I like this video. http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/19/hate-religion-love-jesus-video-goes-viral/?iref=obinsite With so many atheists coming out of the closet, it’s not difficult to imagine a video decrying religion racking up millions of hits on YouTube. But a video along those lines has been viewed 15 million times and liked more than a quarter-million times since it was posted on January 10, featuring an enthusiastic young Christian from Washington state. “What if I told you Jesus came to abolish religion?” 22-year-old Jefferson Bethke says in the video, reciting a spoken word poem he wrote. “What if I told you getting you to vote Republican really wasn’t his mission?” “I mean if religion is so great, why has it started so many wars?” he says later. “Why does it build huge churches but fail to feed the poor?” Bethke's video is emerging as a symbol for many young evangelical Christians who are calling themselves “followers of Jesus” rather than overtly identifying with institutional Christianity. Many of the country's fastest-growing churches are nondenominational. “Religion is man-centered,” Bethke writes in a post accompanying his YouTube video. “Jesus is God-centered.” In the video, Bethke talks about what he calls his own spiritual rebirth, saying he went from being a self-righteous religious person to an admittedly deeply broken believer. <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1IAhDGYlpqY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter. <object width="560" height="315"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yBo7Z_abiLE?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yBo7Z_abiLE?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> At least it spawned a funny meme, though.
You can have belief and faith without having the structure of Religion. Which might seem weird without belief and faith.
Doesn't seem that structure is really mentioned anywhere. Religion and structure are not mutually inclusive. But the concept of Jesus and Religion are very much one and the same, which makes the premise of this video flawed from the start. It's a neat little bit of word play and nifty camera work, but the substance fails to swim in even the shallowest pools of logic and philosophy.
So he really thinks the rapping Jesus supporter was suggesting republicans existed during Jesus's life...
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I hate basketball, but I love da Rockets. I hate women, but I love ma wife. I hate message boards, but I love me some Clutchfans.
Saw this couple of weeks ago, never understood why there are so many views and likes. Bunch of gibberish in rhyme, everything he says contradicts, overall one of the worst pile of crap I've seen that has gone viral. I mean seriously, "Religious says do, Jesus says done, Jesus is the cure , Religion is the infection" What the fruck? WHat?
What is the valid point? In my opinion, the guy is trying to say "being a good person = awesome" / "religion = not awesome". Problem is, he completely f***s that up by backtracking on this concept by leaning on the divinity of Jesus, the Church, and the Bible.
