0:00 [Music] all right so we got some uh mega church news my favorite kind of news cult time I don't know about cult um but this mega church is cult this like almost kind of innocent but you know I enjoyed the righteous gemstone so I wanted to talk about it um there was a mega church in Texas right who wanted to put up a traffic light near the South entrance of their like campus area and in terms of it being a benefit for the church and not so much for the city they ran into a couple road blocks and obviously you know it's going to take some money they got to make sure that they can verify that there is a traffic situation and basically what's going on is every single time they have service they got to hire a you know a a traffic
0:52 coordinating crossing guard type that helps like direct flow of traffic and all that stuff which means it costs the church every service and they're like we need a better solution alternative to this so they pitched that they want to open a traffic light now if you're a mega church you know you got some kahunas you got some power so you just got to make it happen plus you kind of have some money too so uh what they ended up doing even though they didn't want to pay more traffic officers is they had to hire a kind of like third-party inspection engineering firm to take care of like uh figuring out a time frame for like when they could record traffic patterns to submit to the city to verify that it was important and necessary for them to get a traffic light installed into that yeah so they got to prove that you need it basically
1:42 so what they ended up doing though is they sent out a uh a calling card to all of the life group leaders of this mega church they said dear life group leader please make this announcement to your life groups this weekend calling all life groups in an effort to ease traffic better serve our city and provide a better experience for those who attend LakePoint church we need your help to get a traffic light at the Ralph Hall entrance life groups can help by signing up for shifts throughout May 14 15 16 18 19 oh they're going to simulate a traffic flow everyone in the life group can sign up for as many shifts as they'd like across the week Max one shift per hour each shift is a commitment to drive the prescribed Route 10 times within that hour God damn it's great if you make more than 10 laps within the hour but laps are only counted towards the specific shift click here to sign up for that is a sin sin
2:32 sin AR think going to be like is that the same ████ Camry that's going over and over and over but the thing is the engineering firm is only responsible for clocking how many cars are passing in a specific time that's bearing false witness I mean it just feels like a North Korean fake market for the tourism to come and go oh wow what a cool little city idea of a Texas Mega Church being compared to a North Korean market is ████ funny that's like cooking the books basically yeah it is so a uh person takes this newsletter and leaks it out oh my God everybody who had left this mega church for whatever disparity that they had is rallying behind this like you see they're corrupt and they're sinful and they're whatever and then obviously by the time the city gets hold of this they're like anything
3:24 that that engineering firm reports to us is incorrect data and we can't accept any of it d but that's that mega church power that's crazy churches are strong dude they're also dumb like that was a dumb thing to do a public like letter out to all of their like people but they also can vote in a group too that's how powerful they are cuz they'll be like okay we're trying to get this thing passed through the city yeah and it's like if your church has a dominant like Community like power like it's like oh there's 40,000 members or whatever it be like all right which is fair in that sense right right like rallying organization or whatever to like believe or whatever falsifying like traffic records and stuff in order to like that's what idiotic it's like the first rule of falsifying stuff is not to have a paper trail like you should have just done it in the sermon I know yeah it's
4:15 like that's the reason sign up on your way out you got to encode it in the serice yeah exactly Texas is a you know Texas has a lot of churches Christian you know I mean all of that every freaking where you go every mile you take there's a dude Hawaii has a lot of churches too it's a very it's very Christian yeah no that's what I'm saying Texas is even the restaurants everyone is family-owned and your own son daughter all works there but you know what I think is good about the church is how like well they control the community in a good way where like you know like if you go to Salt Lake City it's for a major city it's pretty clean and then everyone's a part of the program and then you know it's seems
5:06 safe and nice and all that you know but then if you have a city that's like there's too many different things going on and not they're not all like under one watch it's a little bit dangerous yeah like one thought process too yeah it's chaotic it's a little dangerous like there's no sense of community cuz I think like when the population gets bigger um there's a lot of like US versus you and then there's no like one culture holding it together in the states at least yeah true did you grow up religious I grew up Catholic oh yeah that makes sense Filipinos yeah yeah like do you practice or does are your parents like devout um my it was mostly my grandma holding this all together she was like the caterer of all the events at the church so as a kid I would go to
5:56 church every Sunday and then I don't know I started Ed asking questions when I was like 12 like cuz I was also told what race I could be friends with what for real yeah my grand that's Catholic that's just racism it was racist but that was the thing was like my grandma was like she was a sweet lady I love her to death but she just was a different generation she old school yeah she's old school so she was like you can't be friends with this race because that or this race which ones were okay and which it was blacks and Mexicans but those were all my friends oh my God like so where am I going to find friends then yeah but but then then you had to go to this church cuz it was a Filipino church and it was more like a oh um you know we're all everybody's a son and daughter of God but not blacks and Mexicans like it
6:47 was like you know itans a lot of them were catholic yeah I'm sure but that was the whole thing was I probably probably had more of a problem with my church than than religion as a as a whole yeah like there's a lot of good people who are religious who don't push it on you yeah and I just found my own way was that constantly a thing at the church or they're like you guys glad there's no blacks in no no no no no they start off by saying that every time she only say that at home you know like say that church but then you go to church like everybody's Filipino here that's true I think that was the the Baptist Church uh eye opener as a kid for me too cuz I they were talking about how like oh we're better we're the we're the Christians you don't want to associate with outside and I'm all like but all of the people I thought that were solid and good and honorable and nice were the
7:37 non-Christian yes or the people that I met like at school or whatever and then I was just like yeah well how come they're not going to heaven but they're like they're not lying like you guys in church and being like ████ up and spreading rumors they're just like good honest people and I was like that's the devil getting your thoughts I know right I think the first girl who cheated on me in high school was like it wasn't like a you held some other dude's hand it was like she was banging a bunch of other dudes in high school she was brought me to like uh we had a group called Youth for Christ um and she was the horniest one she was the worst she was going all these little Retreats so she going to hook up a dudes and anytime you got into an argument with her she or she got into an argument with her parents like I'm a good kid I go to church and it was like this weird self Dam but then she was the
8:28 most conniving one damn so like that scarred me as my first heartbreak right she was Filipino yeah well see they're toxic bro Filipino Malaysian interesting almost same same oh very close wow yeah but double toxic but yeah it was just like all these weird things like uh growing up in that religious background that made it different but I know man yeah I mean growing up religious as a kid is definitely that's definitely something funky about it right off the rip funy about it yeah right off the rip man going to going to the the Saturday classes CCD and stuff like that Wednesday mornings 4:00 a.m. before school I had to do pre uh pre uh what you call praising thingy that where they speak Tong oh the praising thing and I'm just like what the ████
9:19 wait what religion were you Christian Christian like Pentecostal is that I don't know Christian look chrisan which Christians be doing the anybody got to be speaking tongues I don't know about that no yeah it is my aunt you came straight out into the final level then dude I guess my auntie was with my pastor is there a tongue language or everyone just makes up some ████ I think so they freestyle Frey cuz you think the tongue talkers can talk to each other no no but I didn't making random ████ they just support each other I didn't get it made me come up this hill 4 in the morning before school and all I heard was my pastor and everyone go and I'm like I was like that's not even the crazy part it wasn't even Korean oh that's the crazy part yeah I was like what the ████ man everybody was in unison saying it or yes it was like it was crazy it was like it was like this a circle everyone's
10:13 like y you know what sounds like that frog in the old school YouTube video D D D D D D that's like when you see the so like those are like the gifts of God the Pentecostal stuff and they have like different powers that's the tongues one and then there's the writing one most writing on like they could you could write and ████ it'll be like a collection of X-Men and then they'll have like certain people separated into these groups so P has like X-Men and they're W so they'll be like can we get all the writers and then they'll all like put paper in front of them and then they'll gather like this and then they'll just oh it's coming to me and then they start writing what God's saying and then uh and you read it it's like everyone's is mad different ours like the one that belong to our pray group the way that she wrote it was like very King James Version
11:03 Bible so God thou yeah God was still talking in THS and these on hers shakesp and then and then the other lady was like God don't talk like that no more they yeah God's modern now she's fake she's fake yeah because there's so many different ones God would have talked like Armenians cuz bro let me drop GS the be literally cuz no cuz uh um that's his language Aramaic it's not ████ Arabic or Egyptian or whatever it's it's Aramaic that that was his language oh yeah oh yeah yeah I don't think God I think God would know you don't speak that before talking to you that way though I know how you got to ████ get a transl God's the guy who like made us all speak different languages God can't
11:53 speak your language or or Jesus Jesus was Aramaic I think to you in your language yeah speak a different dialect yeah God translator quad come here I don't know the dialect man yeah isn't there the time part of the verse where God said they're building a tower to go up to heaven Bon the babyon and they said you know what let's you know um I'm actually very thirsty to join like a religion or church thirsty constantly disappointed no I have the approach of like you know how people have the approach of like I want to be a part of it I ████ want to be a part of it go to Faith Community Church in isusa I ████ want love that yes oh um Community it was a massive uh theater yeah I um action directed a uh
12:46 Easter play thing for their oh I action Easter play they had stunts they had this it was called it was like a short called blood of blood of Christ that sounds crazy it's kind of fun but this guy hit me up was like that's like that's like synonymous to like Abraham Lincoln vampire slayer yeah I want a church where a pastor comes down with angel wings on a ████ Crane and starts doing a sermon on a mic and starts wrapping his ████ Ser guess who's back that's the church Jesus Joe that's the church for you dude it's a big it's a non-denominational Christian Church really big they have like a 30 piece band for their worship it's the sickest see I want to be long I'm not disappointed you won't be disappointed I want to be I don't want
13:36 to walk in I'm just like man this guy ████ dumbass dude this guy is interpreting the Bible like a stupid all their stuff is high production like like you were saying too like they have they have really cool ideas that's cool that was my last stint of like like after like I was done with 7 adventis I tried that I was like dude if I I'll never leave if I stay here they got DJ too I don't think they have a DJ well maybe they do now but but that was dope like everybody's mad nice all super diverse that's cool yeah that's true it wasn't very it wasn't like One race I thought that was cool it's super diverse but no blacks and Mexicans though no well the guy who hired me was black but he's behind the scenes though I heard Mosaic is tight your wife is Jewish right can I join that they're successful joined that I don't know how
14:26 that thing works what do you mean you don't know how that thing works yes
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