Incariol, I would also be curious to know what you disagreed with theologically, largely because I'm not well enough schooled in theology to know what you mean, but would like to understand.
Aha, someone asks nicely!
First, I'll link this, since Fr. Andrew dissects the whole video much better than I'll ever be able to, but I'll summarize.
Why I Love (True) Religion Because I Love Jesus « Roads from Emmaus
First, Jesus certainly did not come to abolish religion. That is patently absurd. "Religion" is a belief system. Christ came to bring belief, and gave the Great Commission of preaching belief to all the nations, soooo... the video guy is simply wrong.
Second, he does this whole rant about being Christian not meaning voting Republican... Which is true, but that is an absurd criticism of the Christian religion, since outside the Bible belt in the USA, nobody would take that view seriously.
He claims religion starts wars. This is not true. Religion may have been an
excuse to start wars, but anything more than a cursory examination of history shows pretty clearly that all those "religious" wars were in truth motivated by other factors. Religion was just a convenient PR excuse.
He blames the church failing to "feed the poor".
1. Why are building beautiful places to worship God, bad? I honestly don't get the whole anti-art movement.
2. EVERY church and religion and charity fails to feed the poor. As it is, the largest charities in existence are Christian organizations. Complaining that they have failed thus far to solve WORLD HUNGER is breathtakingly stupid.
He says "religion" tells single moms that God doesn't love them. Blatant lie. I can't think of anyone outside of Westboro Baptist spewing drivel like that.
He says religion "mocked John the Baptist", which is rather funny, since St. John was born a priest and spent his life as a prophet and practicing a religious ritual known as "baptism".
One of my favorite parts is "Now I ain' judgin", which is really ironic, since his entire video is really just an anti-Christian screed so far.
There's this bit:
See this was me too, but no one seemed to be on to me.
Acting like a church kid while addicted to inappropriate contentography.
You see on Sunday Id go to church but Saturday getting faded, acting if I was simply created to just have sex and get wasted.
See Ive spent my whole life building this façade of neatness.
Which is cute, because this is hardly a criticism of religion, just human behavior. I really don't get it. Is Christianity worthless if everyone in the Church cannot perfectly uphold the moral code? I thought the entire point of grace was that we couldn't keep the Law and be saved by obedience to it...
But,
But now that I know Jesus, I boast in my weakness.
Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean.
Its not a museum for good people; its a hospital for the broken.
This contradicts what he just said. Is the Church bad for having people "getting faded" and having "sex and get[ing] wasted"? Or is it a "hospital for the broken"? He can't simultaneously condemn and praise the Church as being a place with sinners.
See because when I was Gods enemy, and certainly not a fan, He looked down and said I want that man.
Which was why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools.
No, Jesus never hated religion. He hated the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees, but he didn't hate Judaism and turn into an atheist or agnostic. This is simply a lie which is obvious to readers of the Gospels.
Heck, Jesus didn't even tell people to not obey the Pharisees, he specifically told them to obey them, as they "sat in Moses' seat".
"The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses seat. 3 Therefore whatever they tell you to observe,[a]that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say, and do not do" --Matthew 23:1-3
Dont you see so much better than just following some rules?
Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin.
So does he believe in sin, or does he believe he has found something better than following "some rules"? Which is it? Anyways, yes, the Church needs rules to be a coherent organization. That is basic sociology.
Now back to the point, one thing is vital to mention, how Jesus and religion are on opposite spectrums.
See ones the work of God, but ones a man made invention, see one is the cure, but the others the infection.
1. No they are not on opposite spectrums, Jesus came to redeem us and establish a religion.
2. I thought sin was the major infection of mankind. He is confusing his basic theology now.
See because, religion says do, Jesus says done, religion says slave, Jesus says son.
Philippians 3:12
"12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me."
And he goes on to spout a 7th century Christian heresy known as Monergism for a bit...
Because He took the crown of thorns and the blood dripped down His face, He took what we all deserved, I guess thats why you call it grace.
No, grace is a gift, what describes there is, as Fr. Andrew points out, substitutionary atonement.
Which is why Im kneeling at the cross saying, Cmon, theres room.
This is especially rich in irony because the one and only time I've seen Christians actually
kneel at a cross is in the most "religious" of denominations, specifically Catholicism and Orthodoxy which has an entire feast day in which the Sunday service involves a lot of kneeling and prostrations to the Cross.
Elevation of the Holy Cross - OrthodoxWiki
So for religion, no I hate it, in fact I literally resent it, because when Jesus said, It is finished, I believe He meant it.
Best finished in Fr. Andrew's own words.
Hatred and resentment (and I really mean this, too) are very dangerous places from which to build a theology. I also believe that Jesus meant it when He said It is finished (literally, the purpose is fulfilled or it is consummated, depending on whether youre reading Greek or Latin), but theres absolutely no indication anywhere in His words, the words of His Apostles, or the words of those who received the Apostles teaching (the Church) that what was finished is religion.
By the by, if you click the link and this looks familiar, that's because I'm largely summarizing from him.