F4F | Meme Review, October 2021

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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ and this is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the

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Word of God. Now from time to time we like to like do episodes where we let our hair down a little bit.

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I mean dealing with heresy day in and day out is kind of a dark thing and and so I have been well lassoed into something

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I've never done before and so we're gonna do a pirate meme,

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I'm swatting flies, review something like that and so for this episode,

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I have Josh and Nikki, they informed me that I was doing something that was cringe.

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Oh well, c 'est la vie, right? Isn't that the whole point of something like this? The captain has taken us into dangerous waters.

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I You know it, you know it, you know it. So I gotta ask you guys, so what is the inspiration for this meme review and and where'd you guys come up with this?

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It's not so much something that we came up with as so much that the rest of the world of YouTube and the internet has decided that really funny because the world like the world of the internet is populated by a lot of really really funny memes and people on the internet have decided that doing reviews of memes is quite hilarious and people have done ones where they're like hyper specific there's a guy

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I watch who does a gun meme review there's a you know and there's some other people that just do memes in general but this will be a pirate meme review where we're gonna got it kind of look at specifically

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Christian memes that we thought would be rather hilarious. Okay, I was gonna say something.

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I was gonna say something and that is that one of the men who you know was a pioneer in Christian memes was

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Phil Johnson so you know Phil Johnson he was one of these guys so when we were we're talking more than a decade ago when it was all hands on deck fire you know putting out the fire that the emergent church represented it was just a hot mess he discovered the the the let's just say the potency of the intersection between humor and and really tough points and theologically and so he put together these things called po -motivator posters they are they they stand out as like one of the very first innovative meme creations with a purpose of showing the absurdity of post -modernity and trying to marry it with Christianity so I feel like that this is an homage to Phil Johnson and his groundbreaking work.

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We'll have to do more meme review episodes and maybe bring Phil Johnson on and we can actually review some of the old -school po -motivators.

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That would be fun kind of like do it like an internet historian on the first innovator and oh man those were just so brilliant and they the postmodern guys the the emergent guys hated those things so like with a passion so they had they had like zero sense of humor so let me pull up my desktop my desktop and you can explain what what is what are we going to be doing here all right so what have you done what have you done what have you done so Nikki and I both have curated for today's episode 10 memes a piece and we put out the call on social media for people to submit their memes

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I put out a call on the fighting for the faith crew and Nikki put out a call and some other Christian mean groups and there's a chance that you know for the audience that your meme is is put in here

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I didn't take down the names of the people who submitted the memes I just kind of took the ones I found to be the funniest and slammed them in there so sharing memes are for sharing like we as Christ we are gonna openly and willingly not at the point of a gun share our memes got it okay so we're gonna share memes and and so this is just you know and so I'm I'm supposed to like give my my thoughts my insights with you know what

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I think of the said mean right absolutely them we're all review got it all right so without any further ado

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I think we should dive into this now I'm just gonna pick them in random order and and then make them appear on the screen let's see here yeah that's good yeah okay so yeah this is really good yeah break it down for us so yeah the true crime section over at what remains of bookstores

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I does anyone attend you go to these things anymore I still exist I you know it's kind of hard finding a bookstore is like finding the

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Sasquatch but but clearly somebody has a great sense of humor and in the true crime section they've moved over all of the

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Joel Osteen books become a better you you can you will

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I'm good enough I'm smart enough and gosh darn people like me right I guess the label of true heresy didn't exist so just a second best

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I think I did not know that he had actually written this many books right and the other thing is is that what's funny here now on the

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Day of Judgment this will not actually be a meme this will be a real thing yeah so I'm just saying yeah just say so all right rate this one okay so okay so it's it's a little tame

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I gotta admit because you know it's funny as it is mm -hmm you know it's show some good subversivity is that is that a word so I will give it

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I will give it three and a half cannonballs out of six okay so okay solid start all right all right let's uh let's move on to the next one there was a malfunction with the explain explain this one to some people out there who may not be super familiar with what goes on at Bethel okay all right so Bethel in their in their erroneous claims that we have to have signs and wonders in order to demonstrate the power of God and this is somehow gonna have power for the purpose of evangelism and showing the world that God is real somebody thought it would be a great idea to take like you know vacuum cleaner bags and stick them in the air conditioner vent and maybe throw in a little glitter from Hobby Lobby and and there's a famous video out there glory cloud appears at Bethel and they still write about it as if it's some kind of ooh and ah but we know for a fact that other people you know that you know who are into the signs and wonders they were legitimately

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Jimmy rigging their air conditioning ducts so I like this I I just think this is a just brilliant so I'm gonna give this one 8k nashes so that's yeah that's a lot of K Nash okay let's let's take a look at another one here oh yeah this is so good okay

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I I see why they put Beth Moore there in the center okay I totally get that and you know what

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I get that vibe from her without even this meme but man what if I okay so holy smokes

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Osteen look like they're dating and then Copeland and whoa what is going on there with TD Jake's a lot of for yeah yeah no this is this is this is brilliant best of the

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Atlantic twisted scripture I yeah I hang on a second here oh this is terribly wonderful so I'm gonna give this one nine

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Queen Ebola's so nine Macarena's oh my goodness yeah that's right let's see here

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I gotta make this one bigger yeah I make it bigger here man this is kind of an old this is an old format you remember you remember these guys you know some of these are some of these are gonna be like the best hits of what we've compiled over got it okay two or three years

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I tried to pull ones that were more name a little more recently yeah so I got it okay but I will say this the format

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I mean just seeing this mean gives me PTSD because I remember watching this show thinking you guys need help you turn the cameras off and go to therapy would you this was from Orange County choppers or yeah that's right yeah so as this father -son team

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I mean they couldn't get along to save their lives yeah yeah yeah

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I mean it's oh it's it's just an absolute train wreck of family dysfunction but at the end of it they always produce something beautiful yeah all right let's see here so let me walk through this mean only the penitent man will pass okay like the homage to Indiana Jones here the penitent man kneels before God now

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I gotta go to therapy

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I'm triggered I'm triggered I'm anyway you already needed therapy before this meme right right yeah that's right so on this particular one as funny as it is as it is yeah like I totally get what's going on here

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I'm definitely only gonna give this one for roastings okay you know yeah that's fine all right let's see here

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I'm gonna these are for their spicy content factor some of them are just for the hilarity got it and so all right let's see here

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God I have a plan for your life what it feels like yeah where will you be when diarrhea strikes on earth okay what it feels like holy spirit yeah you okay so this is kind of interesting all right there's kind of two ways to interpret this meme and if you were in the charismatic movement this would totally reinforce your false doctrine that somehow that you know whatever

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God's plan is for your life it's crazy it's out of control and the more out of control and crazy it is the more it's from God right you know but yeah

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I'm looking at this having come out of the charismatic movement and thinking you know I I know what it's like to be that kid the the only thing you're looking forward to is the end of the ride in a bathroom you know so please get me off this ride yeah so I'll give this

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I'll give this for Steven Furtick secret handshakes 33 is that right right yeah

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I did I can't it's a secret I can't all right let's see the next one all right let's see here

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I'm gonna make this bigger oh good night build city build tower that reaches to heaven yeah yeah

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I love the fact that it's that evil guy right okay so who are the minions that so yeah no this this is just a great biblical illustration

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I mean this almost has like flannel graph power to it you know as means go how many how many flannel boards is this right right yeah yeah this is so this is actually sure but you get the idea so I will give this

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I will definitely give this five flannel boards out of five flannel boards hang on a second here let's come back here all right let's see here stop giving me your toughest battles you literally put thick

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Bible boy and this is why

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I'm happy I'm not single boy 1517 getting thicker there's some things

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I'd like to say but I don't know if our audience like it yeah now what's funny is I saw a variant of this particular meme making the rounds after the

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Facebook Instagram whatsapp meltdown for an afternoon where you know it starts off with the same idea that you here you've got this this like NFT guy stop giving me your toughest battles and and then it says you were on you you are only locked out of Facebook for an afternoon you know something like that you know yeah yeah one of my one of my favorites is like it's like like a cat

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I guess stop giving me your zoomiest like yeah it's not giving me giving me your hardest laser pointers or something it was like yeah but you're my zoomiest boy or something all right so you literally okay yeah so okay on this particular one

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I gotta think about how I would judge this one because yeah no and and the thing is is that we're definitely laughing at somebody's expense cuz we know this guy you know each of each of we've gone to church with this guy they just discontinued the

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McChicken they'll be back I got it I figured out how I would I would scale this one this is definitely four out of five

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Perry Nobles for that yeah right here's your sign okay let's come up here and let's go with this one all right let's see here like I make this big okay it's gonna be so great when

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I finally die emo music speaks to me on an emotional level so here's the issue for me all right and it has to do with a meme like this my first inclination being a 53 year old man who's been warning the church for decades is that is is my first reactions to go

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I told you so okay yeah this was never a good idea okay so I I think

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I have to give this four therapists out of five because at this point

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I feel like this one's became about me all of a sudden all right let's see here

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Oh woke Jesus I did a series of memes years ago kind of on this same thing here

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I hate the patriarchy and I'm a cultural revolutionary that's why I chose 12 women to be my apostles and future church leaders yeah

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I see where he's going with this and my question is is that if you post this on Facebook will it have the sensitive content before people start claiming that the

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Apostles were just bigots well repressed transgender women ah that's my prediction that's my prediction of the way the narrative oh probably probably at some point claiming that Jesus was non -binary because but the virtue of a virgin birth means that he couldn't have been male yep well that whole circumcision thing blows that one apart that doesn't matter no no but if he if he only had

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Mary's DNA then he could only be a woman scripture is very clear that he's that he is the son of David and he's circumcised and we do not have any of Jesus's DNA samples reaching to the choir here oh yeah so you know it's always amazing to me or something in the in the woke

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SJW crowd they they are the masters of spinning false narratives and slander and and the thing is is that what they say is so stupid it doesn't almost doesn't even know you deserve a response it's like except for other than did your mama drop you on your head you might want to go and get that head wound looked at you know so it's clearly you're showing the signs of advanced brain trauma here not able to think so yeah so but yeah whoever put this together

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I like their stand in defiance so I will give them four Cairo flags out of four out of five on that one all right let's see here all right let's see oh okay now this one

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I have to think about hold on a second here I am not familiar with this format okay so we got a guy we're opening up his head taking out his brain putting in a poop emoji closing it up all religions lead to God yeah yeah that that that's generally how that goes because in order to believe this you know you have to believe that absolute contradictory statements are all true you know so yeah that's that's what that takes

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I would note that there is a second method by which somebody can arrive at the same conclusion and it requires them to be initiated and have secret handshakes but that's a different story altogether so I will give the same process to me yeah yeah yeah so so based on what

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I'm seeing here I will give this person five all -seeing eyes out of five all -seeing eyes oh wow so here we got the 95 thesis and Arthur's sister got it that sign won't stop me because I can't read are you allowed to say things like that out loud

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I feel like I'm breaking rules yeah all right so for for that this one

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I will definitely give it five Wittenberg's out of five oh this is clever hang on okay

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I thought I had seen all of these okay for a while these this was the only meme that existed on the internet

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Sodom although I have to say that I have one quibble one quibble it was lots wife who became a picture harder okay lot oh yeah okay

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God I see yeah still it this is gender confusion going on here it's not wasn't non -binary

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I'm sorry it's the format I'm telling

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I was just quibbling with the one thing there's 100 % theologically correct

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I don't know read the issue is the label don't fit the chick okay but I like I like the intention here

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I like the intention so we'll go back to the flannel glass graph scale this is definitely four out of five flannel graphs okay all right let's okay

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I feel like I'm looking at Joel Osteen hang on I feel like I need to change the song that we use for him you know what makes me happy what fills my heart with glee those bones in my jaw that don't have a flaw my shiny teeth wait my circular hairline in me yeah yeah okay yeah so I will definitely give that one this particular one nine out of ten

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Buzz Lightyear's okay all right let's see what we got right here this is one of those things with a common ground all right so book of Job the

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Backstreet Boys and the psychotherapist this can't go anywhere good okay so the book of Job in the

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Backstreet Boys five dudes spitting fire okay tell me why okay it's like a therapist in Backstreet Boys takes you back to old memories yeah yeah yeah yeah that's true it's isn't it sad that like the

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Backstreet Boys were like decades ago anyway the book of Job and psychotherapist consulted in times of suffering yeah yeah so I find this to be witty and insightful

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I just don't like to read that much too many words too many notes just take a few notes yeah one of the

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I find it funny one of the one of the rhetorical quips I wouldn't even call it so much a quip yeah is that the left can't meme because usually the left's memes are like walls of text where they're trying to explain their convoluted worldview

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I know I know the left's response is the right can't read oh

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I can read I just don't want it when it comes right so so because this one's kind of a neat a unique category here so I'm gonna give this three out of five

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German prophecies the book of Job the Backstreet Boys three out of six spreadsheets right exactly okay let's move along here all right

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Mary Joseph and their relatives I like this we're definitely in the flannel graph category oh this is so mean though okay oh no okay so I I feel like I should just move on and not rate this one yeah come back in three days and you'll find me in the temple all right coming over here all right let's say

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ESV I Paul write this greeting with my own hand remember my chains grace be with you that's a legitimate greeting

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I'm sure somewhere this is the first that I've heard of this children say goodbye to say fresh cheese bags so I'll tell you where my heart is going with this okay remember those sketches that we did with Gary sunshine oh gosh any of this ring a bell you know yeah and so I'm I'm gonna give this three and a half

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Gary sunshine's I was tempted to give it for Mildred's but I didn't think it fit so it's not nearly depressing enough right okay let's see here coming over here oh no so it's the

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Greek word is homoousius basically this is the the big debate between and that's at the nation's it's got to be at the nation's yeah so St.

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Nicholas of oh oh is it St. Nicholas might be so basically this has to do with the

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Aryan controversy is that homoousius or homoousius and the difference between heresy and truth is one iota and so you know so the idea here is that he's basically saying of the same substance not like substance so that's actually pretty funny that's where we get the being of one substance with the father by whom right you're made it be got right not made yep yep good stuff all right hang on a second here all right

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Luther the church all the heirs of Rome just leaving all of those behind yeah yeah yeah yeah

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I like the logic here okay how many reformations is that I will give this

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I will give this 92 out of 95 theses yeah all right let's see here and next oh no oh that's just terrible this one is also an older meme but I mean we had to do it yeah we had and what's really funny is is that this meme it was not created yet you know like yesterday it was a while back and so we have dr.

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Brown embracing the swish but here's the thing there's a newer context here I this mullet thing he looks a lot like Robin Bullock although you know which kind of tells us something about this

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Jesus artwork we need to get past the 70s by his hair his face is turned the wrong way which is what's making that look like a mullet

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I don't care I think it's I think that's hilarious but I would know this that if his if his face was turned properly he had the right perspective you wouldn't notice the egregious mullet

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II hair of G I used to have a carpet like that at my mom's apartment but that's a different thing altogether yeah and you know so so I like this because it was created in let's just say in honor of the fact that when

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Michael Brown was confronted on on whether or not Jennifer Leclerc should be an appropriate guest on his on his program

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I called in and but that's like great this is a good history man I called in and said you shouldn't be having her on she's out there teaching that there's a sneaky squid running around the land and you know and so he had her on the week after I called in on that show and to defend the sneaky squid spirit you know oh yeah that was another thing one of the times

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I called in you know he may have been it may have been that time you know what had what ended up happened is he tried to flush me after coming out of a commercial break and he said oh

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I'm like we lost Chris it's and I said no I'm still here he hit the wrong button he flushed a different he flushed a different color it was one of the best things ever so I consider

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Michael Brown to be one of the most dangerous people on the planet because he you know he's capable of high -level biblical scholarship and yet he he is the defender of every wingnut and wackerdoodle on the planet and cannot bring himself to say that Kenneth Copeland is a heretic so yeah

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I like that you know I hope that they put that artwork on his grave all right who would win

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Roman Catholic hierarchy or one Augustinian monk well we know how that one went down and what's really funny is when you look at the history of the

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Reformation there's kind of this really interesting undercurrent you have a monk standing on the

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Word of God right he's got clear biblical text in his in his arsenal he's rightly handling them proclaiming them and as a result of it saying these errors of Rome are wrong and what does the

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Roman Catholic hierarchy do engage in every kind of bureaucratic game possible one of the most famous of the games though which is

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I think so interesting for today is that the Roman Catholic hierarchy they forbade any real conversation regarding the

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Augsburg Confession wrote a wrote a document against the Augsburg Confession presented it orally and then on the spot without you know without any without any reflection or other they demanded that the

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Lutherans accept it you know you know except defeat you know it's like no it doesn't work that way so the apology the

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Augsburg Confession was was created via that that particular methodology so yep very good stuff here oh

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I you know so definitely that's 95 out of 95 theses let's see here last one last one here okay so Michael Scott and Pam all right let's see we got here

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God I've got a spiritual gift I'd like to give to you it is it talking in tongues what about prophecy no

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I bet it's healing huh wait are you are you making me an apostle yeah

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I think it's brilliant I absolutely think it's brilliant I'm gonna give this seven out of seven

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Jennifer LeClaire's it kind of took me a while to kind of I love like the three dots here that's just all that's so up to date right now you know so you know here you have this excited charismatic receiving a gift from God prophecy tongues you're gonna make me an apostle no it's the circle that would ruin everything love it okay all right so let me come back over here so all right those were those are fun

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I have to give a favorite here definitely gonna go with the

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Joel Osteen hair yeah that was one that Nikki provided yeah

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I gotta admit that one really is so bizarre that it yeah mm -hmm

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I'm gonna go with that one well okay so this this was our first foray into meme reveals we might do these from time to time and and the goal here again is just to have fun you know relax a little bit you know because the stuff we deal with day in and day out on the regular episodes is dark and some of you are saying but what about prophecy being we haven't a prophecy bingo in almost two months we're working on it we're working on we're hoping to record an episode of prophecy bingo soon soon is the best way

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I could put it and I and part of the delay at this point is is that we we invited somebody who is pretty well known and super busy so you know if we succeed in recording

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I won't say who it is at this point I know I said super top -secret secret all right double secret probation yeah yeah yeah in fact in asking him to be on the program

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I feel like one of those guys who like you know is an ordinary fellow who's asked a girl who's definitely out of his league to date him but here's the weird part

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I mean I pitched the idea to him and he said yes immediately it's just a matter of like working out the schedule so the scheduling is in a nightmare nightmare so we do have prophecy bingo in the works so keep that in mind so it's the best way

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I can put it so anyway I'm gonna I'm gonna log off here so I don't think this was educational

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I think it was certainly fun yeah yeah it was all of that we learned about all kinds of stuff oh yeah

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I'm thinking like what's not gonna make the cut okay all right so hold on a second here so hopefully you found this entertaining yeah if so all the information on how you can share the video is down below in the description until next time may