Customizing Christianity: Why Can’t Believers Take God As He Is?

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Today's episode is a look at a short of a man who is proud of his obsession with god. He shows off many christians aspects of his room, and we go through them one by one to show the issues as well as to point out a certain common issue. Christians have to customize and idealize their god and their religion in order to accept it. Let me show how.

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[Moralatheist]

The shepherd protects the sheep from the wolves, but we should never forget that it's the shepherd that eventual eats &/or shears the sheep.

[Sean-oyxm]

Every Christian worships a different version of Jesus. They create the Jesus that fits their own biases and beliefs.

[DataRae-AIEngineer]

Lol my bible is full of notes from secular bible study. Someday someone will think I'm spiritual until they look closer and see "this god is a fucking monster" 😂

[thebiblemademeatheist]

When I was a Christian I used to post up photos of the sunset. When they were extra beautiful I would claim it was God's paintbrush. I never posted photos of a hurricane or tornado as Gods paintbrush. That's how easy it is to believe when you only see the world through Faith Goggles.

[jpyoung]

On the subject of the cross, Bill Hicks said something like, "Why is the cross a symbol of Christianity? When Christ comes back do you think he ever wants to see a f'n cross again? It's like someone showing their rifle pendant to Jackie Onassis and saying, 'Just thinking, of John, Jackie!'".

[SuperBookdragon]

Brandon thank you for being kind but direct in your criticism. You have reached many more people and helped them to look at the bible critically without judgement of where they are presently in their journey.

[monochromicornthetuna]

4:36 I think I’ve made this comment before but I was at mass once and the homily was about pagan rituals and how they could never work because Jesus is the only one that saves. The priest went on and on about it and my mother kept commenting on how all those rituals the ‘evil pagans and idol worshippers’ did were powerless. Then the homily ended, the church sang feverishly about being washed in the blood of a Jesus and the priest said some magic words to turn bread into a dead guys body. I probably looked so shocked sitting there thinking ‘Wait a minute, this is just another messed up ritual!’

[hank_says_things]

Taking God as presented in the Bible would remove the need for apologists & theologians to make excuses for him.

[aliasfakename]

My favorite scene from "American Gods" is when a Germanic goddess is holding an Easter celebration and 10 different versions of Jesus show up. There's black Baptist Jesus, Pentecostal, Episcopal, Methodist, etc.

[ericanderson]

Believers can't take God as he is, because the Bible can't take God as he is.

[Critical_Explorer-vwhy]

Could you imagine the artwork based on the angry tribal war god of the OT? Bashing babies' heads on rocks, genocide, SA, virgins being sold into "marriage" (AKA sex slavery). Although, the Renaissance did have some gory deptictions of some of the biblical scenes. A home with honest depictions of the scenes would be a gore fest.

[saridlimon]

I am an artist and despite being an atheist I find a lot of inspiration in the stories of the Bible. I recently made a drawing about creation according to Genesis 1, and my family (believers) find it strange that I drew sea monsters; and I had to explain and show them biblical quotes where Leviathan and Rahab are mentioned because they didn't believe me, it seemed too fanciful to them.

[danford]

Because if you take god as he is turns out he is a hypocrite a liar and a monster.

[celticbabs]

Once I realized I had created an image of God in my mind and then read the bible and discovered my image was completely off base and had no merit because the book described a totally different God than what I had believed him to be. Yeah, that was a life-altering moment. Great video!

[kevinnazario]

You are absolutely right. Every christian is by definition a cafeteria christians. No matter which denomination, they all pick and choose what to believe. But specially what to ignore or dismiss. Everything is the inspired word if the only true God, until is not. Then is mis translated, taken out of context, or is cintradicted by history, science, archeology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy or just common sense. As a former catholic I know of many people with whose museums in their houses. Full of posters, giant rosaries, statues, paintings, plus tv programs and radios tuned to some catholic station maybe reciting the rosary or singing hymns on the background. They have to be in a perpetual mindset of " god is with me, I trust god, god will protect me". Some even have stuff in their cars, lije s rosary or scapulary on their car mirror. Maybe little saints figures in their dash. No, I am not kidding. Maybe a Jesus face sticker on the headlights. Is unending. And is suffocating. That was one of the many reasons I left the faith. It was overwhelming.

[BluStarGalaxy]

Kind of reminds me of an obsessive fan that has all sorts of memorabilia in their room. They delude themselves into thinking that the celebrity loves them and they constantly imagine themselves as being friends with them and hanging out together. When they finally get a chance to meet their hero, to tell them how much they love them, the celebrity reacts with the words, “Who the hell are you?” Then tells their security to get this crazy person away from them. If the historical Jesus met this guy he would have no idea who this guy was and would be terrified that people worshipped his crucifixion because he never intended to die.

[survive]

I know this may sound silly but when I was a Christian I thought it was disrespectful to write in your bible. After all it is God's word.

[mainecoonmami]

I used to take notes in my Bible, but I’d never show it off. The problem came when I started writing ✍️ more questions in the margins than connections.

[TheZeroNeonix]

We don't need constant reminders that Superman is the hero of the story. Why do we have to be reminded how good God is? If he was good, that would be obvious. His actions would speak for themselves.

[nerfzombie]

Even when I was an evangelical christian, I would've found this guy's room creepy AF!