Hope is here!. The cashiers and people at the front-line, facing bigots with cameras, both diffuse an escalation and positively defend the LGBTQI without taking the hateful bait.
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“That’s not the pedophile flag, sir. This is the pedophile flag.”
Pulls out swastika.
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It’s weird how presumptuous many Christians can be. That virtually everyone is a Christian, and that as a group, they get to decide things…for others. Nope, your chosen lifestyle is for YOU, not “we”.
In the same vein, I used to have a very in your face Christian co-worker, and she would often tell me: “check your Bible.” This was meant as a “checkmate!” type of comment at the end of a Gish Gallop of nonsense, just as presumptuous as supposing an atheist is going to refer to the Bible for…anything.
I’m pretty sure this guy also thinks “we” Christians should be deciding things for all of society. As a mental exercise, I always wonder what would happen if these people got their way. Then what? Which version of the many versions of Christianity do they settle on? That woman I mentioned above? She was sure that Catholics were not “real Christians”.
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I thought the same for a second, but then I was so impressed with them not backing down, and stating that they do support the LGBTQ+ community that I hoped I would also have the backbone to do that.
I would however be tempted to ask him how the rainbows differ, given he says one is satanic and the other from gawd. Are the colors in a different order? How can he tell???
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Not a fan of violence, but one if these days he is going to run into someone who:
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Likes to hit people
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Has zero fucks to give
Enjoy doing your vid with a mouth full of broken teeth.
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Xtianity or Positive Christianity. Christianity with the torture device, but not the man who died on it.
The Xtians assume that all Christians are like them and agree with what they want, which is not true. I know that liberal Quakers disagree with them on a lot, as do Christian socialists and Christian Anarchists.
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Though it’s always fun when they run into progressive Christians or non-Christians who really have studied the Bible (which is really important if you want to understand much of English literature).
“Check my Bible? Why? I have it memorized. Which line of Corinthians did you think supported your point? I don’t think that means what you think it means…”
Hell, most Lutherans, Methodists and Presbyterians are repulsed by the bigoted, prosperity-obsessed Evangelical cults in the US.
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I was raised a Quaker (my extended family is mostly still in the religious left camp - though to hear it from the far right, no such thing even exists, LOL) and…oh yes. My first run-in with the Dominionist types as a kid was…a lot to process. I’m not sure I met explicit Positive Christianity types, but implicit in the beliefs of many of the xtians I dealt with early on was that “good people” == Christians == white people (even in phrases like “that’s mighty Christian/white of you”). Oh, and every war the American empire conducted on every nation and every subjugation of “the other” within our borders was something endorsed by the “Prince of Peace”.
I could not, and still really cannot, fathom how these people square much of the text of “the” bible (the NT, anyway) with these beliefs.
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I did read most of “the” bible - twice - by the time I was 18. I can not rattle off scripture, though, and I would not call my reading a real study.
But I know exactly what you mean. The people that have either rejected it outright or tend to have much more moderate/progressives views on it seem to be those that have actually read the entire thing and know it well…well, in most cases, anyway. I suppose some people are prone to go PKD-style or Branch Davidian and write an exegesis…
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I especially liked “Not at a PetSmart”, like an Arizona PetSmart is one down from St Peter’s Basilica or something.
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Guy knows the people he’s filming are more or less constrained to give polite responses.
The whole thing is a performative exercise in sadistic pleasure.
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Comedy gold!
Plus, no other customers around, so virtually guaranteed no serious pushback — like the pepper spray he so desperately deserves to choke on.
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When asked if you know your Bible, ask what translation in which language they mean. Do they mean the ancient Hebrew? The Aramaic? The Greek? Many of them are actually ignorant of the fact that the book did not originate in English.
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Or maybe he’s expected to get an angry response so he can play the victim card?
They did exactly the right thing here. 
Politely ask him to leave, and don’t give in to his histrionics.
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I always ask them to explain Exodus 4:24 to me, bc that shit doesn’t make sense in any language! Moses was doing what the Lord asked 
Poor Gershom.
Then if they’re still willing to chat, I like to ask about Job and why the Lord was making wagers on the soul of one of his most faithful servants. (This one can be especially fun with the evangelicals who were told that the Bible says “gambling is a sin,” narrator: it doesn’t.)
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I’ve just watched this video ten times. Even froze it at one point to see his smashed, concaved head. It brings me joy.
Give all of those employees bonuses and raises!
They deserve it.
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