Haha o that is so true🤣 atheists, anti-Christians and anti-Catholics all love to blame it all on Constantine

It's so commonplace it might as well be one of the solas

@@Qwerty-jy9mj Sola Constantinus

Inflation? Constantine!

inb4 "Constantine was the serpent who gave the forbidden fruit to Eve"

"Where's my change?" "Change comes from within."

I like sandwiches with cucumber instead of tomatoes.

I don’t get the joke

Is most out of 5 3 or 4

As a rational human being, the claim that Jesus was born of a virgin, walked on water, rose from the dead, and was the son of God, make me cringe.

@@cygnusustus Being God makes you do supernatural things.

@@fungamesonly6521 Imagining god makes you do horrible things.

@@fungamesonly6521 some claim he’s inspired the Book of Mormon and that his Holy Spirit will confirm this if you pray on it.

Survive the Jive(even tho he's a pagan) has a good video on Ancient Cannabis Cults on his YT channel. It's pretty interesting to say the least, but to your point I think the drugs were not a normalized thing for the average commoner but more-so gurus/elites within different religious structures around the world. After all I think they all thought these natural drugs and stuff were divinely sent.

@@sunwheels I agree that in most case drugs were probably used mainly by the priests. But on the other hand, it depends who are we speaking about. Some Native Americans, European pagans ( i do not mean Greeks or Romans) some Asian and African ppl, used drugs more commonly. I would say these particular cultures were not very successful. The ones that did do well and developed math, alphabet, philosophy etc were usually more strict and order focused societies. Thanks for the video recommendation. It sounds very interesting and I’ll check it out for sure:)

Everyone has legalized drugs, without knowing it, what drugs some examples, tea, coffee, alcohol, cigarettes and cigars, just to name a few

Cannabis used in temple worship is another researcher finding. Maybe frankincense or myrrh gives a high. Then again you can get “high” from whatever sugar, caffeine, even sniffing glue.

“They’re not successful because the Christians killed them all man!” I used to take mushrooms and all that. Actually the last time I took them I was really getting back into my Catholic faith and had a pretty religious experience. But they are so, so dangerous and can very easily lead you down a wrong path. So many people think of them like medicine but that is a cope. You don’t need them. Beware of unearned wisdom.

​@@rezr5448 I'd like to think that most of these people don't mean any harm and just don't know any better. They probably never spent any time looking into their beliefs. So I wouldn't go as far as to say that they " gotta justify their degenerate desires" which I think is a bit harsh. Most of these misconceptions you could explain by simply assuming ignorance on their part. I mean there was a point where I didn't know any better until God opened my heart and mind to the truth, which I'm unbelievably thankful for. I think we should just strive to clear up these misconceptions wherever we may encounter them in a loving way.

Jesus taught a version of what the Pharisees taught. The idea the Romans created or strongly altered Christianity is ridiculous. (Likely, the powerful Sadducees, who didn't believe in resurrection and basically were atheists, and Romans were more who Jesus's movement were nonviolently and smartly protesting against.) Maybe the Romans saw Christians as useful by some point, but this opened the door for the Church to transform the Empire and Western civilization and history. Jesus and the Church were and are vessels for the Holy Spirit.

Interesting Are u Catholic now?? I’m just curious, what made you change sides ??? You seem well informed on the claims against Christianity So what prompted you to change??

The coma theory and the ‘swoon’ theory are perhaps the weakest theories in disproving the Resurrection. Anyone with a base idea of Roman crucifixions can tell ya how brutal the whole thing is. Between the beatings, blood loss, asphyxiation, thorns, dragging wood to the site, and a spear through the side, no way would Jesus be walking out his tomb on his own feet.

@@crossbearer6453I try to keep it as short as possible, but it was a long process over the last 9 years. I had a religious experience of "seeing God" while I was in the hospital that made me stop being an atheist (at least kind of, I tried to talk myself out of it for a long time, the "my brain just misfired or something", "I'm going crazy", "It was just a hallucination/psychosis"). After that I took a few years to read all the main religious texts (Bible, Quran, several Buddhist and Hindu texts) and some books on philosophy and and religious experiences (can really recommend 'The Varieties Of Religious Experience' by William James, some of the testimonies captured in this book describe my own religious experience pretty well). After that I kind of lost track of God and my search for Him again, got lost in drugs and alcohol. When I reached another really low point in my life there I met God again, helping me get back to Him. That's when I started studying Christianity more in depth. The search ultimately led me to Catholicism and I was baptised this Easter. I thank God every day that He saved me, but it's still a fight and a struggle. But God has giving me all the things that I have really needed and missed all my life, the things that I tried to fill and replace with sin, drugs, alcohol, porn and just general hedonism. God has freely given me purpose, hope and love in this life. And I can't imagine what He has in store for us in the next life! What about you? From your name I can assume that you're a Christian as well. How did you come to Christ? Hope you have a blessed day, if you want to know more I'll try to answer it to the best of my abilities.

And Richard Rohr, SJ. It's always the d*mned Jesuits.

Yes, I'm tired of the New Age nonsense.

@@johnsix.51-69 Christ Consciousness is a watered down version of Theosis

​@@randomango2789 A bit worse than merely watered down.

This is correct.

That is a new one to me 😂 how did that story even start?

was expecting something like that on the video

There was also a guy in China that was salty that he failed an imperial exam (that allowed one to become a state official), so he claimed to be Jesus's younger brother and revolted against the emperor, establishing a short-lived "heavenly kingdom" and spread a weird hybrid of protestantism and Chinese folk beliefs. Look up Hong Xiuquan and the Taiping Rebellion.

@@ishashkathat one I have heard of

​@@ishashka They should make that into a movie!

Look up Jimmy Akin's podcast on the Davinci Code. Loooooooong story short, the Dan Brown novel is based of an English book from the mid 20'th century whose author was fooled by an earlier French fraud who claimed to be the rightful king of France.

'The DaVinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in the DaVinci Code' by Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel is good.

@@Xymage Hmm, that would be a strong rebuttal! Thanks!

@@jeremysmith7176 Just what I needed to hear! Thanks! Will give it a listen.

I read the da Vinci Code Back when I was 14 and found it really really cool, but I never thought it was real. I mean, I wanted it to be real and I felt all kinds of intelligent for reading it and because "omg I'm totally like the protagonist", but still, I knew it was just a detective thriller. In my mind, the author made it clear it was just detective fantasy (although I guess I never really knew that, just thought I did). It wasn't until very recently that I found out there's people who took it as some sort of academic work.

I didn’t see it, but I guess Jordan Peterson of all people took him to the woodshed over his anti-Christian malarkey.

@@stephenjohnson7915 Jordan Peterson is wrong on many things tho. He views Christianity as a psychological/ effective philosophical system and God to him is like just a man made symbol of meta truth. I don’t think this line of argument can change Joes perspective.

@@izabeera166 That’s very true, but then again, no one can say Peterson is only pushing back because he’s a true believer.

​@@izabeera166Wrong, Peterson converted. He is a Christian.

​@@wulfheort8021 nope, he ain't

Agreed, but what other phrase fits the bill?

Well yes because if is common within academia that means it's not fringe, but the lysenkoist/worship black people religion is not fringe, it's quite mainstream

@@actuallicensedteacher1846 Conspiracy theorist.

Independence is just a word of something that doesn't really exist, when you really look at things everything and everyone is dependent on others, it's a long list so here's a couple of examples a self employed man or woman is dependent on customers and manufacturers if they have something that needs to be made like vacuum cleaners ect, customers for window cleaners ect, we're dependent on builders to build our homes and shops and so on, and in nature flowers ect are dependant on bees to help with pollination and mankind is dependent on bees for honey, there's literally 1000s of examples I could give, but the ultimate dependence is mankind's on God

It's just a scholar who is basically unemployed, he wasn't able to find a position, a grant or something. But I reckon some wacko with some dubious knowledge could also call themselves an "independent scholar", so the phrase can designate a somewhat dubious personage in this case. So it's either a fraud or a legitimate but unemployed scholar.

finally lole

Church of saints established by Jesus under the stewardship of Peter has nothing to do with the pagan romans which is precisely opposite to what the satanic cult believing protestants of sola scriptura a man made tradition invented by a devil possessed man, usually think .

“The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.” -Robert Conquest’s 3rd rule of politics

Thought the same exact thing. That intro was in desperate need of music.

I think you mean Dalai Lama, lol. A llama is a South American mammal.

He's debated many Protestants before, why would he debate some fringe Protestant?

Billy Cosby throwback...😶

There's plenty of reason to think that Joseph was an older man, including tradition itself. It is okay to trust it. In addition,a young man marrying a young woman who had taken a perpetual vow of virginity is difficult to imagine. Not impossible, but difficult. An older man, perhaps already widowed looking for a replacement mother for existing children or companionship is much easier to see as a choice.

It's a tradition although I don't know if it comes from (probably not) the proto gospel of james

I always figured Joseph died when Jesus was in his twenties. That gave him time to teach Jesus carpentry enough to support himself and Mary once Joseph passed away. There’s also a tradition I heard about Jewish men leaving their father’s profession around 30, which is about when Jesus entered his public ministry. This would be a symbolic transition of Jesus taking on God the Father’s task for him while still honoring Joseph, his foster father.

@@atrifle8364 Father Donald Calloway makes a great case for a young St. Joseph. I highly encourage you to read his book “Consecration to St. Joseph: The Wonders of our spiritual father.” God bless you.