I've been ranting about religion,
especially in the context of doing away with women's reproductive rights.
In fact, one of my videos and one of my rants went viral and keeps going viral.
And I thought most religious people, most religious leaders,
probably don't like me and don't like that rant.
But I do wanna give credit to reverend Ed Trevor's,
who's a priest with the Anglican church.
He put out this video, it's gotten some attention.
And I wanna thank him of course, because he's absolutely right about me.
Let's watch.
>> The recently stumbled across a video just in the last couple of days.
And the video is well over a year old.
It's a video of the young Turks host Ana Kas Perry.
And in this video, I mean, she goes off on Christianity.
She goes off on Christians who in her experience
Bring the bible into arguments that it has no business being in.
She says she doesn't care, I don't care that you're a Christian.
She says, I don't care what you believe, I don't care what you think the bible says.
She says, you don't have a right to hold that against me.
You don't have a right to tell me how to live based on what you believe.
Again, I've always had a lot of, I think she's really insightful.
I think she's really intelligent.
She's she's something that you can learn from,
you can sit at her feet and learn from.
>> Wow, [LAUGH] okay.
Can I just say that last part is gonna get a lot of guys to watch.
Wait, I considered her feet and learn [LAUGH].
>> No, he's, look, I'm obviously, I don't know if it's obvious I'm joking around
with like, the whole, like puffing my chest and like, yeah, I'm so great.
No, it makes me a little bit uncomfortable,
like being complimented that much.
But I actually I saw this video a week or two ago and decided not to do it because
it makes me feel uncomfortable to play a video where someone's complimenting me.
But actually, so many of our members and
viewers sent me the video because they want me to comment on it.
And more importantly aside from that, it's proof and I've said this a million
times before that there is a difference between religious fundamentalists.
And honestly the majority of religious people in the country who
actually happen to be wonderful people who wanna do wonderful things
through their religious doctrine.
Now, I might not believe in their religious doctrine.
I don't believe in any religious doctrine, okay.
As an atheist, I'm non-religious.
However, I do think, and I respect people's religious beliefs.
I believe in religious liberty and I believe in our constitution.
And it's because people like him are wonderful.
They don't wanna cause any harm.
They have their faith, their people of faith and
they actually want to carry out good actions through their faith.
And I commend that.
>> Yes, we're gonna show you why he said what he said.
But if you haven't seen Ana's ran, you're the only one.
We looked at it the other day.
I think it has at least 50 million views on TikTok alone,
let alone Instagram and all the other places.
But so many people have done different versions of it.
There's now bumper stickers that has the famous line from it.
I don't care what the bible says.
And I mean, there's mugs with it.
There's so many different things that people have done with that video.
That's why it's interesting to have a reverend say, I like the video that says,
I don't care what the bible says.
But he's got a good explanation as to why other than hey anna is really smart.
>> But before we get to the good explanation,
one more video of him talking about how great I am.
Let's watch.
>> She was incredibly honest, it was incredibly sincere,
it was incredibly powerful.
It made me feel really good listening to it.
As a Christian listening to her go off like that made me feel good.
There was something strong and powerful about it.
There was something very courageous about it.
It's something worthwhile.
It's something that we should process.
>> I don't know man, I might check out his church.
[LAUGH] I mean, if more reverence, more priests were like this, I feel like
they would actually attract more parishioners to their place of worship.
Because the thing that's always really turned me off about organized religion,
is most of it seems to be about judging people.
And we don't know for sure if there's an afterlife or not, right?
So, we know that we have today, we know that we have now.
We know that it's a gift to be alive.
And to not enjoy your life because you're part of a religious
organization that judges you based on what they think is likely
to happen to you in the afterlife is crazy to me.
>> So, and I grew up Christian, I grew up Muslim.
[COUGH] And Islam has both sides.
So, it has an open side where they really emphasize the equality of races and
backgrounds.
So, I love that part about Islam.
And that's what kept me in the religion for a little while longer.
But it also has the same problems as all the religions do,
which is non stop judging.
Don't do that, don't do this, if you do that God will hate you don't do that.
Like God hates that and we're always watching etc.
And it's not a welcoming place when you're non-stop judged.
And especially on non-sensical things that aren't at all connected
to the actual morality of being decent to other people.
So, I totally agree with the reverend Trevor's here and with Ana.
Ana saying, I'd go to a church like that like that.
At least I would hear it out, right?
Because he's inviting rather than pushing back.
And that goes to his main point, which is, guys we're not supposed to use the bible
to attack people [LAUGH] were supposed to use to help people.
>> Yeah.
So, let's actually get to that, okay?
So, this is the heart of the argument that he's trying to make.
Let's watch.
>> If you take the issue that we're facing right now with the with the roe versus
wade in the US Christians bring the bible into those conversations.
Well, the bible says this and the bible says that,
the bible says this and the bible says that.
And we're and we're using our understanding of the bible in a way
hoping to influence lawmakers to do what we want to do.
We're using the bible hoping that we can convince a person
of no faith or of a different faith to to move our way.
Well, the bible says it.
You see it says it right here, what you're supposed to do and
how you're supposed to act.
Well, it doesn't really say it, but this is how I interpret it.
Or this is how my denomination interpreted or whatever the case might be.
But that's not how the bible is supposed to be used.
The bible is not a weapon for us to use against others.
>> And there's more to his video.
It's about seven minutes long and will include a link in the description box.
I think what he says is so, so important.
And I think it's important to hear out people who serve as representatives for
what I believe are the majority of religious people.
People who wanna do kind things, people who don't wanna use their
religious doctrine as an excuse to judge you or beat you down with it.
I just, I really appreciate the video that he put together, it was really kind.
>> And in a sense,
he's living proof of what we say almost every time we talk about religion.
So, we have tons of criticism for the religions themselves and
certainly have the right way and use them in all different countries.
Whether it's fundamentalist Hindus in India, fundamentalist Muslims in Turkey,
Saudi Arabia, you name it.
Or fundamentalist Christians here in America.
But we always add, remember some of the greatest people on earth are not just
religious, but religious leaders.
My hero is also reverend.
Reverend Martin Luther king.
[COUGH] And and right now there's great moral leaders in the country as well that
are fighting for the poor, the needy etc.
I just wish they'd be on tv more.
All we get is the media pushing the hateful folks as if they represent all of
Christianity.
If people saw reverend and Trevor's as the face of Christianity,
a lot more people might be interested and open to that idea.
>> Absolutely.
All right, well, some religious people are definitely right about things and
Trevor's, especially when it comes to me totally right [LAUGH].
>> Church of Hashtag Anna was right.
>> It's the Anglican church.
>> The antigen Clinton church >> [LAUGH]
>> That didn't really work, but
still, you get it [LAUGH].