There's something deeply disturbing about the sadistic pleasure Powell seems to get from the thought of people going to hell for eternity for lying - something he admits doing.
Matt Powell pisses me off. Someone who lives in either Washington state or Texas should challenge him to mutual combat, it's legal there, look it up. I want to see his ass get kicked.
@@simongiles9749 It would, but several of these YEC, especially Matt Powell, are not just stupid. They are clever enough con men. It's not just that they don't understand. It's that they purposely learn just enough to purposely lie about everything.
@@vinnyganzano1930 That would be difficult. He'd have to ask for them back from Kent first, and Kent doesn't believe in rendering unto Caesar the balls kept in a jar that belong to Caesar.
@@aprilherron628 - I'm disabled and unable to work, so I'm personally grateful for people like you who can do the things I can't. Those who are able to keep the cogs turning are a boon to the rest of us.
This guys gotta have some DEEP skeletons in his closet. There’s a dead hooker somewhere…. Maybe a trans hooker. Or some Asian boy. You have to have done something terrible to try to argue believing matters more than acting.
Well, he offered the guy a version where there are no good deeds, and you can sin as much as you like. In fact, you only need to go to church once. Once saved, always saved.
So now Matt is ripping off Ray Comfort’s script for these faux Vox pops? It seems strange that the Pentecostal church “down the road” hasn’t mentioned any of the stuff to our young passerby who just decided to rest his feet in Matt’s church.
As near as I can tell everything Matt says lines up with what I know of Pentecostal doctrine. And yet Matt is presenting it as diametrically opposed creating opponents out of fellow travellers
I find it interesting how you had referenced Sir Sic a few times a bit after I got recommended him and subscribed to him. He's one of the few fun abrasive atheists left, and his disclaimer is great. I've gotten "sic" of his repetitive outro though.
I want one of those magic bibles Matt seems to have, where every quote you just mentioned is right there in the last thirty-five pages, shoehorned into Revelations.
The city I was born in has one simple claim to fame. Back in 754 AD the good people here were so fed up with a preacher, saint Boniface, who was notorious in his refusal to respect local customs, that they dragged him outside the city and brutally murdered him. To this day there's a statue commemorating that glorious event. It depicts Boniface trying to shield himself with a bible. It warms my heart to know just how much good that act of faith did him. I hereby extend a warm welcome to Matt Powell to visit our lovely little city, that we may perform some historical reenactment.
So, according to Matt's logic, since I was a believer and eventually grew out of my faith, I would get to go to heaven. Because once you have eternal life, you have it eternally. But I don't want to be in the same heaven as Matt and the god he believes in, that sounds like hell to me! 😜
Once you have eternal life, you can't lose it, or it was never eternal. But it's not a free pass to sin, because _reasons._ It's difficult for me, because I don't want to suggest Matt's lying ass should get a pass, because he's too stupid to understand when he's contradicting himself, but he _is_ dumber than a stump, and I can't in good conscience deny it.
@Gary Allen Isn't it a shame that the loony literalists never read verses like this. Even if they do, they don't take them literally. In this case, did I miss the mass conversions to Judaism, complete with adult circumcisions? Nah, I think not.
A little nitpick if I may. The book from Harry Potter that wants to eat you is the Monster Book of Monsters. Care of Magical Creatures is the name of the class the book is used in. I guess it can be argued to be sort of correct to call it "the Care of Magical Creatures book" as in the book that's used in Care of Magical Creatures, but it's not the name of the book.
Shoot missed that, although was only when hagrid became the professor of the class, that they were assigned that book for the class text for the first time.
"Do you believe God wants to send anyone to Hell" If it's the deity you worship, yes. Absolutely. You can twist and bend all you like, but any entity who does not permit people release, but actively creates a torture chamber where it can inflict maximal pain on them at all times, wants to send people to Hell. I suppose you could argue that said entity doesn't WANT to torture people, but is compelled in some way, but does the Bible say that? If you were somehow forced to brutally beat someone with a pipe for hours, and you felt anything about yourself but disgust and self loathing, what would that say about you? Instead of playing word games, isn't it easier to just say the character worshipped by fundamentalists just likes to torture people? "They crucified Jesus because he told the truth" Assuming Jesus was real and the Bible is an accurate account of his life (and that second part is a big "if"), Jesus committed blasphemy against the Jewish religion by claiming to be their god. Perhaps he and his father had a bit of an awkward talk afterwards, since the Pharisees were simply doing what they had been told to do by their deity. I love how Matt tries to subtley compare that to people reporting him to social media sites for advocating murder. "Romans 4:5" But you don't actually believe that, now do you Matt? If someone claims to believe, or even genuinely considers themselves a believer, but they don't vote the way you think they should, would you hesitate to say that they aren't "truly saved"? We both know you wouldn't. "There were many people in the Bible that did terrible things but still went to Heaven" I never want to hear people like Matt Powell tell me that atheism is nihilistic and relativistic. "The Bible says Saul went to Heaven" Not terribly relevant, but.... source? The best I could find is when a witch summoned the ghost of Samuel to say that tomorrow Saul would be with him. I bring this up because Jews, and the pre Jewish writers of that particularly text, don't have strong beliefs about the afterlife, and the writers at the time would have believed in a place called Sheol. Furthermore, most Christians today believe that that wasn't Samuel, but a demon pretending to be him (if you read the text the way fundies want you to read Genesis, it was Samuel, but that would contradict Christian beliefs on souls and the afterlife, so, uh.... you're misinterpreting?)
Just to add a bit of into to what you said Jared, the reason why the Roman’s were fine with crucifying him was cause they had just put down a Jewish rebellion a decade or two prior and that rebellion was led by a Jew claiming to be the messiah. The Roman’s were wanting to get ahead of the issue so they didn’t have to deal with that nonsense again
Or it could be anime jebus who didn't die on the cross, was replaced by somebody else on the cross made it to Japan, married a local girl became a rice farmer and died at the age of 104. When I was in the military over in Japan there's a Tomb of Jesus in Japan.
TBF rice farmer Jesus is a way more fun story to go with then the nonsense Christians believe. Also if I’m not mistaken the person that replaced Jesus was his brother
4:19 Matt Powell has marked all the "turn to page x" sentences in his copy of the "choose your own adventure" book, so that every time he reads it, he gets the same adventure.
@@JamesRichardWiley I no longer see him as a nice but confused person. He has already had so much explanation about how the world really looks like. Maybe it's all about the money. Just like his uncle Kent.
Just ordered a shirt finally! Got one for my daughter as well. She will just love it! More hen! Please keep whacking lil' Matty Powell he says so many ridiculous things and so sincerely to boot. 42.
5:20- that is the most disturbing way I've ever heard Jesus described. "He was God with skin on." Forget about Zombie Jesus. Matt Powell just introduced Skinwalker Jesus!!
I remember in a couple of choose your own Adventure books my older brother and I would find the loophole that would put you into a causality Loop. So basically you could start one section then move to another but instead of dying you end up looping back to the beginning of your first choice. It was fun as hell
I also like how in Matt's example, the unbeliever came to him. He didn't need to seek him out or convince him to listen to him. They really couldn't be bothered at all, huh?
This has always confused me if Jesus died for our sins then why is it important that we ask him for forgiveness if this is the whole reason why he died in the first place why would we have to do anything or even care about it
"We were all born into sin, not a one of us is innocent, since birth we are sinful." "The wages of sin is death." So their claim is that babies who die in childbirth go straight to hell, and they don't see why we view their god as evil. I love to tell them the truth and watch them get angry, and then claim that their anger is proof that I'm telling the truth, because they know its true. And if they don't react, tell them their lack of reaction shows that they know what I'm saying is true and don't have any complaints over it. But wait a minute. His example of giving the Bible as a gift. He says it doesn't count as a gift if it comes with a price. Ok. But what about me then. I well and truly believed years ago. I accepted the whole Jesus sacrifice thing, so I would have been saved. And now I"m basically an anti-theist, even if there was a god I'd want to punch him in the face. But I'm still saved right? Otherwise it'd be like taking that free bible, and later on having it taken back because I wasn't doing what they tell me to do.
It's not a gift, if you have to threaten a person to receive it - legally, any contract made "under duress" is automatically void. An all-powerful god-entity coercing you with threats of eternal damnation and endless suffering if you don't sign on the dotted line sure sounds like "duress" to me.
Supply him with enough whiskey for a twenty minute video and Sir Sic will do it probably. Granted that will probably cost you quite a bit since he goes through barrels of the stuff pretty fast when doing a Matt video
I think the kicker in this video is that Matt isn't "trying" to convert this kid TO christianity, he's trying to draw him into Matt's VERSION of christianity. Like pentecostal christians are the wrong christians. So much for "universal church."
I think this might literally be the worst message Matt has ever delivered. He is telling Christians that they can be the worst person in the world and they are still saved, that being a good person or doing good things doesn’t matter in the slightest. I think everyone needs to save this video anytime Matt ever wants to say atheists have no moral grounding and can do whatever they want, anytime he uses the argument, “well if I were an atheist I would just be raping, and pillaging, and robbing anyone I wanted,” he hast to be challenged on this message because he is saying he can do that as a Christian Right now. He doesn’t even have to be an atheist.
I think it's important to remember the Matt Powel once asked "if we all evolved from African Americans then why are there still African Americans?" Also he has a giant inflatable banana in his back yard that he calls Dr Peel.
The Book of Revelation a book that also has Jebus riding around with a sword in his mouth and giant scorpions with women faces. Whoever wrote this book they were most definitely hitting the🍄🍄🍄
@Fk Yu From I understand large parts of Revelations were also written by an over zealous Protestant preacher in 17th C England. It's not a name I can remember (I kinda have no need to) but I think it's worth a Google.
@Fk Yu not only that, it's widely thought to not actually be prophetic or visionary at all, but coded anti-imperialist propaganda. It's literally a trippy hippie high as balls talking about how shit Rome was 🤣
"everlasting life" In the famous words of Alphaville, "Do you really want to live forever? Forever and ever?" or Queen "who wants to live forever", seems like living forever is a curse.
And here I thought, he'll read the verse which says you have to sell ALL your possessions and give the money to the poor (not sure how this works, as then you'll be the poor) to get into the heavens.
13:01 Matt pretends to have turned to the book of John. There are 23 books after the book of John, but he clearly is on the last few pages of the Bible, probably around Jude or Revelation. It's a small detail, but hilarious that Matt doesn't even seem to know where the book of John is and was hoping the audience wouldn't notice 😅
if you will always have the gift once you've received it, then what happens if i receive it, then hold onto it briefly before rejecting it/ Am I still saved because once saved always saved?
Matt Powell, human sleeping pill. If it weren't for you cracking me up Skeppy, I'd have fallen into a coma. Man! Is that bloke boring. I pity the fellow sitting there with him. I'd have zoned out more than once, if I were in his place.
Christianity is boring, the most bored I've been in my life was listening to clergymen preaching their nonsense.Bronze age,Egyptian, fairytales for the ignorant and the gullible.
Does the bible not mention something about "Judge not, lest ye be judged," or "he who is without sin, cast the first stone". I ask this because met seems to be judging a lot, especially since he admits to be a sinner. Seems kind of sketchy.
I want to go to a church like Matt Powell's, and pretend I'm a theist feeling like becoming a Atheist (I am a Atheist) and see how he trys to keep me therr
I just realized something that i find incredibly funny. With his admittance that good works have no ultimate use because they dont get you into heaven anyways, he conveys the same nihilistic outlook onto good and moral behaviour as the strawman atheists he always battle have on morality. "The universe doesnt care about our deeds so why bother?" -strawman atheist "God doesnt care about our good deeds, they dont get you into heaven so why bother" -paraphrasing of matt powell Matt is closer to becoming a strawman atheists than most actual atheists are. Ironic...
I love how Matt just casually reads the part where the bible says SORCERERS and it doesn't give his last remaining but thoroughly crippled brain cell that isn't dedicated to simping hard for Kent Hovind any pause whatsoever. "Look the bible says right here that leprechauns and Bigfoot and Dracula all go to Hell isn't that scary are you gonna convert from your religion to an identical religion wearing a different color t-shirt now?"
People write book in the hopes of getting other people to follow them. They write in their book that there is this amazing ever lasting afterlife. They then write the only way to get to that afterlife is to believe in their main character. They then write if you don't believe in their main character you get tortured for ever. Therefore the whole thing is definitely real. Sounds legit.
Imagine if back in the day, these Bible stories were just commonly understood to be fiction, entertainment like Marvel or Lord of the Rings - and nobody thought to actually point that out explicitly, because everybody just knew... Until people started taking them seriously.
Perhaps not. This traditional translation follows the KJV, which used the plural in a singular form (standard since 1395, now archaic). According to a PhD linguistics friend, since then it's been SO well known that it's become an established church formula. While "wages...is" still preserves a level of Greek complexity, "the salary of sin is death" is a more accurate contemporary reading.
That is how every preacher, evangelist, minister, etc...I've ever heard had phrased it. Honestly, I've never even thought of it before. Now, it will bug me every time I hear it.
"What did you think..."? Matt Powell seems to be able to justify his hate-filled words and behavior because he has recited a "creed" or something, and that no matter how horrible a person he is, his recitation of those words will absolve him of all the bad deeds he's done in his life. That gives him license to lie, deceive, and mislead, at least by his own words in this video. His reinterpretation of the Jewish scriptures to all be about Jesus is insulting and disingenuous (I'm Jewish). His treating a Pentecostal Christian as not a true Christian is insulting to all other Christians. Matt Powell, and those who behave like him, are an insult to humanity in general. That's what I think.
Although the song was allegedly written to describe well-known infamous people, it perfectly fits Matt Peelboy, as he shares a good amount of mindset with them. Within Temptation - Deceiver of Fools
I had the conversation about Hitler with a believer in college. I asked if that was the only qualifier would Hitler be in heaven and Ghandi be in hell? She said yes. I was done.
@@TheSkepTick You'd been bringing up book quotes the whole time, so I had to guess Gaurds! Gaurds! But I've played Discworld and Discworld II many times. "Hail Brother Door Opener!"
Man. That’s how Door brings people to God? I guess it works. If I was the paid actor, I would have been seen god about 2 minutes in. Because I would have died of boredom…
Holy crap, the comments on the original video. 'Matt knocked on my door and saved me' Also, not only do you need to believe in God, it has to be the Christian God and the right denomination.
I wonder how he would feel when I tell Matt the truth that what he says sounds batshit crazy to me and I have trouble believing that adults actually believe this mediocre fairy tale.
15:26 OMG I’m so glad you finally mnoticed! He’s been “reading” from 5 different books of the bible on the same 2-3 pages! 🤯 I think he’s hiding a copy of The Bible: For Dummies under that dust cover 😅
So in his faith being a decent person is totally optional? No matter what you do or how long you do it there are zero consequences if you believed in Jesus once. And he calls atheists immoral
This is awesome. According to Matt, because I once accepted Jesus as my savior and received the gift of eternal life I still have eternal life... even though I'm now atheist. I'm hedging both ways here.
I've known for some time that Matt has never had a real conversation with an atheist, but now I know he's never had one with a pentecostal, either. Other flavors of christianity will accuse pentecostals of not being protestant and being "saved by works," and maybe by the twisted rules of their game they have a point, but no pentecostal would ever describe themselves that way. They don't consider their "holiness standards" to be works, but rather a code of conduct and presentation. Oh, and the bible certainly doesn't say that either Saul or Samson are in heaven. Mostly because there was no concept of heaven in their day, but it doesn't say they went to Sheol, either. The Hebrews 11:32 they quickly flashed a reference to on the screen (which they didn't dare actually quote) says in the next verse that Samson, among others, "gained what was promised." It doesn't say what they were promised, and the chapter doesn't mention anyone going to heaven. Other reasons people give for Samson going to heaven is by a prayer HE gives in Judges 16:28 asking god to restore his strength: no request to go to heaven or Sheol, and no response other than his ability to take down the two pillars, and all in a completely legendary story that no one could possibly have known about this prayer even if the general story was true. As for Saul... Saul consulted a medium to contact Samuel's spirit, something that CHRISTIANS WOULD NEVER ACCEPT AS POSSIBLE, and this "Samuel" told Saul that Saul and his sons would "be with him" the next day, in Judges 16. Which at face value just means that "Samuel" predicted Saul's death, and perhaps pushed him into doing it. At most, he would have gone to Sheol, not heaven. But it's wishful thinking and anachronistic christian ret-con to assume that either one went to any specific place when they died. That's par for the course, as christians have been twisting the living shit out of Jewish writings ever since there were christians, but it's still annoying to watch.
13:35 aw man. so youre telling me i have to go to heaven because i believed jesus died for me when i was 12? damn. i was looking forward to seeing all my friends in hell. guess ill be stuck worshipping god for eternity with my abusive family :)
@@LadyQ_1169 people do it a lot… pander to the monied for favours… and straight up don’t care about what they’re promoting or saying. Especially these young people that have the internet, many have gone to college, etc. 🤔
Since Dr Dunno and Matt Indenial have both been given accurate definitions of evolution with respect to descent and biodiversity many, many times, yet they continue to misrepresent it, I would say the only two possibilities are that either they have specific learning difficulties or they are wilfully dishonest.
So he just has all these different pages ready to be opened instantly. Although looking at when he's quoting from John, that is looks so close to the end of the book, so either it's be changed from original or is just a random page and not what he is quoting
So, the dude said he was a member of another church. Pentecostal are Christian and accept Jesus. Their requirements for salvation aren't really much different than Baptist. Yet Powell still makes the guy out to be in the wrong denomination in the start of the video. But, what can you expect from him? If you don't believe exactly as he does, then you are wrong and you are going to Hell.
"The truth is considered hate to those that hate the truth" No shit, Sherlock - "I hate [x] people" is a true statement, if that is how you truly feel about a certain minority. That doesn't make it not HATE SPEECH.
There's something deeply disturbing about the sadistic pleasure Powell seems to get from the thought of people going to hell for eternity for lying - something he admits doing.
But it's okay, he asked god for forgiveness. And then did it again, and again and... ad nauseum.
Matt Powell pisses me off.
Someone who lives in either Washington state or Texas should challenge him to mutual combat, it's legal there, look it up.
I want to see his ass get kicked.
@@Korandon funny how they ignore the part about "sin no more" and continue to "sin."
@@DJ-73 It's almost like they cherry pick the parts they like.
@@Korandon yep exactly
3:38 "I've lied before. " Matt, that is such an understatement, but I'm glad you're able to admit it finally
How can you tell if Matt Powell is talking utter bullshite?
His lips are moving, and not to kiss Kent Hovind's arse.
Is it lying if you're too stupid to know you're wrong?
@@simongiles9749 It would, but several of these YEC, especially Matt Powell, are not just stupid. They are clever enough con men. It's not just that they don't understand. It's that they purposely learn just enough to purposely lie about everything.
Nobody in America gets punched in the face enough... that's the problem
Matt lies almoat everytime he speaks
wow... matt jumps right in with "Nope, you are going to hell, and you are ignorant." He doesn't get punched in the face enough.
If only he had the balls to come to Glasgow.
My brothers would've tightened him up and kept him in tune...
I'm sure Kent Hovind bitch slaps Matt quite a bit.
@@vinnyganzano1930 That would be difficult. He'd have to ask for them back from Kent first, and Kent doesn't believe in rendering unto Caesar the balls kept in a jar that belong to Caesar.
@@EdwardHowton oh well I'll have to live in hope of running into flattard Delboy then instead.
I absolutely love your content!
Thanks for your support, keep Lisa leafing us with love 💕
Aw man, you have disposable income? I wish I had disposable income.
I wouldn't call it disposable. I just really believe in the cause. I enjoy the content. I think it's worth supporting...when I can.
@@hippyjoe same :( still looking for a job
@@aprilherron628 - I'm disabled and unable to work, so I'm personally grateful for people like you who can do the things I can't. Those who are able to keep the cogs turning are a boon to the rest of us.
"It's not about turning a new leaf." And they say the atheists are the ones who just want to sin.
I'd call it freedom of thought, belief, and action limited by the freedom of thought, belief and action of others.
This guys gotta have some DEEP skeletons in his closet. There’s a dead hooker somewhere…. Maybe a trans hooker. Or some Asian boy. You have to have done something terrible to try to argue believing matters more than acting.
@@JamesRichardWiley
IOW, "Freedom of religion"
Not to mention, he completely ignores the passage that says "a faith without works is dead."
totally believable acting. so basically he converted a guy that already believes in jesus to believe in jesus.🤦🏿♂️
But never mentions that jesus in the myth was born a bastard the ghost never wed Mary she was wed to another its a creepy story
Shocking, amazing how hard he worked to save the already saved
Well, he offered the guy a version where there are no good deeds, and you can sin as much as you like. In fact, you only need to go to church once. Once saved, always saved.
@@pauljimerson8218 I’m guessing in Matt Powell’s eyes this person was not saved because this person was not going to his church
Relig-o-mercial?
Those who feel suicidal can always do a drinking game and drink every time Matt says "Bible says" for a quick way out...
my tolerance must be high
Challenge accepted!
Yea they like using that line "the Bible says" to try to use it as evidence for their God.
Mama says...
@@pauljimerson8218 Simon says....
So now Matt is ripping off Ray Comfort’s script for these faux Vox pops? It seems strange that the Pentecostal church “down the road” hasn’t mentioned any of the stuff to our young passerby who just decided to rest his feet in Matt’s church.
I know. Have you ever been to a Pentecostal church? It is sinners and hell and Jesus saves non-freaking-stop.
Where are the kneelie thingies?
As near as I can tell everything Matt says lines up with what I know of Pentecostal doctrine. And yet Matt is presenting it as diametrically opposed creating opponents out of fellow travellers
@@ebonkrieg I’ve only seen them in Catholic Churches
@@robertadsett5273 Kneelie thingies?
Religion...... Shit it. As said by Stephen Fry.
I find it interesting how you had referenced Sir Sic a few times a bit after I got recommended him and subscribed to him. He's one of the few fun abrasive atheists left, and his disclaimer is great. I've gotten "sic" of his repetitive outro though.
Love your channel
Thanks KJ!
Love your stuff, love every bit, keep it up! Leaf be upon you!!!
Leaf be upon you, Robert!
This guy has gone from clown to full on lunatic, every video he makes is just a snippet of his journey into madness.
Preacher, clown, lunatic, cult leader, serial killer kind of feels like the evolution path Matt is on.
I want one of those magic bibles Matt seems to have, where every quote you just mentioned is right there in the last thirty-five pages, shoehorned into Revelations.
Note that Matt has also admitted in one of his videos he’s fully willing to lie if it’ll earn him money. This includes through “donations”.
Oh God. The last thing I need is Gnat Powell. Well it's SkepTick so it'll be ok.
Pointing out the silliness!
I really like the guy but when he opens his mouth my brain freaks out.
@@JamesRichardWiley my bs meter goes off whenever I hear these pastors
The wages of sin maybe death, but the hours are pretty good...
And the health and dental and pension plan...😄😄😄
The overtime is a killer.
Turtle from Oregon loves your show! And Lisa the Rainbow Giraffe too!
The city I was born in has one simple claim to fame. Back in 754 AD the good people here were so fed up with a preacher, saint Boniface, who was notorious in his refusal to respect local customs, that they dragged him outside the city and brutally murdered him. To this day there's a statue commemorating that glorious event. It depicts Boniface trying to shield himself with a bible. It warms my heart to know just how much good that act of faith did him.
I hereby extend a warm welcome to Matt Powell to visit our lovely little city, that we may perform some historical reenactment.
According to Matt providing you beleive in Christ that won't disbar you from heaven
I love seeing you make reference to other RUclipsrs (sir sic) it makes me smile !
I like doing it, too!
So, according to Matt's logic, since I was a believer and eventually grew out of my faith, I would get to go to heaven. Because once you have eternal life, you have it eternally.
But I don't want to be in the same heaven as Matt and the god he believes in, that sounds like hell to me! 😜
Apparently free will and eternal life can be assigned or revoked on a whim.
Once you have eternal life, you can't lose it, or it was never eternal. But it's not a free pass to sin, because _reasons._
It's difficult for me, because I don't want to suggest Matt's lying ass should get a pass, because he's too stupid to understand when he's contradicting himself, but he _is_ dumber than a stump, and I can't in good conscience deny it.
@Gary Allen Isn't it a shame that the loony literalists never read verses like this. Even if they do, they don't take them literally. In this case, did I miss the mass conversions to Judaism, complete with adult circumcisions? Nah, I think not.
A little nitpick if I may. The book from Harry Potter that wants to eat you is the Monster Book of Monsters. Care of Magical Creatures is the name of the class the book is used in. I guess it can be argued to be sort of correct to call it "the Care of Magical Creatures book" as in the book that's used in Care of Magical Creatures, but it's not the name of the book.
Damnit! My Harry Potter lore needs a refresh!
Neeerrrrrrddddd!!!!!
Just kidding. 😉
Shoot missed that, although was only when hagrid became the professor of the class, that they were assigned that book for the class text for the first time.
@@TheSkepTick No worries, happens to the best of us. I'm here for the Atheist content, not Potter lore. Keep up the good work!
@@jquest99 Well, you're not wrong...
"Do you believe God wants to send anyone to Hell"
If it's the deity you worship, yes. Absolutely. You can twist and bend all you like, but any entity who does not permit people release, but actively creates a torture chamber where it can inflict maximal pain on them at all times, wants to send people to Hell. I suppose you could argue that said entity doesn't WANT to torture people, but is compelled in some way, but does the Bible say that? If you were somehow forced to brutally beat someone with a pipe for hours, and you felt anything about yourself but disgust and self loathing, what would that say about you? Instead of playing word games, isn't it easier to just say the character worshipped by fundamentalists just likes to torture people?
"They crucified Jesus because he told the truth"
Assuming Jesus was real and the Bible is an accurate account of his life (and that second part is a big "if"), Jesus committed blasphemy against the Jewish religion by claiming to be their god. Perhaps he and his father had a bit of an awkward talk afterwards, since the Pharisees were simply doing what they had been told to do by their deity. I love how Matt tries to subtley compare that to people reporting him to social media sites for advocating murder.
"Romans 4:5"
But you don't actually believe that, now do you Matt? If someone claims to believe, or even genuinely considers themselves a believer, but they don't vote the way you think they should, would you hesitate to say that they aren't "truly saved"? We both know you wouldn't.
"There were many people in the Bible that did terrible things but still went to Heaven"
I never want to hear people like Matt Powell tell me that atheism is nihilistic and relativistic.
"The Bible says Saul went to Heaven"
Not terribly relevant, but.... source? The best I could find is when a witch summoned the ghost of Samuel to say that tomorrow Saul would be with him. I bring this up because Jews, and the pre Jewish writers of that particularly text, don't have strong beliefs about the afterlife, and the writers at the time would have believed in a place called Sheol. Furthermore, most Christians today believe that that wasn't Samuel, but a demon pretending to be him (if you read the text the way fundies want you to read Genesis, it was Samuel, but that would contradict Christian beliefs on souls and the afterlife, so, uh.... you're misinterpreting?)
"Do you believe God wants to send anyone to Hell"
Well, he doesn't have a problem with giving babies cancer, so I'm going to say "Yes. Yes he does."
Just to add a bit of into to what you said Jared, the reason why the Roman’s were fine with crucifying him was cause they had just put down a Jewish rebellion a decade or two prior and that rebellion was led by a Jew claiming to be the messiah. The Roman’s were wanting to get ahead of the issue so they didn’t have to deal with that nonsense again
Jeez thanks for the book
Thanks! Best channel on RUclips.
Or it could be anime jebus who didn't die on the cross, was replaced by somebody else on the cross made it to Japan, married a local girl became a rice farmer and died at the age of 104. When I was in the military over in Japan there's a Tomb of Jesus in Japan.
It's a miracle!
And when you look in the tomb, it's empty. Proof that Jesus of Japan was resurrected.
TBF rice farmer Jesus is a way more fun story to go with then the nonsense Christians believe. Also if I’m not mistaken the person that replaced Jesus was his brother
4:19 Matt Powell has marked all the "turn to page x" sentences in his copy of the "choose your own adventure" book, so that every time he reads it, he gets the same adventure.
I love how they cherry pick J-Boys words and never mention less flattering quotes of him like:
"More nails! I'm slipping!"
It's a good thing I'm not asthmatic. Unholy fuck that's funny!
Or “Hey,I can see my house from up here”.
Thanks!
I feel like im losing brain cells every time I hear Matt speak...
Same. 😐
for me it's rather the other way around. I feel extremely smart then.
He seems like a nice guy but he is unable or unwilling to recognize contradictions in his narrative.
@@JamesRichardWiley I no longer see him as a nice but confused person. He has already had so much explanation about how the world really looks like.
Maybe it's all about the money. Just like his uncle Kent.
@@MrCanis4 yep it’s apparently rains money for Matt Powell all the time on the backs of his followers
Just ordered a shirt finally! Got one for my daughter as well. She will just love it! More hen! Please keep whacking lil' Matty Powell he says so many ridiculous things and so sincerely to boot. 42.
That’s awesome! Make sure you tweet me or Instagram (if you have them) so I can repost!
5:20- that is the most disturbing way I've ever heard Jesus described. "He was God with skin on." Forget about Zombie Jesus. Matt Powell just introduced Skinwalker Jesus!!
Another great video. Thanks!
I remember in a couple of choose your own Adventure books my older brother and I would find the loophole that would put you into a causality Loop. So basically you could start one section then move to another but instead of dying you end up looping back to the beginning of your first choice. It was fun as hell
that thumbnail😂😂 great job tick. great job
Haha. Thank you, FD!
I also like how in Matt's example, the unbeliever came to him. He didn't need to seek him out or convince him to listen to him. They really couldn't be bothered at all, huh?
Wait you don’t just randomly hang out at other denominations churches? That’s like… every Wednesday for me. /sarcasm
This has always confused me if Jesus died for our sins then why is it important that we ask him for forgiveness if this is the whole reason why he died in the first place why would we have to do anything or even care about it
"We were all born into sin, not a one of us is innocent, since birth we are sinful."
"The wages of sin is death."
So their claim is that babies who die in childbirth go straight to hell, and they don't see why we view their god as evil.
I love to tell them the truth and watch them get angry, and then claim that their anger is proof that I'm telling the truth, because they know its true.
And if they don't react, tell them their lack of reaction shows that they know what I'm saying is true and don't have any complaints over it.
But wait a minute.
His example of giving the Bible as a gift.
He says it doesn't count as a gift if it comes with a price.
Ok.
But what about me then.
I well and truly believed years ago. I accepted the whole Jesus sacrifice thing, so I would have been saved.
And now I"m basically an anti-theist, even if there was a god I'd want to punch him in the face.
But I'm still saved right?
Otherwise it'd be like taking that free bible, and later on having it taken back because I wasn't doing what they tell me to do.
if you don't believe in that fantasy book. 'sin' doesn't even exist.
Course you'll be told you were never really saved as you never actually believed or some other such nonsense.
It's not a gift, if you have to threaten a person to receive it - legally, any contract made "under duress" is automatically void.
An all-powerful god-entity coercing you with threats of eternal damnation and endless suffering if you don't sign on the dotted line sure sounds like "duress" to me.
Congrats on 25k subs.
Two videos of two matts in a week. Also I asked sir sic to collab with you, but he said he wasn’t good at talking to others :(
I’ll message him. I’ll see what we can do!
@@TheSkepTick If you just promise him some whiskey, that should be enough.
Supply him with enough whiskey for a twenty minute video and Sir Sic will do it probably. Granted that will probably cost you quite a bit since he goes through barrels of the stuff pretty fast when doing a Matt video
I can't imagine that Matt Powell ever said a single sentence that was true. Besides he got a giant inflatable banana in his backyard he calls dr Peel.
@Gary Allen Backyard but I recommend against watching his vids without some morphine handy for your headache.
I think the kicker in this video is that Matt isn't "trying" to convert this kid TO christianity, he's trying to draw him into Matt's VERSION of christianity. Like pentecostal christians are the wrong christians. So much for "universal church."
I think this might literally be the worst message Matt has ever delivered. He is telling Christians that they can be the worst person in the world and they are still saved, that being a good person or doing good things doesn’t matter in the slightest. I think everyone needs to save this video anytime Matt ever wants to say atheists have no moral grounding and can do whatever they want, anytime he uses the argument, “well if I were an atheist I would just be raping, and pillaging, and robbing anyone I wanted,” he hast to be challenged on this message because he is saying he can do that as a Christian Right now. He doesn’t even have to be an atheist.
I think it's important to remember the Matt Powel once asked "if we all evolved from African Americans then why are there still African Americans?"
Also he has a giant inflatable banana in his back yard that he calls Dr Peel.
Also “the air in space is different “
@@robertadsett5273 also he thought that Civil War soldiers actually killed a pterosaur
The Book of Revelation a book that also has Jebus riding around with a sword in his mouth and giant scorpions with women faces. Whoever wrote this book they were most definitely hitting the🍄🍄🍄
@Fk Yu From I understand large parts of Revelations were also written by an over zealous Protestant preacher in 17th C England. It's not a name I can remember (I kinda have no need to) but I think it's worth a Google.
@Fk Yu not only that, it's widely thought to not actually be prophetic or visionary at all, but coded anti-imperialist propaganda. It's literally a trippy hippie high as balls talking about how shit Rome was 🤣
You mean to tell me that these visions of beasts with seven heads, ten horns and fifteen penises were the result of drug trips? No way!
It's a frightening chapter in a creepy book and if anyone believes that shit is "divinely inspired" they need to go see a witch doctor or exorcist.
@@campfireaddict6417 I became a witch doctor because of that book lolol
"I'm pretty sure, I'm a good person." Um, that's not what a Pentacostal would say. So we're already off to a great start.
"everlasting life"
In the famous words of Alphaville, "Do you really want to live forever? Forever and ever?" or Queen "who wants to live forever", seems like living forever is a curse.
Not me. I’ll enjoy it whilst I’m here. But good luck to the next few generations. 😅
The Long family invented ReGen that renewed/restore the body. During this process biological sex change was possible and common...
The Martin gif finally made me subscribe lol thanks 😊
And here I thought, he'll read the verse which says you have to sell ALL your possessions and give the money to the poor (not sure how this works, as then you'll be the poor) to get into the heavens.
1:37-1:39 Great Buffy reference...and episode. 😁
13:01 Matt pretends to have turned to the book of John. There are 23 books after the book of John, but he clearly is on the last few pages of the Bible, probably around Jude or Revelation. It's a small detail, but hilarious that Matt doesn't even seem to know where the book of John is and was hoping the audience wouldn't notice 😅
I caught that too, everything he mentions is conveniently within the final few pages. That's gotta be some kind of sin, right? 😂
I caught that too. Plus the fact that he opens the bible precisely at that page without even having to look. Should be nominated for an Oscar…
@Gary Allen except that he flashed the verse up on screen saying that it came from the book of John
if you will always have the gift once you've received it, then what happens if i receive it, then hold onto it briefly before rejecting it/ Am I still saved because once saved always saved?
Matt Powell, human sleeping pill. If it weren't for you cracking me up Skeppy, I'd have fallen into a coma.
Man! Is that bloke boring. I pity the fellow sitting there with him. I'd have zoned out more than once, if I were in his place.
Christianity is boring, the most bored I've been in my life was listening to clergymen preaching their nonsense.Bronze age,Egyptian, fairytales for the ignorant and the gullible.
Does the bible not mention something about "Judge not, lest ye be judged," or "he who is without sin, cast the first stone". I ask this because met seems to be judging a lot, especially since he admits to be a sinner. Seems kind of sketchy.
How did the kid not immediately go all, “Stranger Danger,” on him!!?!? Sketchy for sure.
Thank you for your videos
I want to go to a church like Matt Powell's, and pretend I'm a theist feeling like becoming a Atheist (I am a Atheist) and see how he trys to keep me therr
That actually sounds fun
Chains?
@@c.guydubois8270 what?
@@johnsatan117
It's a more... *physical* suggestion to keeping someone in church. But at that point it's literally taking hostages, so.
Y O U W I L L G O T O H E L L . Doormat Powell would think so
3:38 "I have lied before" Yeah, as if Matt actually thinks his ever lied.
How do you know that Matt is lying? He opens his mouth...
The Wholly Fables aka Bible. You'll find the same craziness in a lot of Stephen King novels.
King's work is eminently more believable.
I just realized something that i find incredibly funny.
With his admittance that good works have no ultimate use because they dont get you into heaven anyways, he conveys the same nihilistic outlook onto good and moral behaviour as the strawman atheists he always battle have on morality.
"The universe doesnt care about our deeds so why bother?" -strawman atheist
"God doesnt care about our good deeds, they dont get you into heaven so why bother" -paraphrasing of matt powell
Matt is closer to becoming a strawman atheists than most actual atheists are. Ironic...
we all know about doctor peel, right??
Oh yes! Everyone knows about Dr Peel!
Free Dr Peel.
But is it backyard or "backyard"??
@@TheSkepTick Dr. Peel suffers from a severe case of irritable Powell syndrome.
I heard Dr Peel has been moved to Mr Hovind's ( not a Dr) back passage. 🤔😇
14:52 I'm sure he nicked that idea from Demeter and/or Dionysus?
I love how Matt just casually reads the part where the bible says SORCERERS and it doesn't give his last remaining but thoroughly crippled brain cell that isn't dedicated to simping hard for Kent Hovind any pause whatsoever.
"Look the bible says right here that leprechauns and Bigfoot and Dracula all go to Hell isn't that scary are you gonna convert from your religion to an identical religion wearing a different color t-shirt now?"
~8:25min: What happened to "Faith without works is dead"?
If Matt Powell is the best a god can do, I rather stay dead after I die.
Brilliant as always
People write book in the hopes of getting other people to follow them. They write in their book that there is this amazing ever lasting afterlife. They then write the only way to get to that afterlife is to believe in their main character. They then write if you don't believe in their main character you get tortured for ever. Therefore the whole thing is definitely real. Sounds legit.
Imagine if back in the day, these Bible stories were just commonly understood to be fiction, entertainment like Marvel or Lord of the Rings - and nobody thought to actually point that out explicitly, because everybody just knew... Until people started taking them seriously.
2:02 I'm so confused...
The guy on the right has a physical build that his arms *do not* match.
"The wages of sin IS death?" Wages of sin ARE death, surely (subject-verb agreement)? If God existed, he'd fail primary school grammar.
Once taxes and FICA are deducted it's barely injury much less death.
👍👍
Perhaps not. This traditional translation follows the KJV, which used the plural in a singular form (standard since 1395, now archaic). According to a PhD linguistics friend, since then it's been SO well known that it's become an established church formula. While "wages...is" still preserves a level of Greek complexity, "the salary of sin is death" is a more accurate contemporary reading.
That is how every preacher, evangelist, minister, etc...I've ever heard had phrased it. Honestly, I've never even thought of it before. Now, it will bug me every time I hear it.
And the wages of life is death...
Best channel on RUclips.
"What did you think..."?
Matt Powell seems to be able to justify his hate-filled words and behavior because he has recited a "creed" or something, and that no matter how horrible a person he is, his recitation of those words will absolve him of all the bad deeds he's done in his life.
That gives him license to lie, deceive, and mislead, at least by his own words in this video.
His reinterpretation of the Jewish scriptures to all be about Jesus is insulting and disingenuous (I'm Jewish). His treating a Pentecostal Christian as not a true Christian is insulting to all other Christians. Matt Powell, and those who behave like him, are an insult to humanity in general.
That's what I think.
Although the song was allegedly written to describe well-known infamous people, it perfectly fits Matt Peelboy, as he shares a good amount of mindset with them.
Within Temptation - Deceiver of Fools
So, did Matt Powell just say Hitler goes to heaven? Because he said as long as you believe in Jesus, you go to heaven. And Hitler was a Christian
I had the conversation about Hitler with a believer in college. I asked if that was the only qualifier would Hitler be in heaven and Ghandi be in hell? She said yes. I was done.
And also Anne Frank went to hell according to Matt, because she was a Jew.
17:21 Terry Pratchett's Discworld! I think Gaurds! Gaurds! (password to enter the Dragon Summoning cult house).
Yes! In the game, Rincewind uses a glass against a drainpipe to hear what the thief says at the door!
@@TheSkepTick You'd been bringing up book quotes the whole time, so I had to guess Gaurds! Gaurds! But I've played Discworld and Discworld II many times. "Hail Brother Door Opener!"
Man. That’s how Door brings people to God? I guess it works. If I was the paid actor, I would have been seen god about 2 minutes in. Because I would have died of boredom…
Holy crap, the comments on the original video. 'Matt knocked on my door and saved me'
Also, not only do you need to believe in God, it has to be the Christian God and the right denomination.
I wonder how he would feel when I tell Matt the truth that what he says sounds batshit crazy to me and I have trouble believing that adults actually believe this mediocre fairy tale.
I think he's heard this a thousand times. but he's so deep in the rabbit hole that he can't turn back.
"...it say's..." That it's full of inconsistencies you're just going to hand wave away?
...yup
the bible also says, "Faith without deeds is dead" so there goes the "gift" idea
15:26 OMG I’m so glad you finally mnoticed! He’s been “reading” from 5 different books of the bible on the same 2-3 pages! 🤯
I think he’s hiding a copy of The Bible: For Dummies under that dust cover 😅
So in his faith being a decent person is totally optional? No matter what you do or how long you do it there are zero consequences if you believed in Jesus once. And he calls atheists immoral
So basically Matt Powell is now Walmart Ray Comfort?
This is awesome. According to Matt, because I once accepted Jesus as my savior and received the gift of eternal life I still have eternal life... even though I'm now atheist. I'm hedging both ways here.
You can even blaspheme the Holy Spirit all you want now.
You got enternal life as a gift? I got a tea towel and set of coasters... not fair
My LOTR book says, beware the eye of Sauron is watching upon you.
It's ironic how much Matt hates fun, given his relationship with Dr peel, the giant inflatable banana he keeps in his back yard.
I've known for some time that Matt has never had a real conversation with an atheist, but now I know he's never had one with a pentecostal, either. Other flavors of christianity will accuse pentecostals of not being protestant and being "saved by works," and maybe by the twisted rules of their game they have a point, but no pentecostal would ever describe themselves that way. They don't consider their "holiness standards" to be works, but rather a code of conduct and presentation.
Oh, and the bible certainly doesn't say that either Saul or Samson are in heaven. Mostly because there was no concept of heaven in their day, but it doesn't say they went to Sheol, either. The Hebrews 11:32 they quickly flashed a reference to on the screen (which they didn't dare actually quote) says in the next verse that Samson, among others, "gained what was promised." It doesn't say what they were promised, and the chapter doesn't mention anyone going to heaven. Other reasons people give for Samson going to heaven is by a prayer HE gives in Judges 16:28 asking god to restore his strength: no request to go to heaven or Sheol, and no response other than his ability to take down the two pillars, and all in a completely legendary story that no one could possibly have known about this prayer even if the general story was true.
As for Saul... Saul consulted a medium to contact Samuel's spirit, something that CHRISTIANS WOULD NEVER ACCEPT AS POSSIBLE, and this "Samuel" told Saul that Saul and his sons would "be with him" the next day, in Judges 16. Which at face value just means that "Samuel" predicted Saul's death, and perhaps pushed him into doing it. At most, he would have gone to Sheol, not heaven. But it's wishful thinking and anachronistic christian ret-con to assume that either one went to any specific place when they died. That's par for the course, as christians have been twisting the living shit out of Jewish writings ever since there were christians, but it's still annoying to watch.
Matt Powell: “I have lied BEFORE”
Me: “You are lying all the time ….”
13:35 aw man. so youre telling me i have to go to heaven because i believed jesus died for me when i was 12?
damn. i was looking forward to seeing all my friends in hell. guess ill be stuck worshipping god for eternity with my abusive family :)
All YECs are at least a bit creepy but Matt Powell really cranks up the serial killer vibe to 11.
I do wonder how many of these people are legitimately stupid AF and how many are just grifting….
I wonder myself...
@@LadyQ_1169 people do it a lot… pander to the monied for favours… and straight up don’t care about what they’re promoting or saying. Especially these young people that have the internet, many have gone to college, etc. 🤔
Matt Bannana Boy Powell is a grifter, just like his special uncle Kent.
Since Dr Dunno and Matt Indenial have both been given accurate definitions of evolution with respect to descent and biodiversity many, many times, yet they continue to misrepresent it, I would say the only two possibilities are that either they have specific learning difficulties or they are wilfully dishonest.
@@AddiRockART I feel like some are both stupid AND grifting.
So he just has all these different pages ready to be opened instantly. Although looking at when he's quoting from John, that is looks so close to the end of the book, so either it's be changed from original or is just a random page and not what he is quoting
So, the dude said he was a member of another church. Pentecostal are Christian and accept Jesus. Their requirements for salvation aren't really much different than Baptist. Yet Powell still makes the guy out to be in the wrong denomination in the start of the video. But, what can you expect from him? If you don't believe exactly as he does, then you are wrong and you are going to Hell.
When was the first mention of Lisa the rainbow giraffe again? lol
I assume the video cut out when it did, because that's when Matt and his friend could restrain themselves no longer and started making out.
🤣🤣🤣
I love those old make your own adventure books! Little Matty should've been citing one of those, would've made for a much better video.
How to not start a conversation with a stranger 1.01:
Don't ask: "What if you die today?" as your first question.
“Don’t kill yourself because you’ll go to hell, but also don’t worry about it, because I was just fricken lying”
They should turn off the cameras, leave the audio on, and hear the REAL Matt Powell.
7:06 In a different adventure the answer was "sell everything to have and give it to the poor".
"The truth is considered hate to those that hate the truth"
No shit, Sherlock - "I hate [x] people" is a true statement, if that is how you truly feel about a certain minority. That doesn't make it not HATE SPEECH.
2:50 Why is _Romans,_ in Matty's bible right near the end of the bible, and not just after the synoptic gospels, like everyone else's?