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There is a video on Youtube that was uploaded by an anti-Israeli individual showing a street preacher getting completely trash-talked. Apart from how the Anti-Israeli propaganda floating about is rather asinine (the video provider’s description including the soundbite that goes “Israel did 9/11” is a case in point as to the stupidity of anti-Israeli propaganda), the video uploaded shows just how far people will go in America to make themselves feel good about their own hypocritical bigotry. Let us dissect the rants piece by piece. I primarily discuss the beginning parts of the video up until closer to halfway through. That is about all I can stand before I lose my nerves out of annoyed frustration.
UPDATE: The youtube video referred to has since been removed for whatever reason. My guess, YouTube decided to pull the plug on the channel. Anyway, the good news is another youtube link has been found with the same occurrence recorded. Link is at the end of this article.
A word before we begin: I alternate between the third and second person on purpose. In either case, I am likely referring to the person in the video making the rants, unless otherwise specified either explicitly or implicitly. Keep that in mind as you read this article.
“How free am I? I’d be a lot freer if guys like you were thrown in prison...”
That was in response to the question, “How free are you?” Note that the street evangelist did not specify what he meant by “free”. Free from what? I guess he could have done a better job of noting what one is supposed to be free from. Knowing militant atheists, however, they likely would not care how you word anything, so long as they express their vehement hatred. All the preacher did was ask a simple question while holding a non-threatening sign and this antitheist just started to go off the handle for no good reason. If you thought it could not get any worse, prepare to be disappointed (and disgusted). Anybody with children nearby would be advised to have them play somewhere where they will not be exposed too early to the comments that they are not capable of reading or hearing without being scarred and frightened for life.
“As retaliation… for the collective crime… of racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and homophobia!!”
Did you see what he just did? Notice all the labels he placed on one person and, by implication, all Christians? Hmm… As near as I can tell, America is individualistic, not collectivist. Were he living in a society where more emphasis was placed on the group’s needs than the individual’s and where your identity was placed much more on your family, land, and societal categories, his rant would probably be a bit more effective. Well, maybe.
Do not get me wrong: I do not deny that there have been Christians in one or more of the categories the anti-theist has mentioned. What seems to fly over his head, though, is that all the above were brought to their knees by a certain demographic he hates. Hmm… What could be the unifying thing of all these people that once helped to bring these bigots to heel in America and much of the rest of the West? Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony, Billy Graham, William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemoller… Oh, that’s right! They were all Christians! Go figure! In other words, any collective guilt from any sort of racism, antisemitism, and misogyny would have been made up for by Christian activism and deeds that helped to reverse and contain such bigotry, for the most part.
And, in case nobody noticed, we Christians have already rendered the Westboro Baptist Church into a mockery and gotten onto any “homophobes” who crossed the line. What happened in response to that one preacher after the Orlando shooting is a case in point. So, no, you cannot automatically blame all Christians for the actions of some jerks, not without looking stupid in the process.
“All you ******* [inaudible]… are war criminals, and liars, and charlatans!! Atheism forever!!!”
Uh, right. And, he knows this, how? Has he ever heard of the Quakers, by any chance? No, I do not mean the brand of oatmeal. I am referring to the Religious Society of Friends. If he has paid attention in history, he might recall that it was a Quaker (namely, William Penn) who got the charter for the founding of Pennsylvania. As far as liars and charlatans go, you can find those anywhere. I guess he is too cognitively dissonant and hypocritical himself to even take that into consideration. You know what is ironic about all this? If we were to impose collective guilt on atheism for the communist regimes that killed far more in decades than any collection of medieval Inquisitions ever could, he would hide behind the notion that atheism “didn’t do nothin’”! And yet, it is perfectly fine for him to impose collective guilt on us? Newsflash: inconsistency makes you look like an ignoramus.
If you watch the video, you will notice he employs very militant (and immature) gestures while shouting. Hmm… who does that remind you of that once led Germany? No, I am not saying that politician implicitly in question was an atheist. And, notice he cannot even make up his own mind as to whether he wants to walk away or stay and rant some more. Does he ever make up his mind? If he were not so annoying and obnoxious, I would have laughed.
In response to the rather calm preacher’s rhetorical question of whether he was doing a thespian tryout, the anti-theist replied this way: “No!! This is real!! I am throwing back everything you dirty [inaudible] could ever throw back at us!!”
Hmm… Ever heard of the Golden Rule, buddy? While we are on that throwing back everything bit, that sounds an awful lot like what supporters of Trump were doing in response to all the political correctness that made civil dialogue between competing political philosophies next to impossible. Is he next going to say that only atheists and the far left are allowed to do that? Oh, how does that quote by Gandhi go, again? Uh… oh, yes! “An eye for an eye leaves the world blind.” This guy needs to wake up, because this back-and-forth retaliation will only make things worse in the long run, as the 2016 election clearly demonstrated. Ironically enough, that is part of what got the Democratic South into the mess it was in with the Republican North once Lincoln was assassinated. Some Democrats never learn, do they? And, you wonder why the authors of the Bible tried to minimize the effects of personal retaliation, to begin with?
“Hitler was a Christian!!!”
No, he was not. Shouting that he was does not make him so. What evidence do you have?
“He killed Jews because his ******* … because his [inaudible] god told him to!!!”
Which god? Zeus? Thor? Odin? Which one? You are only begging the question, here. If you look closely through the whole Bible, there is no command to kill the Jews anywhere. So, sorry, but where are you getting this from besides your emotions? Notice he is flailing his arms around as he shouts? What does that remind you of? A bratty kindergartner, maybe?
“Hitler was a practicing Catholic!!”
Maybe so, once upon a time. And, when would that be? Was it throughout his life, or was it simply before his rise to power? People who try to pinpoint blame on Christianity by pulling the Hitler canard forget to take into account the fact politicians often say what people want to hear in order to gain the power that comes with an elected office. Since he is so adamant in claiming Hitler was a Christian (and, specifically, Catholic), the burden is on him to prove it. So far, nothing.
“****, I even found on the internet a picture of a Nazi swastika! It was made by the Nazis, and it had a cross on it! It said, “God is with us, we Germans!”
Oh, yes… because the internet can never direct you to a site full of misinformation, right?
You know who else has a cross as their symbol? I will give you a hint: there is a scandal involving them and their poster boy named Tom Cruise. Yep! You guessed it! Scientology! Not to mention, Scandinavia, which is heavily secularistic, has countries which each apply a cross to its national flag. Crosses are not the strict intellectual property of Christians, anyway. The Satanists’ employment of Saint Peter’s Cross is a case in point.
As for the whole “God is with us” slogan, he does realize the term “God” is a rather generic title, right? Even then, it could be invested with new meaning. He can whine about that all he likes.
Here is the challenge: If Hitler was such a Christian, then quote him on the all-important Atonement, the ever-crucial Trinity, and the all-defining Christology that defines Christianity. Who, to him, is Jesus? Since, he seems to be so willfully ignorant that he will just dismiss everything we say about the truth on Nazi beliefs, it is quite evident that he is lacking enough in principle to ignore this challenge I just gave to anyone that reads this who may try to make Hitler out to be a Christian.
“You know what?… Atheism is apolitical! Stalin was an atheist, but you know who else was an atheist? Ayn Rand!”
Oh, boy! The same lady who espoused and gave rationalizations for selfishness! Oh, goody! Joyce Meyer and Creflo Dollar approve! You could not have at least gone with Kurt Vonnegut to make your point? And, heck! Why not just use Fred Rogers or Charles Schultz as our witty comeback against the mention of the Salem witch trials and say that Christianity is apolitical? Oh, but that would mean he would have to acknowledge that Christianity has done some good in the world! What a crying shame!
“Atheism has got nothing to do with politics, but only about the facts!!!”
Heh! Yeah, right! I will let that arrogant self-assessment, after so many soundbites he made in slightly over a minute, speak for itself.
“And the fact is, you look up in the sky, and you know what you see? Sky, clouds, and the sun!”
Yeah, and? Everybody knows that. Thank you for insulting our intelligence. The more pressing question would be, “Where did nature come from?” Unless I am mistaken, that is part of what the preacher’s sign was imploring you to ponder on, all along.
Skipping ahead, he goes on a temper tantrum about how God is less real than Mickey Mouse, as well as something about marijuana. Once he got to the whole Mickey Mouse bit, I stopped watching, then I decided to test my limits by watching more, which included him talking about him being from the south and how Christianity is to blame for what historically happened down there, and how no Christian (supposedly) is ever rational. As it turns out, he has heard of Quakers, and simply decided to ignore their pacifistic nature to make his "war criminals" bit sound more juicy. Talk about dishonest!
Once he started repeatedly shouting accusations beginning with, “You people,” I stopped the video and shouted a curse word while demanding he such his trap. His continual tantrum and rationalizations of his behavior towards the perfectly calm man got on my last nerves.
Looking at the clips without watching the whole movie, it turns out the police surrounded him as he continued to disturb the peace. Serves him right! Of course, he probably said he is being persecuted in order to shirk from personal responsibility. That, ironically enough, is what some “skeptics” accuse evangelicals of doing. The apple does not fall far from the tree, does it?
Sources (for things that are not common knowledge)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0OOE…
www.gci.org/history/wilberforc…
www.todayschristianwoman.com/a…
James Patrick Holding, Scripture and Slavery (there is both an E-Book and Youtube series version of this): www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hbz_p…
www.tektonics.org/lp/patriot.p…
UPDATE: The youtube video referred to has since been removed for whatever reason. My guess, YouTube decided to pull the plug on the channel. Anyway, the good news is another youtube link has been found with the same occurrence recorded. Link is at the end of this article.
A word before we begin: I alternate between the third and second person on purpose. In either case, I am likely referring to the person in the video making the rants, unless otherwise specified either explicitly or implicitly. Keep that in mind as you read this article.
“How free am I? I’d be a lot freer if guys like you were thrown in prison...”
That was in response to the question, “How free are you?” Note that the street evangelist did not specify what he meant by “free”. Free from what? I guess he could have done a better job of noting what one is supposed to be free from. Knowing militant atheists, however, they likely would not care how you word anything, so long as they express their vehement hatred. All the preacher did was ask a simple question while holding a non-threatening sign and this antitheist just started to go off the handle for no good reason. If you thought it could not get any worse, prepare to be disappointed (and disgusted). Anybody with children nearby would be advised to have them play somewhere where they will not be exposed too early to the comments that they are not capable of reading or hearing without being scarred and frightened for life.
“As retaliation… for the collective crime… of racism, antisemitism, misogyny, and homophobia!!”
Did you see what he just did? Notice all the labels he placed on one person and, by implication, all Christians? Hmm… As near as I can tell, America is individualistic, not collectivist. Were he living in a society where more emphasis was placed on the group’s needs than the individual’s and where your identity was placed much more on your family, land, and societal categories, his rant would probably be a bit more effective. Well, maybe.
Do not get me wrong: I do not deny that there have been Christians in one or more of the categories the anti-theist has mentioned. What seems to fly over his head, though, is that all the above were brought to their knees by a certain demographic he hates. Hmm… What could be the unifying thing of all these people that once helped to bring these bigots to heel in America and much of the rest of the West? Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Susan B. Anthony, Billy Graham, William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemoller… Oh, that’s right! They were all Christians! Go figure! In other words, any collective guilt from any sort of racism, antisemitism, and misogyny would have been made up for by Christian activism and deeds that helped to reverse and contain such bigotry, for the most part.
And, in case nobody noticed, we Christians have already rendered the Westboro Baptist Church into a mockery and gotten onto any “homophobes” who crossed the line. What happened in response to that one preacher after the Orlando shooting is a case in point. So, no, you cannot automatically blame all Christians for the actions of some jerks, not without looking stupid in the process.
“All you ******* [inaudible]… are war criminals, and liars, and charlatans!! Atheism forever!!!”
Uh, right. And, he knows this, how? Has he ever heard of the Quakers, by any chance? No, I do not mean the brand of oatmeal. I am referring to the Religious Society of Friends. If he has paid attention in history, he might recall that it was a Quaker (namely, William Penn) who got the charter for the founding of Pennsylvania. As far as liars and charlatans go, you can find those anywhere. I guess he is too cognitively dissonant and hypocritical himself to even take that into consideration. You know what is ironic about all this? If we were to impose collective guilt on atheism for the communist regimes that killed far more in decades than any collection of medieval Inquisitions ever could, he would hide behind the notion that atheism “didn’t do nothin’”! And yet, it is perfectly fine for him to impose collective guilt on us? Newsflash: inconsistency makes you look like an ignoramus.
If you watch the video, you will notice he employs very militant (and immature) gestures while shouting. Hmm… who does that remind you of that once led Germany? No, I am not saying that politician implicitly in question was an atheist. And, notice he cannot even make up his own mind as to whether he wants to walk away or stay and rant some more. Does he ever make up his mind? If he were not so annoying and obnoxious, I would have laughed.
In response to the rather calm preacher’s rhetorical question of whether he was doing a thespian tryout, the anti-theist replied this way: “No!! This is real!! I am throwing back everything you dirty [inaudible] could ever throw back at us!!”
Hmm… Ever heard of the Golden Rule, buddy? While we are on that throwing back everything bit, that sounds an awful lot like what supporters of Trump were doing in response to all the political correctness that made civil dialogue between competing political philosophies next to impossible. Is he next going to say that only atheists and the far left are allowed to do that? Oh, how does that quote by Gandhi go, again? Uh… oh, yes! “An eye for an eye leaves the world blind.” This guy needs to wake up, because this back-and-forth retaliation will only make things worse in the long run, as the 2016 election clearly demonstrated. Ironically enough, that is part of what got the Democratic South into the mess it was in with the Republican North once Lincoln was assassinated. Some Democrats never learn, do they? And, you wonder why the authors of the Bible tried to minimize the effects of personal retaliation, to begin with?
“Hitler was a Christian!!!”
No, he was not. Shouting that he was does not make him so. What evidence do you have?
“He killed Jews because his ******* … because his [inaudible] god told him to!!!”
Which god? Zeus? Thor? Odin? Which one? You are only begging the question, here. If you look closely through the whole Bible, there is no command to kill the Jews anywhere. So, sorry, but where are you getting this from besides your emotions? Notice he is flailing his arms around as he shouts? What does that remind you of? A bratty kindergartner, maybe?
“Hitler was a practicing Catholic!!”
Maybe so, once upon a time. And, when would that be? Was it throughout his life, or was it simply before his rise to power? People who try to pinpoint blame on Christianity by pulling the Hitler canard forget to take into account the fact politicians often say what people want to hear in order to gain the power that comes with an elected office. Since he is so adamant in claiming Hitler was a Christian (and, specifically, Catholic), the burden is on him to prove it. So far, nothing.
“****, I even found on the internet a picture of a Nazi swastika! It was made by the Nazis, and it had a cross on it! It said, “God is with us, we Germans!”
Oh, yes… because the internet can never direct you to a site full of misinformation, right?
You know who else has a cross as their symbol? I will give you a hint: there is a scandal involving them and their poster boy named Tom Cruise. Yep! You guessed it! Scientology! Not to mention, Scandinavia, which is heavily secularistic, has countries which each apply a cross to its national flag. Crosses are not the strict intellectual property of Christians, anyway. The Satanists’ employment of Saint Peter’s Cross is a case in point.
As for the whole “God is with us” slogan, he does realize the term “God” is a rather generic title, right? Even then, it could be invested with new meaning. He can whine about that all he likes.
Here is the challenge: If Hitler was such a Christian, then quote him on the all-important Atonement, the ever-crucial Trinity, and the all-defining Christology that defines Christianity. Who, to him, is Jesus? Since, he seems to be so willfully ignorant that he will just dismiss everything we say about the truth on Nazi beliefs, it is quite evident that he is lacking enough in principle to ignore this challenge I just gave to anyone that reads this who may try to make Hitler out to be a Christian.
“You know what?… Atheism is apolitical! Stalin was an atheist, but you know who else was an atheist? Ayn Rand!”
Oh, boy! The same lady who espoused and gave rationalizations for selfishness! Oh, goody! Joyce Meyer and Creflo Dollar approve! You could not have at least gone with Kurt Vonnegut to make your point? And, heck! Why not just use Fred Rogers or Charles Schultz as our witty comeback against the mention of the Salem witch trials and say that Christianity is apolitical? Oh, but that would mean he would have to acknowledge that Christianity has done some good in the world! What a crying shame!
“Atheism has got nothing to do with politics, but only about the facts!!!”
Heh! Yeah, right! I will let that arrogant self-assessment, after so many soundbites he made in slightly over a minute, speak for itself.
“And the fact is, you look up in the sky, and you know what you see? Sky, clouds, and the sun!”
Yeah, and? Everybody knows that. Thank you for insulting our intelligence. The more pressing question would be, “Where did nature come from?” Unless I am mistaken, that is part of what the preacher’s sign was imploring you to ponder on, all along.
Skipping ahead, he goes on a temper tantrum about how God is less real than Mickey Mouse, as well as something about marijuana. Once he got to the whole Mickey Mouse bit, I stopped watching, then I decided to test my limits by watching more, which included him talking about him being from the south and how Christianity is to blame for what historically happened down there, and how no Christian (supposedly) is ever rational. As it turns out, he has heard of Quakers, and simply decided to ignore their pacifistic nature to make his "war criminals" bit sound more juicy. Talk about dishonest!
Once he started repeatedly shouting accusations beginning with, “You people,” I stopped the video and shouted a curse word while demanding he such his trap. His continual tantrum and rationalizations of his behavior towards the perfectly calm man got on my last nerves.
Looking at the clips without watching the whole movie, it turns out the police surrounded him as he continued to disturb the peace. Serves him right! Of course, he probably said he is being persecuted in order to shirk from personal responsibility. That, ironically enough, is what some “skeptics” accuse evangelicals of doing. The apple does not fall far from the tree, does it?
Sources (for things that are not common knowledge)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA0OOE…
www.gci.org/history/wilberforc…
www.todayschristianwoman.com/a…
James Patrick Holding, Scripture and Slavery (there is both an E-Book and Youtube series version of this): www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hbz_p…
www.tektonics.org/lp/patriot.p…
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This is an article I decided to make as a demonstration to show that when it comes to logic, the kinds of atheists that are absolutely spiteful towards Christians often lack any degree of intelligence, critical thinking, or even principle. As far as what you read of what the one in the video said, it is nothing I have not dealt with before online.
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There’s something I’d like to point out about the “God with us” claim, which will only further make the anti-theist look ridiculous.
”God with us“ wasn’t created by the Nazis. The Prussian Army used it in the 17th century before the German Army adopted it in 1871.
To add insult to injury, “God with us” only appeared on the buckles worn by the army in general. Obviously, not everyone in that army adhered to Nazism. The anti-theist would have to prove the Nazi elite used that motto. But they didn’t. Their motto was “My honor is called loyalty”.