Comments by "Be N S O N" (@Colddirector) on "The Most Underrated Book of the Bible" video.

@deuser In my experience, it's usually anti-LGBT content that gets christians banned, not "talking about God". Maybe you consider those stances inseparable from your faith, but it's dishonest to say it's just because they're christian.
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I'm an atheist, but what I think Wendigoon does right is that he talks about his religion without trying to sell it to nonbelievers. Nobody likes being advertised to, it felt disingenuous when I attended a youth group in high school (I was still sort of a Christian back then) and it feels disingenuous now. What people do like is someone talking about things they're passionate for, that kinda thing is infectious and inherently interesting.
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@Gamfluent They sorta downplayed they were a youth group. When I heard about it, it just seemed like something you could do on Fridays, and there was basically no mention of Jesus stuff until the end of the night. I didn’t like it at all, but I was also a lonely teen so I tolerated it and kept going for a while. Looking back, I think this was common (at least where I lived) because being really Jesus-y was considered uncool, so they did this to get teens in the door.
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@collinblatchford Okay but to intentionally downplay it then spring it on someone (particularly vulnerable teenagers) at the end is pretty slimy and manipulative. I'd suspect you'd agree if someone of another faith did that to you, even with the exact same motivation.
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For me, I like his Bible stuff because I like history and anthropology, and he most importantly he doesn't try to use it as a sales pitch. He just talks about these Bible stories and what he likes about them. I'm not even a Christian, but history and literary analysis are like catnip to me.
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@Gamfluent lmao my reply to this has been hidden, despite it being completely polite. thanks youtube very cool
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@Gamfluent This whataboutism is common, but really lame. Simple fact is that Christianity has far more political and cultural sway than Islam in the west, so it’s naturally going to get far more scrutiny. Does Islam get less criticism than it should? Maybe, but Christianity’s always going to be the bigger target when the people in power use the Bible to justify laws everyone else finds abhorrent
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@Retog I made two replies - one about youth groups and one about the christian lgbt thing. The latter was hidden.
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I half remember this from a video I watched a while ago, but isn't there a joke lost in translation here? IIRC Philemon's name means something like "useful" in Greek so what Paul was saying was "Useful was useless to you, but now he's Useful for you and me!"
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