Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Brendan O'Neill - Why We Must Dissent" video.

@PGHEngineer My children are quite a bit older than yours. They too grew up and did their own thing, thought their own thoughts, left the church behind - or so they thought. You should see them as parents now! Teaching their kids all the same values as they were, sending them to church schools, serving their communities...but they don't call it Christianity. Nor did Jesus. You're right, you gave your boys a tower of strength to help them along life's way and it wouldn't be surprising if, as they mature, they're drawn back to that strength.
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@PGHEngineer Amazing to hear about your friend's Holy Spirit moment...I've heard so many people over the years who say very similar. It's like it often comes out of nowhere when it's least expected - and you just know, it's completely convincing yet impossible to describe to non-Christians. I shall keep hoping for you and your sons! 🕊
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How well said. I agree with all you say.
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@tommore3263 You did a grand job - usually it takes about 5 introductory books to begin to get your head round metaphysics! I was lucky enough to study philosophy as one of my u/g electives for 3 years. It helps! Robert Barron is wonderful indeed, a great teacher and he makes things so easy to follow.
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@TomNoles007 You absolutely don't have to believe in God to join a church.
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@tommore3263 Ah Tom! You've proved my 1st year semiotics argument at uni! We were set an essay on whether a reader can discern whether an author is male or female from their text alone. I argued that one couldn't! I'm so happy to be an adult human female!
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Seems to me that Brendan is quite out of touch or naive. People increasingly look to the government for help when things go pear shaped because : - We are taxed at the highest rate in 70 years....the gvt is stealing from us and we know it. People are simply asking for their own money back. - The whole 'community support' thing hasn't actually been a thing since at least WW2 and it was rather a contrived notion even back then. Successive gvt policies have continuously eroded community solidarity and family functionality. Community solidarity brings down gvts. Ask Lech Walensa. - Probably all public services are now deeply dysfunctional. They're no longer there to help people when their problems are small and easily fixed. We know that gvts have done this to us through bad management, and favouring their own pet priorities . Expecting gvt to do something in times of dire need is merely asking them to clean up their mess, holding them to account. - The 'nanny state' has been a huge long power grab by successive gvts. People didn't just give up their liberties for benefits increases of £2.83 a week or free school meals that they were able to afford 5 years ago. Their liberties (including the right to earn a decent wage) have been pulled from them. Gvts have instead subsidised huge corporations to employ people. It's not just ordinary people with their hands out. Business gets far bigger welfare cheques than we do. - Gvts since 97 have increasingly lied to us and nudged us relentlessly. People know this, intuitively they know they're being gaslit even if they don't have the words for it. Please Brendan, hold and express whatever opinions you want, but do not blame the casualties of these govts, do not underestimate ordinary people's ability to understand what's been going on , and do not misunderstand their ways of acquiring recompense and restoration.
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