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Hahaha. My dyslexia made me think this video was about the great depression. It wasn't until Extra Histories into played and the title was said aloud that I caught the difference. I couldn't understand why a religious perspective would have anything to do with the great depression but marked it as me not knowing enough about the reasons behind the collapse.
I didn't know you were a pastor. Do you mind sharing your denomination?
My pastor is also really into history. Seems they go hand in hand
11:22 Have you seen their take on the Thirty Years War? Because they end up framing it with the horsemen of the Apocalypse in order to reflect on the thoughts of the people at the time.
I'm an atheist myself, and have been pretty much all my life, but I still find religion and mythology extremely interesting. I own a lot of religious books, which I occasionally read, because reading about and trying to understand what others believe is something I think is important for several reasons. That being said, I think the way you talk about religion and faith, and that you want people of all faiths and beliefs (or lack thereof) to feel welcome and learn history with you, is very admirable, and I respect you a lot for that. I for one think that, as long as you're not hurting yourself or others, you should be free to believe whatever you want. Keep up the great work, Chris!
I've actually lost count of the number of "The World will end on this date" prophecies over the last 50 years. Hint, they've happened a lot.
Millers; And therefore i shall reveal the truth i have discovered about our savior christ!
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Or you could say that Jesus Christ was trolling his followers about the end times and in fact thier is actually no end time at all which is why science is more accurate about when the world will aka either by nuclear war between Russia, the USA and possibly China as well as Iran and North Korea as well.😅🤔🤨🧐🤔🙄😑
I'm a deist and you nailed it with your basic description. I believe there is a creator or deity that set the universe in motion but I don't believe any deity is actively playing a part in our universe.
This is why I think the study of history is so important!
Religious or not, anyone is liable to look around the world and think, “Man! Things are getting really crazy. Looks like we’re headed for a big blow-up.”
It’s only when you learn how crazy things have been in the past that you can put the present time into perspective. You come around to the thought that if we were able to get through all the mess from back then we might be able to find ourselves a way to get to the end of the present situation.
16:46 Yes, that was the Ancient Aliens guy.
Mr Chris what I’d a person that’s not necessarily a atheist but is not a theist? I’m a ex soldier from the US that came from a not really resource heavy background for my contextual backstory. As I see the idea of a god, I just can’t see why it’s important that god does or does not exist, either way changes nothing where I am
Thank you for being a great rep for both Christians and Right-wingers. It more people out there expressed themselves as eloquently as you the world would be a far friendlier place.
This video (not yours, EH’s) seems to have a bent against Christianity. Idk maybe I’m reading to much into it.
Very interesting reaction, despite not being on History of India, hehe.
As always, you do a good job acknowledging your personal bias and you try to remain objective in your words. I sensed a bit of refrain from you in this video and I thought it was because the 1830s were too close from recent history, for your taste. Up until the last bit when I learned this influenced 21 millions people. Yeah, that's a lot.
Being raised as Roman Catholic in Quebec back in the 1980s, I did not learn a lot about all those movements and sects (and Protestantism in general, to be honest).
Literally every generation of Christians has believed Jesus return was imminent. Should really tell you something.
Damn I can’t believe they made a video about me
Chris, would you consider a reaction or original content on church history? Like the Reformation from a historical perspective? Very fascinating as a Christian and history nerd.
Why is it that such weird churches and movements happen mostly with American protestant offshoots?
As a Seventh-day Adventist, I'm very familiar with this story. But this is the first time I've ever heard anyone outside of my denomination talk about it.
Was creationism even a thing back then? I notice you mentioned it at 2:20 I am curious about what people back then believed. In regards to that.
I study early American deists (Paine, Lysander Spooner, Elihu Palmer, etc.). I think there’s a couple misconceptions about how the belief was practiced.
Classical deists didn’t necessarily believe the Creator did not interact or intervene with its creation. That is more of a contemporary deist position.
But rather, they simply refused to accept claims of special revelation or miracles as true, dismissing it as hearsay or otherwise un-observed.
In practice, yes, that would make it appear as if there’s no intervention. But the possibility existed.
If Bob the Deist told Bill the Deist that the Creator saved him during a battle, Bill would refuse to believe it, but that didn’t mean Bob would also need to refuse to believe it. Bob very well could be a deist who experienced intervention (“providence”), it’s just not compelling proof to anybody else, especially to other Deists.
Also, the bit where he said his interpretations of the Bible were correct because he used Reason — that wasn’t mere arrogance. It was thought that if a person had come to believe in a Creator merely through Reason, that they were accurately using it. That same “kind” of Reason, when applied elsewhere, would naturally also lead to accurate conclusions. The real question is whether or not they are using the same “kind” of Reason or have fallen back to fallible rationalization.
I remember a book published in the mid- to late 1980s, "88 Reasons Christ Will Return in 1988."
you should watch internets historian about Harold Camping
I know it will be a long-shot but a reaction to the missing American collider by bobby broccoli would be interesting, but it will take a lot of time
As a Christian, I found this to be really interesting! I never knew roots of the Seventh Day Adventists, which this video clarified some things I've heard about them. I'm interested to learn more from a scholarly perspective! Thank you for sharing this!
…and as someone else mentioned, EH has an interesting series of all religious videos that's not exclusive to Christianity. Might be fun to hear your perspective on those videos if it's up your alley.
Here is what I don't understand about religion. Don't get mad at me for saying this I'm not trying to stir up things…
We live in a world that has a dozen apocalypses happening at any given time. We don't really have control of them.
Yet humans are contemplating new apocalypses to create "the end times" or "the end of the world". Things humans likewise have no control over but they can "avoid" if they believe hard enough. They believe their whole life and they die… And life goes on.
"when you do this you do great harm to mainstream Christianity…"
As a former Christian I take offense to that remark. I grew up in one protestant church, I've been to Catholic Churches, Orthodox churches, and well just about every protestant church through my life. I'm convinced that the way to heal Christianity is simply to reopen the cannon.
But churches/cults based around the end times is something I grew up with. My grandmother was convinced we lived in the "end times". Everything was a sign of the end times. Christian ministers teaching their flocks to drink poison… That's Revelation. Atomic weapons are about to be flung at each other that's Matthew. Walmart always giving low prices… Didn't the prophet Daniel prophecy that?
My grandmother could only go to preachers who constantly spewed this filth. She couldn't walk into a normal church. Enter the pastor Bobby O'Neill.
Bobby O'Neill preached not only the end times but that God will give the faithful anything you ask for. "Come to Jesus you will be wealthy. Come to Jesus you will be healthy. Come to Jesus you will never have a better Golf Score" as pastor Hank Hannigraff used to say.
Bobby O'Neill taped his sermons and for $5 you could get a cassette tape. My grandmother went to this huckster for years. Every Sunday she gave to the plate and bought a tape.
Bobby O'Neill crashed and burned much like Miller that didn't dissuade my grams. She moved on to the next huckster. And the next because she was afraid of the end times.
Death came to my grandmother who was convinced she was living in the time of the second coming.
Me… Well my story is a different journey. One through Christianity and eventually into Islam. But… My grandmother's story isn't finished.
You see after my grandmother and grandfather died everyone rushed to grab their stuff. I didn't. I didn't care you know. I just wanted to see them buryed and happy.
So I was the last to go through "things". One thing I noticed was that my Grandmother had 500 cassette tapes of Bobby O'Neill teachings. $1000s of dollars for sermons of a huckster that were on a media that was worthless. They are likely taking up some landfill space causing a real disaster.
Mainstream Christianity would never appeal to my grandmother just like my grandmother's Christianity would never appeal to a mainstream Christian. So it can not do damage.
Just like my beliefs can not harm you because you do not believe like me. No doubt they are interesting, and altho I find Theology and Ecclesiology fascinating they bore most people. These churches/cults that live in Eschatology find our beliefs as insane as we find theirs. It doesn't hurt us, and we can not reach them. In the end we are all going to die.