We Need to Save Christianity From Christians – Rhett McLaughlin

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I suppose Rhett is a relative of mine…my family name is McLoughlin..and I live in Ireland. It means Son of a Dane/Viking .

i wonder why link didnt want to join in on this, u atheist troll. u will BURN LINK! U WILL BE DESTROYED U FEMBOY!

This is probably one of my favorite episode in your channel

Fascinating discussion. I would just add that Paul himself said that Christians “proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to gentiles.” Even he acknowledged that it’s not self-evident.

There’s so much hypocrisy and willful dishonesty of so many Christians in order to push their faith. I hear constantly from Christians about how evil Islam is and one repeated reason is that they believe in spreading their religion by any means including being dishonest. Yet, I see tons of Christians, specifically in the USA editing and chopping up videos out of context or just creating made up stories to make it seem like there’s a “Christian revival”. Then you call it out and there’s always the morally righteous Christian reaction, or the “you’re lying, you just hate Christian’s” reaction. Then they wonder why people have a negative reaction to Christian’s, at least in the United States, idk how it is in other parts of the world.

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This is the problem with rampant pseudo-intellectualism amongst this podcast community. You two are just stroking eachother off about how confused you are about everything, but using performative nonsense arguments to masquerade as some keepers of esoteric knowledge.

This is just modern grifting. No ideas of your own, just safe nuanced space of "i dont know, because ive killed my own discernment".

Intelligence really is plummeting.

I could listen to Rhett talk about this forever

These two conversations have been possibly my favorite two conversations about Christianity. I've deconstructed, mostly, but I never started from a hyper vigilant place like Rhett. Like Rhett, I still remain enamored with Jesus and everything he has to say. But when 60% of your base cannot process "fact' it becomes very hard to engage in conversations

Just to take a jab at the beginning of this video, Rhett starts with the first incorrect interpretation of scripture. Faith being the evidence of things unseen does not mean the faithful see nothing. That scripture is pointing out that when you see a person expressing faith in Jesus that their faith is evidrnce to you of things you don't yet see. This is not a direction to Christians to have blind or unseen faith at all.

The primary evidence is a Christian knows what sins they have committed because they have been revealed to them by The Holy Spirit. There are many other thing Christians have revealed or shown to them, but this is the foundation. At no point does a Christian see "nothing".

On " pursuing political power is betraying Christian principles"

This is a struggle because "kingdoms" have a King that individually would answer to God where USA and the western world generally have many sovereigns that answer to "the people". Given this then "the people" have a governmental responsibility to create systems on earth that reflects God's will as governments themselves are given by God. This does not create the priority that Christians are to build "The City of God". On earth, but it certainly can look like that. The priority of Christians is supposed to be spreading The Gospel not running the government. Having a temporary duty to run a government system in a Godly way is separate but connected and through our sin these duties can be confused. Also Christians vote for the systems themselves to reflect their beliefs and they can be manipulated into sin as well. So then its a doomed mess…..like us Christians have been saying all along. God's direct Sovereign Kingship is the only government that will work and that government is not here yet .

Ok well I think we're on a similar page.

Which Jesus? The white one? Cause he does NOT exist. That's just Santa. Who btw is much better.

Christianity has broken itself in so many ways it's hilarious and I'm really happy about it.

https://youtu.be/JsKedVLr6uw?is=CKMbFF0fcUZ2WWIJ

>ex evanjelly looney larper and a gheytheist give their opinions of what Christianity is lmao
Almost as good as your local crackhead talking about intricacies of bio-chemistry.
Why is O'connor running from Jay Dyer?
Westoids think Christianity starts with the bible as if it fell from the sky for the average moron to interpret however they feel.
"Muh 12gauge and muh biible is all I need" no wonder western "churches" produce atheist goobers.

35:15 spill 1
1:14:45 spill 2

I find the idea that the ancient Greeks seemed to have no issue with those deep philosophical ideas and their gods existing together but to the Christians it was impossible for them to coexist quite interesting

Rhett: Good Mythical Morning 😂

Like Rhett, I also grew up in the conservative south going to church every Sunday and began doubting my Christian beliefs as I gained personal independence, studying sciences in college, and deep inter personal thought and conversations. I now identify as Agnostic and remain open minded about a God(s) because I can’t rule it out myself. The truth is blind faith is dangerous and most Christians never put any deep thought to which Christian denomination fits their values, let alone consider any other religion. If there is a God(s), perhaps their miracle was creating the laws of physics, evolution, the universe, etc. That IS the miracle! Very well done video promoting self reflection and the maturity to realize you yourself is capable of being wrong about something and putting the effort into understanding = wisdom

Man I truly don't think organised religion is required to make people good, and I genuinely think if we can we should replace it. Everyone in my life isn't religious, they're all incredible people, and I think organised religion generally adds a layer of compliance and I AM GOD SUBMIT bullshit that humans should never have to deal with. Not all religions, just what are in my opinion, the bad ones. Either remove this yucky, filthy control mechanism, or remove the institution. Humans are, and I'll die and argue on this hill, naturally empathetic and good ( for the most part), and if we create safe environments and mould a healthy set of cultures, we do not need this sort of religion.

I would love to just talk with Rhett on this because, wow. I think he’s found Christ and loves the church but knows the doctrines are all missing the point.

It is spiritual and it does involve deconstructing yourself and experiencing ego death in a way.

As a christian this was a great interview and raises alot of question. Some things about the Bible was misquoted or misrepresented which I dont think yall did on purpose. For example Mark 16 talks about Jesus resurrection and empty tomb. But still great convo you gained a subscriber.

In the old T God did not won't a king he made Judges only the people wonted a king