Around one year ago a video was released on Youtube that sparked quite a bit of controversy and many responses, responses and arguments that are still active even after a year. The video is entitled “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus.” The video consists of a young man performing spoken word of his view on following Jesus as opposed to following a religion.
For the next few weeks I will be looking at the various responses to the Youtube video “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus.” I will be researching video responses to the original video and comments made to get a better understanding of lived religion on Youtube as it applies to this particular video. I will mainly be focusing on the responses of Christians to this Christian video, but I may also use responses of a different view as a means of comparison or to add more understanding of context. There are many arguments that consume the comment section of Youtube and some of those arguments will be pertinent for my observation of how Christians are living out religion and responding to both the Christian video and the responses that are opposed.
I chose this topic because I believe it will be interesting to look at a controversial video that garnered many, many responses, many of which are those who claim the same beliefs as the star of the video. This only begins to show that lived religion may be quite different from individual to individual. What do these differences in lived religion mean? Could this shift in lived religion be simply a generational development or is there more at work here? I believe this video and the responses to it will provide a very interesting and enlightening platform on which the comparison of different ways lived religion is practiced within the same faith.
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