Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Japan's Rise of Anti-Christian Prejudice" video.

  1. So Japan teaches about LGBT curriculum but not it's religious and cultural heritage or about worldwide religions to the point of them becoming widely misunderstood. Seems like they have the wrong priorities.
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  2. They took the gothic elements a bit seriously, on top of this Christianity has a mostly aesthetic presence as the Catholic church will be given a heavy symbolic presence and then the author will make it known that he has no idea that Catholic priests take vows of celibacy, can't marry and don't burn people alive on Saturdays.
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  3. If I am wearing an SS uniform and spend my days taking pot shots at minorities from my lawn then my claim to be a social and political progressive are not to be taken as fact, self-identification is not the be all and end all. While there are plenty of groups in contradiction with their principles there is a point at which they are such basic fundamental principals and so many that the organisation may be said to be it's own thing and any attempt at association merely an attempt at cloaking themselves in part of the legitimacy and reputation of the other group. This group is one that is in violation of many basic Christian teachings and is offensive to Christian morality, they are very much like a scam email that tell you that they are from a legitimate company and are treated with similar contempt even by very unorthodox groups of Christians (though perhaps not all as Christians are not nearly good enough at gatekeeping), academia also categorizes such groups separately.
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  4. You are merely the follower of a different religion, it is unsurprising that you have antagonism towards the opposition.
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  5. I am of the younger generation, 20% of those who went though such a curriculum say they are gay, which makes me think either that it is not very balanced or that it is socially contagious, my interest is history I can say with certainty that history would have been different if there were actually that many people hiding their sexuality. Personally I think it should not be taught until an understanding of what is going on is reached, unless that happens then the idea that sexuality is something you are born with will likely be delegitmised and I don't need to tell you the chaos that will cause, I would at least hope that it doesn't extend worldwide, but I guess it will be another factor in the mess which will be the next decade.
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  6. It is merely that other religions have become dominant, though they prefer the name ideologies.
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  7. The probably just haven't got with the program yet, unless they are all in Harry Potter merchandise it's pretty likely that they are part of the wider movement.
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  8. Saying you are the brother of Jesus is typically taken as announcing that you are a cult, it does after all imply that you are the son of God and a perfect human, both of which are pretty substantial claims. There are a variety of cults which are semi-derived from Christianity but they don't tend to be classified as Christian by anyone but themselves if there their beliefs are in contradiction to the religion enough of an extent. Likewise Mormons call themselves Christians but are classified as their own religion by everyone else, same with a number of stereotypical exploitative cults including communes of Nazi (as in straight up WW2 ones) child abusers and any number of death cults. The Chinese even had a civil war with a different proclaimed brother of Jesus and received western support in doing so (famously Gordon of Khartoum was involved). Equally I can claim to be the long lost twin brother of the Prophet Mohammed but the fact I would claim such a thing is probably a sign that I'm not a Muslim. I believe the channel ready to harvest made a video on this exact topic which probably explains it better than I could and he's an academic on the subject as well.
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  9. Historically gays weren't punished with violence (usually repentance) unless they forced themselves on others or children in which case they were burnt as abomination. A sin is the natural inclination towards evil, despite the fact that left wing thought doesn't acknowledge it as originating in humans (but rather though society) you are a human and can probably attest to being tempted into negative actions by your own inclinations, Christianity is a religion focused on struggling with the negative aspects of yourself and living harmoniously in a community of social and relational bonds, it is interested in directing the nature of humans in a positive and constructive direction while acknowledging our innate flaws. Of course remaining loyal within intimate relationships and creating and providing for future generations is a big part of that. Though you will find that most modern Christains and churches don't even have the basics down so if they are being overly aggressive it is likely to make up for not being able to actualize and of the generative philosophies of the religion and just scapegoating on people who aren't even members of their community. Unless it's an Amish criticising you just tell them to take the log out of their own eye first.
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  10. You don't set the definitions, likewise if you say you worship the devil people will call you satanist not matter your claim to only follow certain demons or to not be a member of an official satanic group.
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  11. Try to investigate the foundations of basically any ideas and then get back to me.
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  12. People with conflicting belief systems tend not to have a history of harmony no matter what those beliefs may be, though unlike the major religions those of the belief systems which are ideologies don't even have much history of harmony internally.
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  13. I'm not sure you even understand what religion is.
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  14. Yes, as he stated with the teaching in schools.
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  15. Is they are businesses then many of them have an aweful business model.
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  16. It never isn't.
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  17. Not if he is legitimately at Christian he doesn't.
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  18. Er, it is religious dogma, though certainly there is a lot of poor theology and lack of knowledge as to historical philosophy (of which there is a great deal).
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  19. It was a mish-mash, religious cults are rarely original, both in theology and the scams (though I don't believe any thought that killing their followers to test out publicity stunts was a good idea before), they even stole the magic headwear from scientology.
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  20. Jehovah's witnesses I'm guessing, they harass us as well.
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  21. Countries are always driven by ideas born out of dogmatic presuppositions, and as a result for all intents and purposes will always we a result of a belief system, whether they call in religion, ideology or principles, indeed the less codified it is the more likely that the population is being taken for a ride but unaccountable elites.
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  22. As in they tend to lay on assumed beliefs which are ultimately dogmatic in nature. If you get into the history of ideas you'll find that modern ones are even quite flimsy as they very often rely on centuries old assumptions which were disproven a very long time ago.
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  23. Whatever presuppositions you are teaching will indoctrinate them into it. In trusting one dogma over another you are merely displaying your own loyalty, not helping people in any way. Allow parents to make the choice and allow the future to decide what is right, if you don't everyone will be taught the same and so will be mislead the same when sent down the wrong path. We see in the current education system a lack of accountability for the results of what is taught and no method of feedback, it is better to allow people many options so that we don't as a society put all our eggs in one basket.
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  24. The modern west is explicitly anti-Christian, one of the reasons Japan shouldn't westernise is that they already did, but with the western values of the past western society, we have seen what the undermining of those values has done to the west, Japan would be wise not to tolerate it.
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  25. Yeah I know that, stop copy pasting it everywhere.
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  26. What Italy? Germany was into all sorts of weird (mostly made up) pagan nonsense and had a difficult relationship with both the Christian denominations and individual Christians (more than a few of whom ended up in the camps as a result).
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  27. All belief system are laid over dogmatic presuppositions, it's why post-modernism tends to be really annoying to refute.
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  28. The celts engaged in blood sacrifices and like the Romans and other pagans mass infanticide, Britain is built off of Christianity, the church is at the centre of every village and was once the centre of every community.
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  29. It was a South Korean cult which claims that your ancestors are doomed to hell unless you give them money, if you are familiar with Christianity you will know that the claim is heretical and even the crazier denominations would denounce it.
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  30. They are a cult as I was pointing out, I know plenty of churches are pretty bonkers (especially ones where they don't even pretend to know what they are talking about) but the moonies are out there enough to not even make it into that group (likewise with Mormons). Personally I'd say doomsday cults (Jehovah's witnesses) should be kicked out as well but I don't get a say.
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  31. Atheists aren't a cohesive ideology (or at least aren't meant to be), a much more comparable example would be a practicing ethnic Jewish Nazi, a state welfare libertarian or a communist who supports free market capitalism.
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  32. Mohammed liked little girls and the teachings of your religion make you sound like a sex cult, your members also act like it in my country and as most of their victims are underaged I can't say I have a lower opinion of any other religion. Which is a shame as both Persian and pre-islamic cultures were fascinating and I can even say I like Turkish culture despite the foul history of the ottomans. What the Soviets did to central Asia was also a great shame.
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  33. Salem witch trials was the puritans, who had fled England due to their religious differences with the church of England and the fact that most people didn't like them much. They are basically about as far removed from Catholics as you can get without being a Satanist, very extreme protestants. The Catholics did do some witch burning but the official stance of the church had always been that Witches didn't exist but crazy people, liers and charlatans did. Most of it was done by scared civilians in places where centralised power had collapsed and the midst of civil war and mass war crimes and depopulation, there were also a couple of kings who thought that Witches were out to get them and organised their own hunts (notably James the I of England and VI of Scotland, who tortured, strangled and burnt a good few people up in Scotland over it (though to be fair he was completely right to be totally paranoid, the Scottish political situation was a mess and assassinations were very much in fashion) and is the reason Macbeth has Witches in).
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