So... smug face plus pointy finger plus context free mini quote equals truth? Wow, the things I learn on the internets. Appreciate all you do, Dan.

Dang, I’ve been deconstructing for a while now, but geez that adultery being a crime against property, hit me hard between the eyes! I forget how many theological imprints are still in my head as default ideas!

That smile becomes menacing when paired with directions for women on how to act.

I've never seen someone so afraid of fuller context that he quotes two words at a time instead of at least whole sentences

That guy seems kinda young to be giving marital advice of any sort.

I'm reminded of that meme where the Grecian Urn with two men on it is looking at a Egyptian Urn with two men on it and going "You're gay because you love men; I'm gay because I hate women. We're not the same."

Helpful, thanks, Dan. Non-religious households talk it out, so there are clear roles. That works much better than shoehorning roles parading as "God's will."

I am so grateful for your channel. Your way of calling out misogyny is impressive, concise, and often times amusing. Thank God for Dan McClellan.

"I'll tell you what I am - I'm the damn paterfamilias!" ~ "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

My wife almost broke my habd at a wedding when the minister got to the 'honor and obey' bit. Our minister also refused to have brides given away as they are not property.

I'm afraid we might be nearing a point where much of the Right is going to revisit that "obey your masters" verse and argue that it's not merely vestigial

What a refreshing, thoughtful mode of deconstructing the right wing, christofascist insidious messaging. I appreciate your taking on this much needed role. Best wishes.

As a dirty, dirty gentile, I love every time I hear Dan use the words!

Out of respect for Dan and his request not to comment on the appearance of the creator featured I will refrain from describing the kind of vibes I'm getting off this dude. But on a completely unrelated subject: it's good to keep an eye on your friends' drinks when you're out.

I really enjoy Christian cringe, but this kid made me cringe so hard I almost pressed into a singularity.

Dan, don't know how you treat this so calmly, I find it aggravating to no end. Nothing like a sneering, cocky child cherry picking +1000 year old texts to show others how an ideal marriage should be. One needs the self-created assurance that they know the absolute truth of everything to incite the attitude to pull this off - one thing that religion seems to create in spades. Thanks for the video.

I watch your videos and learn every day. Thank you.

Confident men can recognize the value of a partnership. If you're afraid you can't handle compromise in your relationship, grow up before you enter into one.

The patriarchal system the original trickle down👀

Who wants to bet that this content creator isn't married? 🤣 Btw, can you imagine the contemporary followers of Paul abstaining from sex because they thought that Jesus would return soon? I can imagine that, on their deathbed, they were pretty pissed with him, lol Also BTW, Dan's videos should be required watching for all Christians, especially those who consider themselves knowledgeable on the Bible. 😁

I appreciate that Dan tells us not to harass these creators, because I really REALLY want to!

Dear women, run away from all that tripe that creator was peddling. Run. Away.

I have heard men use Bible use Bible verses to show their wife they have to submit to the husband. But what if the husband is someone who makes bad decisions for his family?

This guy is very, very happy to be pointing out such misogynistic verses. Painful to watch.

I think it begs the question, what type of man is using the bible as a weapon to subjugate his wife and family? I find it hard to accept that a man who is doing well and right by his family, needs to abuse his family. I think its the man who lacks the skills (and refuses to acquire them) who demands that his family prop up false narratives so that he doesn't have to deal with the reality of his failures

OK, I know ad hominem comments are wrong but I see this child smiling and thinking he is being clever and I wonder if his mother knows where he is.

Thanks for your videos

Another excellent deconstruction of right-wing authoritarian rhetoric! Thanks for keeping them honest!

Thank you! I think this video is brilliant!

Honestly u are awesome 🎉

I don't know what this guy is thinking, and I pity the woman he gets involved with. I have a few Bibles and if thrown at a person it could do some damage, I'm not advocating violence but if a person actually read what is in the book many Revere as holy and from God! Danke Dan, spot on too.

Something that escapes all counter-apologists is, why should anyone give a sh*t what Paul wrote? Was he god? Was he a disciple? Did he even meet Cheesus other than in that brief vision that only he saw? How is a former persecutor of christians considered an authority in christian dogma?

The video that Dan is responding to makes no sense to me. Why is this kid so happy telling women what to do? I am sure he is a nice kid but this is a really bizarre video.

So normally I would go into more depth than Dan does on a topic than Dan does, but this particular individual warrants an "honorable" mention. Now the particular question christians are asking now-a-days is why people are leaving christianity. And for a while every faith was losing members except the evangelical faiths and now it appears that they are losing members also. And when we look at where evangelicals are going when they leave, we see a high representation among atheist and anti-religious activism, for which the speechless content provider should wonder why. Lets examine the why. There are text in the bible that are curated text, like the torah is a curation of its various sources, the deuteronomistic text is kind of a curation of material. There are the books of the prophets most of which we think were by a single sources. And there is wisdom literature, material that is more of a fable than expected historical understanding. In the NT there are epistles by authors, anonymous gospels that someone later named, and apocalyptic literature. And so when one is quoting from these text, as Dan pointed out there is no intrinsic authority, but there is authenticity. Within the Bible certain texts stand out as inauthentic. These are second Isaiah, Isaiah 40-66 Daniel (while certain stories in Daniel might qualify as wisdom literature they are cherry picked from the dan'el/dani'el genre). The pauline epistles. 2 Thesselonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Colossians, Ephesians, and Titus The petrine epistles. All. So this author in singling out these text gravitated in his selection to the least authentic text over actual text that Paul wrote. So lets look at this statistically regarding the new testament. 8 unauthentic 19 authentic the author however chose: 4 unauthentic and 1 authentic. Significance is 0.053, So this is a pattern of many fundementalist in which they are borrowing from text that just the very nature they are written have dubious qualities, validated by scholarly analysis of those texts. Their sampling of these texts to support their points of view reeks of dishonesty which is why when so many evangelicals leaving the faith they see the religion as dishonest and those proselytizing the faith as dishonest, as this particular content provider is doing. So to this content provider I woukd say, if you want to know why so many evangelicals become athiestic look in the mirror.

One of the biggest things you get from reading the Bible in the original languages is how *badly* humanity...from Moses to David to all the writers of the NT, blow God's intentions out of the water with their own crazy text stitches.

Conservative christian right-wing authoritarian identity politics 😇

Speaking of Proverbs and child abuse, two words: Michael Pearl.

…”hopefully”-lmao 😂

1:01 Sad that the "hopefully" is needed.

One might also note in the Ephesians 5 passage how the subject title “Wives and Husbands” puts a break between verses 21 and 22. That is not original to the text and what it does is disrupt the flow of the passage. In verse 21, Paul calls for mutual submission: … submitting to _one another_ out of reverence for Christ. He’s talking to everybody about how to walk, how to love sacrificially as Christ loved (vs. 2), ending this portion to everyone with mutual submission (vs. 21). It’s in that context he turns to wives and says “submit to your husbands.” But then he tells husbands to “love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her … husbands should love their wives as their own bodies … as himself.” Though the same word “submission” is not used “loving someone as yourself” sounds an awful lot like egalitarianism. I realize they heard these words with a certain cultural view so it wouldn’t be the same understanding in 21st century Western culture and I don’t love the word “revere,” but this passage is often taught _WIVES SUBMIT_ and husbands love (but it’s optional & only based on how much your wife submits and reveres you) and that’s not right.

I watch this the second time - now not while I am doing the dishes. So I came across the first notion. Why should I comment on the appearance of the content creator when there is so much to comment about? Or not - after binge watching talk heathen, the atheist experience, gutsick Gibbon, Forrest Valkay... There really is not much to add after watching this thoroughly crafted video. Well done 🙂👍. Good video. Comment for the algorithm and also some emojis - they seem support the algorithm even further 😃🌍🌎🌏🌐🗺️

Paul: I know some of you can't hack the celibate life. So maybe some of you should get married. BUT.. no kids. God doesn't want a bunch of kids running around the gift shop.

"Righteous parents are supposed to be beating their children with rods." That is the most uncharitable reading of Proverbs I have ever heard.

Would you say this is descriptive vs not prescriptive?

@maklelan I understand what you're saying about selectively assembling verses to support a misogynistic view, but I struggle with the notion that these are entirely imposed upon the bible from without. It would be really powerful if you put together a counterpoint video selecting other verses equally selectively to support an egalitarian or even a matriarchal position.

It helps when the misogynists present their views in such an utterly cringe and unlikeable way

Brb gonna start saying that Paul says that you shouldn’t have kids because the end is soon whenever someone starts harassing me about having children. If they can cherry pick in their favor so can I lmaoo 😂😂😂

Is there a separate word for respect in Greek?

these conservatives men are so annoying. the bible also says " There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" which can imply that we should all be treated equally. see. how easy it is to find stuff in the bible to justify political beliefs? though i admit i find my interpretation superior since it causes much less harm.

*Biblical and Surrounding Culture* Isn’t “biblical” _always_ a subset of the contemporary culture at the time the verse was written? Thanks for another fine video like, though 👍

Shame. Good looking young man , but who would want him?

I know we're not supposed to get personal about the content creators, but this joyous grin with which this young man presents those passages in a kind of "Gotcha!"-way is really off-putting.

What are the roles of the wife according to the Bible?

The Dirty Dirty Gentiles. Is that a ska band?

Yes. A selective reading of passages, but given the putrid misogyny of the Bible one does not have to work very hard to make these selections.

It’s a bummer too because Titus 2 is a DOUBLE chiasm that has way more to do with “right teaching” and “right living” and appealing to one bit without acknowledging the rest misses the point (notably, the “slaves, obey” portion mirrors Christ “taking a people of his own possession;” how that influences our interpretation of the acceptability of slavery I leave up to y’all)

1:29 We need a good acronym for this biz CCRAIP & thats So close to CRAP

Was the Apostle Paul really against divorce? Because in 1 Corinthian 7:10-11, it says, “And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: 【But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried】, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.” So does that mean Apostle Paul thought that a woman could still be divorced from her husband but had to remain unmarried ever since?

Dan, I have a question. How do we know it was okay for married men to have sex outside of marriage in the context of the hebrew bible?

There's a passage in the Bible that says a wife's body belongs to her husband. (1 Corinthians 7:4). A lot of men jump on that and a lot of women concur. Problem? The verse also says the husband's body belongs to the wife. Which would imply if a man was unfaithful the wife should have recourse to imposing some kind of consequence, yes? After all, men got a LOT of latitude on imposing consequences on an unfaithful wife. I'm guessing that verse never gets recited. At all. Also.... In Biblical times the term "virgin" simply referred to a woman's marital status - specifically a virgin was an unmarried woman. So when the New Testament says Mary, mother of Jesus, was a virgin, it was a simple reference to the fact she was not married. Period. The Catholic Church decided to change the definition of the word. And here we are.

This creator makes my skin crawl. I hate that I would have agreed with him in the past

I love your videos and I have learned a lot from watching you. I see you talk about cherry picking and the immorality in the Bible and yet you’re still a Christian? Or Mormon? I’d like to see you do a video on how you can know all these things about the Bible and still remain a believer.

Why did Jesus say, “any man who divorces his wife, causes her to commit adultery,” if only men can commit adultery?

So a man could take on any woman he wants If he's married, [citation, please,] can he give me an example of a Patriarch who took on a wife without the consent of his wife or a concubine without the consent of his wife?

“Conservative Christian right wing authoritarian identity politics”- this should be on a tshirt but with some sort of context around it. Maybe something sarcastic so right wing people think it’s in their favor but all others clearly realize it isn’t 😂

I would never comment on one of Dan's videos about someone having an incredibly punchable face

So bible is just a Greco Roman thingy that can be thrown away ? Lmao

Dan I've been married for 39 years and I'm not gonna lie. Seen not heard is making so much sense to me

I don't believe that Jesus is God, I believe he is the son of God as the bible says. But people keep on bringing up Hebrews 1 and I don't know a reliable explanation I could give them

A christian chad cherry picking snippets from teh bajbel that places him in the jacuzzi and the rest in the sweatshop? 😲 Nooo! This can't be real.

"Dismantled by Dan" should be the name of this type of content! That creator just got sent packing! Thanks for calling out this sort of bs, Dan!

Who the eff raised this kid??

Read the wikipedia article on "niddah", if you think the abrahamic religions are nice to women.

You speak a lot about conservative Christian right wing authoritarian identity politics... I am curious if you see a repeat of the Deutsche Christen movement in Weimar Germany, and the way that the Cross was used to support the rise of the NAZI party.

I feel like your videos are always really helpful and information all the way up until the points when you start talking about "structuring power and values for christian conservative right-wing authoritarian identity politics". It can be said that you're describing the effect of their actions, but it comes off as you describing their intentions, which is clear and utter nonsense as you like to put it. It just comes off as you signaling that you're against those groups and think they're booo bad : ( and that you dislike them so you're good horray! I get that it probably plays well to people who also have issues with those types of groups, but you're not helping anyone by making those statements. You're just embedding emotional appeals in your argument when the whole point of your videos is to teach people about what is true and good scholarship.

Take verses out of there cultural context has been going on for far too long.

Another thing, you blame the kid for espousing patriarchy and misogyny, but the kids enjoys that very thing. The kid is not lying, the bible IS misogynistic. So I don't get your objections to his content.

Youre being very generous to call this punk kid a "creator" when all he's doing is grinning smugly and pointing where he's going to add in random short verses that mean nothing.

Doesn’t Paul say in Ephesians (?) that husbands are to love their wives as Christ loves His Church?

What if im right wing authoritarian and pro women pro feminism?

Genesis 3:16 KJV - Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

If it’s in the Bible it’s in the Bible. It may be problematic (I hate that word), immoral, and incompatible with modern thinking (it is), but it’s still biblical.

I beg to differ, anyone that posts things like that deserve to be publicly ridiculed, embarrassed, and heckled. Sitting back and allowing these beliefs to spread freely by not confronting these people will only allow it to spread.