Couldn't agree more with all that he said. Religion is part of the bondage that Jesus came to liberate us from..man made traditions can't save you and good deeds don't make you righteous. Only a personal relationship with Jesus is what saves you. To those religious people who showed up to church but never did what was right He will say "I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity"

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>> ^shinyblurry:

Couldn't agree more with all that he said. Religion is part of the bondage that Jesus came to liberate us from..man made traditions can't save you and good deeds don't make you righteous. Only a personal relationship with Jesus is what saves you. To those religious people who showed up to church but never did what was right He will say "I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity"


Sorry dude, you can't have it both ways. In a single paragraph you manage to lament how Jesus came to save us from the need to do good deeds for the sake of righteousness in one sentence. Then, in the very next one, you tell us that Jesus will reject you if you don't to right. So which is it?

As for this video, it kept popping up on my Facebook feed a few months ago and my response is as such: Yea, Christians can do some pretty hypocritical things - but that's expected. They are after all human, and despite their claims of divine moral motivation and whatnot, they are really imperfect humans with no special powers just like me, so I give them the benefit of the doubt (though it would be nice if they were to adopt a world view that promoted the concept of responsibility for one's own actions). God, however, is supposed to be perfect, unerring, loving, benevolent, truthful, good and so on, so I have a hard time reconciling that with all of his vile behavior.

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For the irony of it being in the religion channel.

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You figure it has to be Pro-Religion to be in that channel ?

Um... improper use of the discuss function? If you want this video to get more attention, @shveddy, then promote or quality it. It's clearly not in the wrong channel, and even if it were, discuss is overkill.

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