<\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\nI spent many years in a megachurch with a worship band just like this. They did skits like this too. Watching this video, I was sucked back to that time. The message this video carries to believers is as follows: <\/span><\/p>\nYou only think about God on Sundays. How selfish you are! You only surrender part of your life to God. How can you spit in Jesus\u2019 face like this? He gave you his EVERYTHING, even his life, and you can\u2019t give all? What kind of person ARE you? You think about your hair and nails at church. You ungrateful ingrate! You think too well of yourself, and think you have no need of salvation. How can you even be saved, you prideful pharisee? You don\u2019t go to church every Sunday, because you are too busy. Jesus would CRY if he knew how you are living! You sing these songs without meaning them. What a wicked person you are! How can you do this to your SAVIOR?! You are a faker! You only care about yourself! You are a horrible, terrible person! <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nYou have no idea how many times I received these messages from church, Bible club, and family worship time. You have to understand how intentional these messages are. In fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity, you have to<\/em> make people feel like worthless losers, because if they don\u2019t feel like they are wicked ingrates in need of Christ\u2019s salvation they will spend eternity in hell.\u00a0I\u2019ve written before about <a href=\"http:\/\/lovejoyfeminism.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/are-you-saved.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">salvation anxiety<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\nThere\u2019s one more aspect to mention. It is this exact process that is used to drive people deeper into fundamentalism and into the world of Christian Patriarchy. You aren\u2019t good enough,<\/em> the church tells people. You are living like the world. Are you facing persecution for your beliefs? No? Then you\u2019re not LIVING them! Live your faith! Let it affect every single minute aspect of your life! Dare to be different, and to be criticized! <\/em><\/span>It\u2019s really no surprise so many Christians go to the extreme. They\u2019re shamed into it through videos and skits like this one. <\/span><\/p>\nEvangelical and fundamentalist Christianity essentially yells\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re not good enough! You\u2019re not good enough! You\u2019re not good enough!\u201d <\/em>in your face, well, forever. Sure, it follows this with \u201cbut that\u2019s okay because Jesus died to save wretches like you,\u201d but that doesn\u2019t change the fact that the entire belief system is about convincing people that they are horrible, worthless pieces of dirt in\u00a0desperate\u00a0need of divine salvation. <\/em>I mean, that\u2019s the central message of evangelical and fundamentalist Christianity. In contrast, I am a humanist. 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