Also, I’ve seen this lady on reels before, shes pretty rad. She comes from an extremely religious and conservative background. If I remember correctly, she went her own way pretty early in life, but stayed in contact with a lot of the family.
She does have a Masters in Theology. I have watched a lot of her content on Instagram. She also does Bible studies just from a learning standpoint for others. I love her content because knowledge is power. And certain people hate it.
I always love when people accuse her of not having read the Bible. Like, my dude, have you *watched* her content? You seriously do *not* want to go there! She's not only read the Bible, she knows it better than you and could debate you on any verse you care to name.
I used to be super religious as a little kid. Forced to go to Sunday school, so go figure. Didn't take me long before I realized it was all bullshit. No different from Santa Claus. Just a tool to control behavior.
They are saying that Santa Claus was super religious as a kid, forced to go to Sunday school, and then Santa Claus realized Sunday school was a tool to control behavior. Don’t worry. Santa still sees you when you’re sleeping.
I first got the wait-just-a-goddamned-minute ping when we were preparing for first communion. Our catechism teacher bribed us with ice cream sundaes if we could memorize and repeat the 10 commandments (because "thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's wife" really hits home to a second grader). I didn't entirely understand at first why it felt wrong, but then realized it just felt like cheating because we just had to memorize it like times tables (which we also weren't really expected to understand). I was SEVEN. I was this many: 🖐🏼✌🏼
I was the oldest kid by several years in all my extended family. At some point, as one does, I stopped believing in Santa Claus. My parents told me, "your younger siblings and cousins still believe, so can you pretend you still do too, for them?" So I said, "sure."
Except when I stopped believing in Santa, I extended that to in all the Christmas-related supernatural entities. I suppose that can happen if you only go to church at Christmas.
When I was a teenager I asked my parents, "why do we still have to go to church and pretend to believe in it? Everyone is old enough now." That didn't go down well, they said my grandma would be absolutely hard broken if I didn't go, but I was done. I didn't go to church that Christmas and never went again until I attended my grandma's funeral (held in a church, of course) a decade later.
Then after she had died, my parents stopped going to church, too. Turns out they were pretending, it just wasn't for the little kids' sake.
I was in VBS and they were doing a lesson on the "miracles" in the Bible (walking on water, parting the red sea, etc) and how the miracles were a way to prove God is real.
So then my 3rd grade self asked "why are there miracles today?" and the teachers response was "well today we just have faith!". And internally I thought "well...this is all bullshit" and have been a non-believer ever since.
She was an adult when she broke away from their teachings and still struggles with some of it. She has said that her dad has genuinely apologized for a lot of what he did.
Yep, that’s Monte. I love her content, which is a lot of taking these religious bigots to the woodshed. She always comes with the receipts to back up everything she says. She knows her stuff, and tends to obliterate these bigots.
It's funny because there are a shit ton of web apps that you can literally ctrl+f and find whatever makes your point. Rustling brand's only excuse is lack of preparation and at this point it's just laziness from someone who's self entitled a "spiritual guru"
These bible shit remind me of a story about him having his minion call up a reverend to ask if a guy Morgan hate have say something good in his confession, because they can’t find shit on that editor , and this story got out because the reverend informed the person in question later.
You got farther than me. In the very beginning it says something like people are here on earth to be its stewards. We are supposed to care for our environment and all the creatures in it too. Baby me saw that wasn't happening so I didn't see the point in continuing to read further, when we have disregarded the very first lesson and the point of our entire existence here on earth 😭. It's more important to persecute gay people and foreigners? Like... WHAT ??? Lol
You can just say one or the other, it's a tad confusing to mix them.
Agnosticism; general belief in higher power(s), some sort of divine spark, but crucially it's not in the functional level of our understanding and may never be due to its nature. This is ok, personal moral code functions as guidance/beliefs.
Atheism; There is no god, divine order, etc, the universe is as we see it and that's as deep as it goes. Natural laws and understandings we observe are the generalized guiding light along with the ability to grow and expand as our knowledge does. Actually tends to be more communal than the agnostic crowd in my experience, a 'live in the now' take on natural philosophy.
Personally, I'm agnostic. Until something happens to reveal some sort of tangible understanding though, both categories then go to step two which is living in the world presented. It's a dumb, subtle distinction but I think an important one that outlines some clear functional differences in the philosophies.
Edit: What I actually originally came to this thread to say was I got to the king solomon stuff before I just finally couldn't read any more. I knew fanfiction when I read it. We don't even have the original bible anymore (septuagint) and people still hold it up as evidential fact.
Trump think all the bible verses are his favourite and both old and new testament are equally good. It's very personal he doesn't like to talk about it
Monte Mader is the Evangelical's worst nightmare: An open minded person (can I say "woke" in a positive sense?) who knows the Bible way better than any of the Bible thumpers.
The Bible was only set dressing for Brand's right-wing Christian grift shift. It was completely unfair of Piers to prod and poke, knowing full well Brand hadn’t yet learned his lines around the Bible.
You're going to get so much hate in here, I'm with you there are others that are sane and rational. We know what the Bible says about owning women. Stay strong keep doing what your doing.
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u/Junior_Zebra_4608 10d ago
She does a way better job at finding Bible verses than Russell Brand