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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @ReadswithRachel
    @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +20

    SHIRT: awarewolfapparel.com/products/pride-resort-shirt
    (Not a sponsor i just really frickin love this business)

  • @jenny5272
    @jenny5272 Год назад +376

    It's so weird to me that so many christians will make up all these stories about "being oppressed" and how awful it is for them but then immediately turn around and actually mistreat other religions in real terrible ways.

    • @ashannaredwolf8485
      @ashannaredwolf8485 Год назад

      So many American Christians hear it from literal birth from the pulpit, that they’re special, not just apart from but above the “sinful rabble” Of the rest of society. They’re taught that hate for others is love. It’s deeply disturbing and frightening how brainwashed so many American Christians are.

  • @shamedgeeky
    @shamedgeeky Год назад +119

    In church ppl used to say like, "if I'm wrong about God, then nothing bad happens when I die. But if YOU'RE wrong, then you go to hell when you die, so the risk is worse for you." But I want to ask them, "what if God is real, but you're wrong about his character? Then you'll have to stand before him and explain why you let Pharisees and moneylenders twist his word and lead you to abuse and exploit His children while actively driving them further away from his perfect love. And you're going to have to answer for that."

    • @angelawossname
      @angelawossname Год назад +23

      I've made a similar argument in the past. I've told Christians that 100 years ago, your god may have forgiven your homophobia, but given what modern science and psychology has taught us, you would absolutely not be forgiven for your homophobia/transphobia now.

  • @shannonquinn
    @shannonquinn Год назад +203

    So, not related to Billy Graham, but church in general. I wasn't baptized because my parents aren't religious, but they wanted my brother and I to make our own choices, so they took me to church some when I was young. My mom picked me up from Sunday school one day and I was crying. She asked why, and I told her that the Sunday school teacher had told me I was going to hell because I wasn't baptized. My mom was WILD. She tore a strip off that woman, using language that would make even the most foul-mouthed person proud, ending with something along the lines of "if you EVER speak to my daughter like that again, I will send you straight to the hell you threatened her with". We never went back. Have I mentioned that I love my mom? 😂

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +60

      Can your mom adopt me?

    • @shannonquinn
      @shannonquinn Год назад +37

      @@ReadswithRachel She would, no questions asked, in a heartbeat. Lol.

    • @ashannaredwolf8485
      @ashannaredwolf8485 Год назад +18

      Your mom rules. My mother gave me a shitton of religious trauma. 🫠

    • @shannonquinn
      @shannonquinn Год назад +14

      @@ashannaredwolf8485 I'm so sorry. ☹️ My mom and I have our issues, as I'm sure most do, but religion has never been a source of them.

    • @rachelsmith3300
      @rachelsmith3300 Год назад

      same @@ReadswithRachel

  • @Gothicrift
    @Gothicrift Год назад +117

    As a satanist, I need a shirt that says "I'm Not A Part Of Your Book Club" SO BAD -- great video as always, lots of good information, and learned a bit! :D

    • @aetherialtea8894
      @aetherialtea8894 Год назад +7

      As a TST member, I second this need. Can we have "I'm not a part of your book club!" shirts?

  • @guardianofcreativity4860
    @guardianofcreativity4860 Год назад +82

    It is so cathartic hearing you shit all over this evil man. I grew up around people who PRAISED him, my school went to the Billy graham library for field trips, and I still drive by the sign that says it’s “Charlotte’s #1 attraction” all the time.
    This man needs to be exposed to everyone as the horror that he is. I’m not religious anymore but it brings be an awful satisfaction thinking of people like him coming face to face with God and being told “Depart from me, I never knew you.” Like they LOVE to throw around to threaten others.

  • @Shiny-uo8ht
    @Shiny-uo8ht Год назад +90

    i was a bridesmaid eleven times. only two were Catholic, as am I. boy did i get some shit from moms of the bride! one told me to my face not to be surprised if i had burns on the soles of my feet afterward - apparently walking down their wedding carpet…. it was a great wedding, my feet didn’t burn up lol.

    • @aetherialtea8894
      @aetherialtea8894 Год назад +20

      My mom went down a fundie rabbit-hole (Independent Fundamental Baptist) when I was in my formative years. The idea that Catholics are really pagans and not Christians is still super weird to me. Those comments truly suck and I'm glad you got through those weddings without a full-blown altar call targeting you.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +17

      BURNS ON THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET?!!!

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад +8

      I don't understand why some Protestants think that Catholics are pagans. They worship the same God as they do!

    • @aetherialtea8894
      @aetherialtea8894 Год назад

      @melissacooper8724 Their purported logic is that Catholics pray to saints and the Virgin Mary, ergo they pray to false gods and idols. (At least that's the version I was told.) Really it's just: I don't understand it, I don't want to understand it, it's different from me so it's bad.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +8

      That’s what I was told too! That the saints are “false gods”

  • @oddeyes9413
    @oddeyes9413 Год назад +13

    I grew up Christian (I'm a practicing Witch now) and I used to be okay with Billy Graham (kinda always thought he was creepy) but as I got older and my parents became more radical and told me things like
    *"When I get to heaven, I won't even think of you or remember who you are. I'll be to busy worshipping God. And when you get there, you won't be you anymore either, but someone God remade to worship him forever."*
    I started to deeply analyze people in Christianity - especially Billy Graham who everyone loved. I saw the hatred, cruelty and the things he and others did in the name of their God and decided that I was done with it. Billy Graham was a person with evil intentions who wore a mask of a good man.

  • @KaelasReadingAgain
    @KaelasReadingAgain Год назад +43

    I went to a bible college, and I remember one time that one of the professors was going to be giving me and a couple other students a ride to an off-campus event. I was the first one there and hopped in the back seat, said hi, and he pretty much immediately asked me to get back out of the car and wait for other students to show up because he didn't allow himself to be alone with any women besides his wife. I thought it was the weirdest, stupidest thing. We were out front of one of the busiest buildings on campus, on a Saturday with nice weather, there were people everywhere, and it was well known that he and was one of the people offering rides. What did he think was going to happen. And just-- as a professor, how's he supposed to be doing office hours or meetings with students if he refuses to be alone with half of them? Do all the guy students get to have private conversations about their grades and the gals have to have another person there or leave the door open or what? So weird.

    • @availanila
      @availanila Год назад +9

      In my country we have an "open door policy" which prevents sexual harassment, unproductive or absentee workers and other forms of workplace misconduct. Keeping the door open in offices isn't a bad thing unless discussing sensitive issues.

    • @KaelasReadingAgain
      @KaelasReadingAgain Год назад +16

      @@availanila I think Open door policies are great, and have been in different places with them-- (and due to the nature of the business I work in, my current workplace has 24/7 surveillance and cameras pretty much everywhere in the building, including one in my office and another I can see through my doorway, so I definitely understand policies and stuff like that as a general preventative measure!) If I recall correctly, there were many of the other professors who had open door policies as well, but he was the only one who had it just with female students, or who took it to such an extreme, which really stuck out to me.

    • @availanila
      @availanila Год назад +9

      @@KaelasReadingAgain oh yeah. Not to mention it's a good answer to open office plan since you can shut the door whenever needed. But doing it only for students of the opposite sex or something feels like a microaggression honestly. And I'm certain mirroring his behaviour wouldn't be taken nicely; in fact I wouldn't be surprised if he felt she was suggesting he was immoral.

  • @ManEatingTeddyBear
    @ManEatingTeddyBear Год назад +86

    Calling God "Sky Daddy" just took me OUT.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +34

      I can’t take credit for that, whoever originally came up with it is a genius

    • @True253
      @True253 Год назад +4

      I think it's a little disrespectful honestly.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +14

      To whom?

    • @Darbster
      @Darbster Год назад +11

      ​@@ReadswithRachelright? It's not like sky daddy's gonna come down to spank us for it lol

    • @a.b.2405
      @a.b.2405 Год назад +9

      @@Darbsterooo kinky 😂

  • @justokayemilay6029
    @justokayemilay6029 Год назад +92

    My mom and grandparents have his books! Grandma loves going to massive church revivals. Ugh I admit the singing at the revivals was fun. I loved it when they sing too much and there's no time for a sermon

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +18

      same I'll take singing over sermon, sermons make me fall asleep

    • @Topdoggie7
      @Topdoggie7 Год назад +12

      There's a psychological explanation to that, singing in a big group or even at a concert has a huge effect on your body and makes you feel really alive, try going to concerts or maybe even just a group with around a bunch of music it will have the same effect as choir and singing in church without the problems.

  • @rc31802
    @rc31802 Год назад +81

    This man was so admired in the churches I grew up in. After a while, I grew to hate his name

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +15

      I didn’t know he was shit until I was an adult. He was put on such a pedestal like I’ve never seen before.

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад +2

      That's the problem. We put pastors on a pedestal. They are only human beings like the rest of us. We end up worshipping them instead of Jesus that they preach about.

  • @aetherialtea8894
    @aetherialtea8894 Год назад +110

    Watching this helps me understand my Mom so much better. My Granny had a lot of his books, I mean a LOT, even though she was very Methodist. (I can recite The Apostles' Creed, the benediction, and Glory Be because of going to church with her.) My Mom's fall into fundie-land (IFB) makes so much more sense now. I always thought Billy Graham was creepy, tbh.

    • @spookyfirst9514
      @spookyfirst9514 Год назад +5

      @@AsrielGaming1997 Glad I wasn't the only one that did that. LOL

    • @aetherialtea8894
      @aetherialtea8894 Год назад +3

      😂 Y'all, these comments made my day.

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад +1

      My grandma had some of his books, too. Only she was more of a Baptist.

  • @Topdoggie7
    @Topdoggie7 Год назад +16

    Sky Daddy needs to prioritize making it rain not intimidating his children.

  • @iFlutterbye
    @iFlutterbye Год назад +37

    I wish you were here making this content on RUclips when I was growing up.
    It’s fucking cathartic.
    Thank you. 🙏🏻

  • @lvhg17
    @lvhg17 Год назад +16

    I was aware of Billy Graham, but I grew up Episcopalian. We have TWO gay bishops.

  • @spoopyhaunt9783
    @spoopyhaunt9783 Год назад +18

    Whenever I talk about Lutheran /Christian stuff I also accidently say "we" as well even tho I haven't believed in 17 years. The brain washing just takes over sometimes.

  • @Garrison_the_Barbarian
    @Garrison_the_Barbarian Год назад +25

    More Golden Grahams, less Billy Grahams. Cereal is good, assholes are not.

  • @AyceMcGee
    @AyceMcGee Год назад +13

    cw: csa
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    if you don't know, csa means childhood sexual assault
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    When I was a teenager, Billy Graham told me to my face that God allowed me to be s/a as a toddler for the "sins" I hadn't committed yet because I'm queer. When I saw him a few years later after being "cured" he told me I was still going to hell for it because God doesn't like sinners. I asked if he was a sinner. He said yes. I said wouldn't he go to hell too since God doesn't like sinners. He said no because queerness isn't forgivable. I said there's only one unforgivable sin and queerness is more forgivable than thinking a toddler deserved s/a. He spouted some homophobic verses and told me I was going to hell. No accountability for him thinking a child deserved that.

    • @moustik31
      @moustik31 Год назад

      What?! He is a monster.

  • @thistheywrote
    @thistheywrote Год назад +22

    please please make "I'm not part of your book club" merch
    fantastic video as always, rachel. thank you for challenging these violent and insidious people, especially with everything happening with legislation in Florida and Texas. appreciate all you do 💙

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +6

      So I can't take credit for that joke, this genius over on tiktok is the one behind it: www.tiktok.com/@legacyemma/video/7093674854188141867

  • @tifftastic87
    @tifftastic87 Год назад +26

    I'm not part of your bookclub 😂
    I wish I had the strength to say this to my parents lol

  • @janel.8921
    @janel.8921 Год назад +6

    He used have a column in a local newspaper. I used to read it. One column upset me. A woman wrote In with a problem. Her teenaged daughter got pregnant out of wedlock. Her husband, the girl’s stepfather, shunned her and forbid his wife to help her. She wanted to help. Graham advised her to respect her husband’s wishes.

  • @onceuponamelody
    @onceuponamelody Год назад +36

    Ooooh yes I am familiar with Billy Graham and his "ministry". 😅 I used to be a member of a Southern Baptist church (am now an atheist and working through my religious trauma woohoo) and met Franklin Graham (briefly). He came to preach at our church against Harry Potter (this was circa 2007/2008 so not even at the height of HP? But around when the last movies came out. Still WITCHRAFT=BAD). My then-fiance (now ex) forced me to get rid of all my first edition hardcover HP books and DVDs, threatening to break off our engagement if I didn't. I'm not too sad about that, now that we know how awful JK is, but it was more the fact that they were preaching about how AWFUL these FICTION BOOKS were and completely ignored real abuse and trauma in their community (which happened to me and many others) at the time.

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад +2

      Was she awful because of her opinion about transgender people? I remember earlier this year that she and actor Harry Melling, aka Dudley Dursley, had a disagreement about the transgender thing.

    • @deletedflame8424
      @deletedflame8424 Год назад +3

      ​@@melissacooper8724 Yeah, mostly that but her conduct around that issue has frankly been embarassing for a long time. At first she pretended liking terf tweets and such were just oopsies and "middle-aged moments".
      Then she ended up getting involved in the media circus around a court case where a woman working with disadvantaged people didn't have her contract renewed for consistently misgendering them and treating them like dirt and proceeded to sue the workplace for infringing upon protected believes just because her contract wasn't renewed. JK twisted this into "A woman being fired for saying biological sex is real".
      She wrote a manifesto fear-mongering about trans people using examples of things that "could happen" when those things are already illegal (think people flashing others in bathrooms), trans or not.
      On top of that though if you look at her books more closely they also contain a lot of kind of iffy stuff like a making lycanthropy an analogy to HIV (something that disproportionally affected gay men in the past) and making the banks be run entirely by antisemetic stereotypes.

  • @whatthedeal869
    @whatthedeal869 Год назад +8

    You referring to Christianity as a book club had me laughing so hard 😂😂😂 A+ Rachel

  • @zachreads
    @zachreads Год назад +24

    He's one of the reasons I'm sad Hell isn't real :'(

  • @amychurch
    @amychurch Год назад +9

    I misread the thumbnail as “Billy Graham was a wh*re” and got very excited 🤣

  • @ColeSlaw96
    @ColeSlaw96 Год назад +35

    I still hate that Charlotte is known as the "birth place of Billy Graham" it's just, ugh

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад +2

      I'm disillusioned as to why they commemorated a museum to him! We're making him an idol to worship!

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 Год назад +4

    I knew of Mr. Graham from a simpsons joke about Rodd and Todd Flanders having a video game called Billy Graham Bible Blaster.

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад

      I remember that was from the episode where their mom Maude died in a freak accident and Bart was trying to spend some time with them. I thought the video game was funny seeing Neanderthals getting turned into men in Sunday suits with halos around their heads!

  • @TheReadingKrisis
    @TheReadingKrisis Год назад +16

    Thank you SO MUCH for bringing up Jacek Dukaj - even though he's not the worst offender, he is an example of a broader problem. Polish sphere of popular fantasy writers such as Andrzej Pilipiuk, Andrzej Ziemiański or Jacek Piekara bring so much misogyny, homophobia and overall harmful beliefs to thousand of writers as they are Polish bestsellers. Luckily, very few of them got any type of translations, but its still sad for these kind of statements being made in popular media and its treated as the reality.

    • @JutaLovelace
      @JutaLovelace Год назад

      I'm glad I never picked up any of their books

  • @MarcelleLeiturasPreguicosas
    @MarcelleLeiturasPreguicosas Год назад +7

    that's why I don't believe in karma, divine justice, or whatever, This POS lived a long life, his descendants are well provided, and like him, there's a lot of bad people living the same life

  • @milofellagain7269
    @milofellagain7269 Год назад +4

    "I'M NOT PART OF YOUR BOOK CLUB" LMFAO

  • @Annie_Annie__
    @Annie_Annie__ Год назад +25

    My parents have so many of Graham’s books. Which is weird because my mom identified as Catholic until about 10-15 years ago, _long_ after she got those books.
    I only just realized how odd it is that she has so many books by a man that _at best_ didn’t consider her a “real” Christian and possibly thought she was evil.
    (And my mom is _not_ the type to read books she disagrees with. She doesn’t have many books due to moving often so the books she _does_ have are the ones she feels great sentimental attachment to.)

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +8

      That’s wild! Billy was such a dick to Catholics! I wonder what she saw in him

    • @Annie_Annie__
      @Annie_Annie__ Год назад +8

      @@ReadswithRachel She’s never been the type to be very knowledgeable about her own religion.
      All I can figure is that it’s a lot of cognitive dissonance, compartmentalization, and ignorance.
      (Side note, she also gave me _The Purpose Driven Life_ when I moved in with my at-the-time boyfriend (now husband).
      I’m pretty sure that’s an evangelical book and that the author cites Billy Graham as an inspiration?
      She pushed me to read it for a long time, lol
      But I never did and I finally threw it away a few years ago.)

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад

      ​@ReadswithRachel Billy Graham wasn't the only person who didn't like Catholics. There was this guy named Jack Chick who was a religious extremist who drew these cartoons that are supposed to get people converted to his way of thinking. His cartoons had Catholics sent to Hell because they didn't worship the way he did. He also felt that way about Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +6

      Oh Jack chick is on my list too

    • @Annie_Annie__
      @Annie_Annie__ Год назад +4

      @@ReadswithRachel Oh yes PLEASE! That would be a great video!
      I love freaking out my normie friends who’ve never heard of Chick tracts.
      Also, for several years my kid would get at least 3 Chick Tracts in his Halloween haul every year.
      But now hardly anyone trick-or-treats in the neighborhood anymore because they all go to church trunk-or-treats instead, so the tract-givers (and also the MLM sample givers) stopped turning their lights on since less than a quarter of the neighborhood has lights on anyway.
      But yeah, I used to have to go through my kid’s candy before he could have it, not looking for adulterated candy, but for religious tracts telling him that I’m going to Hell for taking him trick-or-treating or his dad is for playing DND.

  • @LilCutethulu
    @LilCutethulu Год назад +6

    Today's eye makeup is *chef's kiss* 💋

  • @anaiswinter9893
    @anaiswinter9893 Год назад +9

    I am very thankful for Good Omens, a gay angel loving a gay demon is my religion.

  • @ScoutOlson
    @ScoutOlson Год назад +10

    Hearing you say Southern Baptists were Fundy set off alarm bells in my head since I didn't realize my cousin was raised Southern Baptist until she got married recently. I had always assumed she was raised Roman Catholic like my mom and uncle were, but I guess my aunt "converted" him. A lot of their views make more sense now, and I fear for their future children.

  • @brandylarsson978
    @brandylarsson978 Год назад +2

    "I'm not part of your book club" TOOK ME TF OUT JSFDFFJGFSJGKS

  • @karamiddleton2920
    @karamiddleton2920 Год назад +4

    I need a tshirt that says "I'm not a part of your book club."
    I live in TN, and I can see the head tilts now.😂

  • @migoreng7789
    @migoreng7789 Год назад +22

    jacek dukaj can be read jack doocay, jack = jacek. usually it's better to keep the polish version of first name but no one will judge you if you respectfully swap it, like francis instead of franciszek. also in general polish j is read like english y, like yay is phonetically jej in polish. not that he deserves respect but i was taken aback by you mentioning him lmao polish surnames are ~special~

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +10

      Oh shoot thanks for telling me! I’ll make a note of this

  • @jordanball-z
    @jordanball-z Год назад +5

    Someone I went to school with is currently on a mission trip in Italy to convert catholics to christianity 😂

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +2

      WOOF

    • @moustik31
      @moustik31 Год назад +1

      I hope, they use the word "christianity" the way, you are using it here. I'm sure, they will be welcomed with open arms.
      😂

  • @annee822
    @annee822 Год назад +1

    Thanks

  • @bromethiustrilbotbromeldeh6625
    @bromethiustrilbotbromeldeh6625 Год назад +3

    I lost everything to religion and cults. 20 years of life and a lifetime of unpacking the psychological confusion

  • @ezrea9313
    @ezrea9313 Год назад +10

    I feel so vindicated and justified for disliking Graham and the Stanleys whenever these videos come out. I could never explain what exactly about them rubbed me the wrong way, but these videos help out that icky feeling into words

  • @P4Stalot
    @P4Stalot Год назад +2

    22:02 So beautifully said. Tears in my eyes.

  • @ilikecomicstoareallyproble8617
    @ilikecomicstoareallyproble8617 Год назад +10

    Jesus H. Christ, I had no idea he was older than several States.

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад

      My grandma was a year older than him! But she died in 2003 at the age of 86.

  • @jameselfers9539
    @jameselfers9539 Год назад +9

    Franklin is far worse than his father. He could have seen the mistakes his father made and if not corrected them or at least seen that they were not repeated. Instead, he became an even bigger hypocrite than his father!

  • @lycianempire
    @lycianempire Год назад +10

    Leviticus? But I'm a queer in mixed fiber clothes with tattoos. What is a bitch to do?
    Also: if we're talking about scientific research that would kill a Graham, the book Bitch: The Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke would've done it.

  • @jenniejones-hawkes7641
    @jenniejones-hawkes7641 Год назад +3

    Funny, my parents (catholic) watched a few of his big shows way back when, so like, when he died my Mom was like "oh that's so sad he seemed like he did such good work" and I actually could not hold back from just...about half an hour of evidence refuting that (they are not really strict catholics anymore because they have an actual moral code and you can't have that and be a "good catholic"...for various reasons.

  • @floreya67
    @floreya67 Год назад +11

    Haven't even watched the full video yet but wow your makeup 😍

  • @jessmstephens
    @jessmstephens Год назад +7

    My exposure to Billy Graham was blessedly minimal, but only because he was too liberal for my fundie sect! But he did far more harm than any of my former fundie peers simply because of his reach.
    Even in my reprobate era of life, I have a bit of a soft spot for the Grahamson (Billy Graham grandson) who started Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment, which trains churches, Christian schools, daycares, etc. how to establish priorities that prevent abuse and performs independent investigations of abuse claims. I can't say for certain that GRACE isn't another example of what you were talking about with Billy Graham doing the right thing on integration, but only because he thought doing so would get him god approval. Still, so many of Billy Graham's surviving relatives are so vocally hateful, and even as an atheist I can appreciate the guy who seems to be more focused on making Christian places safer for vulnerable people.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +2

      I haven’t looked into his grandkids! I’ll have to check them out

    • @jessmstephens
      @jessmstephens Год назад +3

      @@ReadswithRachel I wouldn't. They're mostly Franklin Graham lite. But I learned about GRACE when it conducted an investigation of BJU's handling of sexual assault (how the school counseled victims; I don't think assault on campus was the issue). Anyway, that one grandson seems cool in a black sheep way.

  • @nospellcheck
    @nospellcheck Год назад +3

    God, as a PK from a Pentecostal church, just hearing the name Billy Graham makes my skin crawl. Idk if this guy wrote books but I’d love to hear you tear apart Benny Hinn too, if you haven’t yet

  • @jessicaroses9831
    @jessicaroses9831 Год назад +7

    Oooh I’m ready for this … I grew up evangelical in NC and had to go to that stupid “museum” dedicated to him (that somehow wasn’t idolatry) as a kid. All that was good there was the hot chocolate and carriage rides during Christmas.

  • @tracyjohnson4478
    @tracyjohnson4478 Год назад +2

    I'm almost certain we went to the same Crusade, because I went to one at RJ stadium around that time and I HATED it so much!! It was stupidly long, over 3 maybe 4 hours on a school night (never thought I would be mad about being up on a school night but only Billy Graham could do that!), and Billy talked for MAYBE 10 minutes, tops.

  • @heyimsasa
    @heyimsasa Год назад +2

    i really appreciate the level of work you put into all of your videos. i knew this guy by name and some of his famous cadences, but that's about it.

  • @shanicek5188
    @shanicek5188 Год назад +3

    My church used to be quite involved with his foundation but they've stopped thank God💀I didn't even know he was fundie but I always had a bad feeling abt him so thank you so much for this as always Rachel!

  • @emmacivita127
    @emmacivita127 Год назад +3

    This is so raw. I love it.

  • @ashleyreynolds1991
    @ashleyreynolds1991 Год назад +2

    I AM SO TIRED OF YT UN-SUBBING ME FROM MY FAVE BOOKTUBER!!!!!
    LOVE YOU BEAUTIFUL, KEEP UP THE AMAZING WORK, YOU HAVE CHANGED MY MIND (OPENED MY MIND) TO A LOT OF THINGS!

  • @stvrwar
    @stvrwar Год назад +2

    This video has reignited the urge to pick up my favorite hobby from my time as an angry, closeted bisexual teen- deep readings of the Bible and theological theory to then use when I picked fights with my father.
    I come from a background of “haha holy shit my family had a literal family run religious cult that I didn’t know about until I was in college and my divorced mother told me like this should have been common knowledge.” Things had shifted into the more stereotypical fundie shit by the time I was born, but GOD, even just hearing the last name Graham sends me into an eye twitching spiral.

  • @chicken_208
    @chicken_208 Год назад +2

    I was in this bible class when I was 5-6 and I didn't understand a single thing lol I just thought it was a singing and dancing class. But when I got older I felt really pressured into believing in all of that stuff when I didn't want to. I used to get so angry and one of the reasons was because I really struggle to stick to tasks and activities without getting bored or frustrated (adhd) so when my family would bring me to church or try to get me to read the bible or say things like, 'You will believe in it eventually,' when I would try to tell them I didn't I felt very suffocated. My grandma probably has a lot of this guys books.

  • @SydneyTamar2003
    @SydneyTamar2003 Год назад +3

    I always hated when religious people mix religion and politics together as a way to make themselves look good. Separation of church and state needs to be taken seriously

  • @Angelica_Rodriguez39
    @Angelica_Rodriguez39 Год назад +5

    I appreciate you doing this video and hope to watch it when i'm in a better headspace to consume it -- just wanted to give you the engagement though bc you deserve it 💓 I fucking HATE this man though, like a lot of fundies bother me but this man just awakens something so visceral in me that I can't deal.

  • @JayeEllis
    @JayeEllis 25 дней назад

    I'm 100% stealing the "why do I care what your sky daddy says? I'm not part of your book club."

  • @greysonkeller5418
    @greysonkeller5418 Год назад +4

    Omg I can't wait to watch! My parents made my brother and I go to Billy Graham library when it opened. They love him lol

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +4

      If my family finds out I did this video they’re going to be pretttttty upset with me

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 Год назад

      ​@ReadswithRachel Can you do one about Pat Robertson? He did a lot of cringeworthy things too! By the way, does your family like Pat Robertson too?

  • @bottompercy
    @bottompercy 7 месяцев назад +2

    He retired in 2005: i was born in 2005. I have to assume that my sheer, impressive gayness (Im genderfluid and pansexual) coming into the world is what pushed him to retire. You're all welcome

  • @mcjordie
    @mcjordie Год назад +4

    As always, thanks for all the work you put into these videos 💜💜💜

  • @mcjordie
    @mcjordie Год назад +5

    I was literally just earlier this week wondering when the next ABB: Fundie Edition was gonna be, so this is perfect timing lol

    • @mcjordie
      @mcjordie Год назад +1

      2:54 "just because he's more palatable...does not mean he didn't do harm" 👏

    • @mcjordie
      @mcjordie Год назад +3

      7:28: "only when Jesus returns will racism end" is uh...quite a take there Billy 😬

  • @ragdollrose2687
    @ragdollrose2687 Год назад +1

    I love "I'm not part of your book club" as a way of saying you don't follow the Bible

  • @dogearflopper7011
    @dogearflopper7011 9 месяцев назад

    I love your choice of photo for Graham throughout the video lol. It gives villainous sourpuss energy.

  • @angelaholmes8888
    @angelaholmes8888 Год назад +12

    Billy Graham was truly a horrible man

  • @P4Stalot
    @P4Stalot Год назад +1

    I grew up Mennonite, (German-Mennonite on both sides) but my dad's side of the family for some reason had a fascination with evangelism, and sort of self-hatred for Mennonites, and they idolized Billy Graham. Being raised by these types of people affected me through the media I was allowed to consume (NO fantasy at all--I couldn't read the Harry Potter books like my friends) the ideas that I had about people (I remember a friend coming out to me, And when she asked how he felt, I told her I believed "as other Christians do" 🤮 even though I sympathized, and later realized I was pan) and it led me to believe that I was right to be judgmental all of the time (Because that's what Christian do, right? "We" judge in love, and love conditionally.)
    It took me a long time to find my personality outside of those extreme beliefs, especially after I went to college at ORU... Where they REALLY idolized Billy Graham.
    I still find myself thinking things and realizing the thought is based in Christianity, and not my actual beliefs, just a result of 20 years of conditioning. I'm frequently realizing my "common sense" thoughts are just weird assumptions created from being raised fundie.
    Also, idolizing martyrs--WOW, that affected my relationship with life itself.

  • @BlondeEyes7
    @BlondeEyes7 Год назад +2

    I love your energy in this video!

  • @emeryrachellewrites
    @emeryrachellewrites 11 месяцев назад

    As a former fundie, that "I said we again, ugh" moment was so relatable

  • @Samthewise92
    @Samthewise92 Год назад +4

    Oooo this is a good one. Watching crazy fundamentalist men fall is low key a major sport that I’m willing to go to hell to watch. 😂

  • @AidenFeltkamp
    @AidenFeltkamp Год назад +1

    Thank you SO MUCH for pointing out how awful Billy Graham was. It’s not surprising evangelicals like him but I’m always shocked when normal people think he’s fine because of his reputation. He was such a hateful person who pretended to be nice to all.

  • @bananabonana5713
    @bananabonana5713 Год назад +1

    You ate this video queen 🤞🏼💗

  • @SpaceandGoats
    @SpaceandGoats Год назад +4

    Love the video. I definitely heard about this guy in my fundie church
    Also I cant find the link to the shirt ^^;

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад

      SHIT I knew i forgot to do something
      Here's the link: awarewolfapparel.com/products/pride-resort-shirt

  • @polisemicbot
    @polisemicbot Год назад +1

    "the danger of me kicking you repeatedly in the balls" had me CACKLING

    • @melissacooper8724
      @melissacooper8724 4 месяца назад +1

      Me too! I lost all respect for Mike Pence after what happened at the White House in January 2021.

  • @AidenFeltkamp
    @AidenFeltkamp Год назад +1

    This video BROUGHT ME LIFE. I had to go to the Billy graham museum (while he was still alive? Dunno why that existed). We also had tons of his books and they all sucked.

  • @marzipan9
    @marzipan9 Год назад +2

    Not RUclips putting a dude in a "I will not co-parent with the government" t-shirt shilling Tuttle Twins crap before this video. READ THE ROOM RUclips.

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +1

      I heard there’s a way for me not to get ads from fascists on my videos anymore and I need to figure it out

    • @marzipan9
      @marzipan9 Год назад +1

      I always report as spam or false/misleading, because it's fanfiction dressed up as history.

  • @LeppardLadyRN
    @LeppardLadyRN Год назад

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Well said!

  • @MetallicGlitterPagan
    @MetallicGlitterPagan 11 месяцев назад

    I love this! Can you please do more on Christian authors? I recently left the faith and you have no idea how much this helped me today. We NEED more people doing what you’re doing about these pieces of shit. Thank you for this❤

  • @vinny_s
    @vinny_s Год назад +1

    DUDE I forgot about this guy. My mother used to watch TBN or something when I was younger and I remember him.
    Ahhh, takes me back. Those were the dark ages 😂

  • @angelawossname
    @angelawossname Год назад +7

    I'm a gay Jew. I guess I'm going to hell twice.

  • @qlipothian
    @qlipothian Год назад +4

    Why does he look like a bad guy from Murder She Wrote?

  • @PurpleManatees
    @PurpleManatees Год назад +2

    Fundie editions are my favorite

  • @melissacooper8724
    @melissacooper8724 Год назад

    My grandma had some of his books. I don't know what became of them after she died in 2003, but she did love to listen to him speak whenever he had his crusades. I also want to mention that he died before his 100th birthday. So technically, he was 99 years old when he passed away.

  • @jrlonergan6773
    @jrlonergan6773 Год назад +1

    Your makeup is awesome

  • @storiesofroa
    @storiesofroa Год назад +1

    100 years was too good for this man. >:(

  • @thingnumbertwo2
    @thingnumbertwo2 Год назад +4

    The sheer amount of GFYs in this piece warms my heart. Excellent analysis of a truly disgusting POS.

  • @Mondomeyer
    @Mondomeyer Год назад +2

    Frank Zappa would love you.

  • @Elizabeth-ll4tt
    @Elizabeth-ll4tt Год назад

    I knew billy gross was bad, but this added a whole mariana trench level of depth to that knowledge base. Holy fuck.
    May he rest in pieces, and his legacy and line die out of human memory and relavence.

  • @davelewis8270
    @davelewis8270 Год назад +2

    I'm so lucky being a third generation atheist.

  • @abreckenfridge
    @abreckenfridge Год назад

    My parents just started volunteering at the BG library 💔

  • @Mondomeyer
    @Mondomeyer Год назад +1

    14:22 Wait, I thought pansexual meant you were attracted to goats.

  • @athegrey
    @athegrey Год назад +2

    i've been trying for ages to figure out what the black book with a pink section on the top of its spine is. because it look a lot like Once and Future to me but i compared it with my own copy and it doesn't match 😭

    • @athegrey
      @athegrey Год назад +1

      also, i'm so glad i had no fucking idea who this dude was before today

    • @rose_and_thorns
      @rose_and_thorns Год назад +1

      If you mean the one that is two books over from Read This To Get Smarter, it's The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад +2

      I think what you're pointing out is the stars and the blackness between them, specifically the book of the month version

    • @athegrey
      @athegrey Год назад +1

      @@ReadswithRachel tysm

  • @skylarkblue1
    @skylarkblue1 Год назад +3

    I'm not seeing the link to your shirt in the description!! I'd love to know where you got it from :3

    • @ReadswithRachel
      @ReadswithRachel  Год назад

      Hi! Here's the link: awarewolfapparel.com/products/pride-resort-shirt

    • @skylarkblue1
      @skylarkblue1 Год назад

      @@ReadswithRachel £24 shipping 😭 absolutely beautiful shirt though and I'll be sure to link it to my american friends!! Thank you!!

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 Год назад

    Fun Fact: Did you know that crime author Pat Cornell was raised a foster daughter of sorts to the Graham's in particular Mrs. Graham

  • @Scatscar1985
    @Scatscar1985 Год назад +1

    He was in with Nixon? 😮

  • @JohnScigulinsky
    @JohnScigulinsky 7 месяцев назад

    "Fuck Paul! who the fuck cares about Paul?"
    Fanatics like Paul care about Paul. Citing Paul is a red flag.

  • @hatecake23
    @hatecake23 Год назад +1

    Ok I'm very late to the game here... But why is Billy Graham actually Frasier??

  • @dogearflopper7011
    @dogearflopper7011 9 месяцев назад

    I'm so happy to hear someone say "fuck your religion" when people use their religion to justify horrific, anti-human bullshit.