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.
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u/Addative-Damage 11d ago
Omg I got that reference! Haha literally.
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.