtube videos you watch to your friends. I am also not atheist. I went to religious school as a child, and am no longer religious. I believe in evolution which is contradicted often by religions and their proselytizers . This does not mean I have 0 believe in higher powers. Also, this isn't Satan. Its a video made of felt and construction paper with a voice over. What it is, is information.
When I was 14, I read the Bible and was shocked. I never pursued religion after that. I knew it was not the work of a ‘supreme’ being.
You clearly can't read very well.
The “supreme being” didn’t write it… and why and how did you come to that conclusion?
@@olacogumelo3789No supreme being wrote the Bible, nor is there evidence it was inspired by one.
Weird conclusion to come to. Just because people claimed God told them to do something, that doesn’t discount the possibility of an eternal creator of all the universe.
@@albuquerquehotspot7835 there's always a possibility. we didnt find unicorns but maybe they're just really sneaky? if natural explanations work then why try to pin anything on the supernatural.
As a native Spanish speaker, I read ETS as enfermedades de transmisión sexual (Spanish for STD).
My favorite nugget that's been dropped on this board, more than a few times. Spanish subtitles are now live! Rejoice.
😂😂😂
I remember when in primary school they gave us our own bibles and we were told to read it. So I did what an autistic 11 year old would do, I started at the beginning. I was permanently expelled from bible study class after asking why the book of Ruth glorified genocide. I had already been given detention for earlier remarks about old testament books saying infanticide, incest and involuntary copulation were seemingly fine.
Guess I did the one thing they didn't want me to do. I actually went and read the bible and what little religion that was drilled into me as a child vanished. Not because someone told me religion was a hoax or wrong or even the historical inaccuracies. But because of simple first hand experience.
I was bullied a lot as a child, simply because I was different due to my autism. Being bullied was not nice, the kids who did this to me were not nice people in my view. The teachers who could, but didn't act were bad people in my view. Then when our pet cat died I understood the grief of loss, again this was not nice. And I already knew that killing something or someone meant they'd be dead. Why would you want to purposely inflict such grief upon another, that just seemed wrong to me.
So when I read the Bible and there was all this talk of genocide, infanticide, plague and pestilence. I understood very well, even as an 11 or 12 year old, that these were not good things. And there were so many things of which I didn't fully understand what they were, but they didn't seem nice. This made me question, if all of this was done in the name of "God" why should I follow these teachings? How does so much terrible stuff add up to something good? Well the more I read, the more it didn't add up.
Empathy and "don't do to another what you wouldn't want them to do to you" were not difficult concepts to grasp even as a child. I never needed a book for that.
7 bad things = 1 good thing, bc 7 means perfection
God doesn't bring upon the horrors of this world. Satan is the god of this world. Sin started when Lucifer let his pride overcome his purpose. sin and wickedness come from Satan.
Just imagine, if you tried to complete a puzzle without all the pieces
@@subjectivelyoffensive u don't need all the pieces to get the big picture
@@codythomas1450 So was it Satan that made God command all those genocides?
What season of The Magic Schoolbus is this?
Certainly the best episode. One that should be seen by all kids. My geandkids will definitely be given the opportunity.
Season 1: Genesis
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It should go without saying that this is Season 666, just as @trinsit revealed, transmitted to us from the future via the dream-technology in John Carpenter's "Prince of Darkness".
'Inerrancy' just means 'don't question authority.'
INERRANT, DAMN YOU!
I always question everything to the point that it really irritates everyone 😂
Actually, Inerrancy means without error. Idiot.
Most people dont, but they engage in acceptable forms of transgression and walk around acting like they do.
I was raised by atheist parents (from catholic and Zwingli families) in a deeply catholic country and during my youth, I tried to find my spirituality and was only faced with aggression and intolerance. Furthermore, the same people who called me a heretic and infidel when I was but 7yo, were the same who wanted to take me to a brothel to celebrate my 18th birthday. I don't have a problem with religious people but I do have a problem with hypocrisy. Great video! Definitively subscribing! :D
Those are tough bullets for a 7-year-old.
@@SATANSGUIDE It was, especially since I was also new to that country coming from Switzerland were I was born.
If the others already have a chosen religion, such as christianity or one of the other j religions, they will become uncomfortable if you are trying to chose a religion or find some spirituality.
They prefer that you believe in the exact same thing that you do, otherwise, they become ugly, unfriendly, they stop talking to you.
Well, you were only 7 y back then so you lacked a lot of information.
I am an atheist in Canada and although the number of atheists is going up drastically (It was like 12% in 1998 and now, it is about 25%), I don't advertise that I am an atheist since I know that some theists are nasty people.
When I worked at a certain place, I found out that one guy had a car and he gave a lift to a guy to reach the subway. The subway was only 3 min away by car, otherwise, I would have to take the car.
So I asked if he can lift me as well. He said yes.
During one of the car rides, it turned into a religious talk. I said I was an atheist. The other guy was an atheist. The car driver was a jehova’s witness. I do remember he said at one point he said that halloween is dangerous.
Anyway, the next day he said he could not give me a lift anymore and I found out he said the same to the other guy as well.
There you go. That is a jehova’s witness.
I learned what a jehova’s witness was.
@@louistournas120 That sucks! Theists always expect their religiousness to be respected but don't seem to understand that it goes both ways.
As a teenager, as we were walking home from school, I once had the village minister stop to give a lift for my friends but since I was the son of an atheist, he wanted to leave me alone on the side of the road, some 6km from home. Luckily my friends declined the lift and stayed with me as we walked home.
@@firbolgJesus teaches us in the Gospel that we need to love and forgive our enemies. Christians will face persecution, it will happen. This video is trying to make you think of God as some jerk who disregards everything, and does not care. Persecution is destined for any Christian, and I have been persecuted for my beliefs. Hypocrisy is very common within Christianity because that is how Satan works his hands into the minds of believers. You just need to accept the persecution because the road to heaven is NOT easy, but very hard. Do not let anybody stray you from Christianity. I recommend you look into the miracles of the Eucharist, which can show a lot.
I'm 61 and grew up as a baptist, methodist, and eventually jehovahs witness and so was hesitant to view this. But you really brought out concerns I've had simmering below the surface for years. And at 36 mins in, to hear these pastors justify the killing of Canaanite children as mercy..blows my mind. This is an amazing piece of work. And the way you chose to present it via a humorous mixed media format is just brilliant. It's 2am here and I'm hooked and will watch till the end.
You've warmed my felt heart with this review. Thank you!
2am here too!
Ya and it blows my mind that you find it calming to trust a caricature of Satan who also killed people, ruin people's lives, and is a reason why the world became crap. And who doesn't care about because Satan is a failure who screwed up and does not care about anybody but himself, and who is a jerk and the accuser of humanity, and who is afraid of Jesus Christ and his power because he knows that his fate will lie in the lake of fire, you trust the devil? a liar and a murderer. What I am commenting here is not lying about this channel or Satan himself, this is genuinely who the snake is,
61 year old 40K fan?? *thick new york accent* geht owwwda 'ere!
@@armourvgytBLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!!
I'm Christian and still identify as so, but I totally loved and agreed with this piece of art. Relogion is made by man, and man lies.
So why are you still Christian? Knowing the Bible is riddled with lies?
Genuinely and with respect, why are you a Christian? Why do you value faith enough to base your entire life on an assumption?
Religion is opposite to relationship with God. Religion is all about performing outwardly for people, but not inwardly for God. Jesus said "With their mouth they honour me, but inside they are far from me"
@@aleksandrsnikitins9240AMEN
“I rebuke you Satan!” “Thanks, Jen. Noted.” 😂
best line
I can picture the writers patting themselves on the back for that one. Probably the cleverest thing in the entire video. Almost made me chuckle slightly. Typical dad humor.
😂😂😂😂
Hah I love that she's Jen and he calls her that.
Hahaha
When I was about 9 or 10, my mom and stepfather would take us church hopping. One time we went to a non denominational church where they did the speaking in tongues and stuff. Well, i remember being in children's church with the songs and puppets, but then they had us all line up to go join the adults in the sanctuary.
They lined all us kids in a row at the front, near the pulpit. And all the adults were howling and moaning and speaking in tongues, which was pretty alarming to me because I hadn't seen this before. However, i do remember mostly being quite curious about the whole thing.
So i watch as the pastor goes one by one down the row of kids. He would stand in front of a child and speak in tongues, and then blow on their forehead, then the child would fall back onto the floor and there was a man behind the kid that would cover them with a blanket.
Well i was pretty excited for it to be my turn because to me it seemed like a magic trick or something.
He gets to me and he's all "shalahmama...." etc and then blows on my forehead. And im just looking at him. So he says some more gibberish, then touches my forehead. And im still waiting to fall down. Finally i think he got irritated with me because yhe next time he pushed my head back with his finger, so i just layed down and was pretty freaked out for the rest of it.
But that's the first time i had any sort of feeling that maybe something wasn't quite like they always taught me.
Wonderful story. Thank you for sharing. At the Pentecostal services I've attended, It bothers me deeply when they make all the kids cry.
I grew up in a “shamalama” church but one grandmother was Roman Catholic. We took this disabled grandmother to a Benny Hinn event, and she was on stage but didn’t fall when pushed. She was confused. He pushed her twice more before they took her off-stage.
I was about seven and asked my mother why God didn’t heal grandma, why grandma didn’t fall.
“Grandma didn’t know she had to fall.”
This bothered me for years but I filed it away for as long.
I’m atheist now and still wonder why she worded it that way.
Growing up in non-denominational/Pentecostal churches, this was always weird to me. Whenever someone would go to do it to me only thing I ever felt was social anxiety that I need to fall, too. Other than that, no feeling, no spirit of God. I think some people hype themselves up and can have a physical reaction, but I have to believe it's placebo in all cases where it isn't fake.
Thats pretty cool with the church hopping its always good to get a better perspective by triangulating the truth through multiple view points sounds like you had pretty cool parents. Its hard you had to find out the lengths some will go to to manipulate but im sure you grew alot and realized a bit more about the human condition from it.
“Grandma didn’t know she had to fall.” 🤣🤣🤣@@MsLemon42
i like how there’s 90 minutes between sunday school and the service and this video is almost 90 minutes lol it’s perfect
Of course! Stir the minds of the children up so bad they sit there silently contemplating life during service with that 1000 yard stare 😳😐😂
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Satan threw in just enough time for a bathroom break...how kind!
As a Christian, I knew most of it. Actually, there's was a little more that you could have had covered, but withing time concerns, it's great as it is. I appreciate the fact that you mentioned only mostly established points, not conspiracy theories zeitgeist style.
@@greentoothbrush42 there's no nonsense at all. Several scholars reasoned out everything at least as far as II AD. The issue is that most people, including atheists, have a previous bias and are more focused in confirming their biases than figuring out possibilities.
While this video has a slight atheist position, it's pretty much straight to facts and let the viewer figure out hypothesis at his discretion.
"I rebuke you satan"
"Thanks Jen, noted" got me laughing way harder than I probably should've
Same bruh, same.
So he admits to being Satan.
@@ri3m4nn Not like he ever denied it throughout the video.
@DainnGreywall he did, literally at the beginning. Adversary vs Satan, the Satan looks nothing like him shtick
@@ri3m4nnHe did not? He denied being the devil. Dudes got the attention span of a goldfish.
"...when right-minded readers read rightly" is such a brutal drop. Well played.
Sounds like a direct quote from Festus on Gunsmoke (he was illiterate but was a sponge for info)..He once asked Doc "How do yuh know thet yer readin the writin rightly, or ifn the guy what wrote the writin writ it rightly hisself..."
@@grantkruse1812 As I have an entirely different frame of reference that sounds like something from King of the Hill
This could legit be shown on an educational adult swim the creativity and production are so good. Really hope the work and dedication that must have gone into this project gets the recognition it rightfully deserves.
Fully un-humbled, Lannister. The recognition in the comments section has been really gratifying. We rejoice! Please share far & wide. Amen.
Now your truth perhaps? Amen 🙄
This should be shown on a kids education channel…..To stop the brainwashing….
I was also thinking of "Adult Swim"
@@SATANSGUIDE I feel like you went a little easy on the morals section. Doesn’t the Bible also advocate child rape, and you only mentioned slavery briefly once. Also, Satan is one hot daddy! What’s Satan’s stance on homosexuality?
One has to wonder the amount of dishonesty and arrogance needed in order to "keep secrets" from the common people.
Like the satanic occult? The Bible and Christ are literally an open book. 😂😂😂
@@YouKnowImtellingTheTruth as long as people don't realize to really understand Jesus they MUST FIRST UNDERSTAND JUDAISM, they're reading a book without the required context and understanding what they want, not what Jesus probably wanted to teach.
@@YouKnowImtellingTheTruth Yet the irony is that most religious people don't read the actual sacred texts. They usually expect some sort of authority to explain the "true" meaning of these texts, which is the also the main focus of this video.
@@pachucodrive7861why do you just assume? If you’re gonna say something like that it needs to be a fact “most religious people.” You have no idea dude 😂
@@pachucodrive7861you mean like you’re doing here? 🤣
I love how the tone fits Christian kids vhs shows from the 80s and 90s lmao. Very well done you're a master of script and graphic design
Un-humbled!
@@SATANSGUIDE stay that way
My older brother (Rest in peace, had kidney failure.) was a muslim who was beat up by the Sheikh in charge during the lecture, for correcting a verse. (He was like 11) The Sheikh left a note for my mom with him that said, "Job well done, raising a peculiar child."
My mom still tells that story as if it were her fault for raising her son to be curious. I know this ain't christianity, but I think it's worth mentioning cause these people's mindset, I think, is so very similar to those pastors.
Same with all the abrahamic religions.
@ciswhitemalewithextraprivi7898ya I’m sure it’s more peaceful and less radicalized…
@ciswhitemalewithextraprivi7898 people who interpret the scriptures instead are all alike
Exactly authority and power is the name of the game just like government.🤮 Rest in peace
@ciswhitemalewithextraprivi7898 This might blow your mind, but most internet atheists are offline atheists too. They are right btw.
When I started watching I was not expecting the level of content or video production I saw. I was only going to watch a couple minutes but stayed for the entire hour and a half. Incredibly well done.
Triple-blessed are those who watch the entire flick. Thank you for posting and sharing.
Same.
Yes, Thanks for the colorful talking felt or most of us "Adults" would not have stayed to learn anything.
Same here.
Same, clicked on it to see what it was and ended up watching the entire thing. I watch a lot of counterapologetics content on yt and it can get very old, and I wasn't expected this to be amazing. But it was.
I can’t believe how many songs I learned as a kid to condition me into believing. It was kinda creepy and triggered many memories I forgot I had. Like singing those songs many times for the adults with the other kids for performances. Man, I’m so glad everyone didn’t have a camera in their pocket back then
I seriously cannot believe I watched this free of charge. This was amazing and thank you. I can’t express enough how admirable you are for this is. I’m looking forward to seeing this channel’s success.
No paywall, commercial free, so as to be accessible as possible. Please share far and wide.
@@SATANSGUIDEim only a few minutes in but i totally want to share this with my christian boyfriend, he looooves long and respectful philosophical discussion and also long content. i personally have a lot of trouble focusing on long content but i’m watching this all the way through because it’s so educational and high-quality. i will definitely share this.
@@SATANSGUIDE Hopefully yours won't get taken down like a few others have on here exposing this info. KnowMoreNews and Christendumb/truthhertz are now on other platforms (like Homer's "Odyssey"). Good job with this one!!
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How many middle men between you guys, and the money supporting you from Israel?
I mean, you know, the American money, (which is siphoned from our taxpayers, including MANY Christians) and given to Israel, so that they can fund endeavors such as this?
@@UnityAgainstJewishEvil I feel like the video was actually pretty critical of the historical accounts in Judaism. Unless I'm completely deaf, I think it even mocked the concept of a "chosen people" which I'm sure isn't a thing a zionist would put in their secret spooky propaganda. Maybe I'm wrong. Either way, you should fully watch the video. Knowing the truth about what you believe should ONLY strengthen your faith in it. Be unwavering, Brumsly!
Recently my parents move out to the fundamentalist countryside and I was so worried for them. Then my father decides to study theology and I almost freaked out, but against my judgement, he just turned more left leaning and became an atheist. I was not expecting that, but I'm quite happy. I will send him these, luckily it has subtitles.
Blessed are those who share SATAN'S GUIDE with their newly atheist pop.
@@SATANSGUIDE You are a nasty individual.
My favorite part?
Little girl: "Get hurt."
The Adversary raises an eyebrow.
Hahahaha, what about, 'Talky snake!'_ 😉☺
So far my favorite is “I rebuke you Satan!” “Thanks Jen, noted” 😂
Timestamp?
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CALLBACK! 1:21:35 @@minetruly
“The liberation of the Israelites and the genocide of the Canaanites are two side of the same coin.”
Over thousands of years, humans have inadequately rejected the notions of “acceptable genocide” when sanctioned by “the right god,” as found in Joshua. It should come as no surprise that we see our failures come home to roost in the modern situation in Gaza. More than TWO THOUSAND YEARS and we have let authoritarian morality persist to our peril.
The (((Old Testament))) makes sense now.
Look here, antisemites! Satan would not approve.
Thank you, I was going to post this exact sentiment! It's chilling the ways in which the Israeli authorities of today are using the exact same language against Palestinians that apologists use against the Canaanites. "They're bad people. Their culture is bad. They'd do the same to us. We can't coexist here because God has willed this land to *us.* They aren't capable of taking proper care of the land." And on and on.
Folks over here in the US keep repeating "Israel has a right to defend itself," but they either don't research (or are ignoring) the things that Israeli people are actually saying: that either way their goal is to wipe Palestine and its people off the map. That's been the goal since the early 1900s and earlier (ie *before* WWII), since Zionism began.
Wherever they decided their promised land would be (originally I think it was going to be in Africa?), the plan was to remove/eliminate by force the people already living there. It's religious zealotry, ethnic cleansing, and (oddly enough yet predictably) white supremacy at its core.
@@Arosukir6 and now some Israelis are even saying that Iran doesnt have the right to exist either. stating this as Israel has started bombing Lebanon
The worst part about it is that both sides are wrong and it's the same way in just about every war. One terrible religion against another terrible religion.
It was 4 years in the seminary and the things I learned there that convinced me that the Christian Church did not come from Jesus but from Paul (who never knew Jesus) and the Council of Nicaea (or Nicea) which was almost 300 years after Jesus's ministry. Christianity was invented by humans, not by God. Which makes you doubt not only God's authorship, but even God's competence. And, by logical extension, God's existence. Today I'm an Atheist.
I’ve been an atheist for pretty much my entire life, but still have a good amount of religious trauma because the people around me are not. This video helped me work through some of that, especially all of those kids’ songs and stage plays and etc. that are genuinely painful for me to think about. So, thank you. Even leaving that aside, I’m beyond impressed by the quality of the actual content here. The research, animation, and even just the joke-writing are beyond well done. While I personally didn’t learn too much new information from this, seeing it all packaged so coherently and thoughtfully honestly made my day. I’ll be sharing it around, too, as it seems really approachable, and addresses these points more confidently than I ever could. Truly brilliant work. ❤
Un-humbled, thank you. Blessed are those who share SATAN'S GUIDE.
Even if you don't want to follow the Bible that doesn't mean you can't believe there's a creator of life.
Please make the next creator a pluralist, @@jacktorrance2633. Had enough of the group-privileging gods.
Dude I almost started crying when they started singing “Jesus loves me, this I know”. The juxtaposition of my deconstruction laid bare with the living warmth I felt believing all this stuff in Sunday school. It hurts deep man.
Sending our love, friend.
@@SATANSGUIDE woah Satan himself replies! This video was *awesome* by the way! Most deconstruction videos I watch I find myself not fully agreeing with their arguments, but this one really solidly takes apart what I see as the genuine problems in the Bible. 10/10 would recommend
@@ChronicNewb Blessed are all who share SATAN'S GUIDE!
@@SATANSGUIDE thank u for opening more eyes
@@TinyBoxBin that's kinda been his thing, since the days in the Garden of Eden, when he was a snake! ;)
"I REBUKE you, Satan!"
"Thanks, Jen. Noted. 🗿🍷"
This is honestly the best line in this whole thing in my opinion. I don't even know why I find it so funny, I keep trying to explain the joke to myself but I don't get it, it's just funny.
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It's because Jen's innocent ignorance is a metaphor for the Catholic church's tendency to prefer a lazy-faith fairweather flock, rather than a herd of tried-and-tested believers who understand *what* they believe in and *why* they have faith in it. And Satan's half-amused dismissal of her learned arrogance is a metaphor for how the real world tends to hold members of religious organizations to a certain standard of accountability, often without mercy.
It perfectly illustrates how pitiful the "BELLIGERENT FAITH" reflex is against things like truth and reason. You can't replace (or defend against) an intelligent and well-versed observation by rebuking it on principle. You have to understand the morals and values you declare before you go around asserting them. Otherwise, you just end up looking stupid and being noted.
...Oooor it's because a whole-ass angel basically said "fukkoutta here with that shıt" to a little brat. Which is just funny.
Idk pick your favorite.
The creators of this documentary should get donations for this. What I have been learning about the past 3 years is compacted neatly in this video.
This should be mandatory viewing in all US schools.
I went to the Catholic University of São Paulo (largest catholic university of all America's) and we had mandatory Theology classes regardless of the major. The professor had a master degree in theology and studied to be a Bishop before giving up the cleric life for lack of faith. He was clearly an agnostic although denying it giving vague answers regarding his faith, yet was teaching theology inside a corpus of the church. He liked the "lore" of Christianity and believed in a quite loose definition of a loving god, but he regarded the bible as problematic and mostly fiction. When the most academics in your own religion don't believe or take your founding scriptures seriously, one has to stop to think what is even the point of institutionalized religion altogether. Most of these people continue in it out of convenience and tradition (as well as tax benefits, lol).
thank you for sharing that!
I had a very similar experience at a Lutheran college. I had to take more than one religion course, and we really dug into the origins of the Bible in a few ways - the documentary hypothesis, the synoptic problem, extra-canonical works, etc. It was eye opening to say the least. Anyway I was skeptical before but really skeptical after. The professors for these courses were usually ex-pastors or people who had dropped out of seminary to do real academic study. I also knew a couple of people on the seminary track but they couldn't envision themselves making a career out of [essentially] lying, so they switched majors late in their studies. Frankly I have a hard time imagining how anyone with a rational and skeptical worldview when given all the available information could still believe that the Bible is "the word of God".
The purpose I think for any religion is a sense of understanding, meaning, and reliability in a world that is inherently meaningless and chaotic. Its a psychological security blanket. Its also a great way to have a sense of community. The issue with it is when people take advantage of it and use it as a way to control people through fear
It's simply faith we believe the bible is the true word of God. A large Christian movement is on its way!!! Anyone who has felt The Holy Ghost knows God is real.
@@MichaelAllred-gv5hj"it's simply faith"... to "knows"... That's quite the leap from faith!
I like the character refusing to change their views no matter what is shown to them.
It's a reminder that the goal of information isn't necessarily to convert people away from religion, but to hopefully prevent people from making incredibly poor decisions on behalf of themselves or others in the name of an ideology that demonstrably does not have their bests interest in mind.
Amen!
@@SATANSGUIDE yeah amen to your side of the argument, but forget all the evil shit that happens when people take it the other way
@@wyattwillis8565 its strange how even in progressive schools the absolute number of trans people is absolutely miniscule. its almost as if no one is actually "teaching" kids to be trans, but that some kids become trans when exposed to the concept.
its kind of like how gay, autistic, depressed, anxious and schizophrenic people existed before we could diagnose those things. almost as if our entire society has a gargantuan undercurrent of people who spend their lives never being told that maybe there is a reason why they feel the way that they do.
@@wyattwillis8565 you mean like how every situation could be interpreted? there’s nuance to every argument. also you irrelevantly bring up a transphobic remark? iunno kinda weird.
Your content inputs are muddying the clean water of@@wyattwillis8565
God gives his strongest warriors his toughest battles
but I never asked to get cancer
i never wanted to fight anything
I never wanted to fight his battles
I just wanted to grow up normal
The fact that Satan himself is being depicted as offering “biblical secrets” is so hilariously on-brand for him. This is an interesting video.
No it's not satan did it with Adam and Eve and Jesus in the wilderness, all the times twisting/ changing scripture for his benefit. Hence the father of Lies
He is in fact the author of lies.
Satan never lied in the bible. And before you say "the serpent" - the serpent was not Satan (since the serpent had his legs cursed off and Satan still has his legs in Job, so that's ridiculous. It's just a primitive's explanation for why snakes have no legs, because they're weird) and even the serpent didn't lie. He said they wouldn't die if they ate the fruit, just that their eyes would be opened, which was true. The only reason they had any problems was because God was pissed at them, which is a whole new book of stupid. God said "If you eat the fruit, you will die". That was a lie. They didn't die, they had their eyes opened. Technically, the knowledge of good and evil is called "emotional maturity" and it's something we all get when we transition from children to adolescents.
Try reading the 10 books of
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the Abrahamic deity being allegedly whole would then be willing and able to manifest as both
Isaiah 45:7
As an agnostic I never expected to stay an entire hour and a half watching a video about the bible, but it was so damn good and entertaining that time passed flying. I learned a lot too
The funny thing about this is, the existence of the bible or whatever it contains has no meaning regarding the question if an omnipotent entity along the lines of a "god" exists or not *g*
The bible is a great example of the length people WILL try to force, extort, scam and con other people into a position in which the forcing, extorting, scamming and conning people will hold authority about them
What do you think the phrase, "as an agnostic" means?
Follow-up question, in addition to being an agnostic, are you theist or atheist?
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv I am neither theist or atheist. I believe that humans can not possible comprehend the nature of the afterlife and God, if there is any, and therefore we can not prepare to what happens after death. But I still find interesting to hear about people interpretations about God and the afterlife.
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv I don't think you know what agnostic means, or you wouldn't ask the second question. It means 'I don't know'. Neither for nor against. I personally would add that I refuse to be put in a category of somebody else's choice.
@@rbdogwoodit actually means “without knowledge” someone can be an agnostic theist which claims they believe but they don’t know for sure, or an agnostic atheist who doesn’t believe in any god but doesn’t know for sure.
These titles mean whatever the person identifying as them means though, so he was more asking how this dude identifies his beliefs on religion.
holy shit the use of felt characters to tell stories just unlocked a deep memory of when i was in a christian preschool wtfff
This seems like blasphemy
Same 😂
I've never been to a Sunday school that allowed tv
Almost like this is adapted from some of the ways evangelicals and the like have been brainwashing their own kids with religious children's programming.
bro the felt characters and all those childrens songs activated my fight or flight
Was given a kids Bible when really young, graduated to king James in middle school. Boy was it an eye opening experience. Needless to say, I left Christianity after seeing not one person follow teachings. Noticed Christians just picked and chose what fit their narrative best. All through reading the Bible versus just listening to a faith leader.
genuinely, thank you for making this. It's a wonderful resource for people to have and as someone who grew up in this community, I was constantly shunned and ridiculed for criticizing anything and this brings a lot of validation to me. Thank you.
I was not expecting to learn so much and then cry my eyes out at the end... Play I just didn't know and then the credits just slap me in the face with it... Rip Dr Avalos. The legend
I know this might be asking for too much, but please, could we get more of this. This video was so good, as a person who was a fearful believer when I was younger. I love seeing these types of videos.
Um no.🤮
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Afaik there will be more videos, shouldn't this be a series?
@@braindecay9477 glad this is not.
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@@GlobalBricks1 what is the issue did you not enjoy the content.
@@KingCoon its lies and hate.
And Satan, the hateful one. He does nkt care about us humans because we are Gods creation so he lies to ise to bring us to hell. Its the Bible.
The Bible is the word of God. God would not let evil destroy his words or bad humans too.
People can say soooooo much like its was bad translation but got no proof or have evidence and fail badly, like this video.
Its crazy that people "enjoyed it" and sad too.
Its people who are easily manipulated or brainwashed to think Satan is here to help and to think all is facts with no research done.
Read the bible
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The study of religion usually ends faith. There are so many Clergy that, for all the intentions they had of serving humanity, now find themselves without faith themselves, because they usually have an analytical bent and are well ordered in their thinking. But now they say to themselves that while they may not be personally worthy of redemption and ascension into Heaven, perhaps they may assist others to do so, or maybe attain it by 'works.' I really believe they stay in it more because of the peer pressure than any particular belief, and in the company they keep, that peer pressure never relents. I have problems with calling myself an "atheist." You never hear people much these days talking about how they think that the story of Enki just doesn't strike them as true. I would just say that you're on the road to reason, instead of trying to name the recovery from your disease by naming it in honor of the cause of it, which in itself is an inadequacy of thought coupled with the very human desire to never cease to be. But, what do I know? If I have the time, I'll pray for you as I spend my eternity being consciously tortured in a lake of burning lava. Toodles.
Blessing for "toodles"!
This documentary is incredible but I legit had to skip the children's songs half the time cause they were giving me flashbacks
The songs aren't happy fun time for some. My apologies.
@@SATANSGUIDE the songs were one of the few things I actually LIKED about going to a Christian school. The rest of the experience was more like a mild, watered down, lite version of Dante's Inferno that I was able to experience in real life. Hypocrisy was only the tip of that very large ice berg.
You should check out the midnight mass. Minister meets an "angel" (vampire) and brings it back to his congregation where it starts feeding on the people on the island. It makes excellent use of those songs to reinforce the horror element of the show. Truly spine chilling
@@SATANSGUIDE They tapped into distant memories I forget even existed.
@@SATANSGUIDEespecially not for non-us viewers. For Europeans like me they are just cringe.
I grew up with good, God-fearing, moral Baptists who believed that from time to time, God just had to kill some kids. Thankfully, using empathy and the Golden Rule, I rejected the twisted morality I was taught and instead learned to treat my fellow humans with deeper kindness and respect. Run for the hills kids!
"Lean not on your own understanding."Proverbs 3:5
@@freedom1557"You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another humbly in love." Galatians 5:13
"You can take any sentence out of any book and completely misconstrue the meaning of the entire chapter and authors intent."- Some librarian in some forum probably
The true light is within us. It is something no book, person, or deity has the privilege to provide us.
@tripezius1 most 'Athiests' , which are really skeptics, are not against God. Nor endorsing a stance on the theological definition of God. Rather, it is a manifestation of long history of generational traumas the church has exacted against the public. The church has seldom been anything but an embarrassment to its God. The thought of having to survive in an eternity of torture or oblivion is excruciating, but the thought of having to spend eternity in a realm populated by Christians isn't any less so.
Ignore all the people giving you hate. This work you’ve done here is brilliant and is already something of a YT skeptics classic as far as I’m concerned!
Honestly when I Saw "Satan's Guide To The Bible" I knew it was going to be good. Satan's never said a lie, so I was ready. But I didn't expect this level of research, with sources, humor, incredible graphics, and a very attractive Satan. Congratulations to the entire team. You did good guys. Truly. Thank You for this. I am an atheist, so not so shaken
So I wasn't the only one who thought Satan looked super huggable!
Satan is barely even in the bible aside from one or two vague appearances yet gets his reputation torn to pieces despite god committing mass slaughter time and again and worst of all justifies it
The amount of work in this is wild. 10/10 man I hope you produce more.
10/10? Our film is inerrant! Voting for the next SATAN'S GUIDE is open at SATANSGUIDE.com
@@SATANSGUIDE Seems like it's the Qu'rans turn! Though I would love to see the book of mormon too!
@@SATANSGUIDEHa!
@@SATANSGUIDE yeah as a devout Christian who did not want to watch this video I would love seeing you take on the Qu'ran.
@@SATANSGUIDEthanks Jen, noted.
Oh wow. I put this on, thinking "I'll check it out but I'm not watching an hour and a half video." Correction: I'm not watching an hour and a half video on my phone. This is so good that I had to switch to my TV to watch, about 5 minutes in.
I promise the same thing happened with me😲
same
I second that
Going to church will never be the same again after this. One of the pastors in my church wanted to talk to me about my quitting of being a worker for Jesus because of unrelated problems in personal life and academics. He started spouting things like me quitting being the work of the devil and the likes. He said that if I really did put faith in the Lord, I'd be persevering all the way through. I guess I *don't* have faith in Jesus now then.
Now, thinking about it, I think they just wanted free child labor and hiding it under "working for Jesus"...
good for you!
Free labor is the cornerstone of the church while the higher ups line their pockets. Classic christian.
The issue is not Christianity. The issue is the church. If your church asks you to give more than you are capable of, then get out.
Never heard of ‘working for jesus’ but i know exploitation when i hear it
Think carefully and pray about it before you abandon the church and God for individuals. It’s a road you’ll regret.
Jesus will be there when no one else is, but I hope you call on His Name now ❤ God Loves you
No matter how many times I watch this, I keep coming back for more!
Double-blessings for repeat viewers!
Same
As a proud bible college dropout, thanks for this. Biblical Interpretation was the course that began my deconstruction.
Only right kind of dropout.
Yikes.
This film is for you. Blessed are the deconstructors!
Just remember that for every argument there is counter argument
Just remember that for every argument there is counter argument
The fact that Pastors learn all the Bible’s secrets at seminary and purposely withhold or amend knowledge when questions get asked tells you that they’re trained to be manipulators.
Master of lies and deception and author of the Bible at your service.
All counselors are and cops too. Military also. They are everywhere.
You’ve never met a good pastor then, I’ve never met a pastor that intentionally doesn’t share their knowledge with their congregation
@@joykendrick6156 all counselors? as in medical professionals? Therapists?
@@Fistbeardthepirate lol this video made y’all SO fuckin uncomfy and I’m living for it.
Thank you. I was a christian for most of my life and became ex-christian due to most things not making sense and i still never knew half of the things you mentioned here. Thank you for waking me up
You weren’t a real Christian if something this dumb could honestly honestly shake your beliefs he offered no real proof at all for anything he said just a couple professors they said no nope nope nope. That’s sad that you gave up instead of trying to build your face because there is a lot of evidence that the Bible is true. I hope you find your way back to Christianity and back to knowing Jesus the only way to heaven, but if you don’t, you don’t, you’ll see that you turn your back on Christ was wrong. Might be too late by the time you see it, but guarantee everyone that is blaspheming Lord will see it.
@Rei-m3g and @RunAw_ Please read my refutation of this horrible video here in these comments....
I've deconverted two Christians through teaching them what the bible says.
One, an ex partner (I wish them well.) who escaped their cobtrolling parents, who treated their mental illness as something to be prayed away.
And the other, one of my closest friends, who lost half his family to a pseudo-christian cult.
Incredible.
I'm so sorry for both of them. I hope they are well :(
Any chance you could make a sequel video where Satan talks about how hes been confused with other gods like the devil, Hades, Pan, Moloch, etc? And have those dark gods on as the guest stars he debates with.
Good idea!
Ooh or do a video of critical analysis on the Quran!
Don't forget Azazel
wtf did hades and pan do???
Fun Fact: This is sort of how The Great Schism happened in Catholicism. The printing press was invented, more people learned to read, and more people had access to Bibles. As people learned for themselves the started realizing pastors and other clergy members were withholding information and practically manipulating them. So lots of people broke away and started forming their own sects. That's why to this day there are still tons of minor practices of Christianity
Technological inventions, including the printing press, always lead to major upheavals. Martin Luther would have been a nobody if the printing press came along 50 years before or after. There would be some other dude wearing the Protestant crown.
The Great Schism was in 1054. The printing press wasn't invented until 1440 (almost 400 years later).
@@dianamiller3307 To be more specific 1448 where Gutenberg first took a loan to fund his invention to mass production. Also i think the Author meant the Schism of the Protestant and Catholic church which happened in 1517 (Luther hammering his thesis on the wall of the Wittenberger Schlosskiche)
The problem with this hypothesis is that there is not significant spread of literacy in 16 hundrets HRRDN and the printing press was developed in 1448 by Gutenberg so there are 60 years inbetween those two dates. Apart from that there was no standard German dialect at the time. Luther used High German which is a sort of Middle German dialect but no one would understand it in bavaria (south) or Schleswig (north). I think what played more of a part here is just that people and especially counts were tired by the authority the Catholic church had. There is a good reason the Tudors started their own church in England.
@@Tenshi694 good point but it's Tudors
Wow, I didn't even know this kind of content existed on TH-cam. This is so high quality, you should be proud.
It's really good.
We are living in the best time to be alive (so far, at least), and I’m so grateful.
i was not raised christian. i was raised muslim but i often say that islam is just part 3 of the abrahamic trilogy. continuing where christianity left off and adding more. I left religion about 8 years ago but to me this video is more important than disproving the lies of the abrahamic faiths. This book and its variants have completely shaped the world we live in today and you can see it in the way that genocides have been and continue to be carried out in the name of god. I believe that the abrahamic faiths from a historical standpoint have truly ruined our world and have lead to incomparable levels of bloodshed backed and led by these books of lies
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what I think is interesting is, and correct me if I'm wrong, is no one in the video tries to refute the existence of God in the video, and yet the merest criticism of the ethics of God, Jesus, and Christianity on the whole is taken as a direct stab at God. I think that in itself is something to really think about when it comes to religion
Meh. I just thought the whole video was kinda pretentious and stupid.
@@andreaparks9044 cool.
Totally agree. Literally every protestant *should* agree that criticism of the church is an essential part of an ethical religion, AND YET...
And yet this video doesn't give any of the myriad of examples of this happening. Almost like the video isn't objective, crazy!@@AeonKingofLions
Pointing out blatant hypocrisy and behavior of others isnt a stab at them if its accurate. If telling the truth about someone makes them look bad, its not slander, they’re just bad
As a former pastor and Sunday school teacher, I loved this. Beautifully done. Let your little light shine!
Wow, how come you exited your job?
Got caught diddling didn’t you?
As a guy who believes in God but not in the church, I really liked this, and hope more people can see this.
Please share to the 4 corners!
Shill and tool. Someone who believes in God would never approve something like this. Its a all about having a spine.
Why do you believe in something there is zero evidence for?
Just because science can't yet explain why everything in the universe is how it is, why does that automatically mean you can say with absolute certainty x....insert manufactured name here..... did it?
Just because millions scared of the unknown falsely delude themselves into believing something is real, doesn't always make it so. No matter how comfortable that delusion, is not based in reality.
Who's God are you referring to?
the kids singing the jericho song and pushing down the walls is downright disturbing.
We used to act it out in church. However we did go to a simple Congregational church in Connecticut. It was how church should be. Then we moved to Florida and got involved in the Southern Baptist Church. Very confusing
My mother is an evangelical Christian... She and her "brothers and sisters in Christ" made my childhood and adolescence miserable. I grew up surrounded by violence and fear, her God was not a god of love and mercy, but a God of judgement and punishment.
I had the same experience and as a girl suffered greatly with these veiws. Im so sorry you experienced this and hope you have healed.
@@jessafasel the body heals, though scars can be left but they don't hurt anymore. However, the scars left on my brain and my heart? They are there forever, and they still condition a lot... I'm taking therapy in order to improve, but it is hard. I hope you could heal as well, I'm so sorry that you also had to go through all of that. But people like us are strong, and fire tests the best swords.
Plus guilt and shame. Lots of it
I hate the Church, I love the Bible and not just the books that are taught in mainstream Churches. That would be like watching a movie with chunks taken out of it
News flash … having bad parents doesn’t absolve you from your responsibilities to God. Sounds like you didn’t like your mom. But how is that God’s fault? I know I know blame everything on everybody else… right? Angry anger full of resentment and vengeance and hate. Yet here you are putting all that same character blame on God…. Kind of ironic.
Here’s the best thing I can tell you for your own good in a comment section…. You deserved worse, we all do. No one is a “good person” and anyone that says they are is a delusional liar. If I took your thoughts out and played them on a video you’d run from society never showing your face again. Christ didn’t die for good people. He died for a fallen race of men on the march to hell. Your mom was just one person. Don’t go your whole life and die a fool.
As someone who went to an evangelical school, and grew up in the evangelical church only to eventually leave it (receiving many unfortunate comments and threats in the process), this was very cathartic. I had already known about much of this, and seeing the subject being spoken about in such a well researched and comprehensive way was very satisfying. Thank you!
Beautiful! Thank you. And props on your bravery in leaving the Evangelical scene.
Yeah... If someone has to threaten others to keep them in a congregation, they need to reevaluate their whole belief structure, and probably their church too.
I'm glad you made it out, despite the difficulties.
Congratulations on the victory in the fight for mental freedom!
Also had a similar experience, but it was only an elective in junior high school (it turned out that the teacher was from the sect of Jehovah's Witnesses). But I was lucky with my parents - my mother simply went to the director and threatened to sue if this continued. In fact, everyone was happy as a result (I also came to similar conclusions just by carefully reading the Bible, and my tricky questions spoiled every lesson 😅)
On the outside, the religion looks insidious. It has all kinds of rhetorical traps designed to stop questions.
"God's way is higher than ours"
"Faith is a virtue."
“I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” - Luke 19:40-44
There is the unpardonable sin, which is pretty easy to interpret as a thought sin.
Jesus also outlines other thought sins, so you are not even safe in your mind.
The way it messes with the follower's minds seems pretty bad to me.
You must have gone to Westboro. People are too comfortable with lying.
The thing about "eternal torture in hell" contra genocide is that genocide is real even if you have faith in a religion or not. Hell is a human made concept
Yes but the auidence this is made for might not belive such a distinction, the audience of a work is a crucical component to a works creation.
You could say that genocide is a type of hell, but it's a stretch to say that it's a human made concept. Whatever your world view, surely the concept of hell, or genocide, existed long before humans did.
I think i recall that the concept of hell was adopted from zoroastrianism. People downplay the real and profound effect that the fear of ETERNAL torture and agony cause people. Today I think most church goers downplay all that, essp in children. As children we trust adults, it's literally hardwired into us so say when we are told not to walk off a cliff we don't try it first. Well when you take a child and tell them on a daily basis that if they don't perform these strange rituals and give up their sunday that when they die they will LITERALLY be raped by fire ants and burned in horrific agony FOREVER it SERIOUSLY messes them up! I 100% believe there should be a law preventing parents from indoctrinating children in these ancient myths. It's child abuse 100%.
@@Faceplantfloor no. Concepts, are basically thoughts. Without thinkers, they don't exist. Mind, some event humans would later LABEL a 'genocide' would exist, sure. But that's an event, not a concept. That event doesn't equate to the existence of the label, the concept, genocide.
You could argue that IF hell exists, and existed before minds, it would predate people. The concept of hell, not so much. This would be more akin to arguing that the idea of black holes - not 'black holes', the thoughts of them, existed before anyone ever had any thoughts about them.
Genocide is a human made concept, even it exists as an event. Concept. =/= the actual thing.
I don't see a use for an imaginary Hell when this world is enough of one already
I became an atheist after diving deeply into the Bible and the history of religions, initially aiming to strengthen my faith. Now, I feel more aligned with promoting love, solidarity, and humility. Choosing atheism was one of the bravest decisions I’ve ever made.
If you ever decide to do a sequel, maybe Satan could talk about just how many different sins are in the bible. I feel like I am always constantly hearing about a new sin, like the eating shrimp thing.
Voting is open for the next SATAN'S GUIDE at SATANSGUIDE.com. 'New sin discoveries' is not currently a choice, but good suggestion! Hope you know that sin about mixing wool and cotton.
@@SATANSGUIDEsatans guide to sins wasn’t up there hoopla
As a biblical scholar I struggle with the same arguments and the faith I was raised as a cornerstone of my morals. It doesn’t mean I don’t believe in The God of creation. It means I don’t believe in the ritual and rules of religion.
It's unclean to eat. Not fit for food. God said it himself, it's not a mystery
@@dylantyt6654 To be fair, God's said some pretty bullshit, messed-up, and absolutely asinine things over the years. It'd be a shame if he got cancelled.
I was kicked out Lutheran Sunday school as a kid and asked not not be allowed into church for questioning things you covered here. Thank you for making this!
People freak when their symbolic universes are questioned. Props on your bravery!
As a Christian, I’m sorry your questions fell on deaf ears. It is necessary videos like this exist, to force a Christian to grow, confronting their beliefs and strengthening faith. It sounds like those Christian’s were afraid of having their ideas confronted.
I’m an atheist, but even I think it’s messed up for asking questions
@@supleh5937 it was 89' I asked the basic stuff, why kill everyone with the flood, why kill children, how come God is always mad at everyone? I also asked why we need to pay them money all the time. A friend of mine was kicked out because there parents didn't tithe and I kept asking them why. I had a little kid crush on her, so I was mad. As soon as one other boy joined me in questioning, they took me upstairs to my dad and told him to never bring me back again.
@@billlythekid5780how can you possibly watch this and have your faith strengthened…………?
Hearing WLC rationalize the killing of the children is horrific. How perverse it is that a person will contort natural empathy and any recognizable sense of ethics to justify the acts of God as presented in the Bible. Disgusting!
Pro-genocide arguments from a supposed pro-lifer! Goodness. I guess WLC is only pro certain lives. To quote the Apostle Bill Hicks: "You either love all people of all ages or you shut the f up."
@@SATANSGUIDE Now you have my total admiration for quoting Bill Hicks.
Natural empathy doesn't exist...and apparently neither does your abiltiy to process information. Try reading the source in context..instead of blindly believing the inane ramblings of someone who openly worships evil.
WLC is on record stating that he believe first, and evidence supports that belief. Because God is so real and the Bible is so trustworthy, no amount of change in the evidence would ever be enough to shake his faith.
Eric Hovind, the son of the crazy Dino pastor Kent Hovind, says
“As Christian’s we must presuppose that God exists and the Bible is the inerrant word of God. This is where our faith is, we then build off of that truth.”
Whoa whoa whoa, this video edited out the context! You see, WLC is actually a shock comic, like Andrew Dice Clay. This video leaves out the punchline at the end, where WLC shouts: "The Aristocrats!"
Pastor here. "Seminary secrets..." haha...I really liked this video. My New Testament class read that new testament textbook! I hope there is more videos to come. I find that this is very similar to some of the best church curriculums for teens. There are many many stories in the Bible that Christians take as fact when it is not meant to be. It simply is asking all the wrong questions and focusing on parts of the story that isnt important. I can say that the clergy I know want to help our congregants understand these things but we are also aware that there are proper contexts that it needs to be done. Small group, individual meetings might be a good place. In sermons, it is not as easy as when u say one thing that is controversial to someone, they stop listening to the rest. Its an art form.
In my last church, I made a small group with college students and we talked about these things. They all grew up in the church and disagreed with the conservative church perspective but had not learned that their perspectives can line up with certain Christian traditions. The problem is that in order to learn this type of perspective, people need to spend a lot of time reading and learning, time that people are often unwilling to spend. Hence, "seminary secrets..." Not many people have the time, money, opportunity, to go to seminary. Of course, u also have to go to the right seminary.
Its is unfortunat, though, that people hear this and automatically jump to the conclusion that it is all worthless. I have come to the conclusion that conservatives need it all to be fact in order to believe and hostile atheists also need it all to be fact in order for it to matter. Of coruse, the anger and hostility towards the church is absolutely warranted. I chose to stay and address it from with in. This work is not for everyone. In many conservation around beer at parties over the years, I have shared these ideas with people who no longer attend church. Dare I say all of those conversations have ended with them telling me they would attend church if someone like me was their pastor. I find that it all lands in the realm of hope. While facts matter in most contexts, it is not the be all of human existence. It takes a lot of intelligiance to sift through the Bible to find the nuggets of wisdom. I believe those muggets of wisdon are valuable, maybe not the only place to find it, but its in there, if we look. I dont need the Bible to tell me that murder is not a good thing. I might need a reminder once in a while that even my worst enemy are humans, that power corrupts, that somes, I judge others harshly while ignoring the plank in my eye, that money and power do not equal a joyful life, etc. Some people need that reminder others dont.
Give me a break.....
Thanks Jen.. noted..
Thanks for your insight!
Atheists know it’s not fact. That why amongst ourselves we laugh at the ridiculous contradictory claims made in the Bible and question how anyone can believe them to be true. What we are not happy with is living in a society with a bunch of delusional fanatics that keep defending this nonsense and try to force the rest of us to live by it. At least Greek mythology has well written verse and interesting character development (and the capacity to criticize gods who are in the wrong). The Bible is just a bunch of badly written tosh, an attempt to copy from more complex philosophies by ignorant tyrants who had no interest in ethics, but clearly wanted to justify their oppression over their subjects and find excuses to murder and enslave their neighbors.
@gabrielamora6265 again, I dont take issue with atheists not seeing everything in the Bible as facts. I am Christians, a pastor, and I dont see it all as fact either. Again, we have to be specific about the words we use, or at least how we use them. There is "truth" like facts and "truths" like wisdom. I am not arguing that the Bible is wisdom; that is another argument. I am just pointing out that atheists and evangelicals alike are obsessed with "truth" as in facts. The Bible, as a literary content, was not written to communicate facts like we expect today in most of the genres we read. The Bible is a "theological history" of a specific people. They mixed in their understanding of science, behavior understanding, morality, etc. Yes, a lot of the factual things are completely wrong, God didn't cause earthquake and floods, we live in a planet where these events are a part of the planet's ecosystem. We won't be able to live on it if our tectonic plates didn't move. It is more like stories told around a camp fire than a text book. It was how culture and family history was passed down. In this way, stories had to be embelished, there had to be some kind of explanation for things without really knowing the facts. Reading the Bible is more like archeology than reading the newspaper if we want factual truths. We can understand how the people understood themselves, their community, their circumstance, etc. Its like reading a book based on a true stroy but things have been changed for entertainament purposes. Factually, people didnt write things down but mostly told sotries verbally. Details werent not important rather the point of the story, this side won the battle, this person was really strong, there were a lot of people, etc. As someone who has read the Bible and struggled with being religious all my life, I do believe there are huge differences between Greek mythology and Judasim. You cant just group all relgions together and say the why and the how they came to bc are the same. Some were used for control. Some were used to explain the unexplainable. Some were used to teach and explain community practices.
I don't know what you mean that the Bible doesnt have interesting characters. I find the story of Jonah pretty interesting. He was a prophet who hated doing prophet things. He also is prophet who did the opposite of what God wanted him to do. In the story, he never changes his ways and the story just ends that way. It is an interesting story about how we all can hate our enemies so much and think they are the bad guys but we are really the one that need changing. I find the story of all the kings interest. They all were righteous at one time but fail in major ways. It's something we can all relate to. The Bible is filled with very human experiences we all can connect to. It's not a book of simple morals or simple "do this and you are good..." Again, the point I come back to, evangelicals read it and only see these stupid simple explanations and atheists belive what evangelicals are telling them it is. Its a bad game of telephone. All I ask atheist to do is look at relgion like a phenomena of human experience. I believe Neil DeGrass Tyson said to Ben Shipiro regarding lgbtq people. Who cares if it is fact or not? It is a human experience, it is interesting and we should understand it bc it is part of being human. I believe Christians who debate and try to defend Christianity or prove it is factual are uninteresting. Christianity is not the same as science, in that it is something to be proven. Then, it would be called science...or sudoscience. It is relgion. It's like measuring volume with in inches. In this, I am trying to defend science as much as I am trying to defend religion. Science doesn't have to disprove religion. I get why people try to bc Christians keep saying the Bible teaches them science. It's stupid. These people don't even understand the book they claim to uphold and love.
It's absolutely terrifying to have your worldview collapse in on itself. It can make us incredibly scared and angry, as to admit that we were wrong is to admit that we were tricked or deceived, it can leave us lost without a clear purpose or goal. I was never religious but when I was younger I became radicalised and indoctrinated into an alt-right group here in the UK. When I finally realised I'd been brainwashed I felt like such a fool, it made me very confused and depressed, but learning how to swallow my pride has helped me understand my confirmation bias, and has helped protect me from making the same mistake.
Ernest Becker's books The Denial of Death and Escape from Evil both deal with this issue ("terrifying to have your worldview collapse in on itself"). Here's a Philosophize This episode on Becker's enlightening revelations: th-cam.com/video/-43zh_za_eQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=SfSx26ItWoF0wHRz
Part 2 th-cam.com/video/AAyR2R14BSg/w-d-xo.html
@@SATANSGUIDE wow! Really interesting, thanks for showing this to me. I just subscribed to their channel, and thanks for creating such a fascinating and eye-opening documentary.
I need a “gay shrimp eater” t-shirt
quick question, whats wrong with eating shrimp?
@@lumberjackofalltradesit's fine as long as you're not gay [while you do it]
@@lumberjackofalltrades Shellfish are “detestable,” according to Leviticus 11:12: “That which has no fins nor scales in the waters, that is a detestable thing unto you.”
@@pixill4ted593 - Oh, jeez! Leviticus, again. Guess that's where they list all the fun stuff that pisses god off.
I love shrimp, lobster and oysters. Guess I'm goin' to hell now. It's like Rosanna Rosanna Danna used to say, "It's always something!"
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@@wickedcabinboy to be fair, leviticus is for priests. y'know, the Levites? plus nothing should really apply if you're gentile anyway.
I cant belive this is free for everyone to see. Truly a film that makes you think. Loved every second of it!
Expanding to 5 other languages by Jan 23. Check the community page on more languages to come. Paywall & commercial free! Rejoice.
@@SATANSGUIDE Thats great!
cult of death worship
“I can’t believe this is free for everyone to see. “
The production value is indeed brilliant and was expensive to make probably, but I literally cannot imagine people having to pay to see an anti-Bible documentary. It’s kind of like reviews on yelp-if you get good service you might tell 1 person. But if you get bad service you tell everyone you can.
Expensive in hours, but no one was paid,@@Ark_bleu. I learned to animate for this film. Had to throw out the first 4 months of work, as I finally got decent. Animator tip: torso percentage increase/decrease really helps enliven the characters.
I was admittedly a little cautious going into this. I used to watch "skeptic" content in my youth, most of which has now derailed into less-than-progressive slop, and choosing Satan for the job was certainly very on the nose and in line with my previous experiences. Curiosity got the better of me, however, and after going in for a brief vibe check, I ended up watching the whole thing and thoroughly enjoying it.
This is very educational, I learned a lot that I haven't heard before. I have a deep respect for the Bible scholars for challenging and working to prove (or disprove) their holy book, openly sharing any and all flaws they find with it. I also respect the documentary itself for avoiding mockery of the people who have been sold these lies by pastors and preachers.
Thank you for your hard work! Looking forward for whatever else Satan might be cooking!
Beautiful! Thank you. Please share far and wide. Four corners style.
The skeptic youtube comunity started out strong, but monitization pushed a lot of the more popular people to start attacking anything that would get clicks. They started going after the SJW stuff because they could say things that would anger liberals and appeal to conservatives. This improved interaction and they eventually just started doing conservative content and gave up on the skeptic stuff. Dusty Smith called it in the early to mid 2010's, I think TJ the Amazing Atheist was also there but later to the party.
u know its satan when on the one hand he says the bible is pure fiction but then on the other hand he condemns what it contains as if those things really happened . when it comes to the contents of the bible , many people like to cherry pick what they believe and dont believe is true .
Most of the followers need to be mocked though, because they are so deranged they ignore any and all evidence.
@@AlexHernandez-ee5hd but atheists can also be mocked for ignoring any and all the evidence that the bible is historically true .
THANKS SATAN!!!❤❤❤❤
I was raised Baptist. I wish I could say I left the church because I “learned the truth” but the truth is, I left because I couldn’t be forced to go to boring ass church anymore😂😂 youth services were brutal and it only got worse as I got older. I still wanted to believe in god. And part of me hoped (I think) that leaving the church wouldn’t prove anything. If anything, if god was really real I didn’t NEED to be forced to attend. Weeks and months and then years went by and I only strayed further and further. Away from the church, I eventually also learned other things. I learned history. Real history with archeological and scientific evidence. I learned about evolution. And then I studied atheists and scholars and they were right. And I was still too scared to fully call myself an atheist (I’d obfuscate with “agnostic” or “spiritual” lol). And then I reflect on my time in church and i remember the only times I fully “believed” in gods were at the scariest moments of my life. When I needed something to comfort me and make me feel better when I was scared for my life or the lives of my family. And I thought about my commitment to Jesus and how during that pivotal service where I was asked to let Jesus into my heart. I remembered the fear that rushed through me. Fear of hell and eternal damnation.
I’m now convinced that I never really believed. I was just scared and dumb.
(Side note: I think the first time I truly started questioning the Bible completely on my own was when I was with the other kids learning the story in Acts 2 about “tongues of flame” appearing before people’s heads and them speaking in tongues…. Nothing I had ever seen in the real world made me think that was real. I could handle the metaphors of god creating the earth, about Adam and Eve. That was so long ago I could rationalize the authors guessing. But that story was supposedly real…..? No. No way lmaoooo
The older I get the more atheist I become. And the more history repeats itself, the more I identify with “anti-theist”…..
You'd think more people would stop going to church because of how unrelentingly boring it is. I never really believed, either. The stories were crazy and the answers to my questions were contradictory. I don't think I ever officially told my parents but I stopped identifying as Christian at 12 because I couldn't shake the feeling the religion is sexist.
@@suicune2001 yupppppppp and as a trans guy being in church just felt increasingly more icky😭😭
@@LoLo1k2k3k As you'll often hear, "There is no hate like Christian love." -_-;
@JohnHamilton-s3c yup!!! i love history and art too, im in school studying theatre. theatre is so closely tied to our history with religion i'll likely never escape it. i enjoy learning about humans and our humanity so ofc i will welcome theological study but to continue to pretend that this is real life or REAL in anyway is just absurd to me
@JohnHamilton-s3c totally agree. i mean it isnt atheists or buddhists or whatever trying to bully their way into american classrooms crying about the ten commandments or creationism or abstinence lmaooooo
As someone who was brainwashed by an evangelical school early in my life...all of these children songs are triggering as hell.
They are such a part of my core memories, I'm sure I'll never be able to forget them no matter how hard I try 😂
we used to sing these in primarily school (ages 6/7 to 13 or grade 1 through 7) at least every friday, and its just so unsettling to hear them and remember having sung without question or thought. Hell it wasn't even in the same language to begin with it was just translations for the most part (though one or two were still english)
where did you go for deprogramming??? people who are brainwashed can not just walk away from something by choice!!!! Its like PTSD, you cant just walk away from PTSD.... so where did you go for deprogramming??
I gently encourage all to also watch the video linked in this comment, not to coax anyone, but rather, to twice evaluate the teachings here.
From a teaching perspective, this video doesn't truly educate. when presenting points and "evidence" the video allows for zero real counterclaims and doesn't address the counterarguments that argue in favor of the Bible. Should satans guide to the Bible be reliably educational and have good teachings, shouldn't it allow a counter argument that's properly formed? After all, if it's valid, there won't be any issue with that. It seems to give heavy favor to the anti Christian conspiracies (btw the scholars are all atheists) and no weight to any other argument, only presenting possible counterpoints in a mocking way. This video is one of a few that explains this videos invalidity in partial depth, and links other videos dismantling false claims about the Bible.
th-cam.com/users/liveh6LDo-xTU4M?si=UoJnHagfARrXiKdb
@@josephbeauleau420 To make an extremely long deprogramming story only slightly shorter, I wound up going to a Catholic high school where I had breathing room to think more deeply about my unanswered questions.
Also, the culture shock of being told over and over again from kindergarten to 9th grade that Christianity was the only one true religion...and then ending up at a Catholic school where this "one true, unshakable faith" was being taught COMPLETELY differently helped the realization/deprogramming process a lot.
And you are absolutely right. I did have to deprogram myself. In fact, I am still deprogramming myself and have to periodically check to make sure that I'm not making decisions and judgements based on this belief system that was drilled into me at such a young age. My process involved allowing myself to ask those forbidden questions that I had always been afraid I'd go to hell for...you know the whole "questioning the will of God" thing. And if you really want to know...the very first question that popped into my head was during chapel in the 6th grade. I was listening to someone give a testimony and I had a vision of a preacher shoveling coal into a person's mouth while telling his trusting member that it was actually diamonds that they were receiving. Then the thought popped into my head..."If God gave us all brains, why wouldn't he want us to use them?" Thus and unbeknownst to me, my deprogramming journey had begun.
That same year I came to the following conculsions/questions.
1. There are billions of people on Earth...If we are all God's children, why did he make himself available to only a few? That's cruel, unfair, and just plain bad parenting.
2. God belongs to everyone on earth and it seems like all the different belief systems and religions are man's attempt to describe him the best way they know how. Kind of like the blind men and the elephant parable. And that being the case, Christianity's claim to be the only way to God seems manipulative.
3. All the religions and beliefs systems have some form of the golden rule and that is the only principle that made sense to me so it must be true.
4. God may be perfect, but man isn't and man created religion sooo...
5. Blind faith is extremely dangerous. Anyone can tell you anything and say it came from God and that"you must have faith in his mysterious ways."
So anyway that was the beginning of my deprogramming journey, you probably didn't even read all of that but you asked so I answered.
You mentioned not being able to forget them songs, uh... lsd or shrooms?
I now want to imagine kids actually walking into Sunday school and just seeing a good looking guy with wings and choosing to stay rather then question what happened to the regular teacher 😂
I mean are they really allowed to question anything? Well that's not taught by a stupid scientist or historian
@@burnforeverandever yes? As greater men than I have said: faith without doubt is dead faith. And 2 Timothy 2:15 actually said that careful study of the world is how you find the truth of the world.
So, like...
@@vyor8837 I mean Christian Fundamentalists are teaching them not too, Not the Bible
@@burnforeverandever define "fundamentalists"
@@burnforeverandeveryou must not believe
I'm a yankee myself and when that evangelical said he didn't know anyone with a sophisticated view because he's "from the south," followed by the audience laughing, I felt my skin crawl. I can't tell you how many crosses I saw between Tennessee and Texas when I was traveling the country and the open disdain they have for the people they're manipulating is disgusting
Truth!
Born and raised in Alabama, live and work in Mississippi. The sad part is, he may not have even been saying that out of a sense of disdain for those whom he manipulates. He may have been, as are *many* of my fellow citizens, simply proud of the unshakable and deeply unsophisticated religious views he holds. It's a virtue around here to follow this, that, or the other authority figure without question, as long as it's the right authority figures.
It's really sad here. But I'm not particularly skilled enough (or motivated enough, this place takes it out of you) to find gainful employment elsewhere without immediately jumping below the poverty line.
@@magicrectangleEnt: "It's a virtue around here to follow this, that, or the other authority figure without question, as long as it's the right authority figures." That line gives me the yikes.
@@SATANSGUIDE It's a yikes, to be sure. It's also a cycle, where parents around here typically raise their kids with "because I said so" as a default fallback, if the fallback isn't a backhand. So "I don't have a good enough answer, so I'll turn to an answer I can't question" is baked into our culture.
Excellent video. The scariest part, to me, about the American Evangelical movement is not that it’s a “return to traditional American values” it’s a movement to return to a medieval world where an illiterate society that took the word of their ministers as literal truth. The whole point of translating the Bible from Latin and making it available to everyone was to stop people from blindly following following false interpretations. Of course that eventually led to people realizing the Bible was mostly BS. But now, in America, we have evangelical leaders that say we “just didn’t read it right” and that we should only listen to their interpretation. It’s horrifying to me that we now have evangelical preachers talking about witches and demons as being real and living among us. The Salem Witch trials used to be something I saw as absurd and ignorant in the extreme but, now, it looks like it could actually happen again in the foreseeable future.
One of the most popular subjects in seminaries is proving that the Bible is inerrant by teaching you to ignore all the errors.
This is by far one of my new favorite videos on TH-cam, not only in the realm of theological studies but in general. Its ability to approach theology in a compelling and honest way while having such impressive production quality and wrapping it up with a perfectly kid-friendly bow helps me absorb the content despite a harrowing combination of ADHD and autistic symptoms. I often put videos on in the background and passively absorb their content, but I find myself proactively engaging with this video more than others, even while multi-tasking. This video is not mere background noise, but has the majority of my attention, and I am enjoying the entire thing. I'm only twelve minutes into the video and I am already compelled to like, subscribe, and comment to boost this video's engagement with the algorithm. I can see this video gaining millions of views, you have truly done a phenomenal job and I cannot wait to see more from you!
I just sent a screenshot of this post to the family text thread. You warmed my heart big time. Thank you.
@@SATANSGUIDE I'm very glad to hear that, you sincerely did a wonderful and amazing job on this video and that effort deserves recognition! I hope to see many more videos of this style from you in the future!
Haunting, the tunes I haven't heard for decades but could not help but join chorus in singing. The indoctrination was deep with this one!!!
As a former church leader that turned apostate, this hits on everything I was learning in my pre-seminary studies that was wrecking my faith.
I am so glad a resource as well researched and acessible as this will be available for the next generation of people grappling with their own views of truth and god(s).
I use to be a big Christian too. We have similar backstories
The dark ages sre coming my friend, and you all stepped right into it.
Because you all took the knowledge from the same place and misinstruded it into a multitude of different monotheistic gods. @@LadyOfTheEdits
@@yokai-vr3jz I bet you feel so superior to these two. since when does anyone consider people who don't question and follow blindly to be greater than those with curiosity and a thirst for knowledge and truth? There are no accolades for sheep.
@@robertjohnston-mp5im I feel superior to you, because you clearly seek attention and argumentation. Plus, falsifying or misconstruing information for the sole purpose of manipulation and control is not pursuit of knowledge, and is it not sheepish to cherry pick which aspects of a particular faith you'll follow? Lol, you may want to debate someone else
This is spectacular. Thank you to everyone involved in the production. I hope this ends up with the reach needed to inform existing believers.