At what age did you realize it was all for show?

[Artificial Intelligence]

When I went to church camp and all the other kids were catching the Holy Ghost…. I was just chilling

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

That’s a sanctified church and not a normal Baptist church
Y’all telling on yall selves

 

[Peruvian Connect]

When i attended it wasn't much of that shiit but you could always tell the fakers. But as I attend in a few times now. I have felt it. especially when you got troubles and shiit.

 

[Turk]

I was teenager when I realized it was all some nonsense

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

When I was much younger going to church, it was never that wide spread.

Honestly the only folk that caught the Holy Ghost were the ones that weren’t suspicious so I never focused on that as being the reason religion was ridiculous.

I’m also not about to deny grandma catching the spirit and lying about it

 

[num123]

The first time and thankfully the last time i saw it when i was 6.

 

[stave]

church aisle dance battles

 

[Creepn]

I don't know about them but I've fell asleep in church as a youngin a couple times and I swear to you guys, a spirit or something would slap me across the face and jolt me awake. It's a weird feeling, similar to a shock. This only happened in church and whenever I'm in doubt about spirits or whatever, I remember those times. It's the truth.

 

[WaveMolecules]

i NEVER bought in but my moms was a true believer. i joined her church to appease her and keep her company.

she got cancer when i was about 12-13 years old.

i had to sit in church almost every sunday and hear the "pastor" tell me to my face that god was healing my mother.
my moms was literally dying and she was still hell bent on attending church.

i can still hear that snake tell me and my mother that "god had a plan." and that my mom would be fine.

when she was basically a vegetable and couldnt go to church i never went back. when she died, some of the people from church went to the funeral. they all got the beanie sigel ice grill. fukk outta here.

 

[shopthatwrecks]

9 and i was with granddaddy and great granddad... had me read the bible everyday....march came and i had finish numbers...

numbers 22...that shyt will forever stick with me ...went down to their bootleg/gamblin shack... while they was settin up.. i said so where did talkin animals come from.... my great ganddad choked on his snuff...

both of em said when u goto children church ask ya pastor why did the donkey talk...

couldnt wait to goto church....that sunday... i was fully dressed waitin ...church started at 10 i was ready at 7...

get there ... end of service where we could ask questions... he picked me ... why did the donkey talk?

... what donkey..

the donkey in the bible

there is no talkin donkey in Gods bible..

u sure

i read this book front to back I know and you shouldnt questioning Gods book

numbers 22

u stayin after church..

4 sho

had a meeting with my parents along with the sr pastor.... called me ...all kinds of blasphemous heathen and im disruptive ...and when in reality lil ol me didnt say a word ...until i raised my hand and i was called upon...

dad was like yall pretty much called him all kinds of names.. prejudgin in the house of god.. and have yet to see if he was right or wrong ...to be asking the question...

they was like we read the book front to back backwards to forwards their isnt a talkin donkey... dad was like shiid numbers 22 ...the donkey talked because it was angel ahead

got up n told us to come on...n said boy pops and poppop put u up to this.........

yeah... they also wanted me to ask who was phoebe .... but they stopped at the donkey ..lol


13-14 my uncle told me to pay attenion ...watch how the church is like the pimp game.. preacher flip scripturs for there sermons to tell ppl wha they want to here... the amount of women in church ...out number the men...everybody pay 10%... they come up short ..instead of callin them bytches n hoes.. ...he goes to malachi

then he told me to pay attention what books the pastor is preachin from most of the time.. if its deuteronomy ... some of his heaux not actin right

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

this whole video illustrates the reason why i left the church when i was a child and only been a few times in my adult years, mainly because of funerals sadly.

and these black churches only preaching that whitewashed Christianity bullshyt anyways. telling black people to forgive their oppressors, when in reality you’re not supposed to forgive them when they do wrong to you.

these mothafukkas have no problem forgiving non blacks quicker than they would forgive their own brothers and sisters. and that’s why i stay far away from black people who preach that whitewashed bullshyt.

it’s funny how they only tell black people to love and forgive their oppressors. you never hear them preach that bullshyt to other races because they aren’t so forgiving, so why the fukk are we so forgiving to the same mothafukkas that’s unforgiving for the shyt they do to us?

 

[Alvin]

idk I was always sleep

 

[Vandelay]

Early teens.

 

[MMS]

9 and i was with granddaddy and great granddad... had me read the bible everyday....march came and i had finish numbers...

numbers 22...that shyt will forever stick with me ...went down to their bootleg/gamblin shack... while they was settin up.. i said so where did talkin animals come from.... my great ganddad choked on his snuff...

both of em said when u goto children church ask ya pastor why did the donkey talk...

couldnt wait to goto church....that sunday... i was fully dressed waitin ...church started at 10 i was ready at 7...

get there ... end of service where we could ask questions... he picked me ... why did the donkey talk?

... what donkey..

the donkey in the bible

there is no talkin donkey in Gods bible..

u sure

i read this book front to back I know and you shouldnt questioning Gods book

numbers 22

u stayin after church..

4 sho

had a meeting with my parents along with the sr pastor.... called me ...all kinds of blasphemous heathen and im disruptive ...and when in reality lil ol me didnt say a word ...until i raised my hand and i was called upon...

dad was like yall pretty much called him all kinds of names.. prejudgin in the house of god.. and have yet to see if he was right or wrong ...to be asking the question...

they was like we read the book front to back backwards to forwards their isnt a talkin donkey... dad was like shiid numbers 22 ...the donkey talked because it was angel ahead

got up n told us to come on...n said boy pops and poppop put u up to this.........

yeah... they also wanted me to ask who was phoebe .... but they stopped at the donkey ..lol


13-14 my uncle told me to pay attenion ...watch how the church is like the pimp game.. preacher flip scripturs for there sermons to tell ppl wha they want to here... the amount of women in church ...out number the men...everybody pay 10%... they come up short ..instead of callin them bytches n hoes.. ...he goes to malachi

then he told me to pay attention what books the pastor is preachin from most of the time.. if its deuteronomy ... some of his heaux not actin right

Numbers 22 requires you to think in non-traditional ways

in fact the entire book of Numbers is like that and is a judgment on greater spiritual Israel when they "Numbered" the people IE gave them names

Shemot(Names) is the other name for Exodus in Hebrew

The Book of Exodus (from Ancient Greek: Ἔξοδος, romanized: Éxodos; Biblical Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת Šəmōṯ, 'Names'; Latin: Liber Exodus) is the second book of the Bible

Put it like this to understand the scene you have to understand three major plot devices

• Balaam who the story is about (whos name means Swallower of the People)
• Balak and the Elders of Moab who worshipped Chemosh (and sacrificed their children). These are the descendants of Lot (Veil) and can be thought of as stories that do not repeat or are not protected
• The idea of entities other than God putting words in your mouth

Balak wants Balaam to curse Israel because he says who Balaam curses is cursed and who he blesses is blessed. Its a logical battle that is incredibly hard to understand, but the imagery of Balaam on the Donkey and Jesus on the Donkey are linked because of the nature of the donkey. Remember the anger of God was kindled when Balaam chose to follow the Elders of Moab and his angel went out to meet him in several places where Balaam was "passing"

Genesis 49:14-16

14 “Issachar is a rawboned[f] donkey
lying down among the sheep pens.[g]
15 When he sees how good is his resting place
and how pleasant is his land,
16 he will bend his shoulder to the burden
and submit to forced labor.

In the land of Canaan only the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are "guaranteed"

this is in contrast to ideas like ancestor worship and bronze age polytheism. Balaam is regarded as a sorcerer who follows the people of Israel

Exodus 2:11-14

11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

I was never interested in religion and I'm still not. I realized pretty young that many Christians are liars and overall horrible people.