So I've been going through more of these Caleb and Sofia videos and the further I get into them the better the animation gets and
the crazier the ideas get. Pretty soon
I'm hoping to do another Mormon video before continuing on with the Caleb and Sofia stuff,
but I feel like this will be a valuable addition to my video library.
Okay, let's take a look at what Caleb and Sofia have to teach us this time. The first ones called "Be neat and clean":
Let's get into it.
*Intro*
"What's wrong Caleb?"
"I Can't find my airplane."
"Hmm, I can see why."
"Do you know what will help you to find your things?"
"What?"
"By keeping your room neat and clean. Did you know Jehovah has a place for all his things?"
"Huh?" "Like the planets.
They're always moving, but Jehovah made them stay in their orbits, so they don't crash into each other."
Okay, there's a lot to unpack here. They're making some scientific claims.
Now the underlying message seems solid to me: Keep your room clean. Take a bath , on and on.
That's all fine. But then they list Jehovah
as the reason. This isn't the only place they list Jehovah as the reason for doing things.
It's basically every reason for everything, it always comes back to Jehovah.
But here the Dad's saying Jehovah made the planets stay in their orbits. I think that's gravity. I think gravity does that.
Now,I know it seems obvious to some people, like yeah, God created gravity.
That's what they're talking about.
But it wasn't always that obvious. For a long time people thought God
literally made the planets stay in place, because they had no understanding of gravity.
Then we discovered gravity and the theory of relativity and it got just a little bit less mysterious. Still mysterious as F**k,
but we understood it a little more. Thanks to great minds.
God had one less gap to fill, we didn't need him to hold the planets in place anymore.
What's the next scientific breakthrough going to be and where is God gonna fit after that?
"Same with people. We all looked different on the outside,
but inside
Jehovah put all their bones and organs in the same place.
Imagine if your eyes were on the bottom of your feet."
You know, this message isn't so bad. Here they're trying to discourage people from being racist.
They're pointing out that people look different on the outside, but they're the same on the inside.
That's a good message in my eyes, but they're doing it because they don't want people to draw the between races,
they want to focus the us-versus-them attitude toward Jehovah's witnesses versus non Jehovah's witnesses. You find them doing that a lot actually.
"Jehovah, even keeps the animals clean.
Look at these fish. They are cleaning the hippo.
These birds help too."
They're talking about co-evolving species. Evolution is very complex,
so the common question when talking about co-evolving species is this:
Which came first, bees or flowers. Some people feel like this stumps non God believers, because you need
flowers before you can have bees, but you need bees to spread pollen for the flowers to survive, so which is it? Which came first?
The answer is that they both evolved together to become what they are today. With the example they gave in the video,
they said: "These fish are cleaning the hippo, these birds help too." Those species work together.
They help each other. The birds and fish benefit by getting food and the hippo benefits by not having stuff crawling on him anymore.
It's a symbiotic relationship.
This wasn't set up by Jehovah.
It just so happens that birds like eating bugs and they can find a lot of bugs around hippos.
There really isn't anything mysterious about it.
And when you realize that's how it works, the need for a God to create the universe all but disappears.
I'm not saying God doesn't exist. I'm just saying: We don't need him to understand how the universe operates.
Those are really the important parts. The rest culminates in a single scene right here.
"I found my airplane!"
"Okay, let's go outside and play."
Okay, let's take a look at the next clip. This one's called "Jehovah created all things".
I remember doing this one a long time ago. So let's take another look at it.
"Jehovah made Jesus first.
Then the angels, but there was no sun,
moon,
stars.
No earth." "What would that be like?"
"It would be something like this." "I can't see daddy!"
"Jehovah created the stars,
including our Sun and Earth."
So they have a very specific idea of what happened when the earth was created by God.
Let's just see what the Bible says about the order of creation. Apparently day one was a Sunday, according to the website
I'm looking at. I guess God starts off on a normal work week.
So day one, light was created and divided from darkness, where before there was just darkness.
Day two it says God created an atmosphere.
Then day three land and vegetation was created. Day four the Sun, Moon and stars were created to fill the sky.
Day 5, which is a Thursday, he created creatures to fill the sky in water. Day six, Friday,
he created creatures to fill land. Men was created as the pinnacle of creation. And finally, day seven, on Saturday,
God rested from all his work.
I have a few questions here. Let's start from the top.
How do we know that God works a regular workweek? Why did this start on Sunday?
Was it an arbitrary pick or did God declare it himself?
What about in 1582 when Pope Gregory the 13th decreed that we dropped 10 days in September when we switch to the Gregorian calendar?
Did we jump from Sunday to Wednesday or did it switch to Monday?
Because that's the only way it would have worked. If we'd switched to Monday afterward.
Otherwise nobody is celebrating the Sabbath on the correct day. Now regarding day one:
How is it different from day four? God created light on day one, but he created the Sun on day four.
I don't understand.
What did he create?
Plants created on day three, the Sun created on day four. How could plants have survived before the Sun existed?
There are so many holes in this, it's ridiculous. And on that note, does God really need to rest?
I thought he was all-powerful.
Can't he just work and work and never have to rest? And if he actually
does need to rest, then who's running the kingdom while he's gone? Notice how Earth-centric this is.
It only makes sense from the perspective
of an earth dweller. The moment you realize that there's something beyond the ground below you and the sky above you, the moment you realize
exactly what the sky is,
none of this makes sense. And people know that. Trying to make sense of these verses is
grasping at straws at best. Trying to make your worldview fit into this
ridiculous tiny box, that this book created for the world takes an insane amount of mental gymnastics.
"But it didn't look like it does now.
There was nothing, but one big ocean of water.
Until..."
Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. The Sun and stars are out there. Are we on day four when he created the Sun?
So this must be after he created the atmosphere, land, trees and other vegetation, right?
"He made land appear.
Then he made grass, and trees."
Okay, so they're talking about day three here, why was the Sun in the picture? I understand
Jehovah's witnesses seemed to think he created the sun on the first day.
But according to their bible, the sun was created on day four. Even in their own propaganda, they can't keep the story straight.
Oh, yeah.
And just as a matter of interest, see if you guys can guess what country the dad is from, based on his accent.
Nobody can tell, put it in the comments.
So they're just going through what they believe to be the order of creation.
But I do find it fascinating that they basically started on day two. They skipped day one completely.
What did God do on day one? If he created the Sun on day one, as they're implying here, then what did he do on day four,
where it actually says, verbatim, that he created the Sun, Moon and stars. It just does not add up.
Okay, let's skip ahead and see what they have to say after they get through the order of creation.
"He wants us to enjoy his creation forever.
Ready to say a prayer? Let's thank Jehovah."
Nope. I'll be damned if I advertise for their website on my YouTube channel. Not gonna let them pan up toward the sky and see
their logo where they believe God would be. Remember this stuff is for kids! This is childhood
indoctrination at its finest. They have the odd useful lesson slipped in here or there,
like don't steal or clean up your room, but it's all centered around Jehovah's Witnesses very specific worldview.
It's all centered around the idea that you're doing this for Jehovah. To make him happy.
Not because stealing is wrong, not because we live in a society
where we don't want to be stolen from so we don't do it to other people. Not because keeping things clean improves your overall
happiness and makes it easier to find things.
But because Jehovah wants you to. Everything routes back to Jehovah. Every explanation.
I don't know about you, but I prefer real explanations. I'll take knowledge over supposition any day.
Anyways, that's all I've got for you.
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