History of the entire Church, I guess...

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A few disclaimers:

1. While I tried to mention everything, what I focused most on was influenced by what I am (American Mainline Protestant) so I focus most on the history of Protestants and American Christians.

2. This is nowhere CLOSE to an adequate summary of Church history. This is meant to give people a starting place to begin learning more in a way that's understandable to all.

3. It's impossible to make this completely unbiased, so I understand that the way I tell some of these narratives are disputable.

Also, thanks to Bill Wurtz's famous "History of the entire world, I guess" for the inspiration.

Music in this video:

[mizndmi]

This is a prime example of why pride is a sin. Everyone was worried about being right that they veiled the reason a church exists in the first place. Thank you so much for this video.

[chasemishio]

"'Bro, that's heresy!' said Santa Claus, punching him in the face" Caught me off guard 😂

[fabulouschild]

""Bro that's heresy!" said Santa Claus, punching him in the face" my favourite Zoomer quote ever

[svn]

I love how this was inspired by Bill Wurtz. I like this new approach, we need more 'history simplified' channels on YouTube like krispykarim, Bill Wurtz, Trey The Explainer, and Oversimplified. There's not enough History out there that people would actually listen to in this generation, this is the best approach to it. I hope this video pops off.

[actuallyaardwolf]

Retaking the mainline church would be such a big accomplishment, it change society as we know it. We could make a religion out of this!

[DragScopeDevin]

Take communion each time he says "You could make a denomination out of this."

[jaydawg]

Little run down of my journey. Not knowing of God in my household until i was 19, atheist, attempting sewer slide and meeting Jesus before me. Attended church the very next sunday with literally anyone i knew. Came to a church of christ. Mostly baptist teachings. Preach in college despite knowing near nothing. Falling out over time but coming back to a southern baptist church. Good folk. Falling out again. Spend years away. Feel the yearning to come back. Alcoholism. Met THE woman to save me. Practically forced me to go to a catholic church (i was scared because i heard they were really weird and worshipped idols). Well that was wrong, i finally found the church that Christ had established. Have really good Orthodox friends and catholic friends now, and praise be to God, hopefully a catholic fiance if she accepts this ring i bought for her. God works exactly how He chooses to, and we can accept the gifts He has for us.

[DaPopeOfDope]

I love how Baptist are so tame yet so radical at the same time. (I myself am a Baptist)

[seukstb]

i'm an ordained christian pastor myself, and this video is one of the good sources of church history i've ever seen for non-christians to understand very easily.

[DefineDenis]

Quick correction: 4:40 Pope Gregory didn't invent Gregorian chant, but he was the one who called for it to be preserved in writing and organized. He's actually the father of modern-day sheet music. He created music notation so that Gregorian chant could be preserved.

[matthewdunphy]

As a church historian seminary graduate, I'm quite impressed with the accuracy and nuance of the history presented here.

[chimebell]

The deeper you get into the history of Christianity, the more convoluted it just gets. Props to this video for summing it all up in 15 entertaining minutes.

[Sean-ofrs]

As a Catholic, I love this video. Thanks for keeping it pretty unbiased, in both the parts where we really sucked and the parts where we didn't. I hope it can be appreciated by all Christians :)

[kittycatbrink]

As a Lutheran, this video made me laugh so much. I have no idea how you fit the entire history of the church in 15 minutes. Keep up the good work!

[sunflowerbed]

As a Pentecostal I appreciate the 3 second shoutout

[immanueligwe]

This was actually great, a great summary of the current state of the church today, well done!

[wildcard]

As a Catholic, this is so entertaining and informative, i really liked the first half most especially thank you!

[haveagoodone]

I'm a Lutheran and chuckled at how we're referred to as nerds lol

Great video. I got one friend who was raised Jehovah's witness but is now very much an atheist. Would love to show him this.

[SaVeDbEliEvEr]

Christianity is one of those religions that has been persecuted, discriminated against, hated, falsely accused of heresy and blasphemies, suffered at the hands of other religions, rejected by the world 🌎 and yet some how, there are still millions of true believers.

It makes me happy to know, that God has been with us for over 2000 years 🙏🏼 and how throughout all of this suffering, we have developed endurance and strength.

❤

[rottenroads]

I am a Protestant Christian, and I believe no matter what sect a person belongs to, as long as they believe that they believe in the essentials, then that’s what truly matters. We should praise god and thank him for saving us with the sacrifice of Jesus. ✝️✝️✝️


Also, the final question at the very end of the Video, “What if we re-take the Mainline Church?” We are already doing that.