What are you watching on Youtube, right now? Part V

[Kyriakos]

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He may be Ukip, but his accent is just awesome

(and his point may be not very elaborate, but it is still better than the eurozone's, which says a lot).

 

[madviking]

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[warpus]

In the name of Jesus? Really? That was a worthy stunt, until I heard that bit...

 

[madviking]

she did the right thing. motive is a wash.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Mandatory drugs are on the pro-legalization side of the drug debate.

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[Cutlass]

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[Formaldehyde]

In the name of Jesus? Really? That was a worthy stunt, until I heard that bit...

Why is that? Only atheists should do such stunts?

 

[bhavv]

Indian parents explain how babies are born:


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100% accurate depiction of Indian parents.

 

[warpus]

Why is that? Only atheists should do such stunts?

What?


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[Formaldehyde]

What?

Why shouldn't she remove the Confederate flag in the name of a prominent religious figure?


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[warpus]

Why shouldn't she remove the Confederate flag in the name of a prominent religious figure?

Because the flag has nothing to do with religion or Christianity, as far as I can tell. If the "confederate flag controversy" was religious in nature, then it would make a lot more sense to me. Otherwise, you might as well take it down in the name of the Batman.

 

[Kaitzilla]

If you've ever wanted to see Paris Hilton suffer


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Spoiler :

Fake prank actually, but still funny

 

[Formaldehyde]

Because the flag has nothing to do with religion or Christianity, as far as I can tell. If the "confederate flag controversy" was religious in nature, then it would make a lot more sense to me. Otherwise, you might as well take it down in the name of the Batman.

Right. Because pointing out that Christians shouldn't be hating racists, and distancing herself from them as a compassionate Christian who stands up for her own beliefs, just doesn't make any sense at all.

How White Christians Used The Bible -- And Confederate Flag -- To Oppress Black People

On Jan. 4, 1861, a Catholic bishop named Rev. A. Verot ascended a pulpit in The Church of St. Augustine, Florida, and defended the right of white people to own slaves.

The apostle Paul, Verot claimed in his sermon, instructs slaves to obey their masters as a “necessary means of salvation.” Quoting Colossians 3:22, he said, “Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not serving to the eye, as pleasing men, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God.”

It's no secret that hundreds of Christian pastors like Verot used the Bible during the Civil War to justify slavery. But the massacre last week of nine black people inside Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, has once again forced white Christians in America to re-examine the white church’s historical ties to racism -- and how hateful rhetoric like Verot's had more power because it came from the pulpit.White Christians in the South didn't just support slavery -- the Southern church was the backbone of the Confederacy and its attempts to keep African Americans in bondage, according to Harry Stout, Jonathan Edwards Professor of American Religious History at Yale University.

"If you pull the church out of the whole equation, it’s highly likely that there never would have been a Civil War,” Stout told The Huffington Post. “Southern clergy had no doubt that slavery was not a sin.”

After they lost the war, white Southerners and their religious leaders tried to recast it by observing the “religion of the lost cause” -- arguing that the South fought righteously not to keep slaves in chains, but to fight for states’ rights or to protect themselves from Northern aggression. As part of this “lost cause” religion, they began to idolize fallen Confederate war heroes and celebrate the Confederate flag.

This rhetoric of supremacy sanctioned by God was repeated in churches across the South.

While God was left out of the preamble to the United States Constitution, the leaders of the Confederate States of America made sure to invoke the power of the divine in their own constitution -- making it clear from the start they saw Christianity as an integral part of their new union of slaveholders.

The church was slow to speak out against racism in the years following the Civil War, and it wasn’t until after the civil rights movement that this type of overt racism began to fade from Southern pulpits.

In 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention split away from the church after northern Baptists refused to allow slave owners to become missionaries. Now the largest Protestant denomination in the country, the SBC has in recent years spent a considerable amount of time trying to confront its past. In 1995, the church passed a resolution formally apologizing for “condoning and/or perpetuating individual and systemic racism in our lifetime.”

In light of the attacks in Charleston, Russell Moore, president of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, is calling for Christians in the South to forsake their cultural ties to the Confederate flag.

“The Confederate Battle Flag was the emblem of Jim Crow defiance to the civil rights movement, of the Dixiecrat opposition to integration, and of the domestic terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens’ Councils of our all too recent, all too awful history,” Moore wrote last week in an op-ed. “White Christians ought to think about what that flag says to our African-American brothers and sisters in Christ, especially in the aftermath of yet another act of white supremacist terrorism against them.”

Even today, a Confederate flag still hangs in the chapel of The Citadel in Charleston.

You simply can't separate white Christianity, as still practiced by many in the South, from this matter. In many respects, it is the heart of the problem which is still incapable of being resolved nearly 150 years after the supposed end of the Civil War.

 

[warpus]

I didn't know it was a Christian issue or that Jesus was involved. If he is indeed involved, then I don't mind that person invoking his name.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I thought everybody knew how pervasive Christianity was, and still is, in the US. How much of a role it played in what occurred in the South, much less how it continues to shape US domestic and foreign policy even today.

 

[bhavv]

If you've ever wanted to see Paris Hilton suffer


Link to video.

Spoiler :

Fake prank actually, but still funny

I used to not like her, but now that we have Justin Bieber, she seems like the best human in the world in comparison.

 

[Formaldehyde]

"it's so hot". "It smells".

Paris Hilton is so stupid she doesn't even realize she is on a skydiving plane, even when people start jumping out the back...

 

[Kyriakos]

Finally, sharknado 3 (titled 'oh hell no' ) will be released..


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[Kaitzilla]

Sharknado was sooooo dumb!
But it was fun.

Spoiler :

NSFW, Mild Language


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[Kyriakos]

^The Cage always abides