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Cosplaying Christians · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: Mamas, what do you think of the guy who cosplayed
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  Speaker 1: as a Christian until he became one?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 3: Mama, mama, mama.
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  Speaker 1: Mama told me not to come.
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  Speaker 2: She said, that ain't the way to happen, no.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now, our American Mamas, Terry Nedeville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burleson. OK, y'all are both tearing up because you
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  Speaker 1: just watched some of the videos of this. This is
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  Speaker 1: a guy named Brian Guan, and he was an atheist.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, you know what? I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pretend as if as if God was real.
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  Speaker 1: And he says, I'm going to do four things every
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  Speaker 1: day as part of this little experiment I'm doing to
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  Speaker 1: pretend and see if pretending that I'm a Christian makes
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  Speaker 1: me feel any better. I'm going to wake up, be grateful.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to pray. I'm going to read the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm going to try and apply what I've
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  Speaker 1: learned in the Bible to my daily life. And by
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  Speaker 1: day 20 of him doing this, atheist, by day 20
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  Speaker 1: of it, he's in tears. He's crying. And he says,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is real. I'm giving my life to Jesus. He's
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  Speaker 1: my Lord and Savior. I can't pretend anymore. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: get through his 30-day challenge. He got through day 20.
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys think?
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  Speaker 2: We will. You're right. We've been in tears over this
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  Speaker 2: because when you watch the video, if you go to
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  Speaker 2: his page on Instagram and you go through and watch
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  Speaker 2: some of those days and you get to day 20
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  Speaker 2: and you see everything just fall off, all of the
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  Speaker 2: doubts fall away from him and he starts crying himself
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  Speaker 2: and he's like, he's real bro. He's real dude. He's
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. And You can
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  Speaker 2: feel it, just like I just got chills again, like
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  Speaker 2: I did the first time I watched it. To see
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  Speaker 2: somebody and be able to feel what they're feeling just
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  Speaker 2: by watching them, that is Christ. And if we're ever
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  Speaker 2: in need of a social contagion, this is the one.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting you mention that because since day 20, there
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  Speaker 1: have been at least three other atheists that I've seen
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  Speaker 1: that have started posting on social media. Now, maybe they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it for the clicks, because obviously this guy's following
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  Speaker 1: went way up once he started saying he was doing
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  Speaker 1: this cosplaying as a Christian. His following went up tenfold.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe they were doing it for the clicks or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But you've got other atheists doing the same thing. They're
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  Speaker 1: practicing gratitude. They are praying. They are reading verses in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, and they are going to try and apply
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  Speaker 1: what they read in the Bible to their daily lives.
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  Speaker 1: And they're recording themselves day by day going through this.
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  Speaker 1: This Brian Guan, he talked about how he had battled
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  Speaker 1: nicotine for 19 years. And since he started this, the feeling,
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  Speaker 1: the desire to have nicotine just faded.
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  Speaker 2: Off of him.
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  Speaker 3: I think one thing I like about this particular thing
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  Speaker 3: and this guy is it's almost like fake it till
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  Speaker 3: you make it. So even though this was a cosplay,
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  Speaker 3: this was like an experiment, it tells everyone else everything.
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  Speaker 3: Experiment the same way and see what happens. Most people
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  Speaker 3: think I've got to ask Jesus to be in my life,
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  Speaker 3: to take over my life. Like there's a certain you
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  Speaker 3: think there's a certain thing that you have to do
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  Speaker 3: in order to have this. But he's basically saying, don't
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  Speaker 3: just start. Just start reading the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Just start.
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  Speaker 3: Just pretend if you have to. And then you see
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  Speaker 3: what happens. You are infected by the love of Jesus
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  Speaker 3: and it will overwhelm your life.
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  Speaker 1: Forever but it's scriptural seek and you will find he
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  Speaker 1: may not have known that that's what he was doing
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  Speaker 1: but he's saying i'm going to pretend that god's real
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  Speaker 1: and i'm going to do what i'm supposed to do
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  Speaker 1: as as if i was actually pursuing him yeah he
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  Speaker 1: was seeking and by day 20 he found.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah exactly think about in history we've had so many
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  Speaker 2: brilliant minded atheists who have sought to um go and
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  Speaker 2: decry god and decry that this is even a real
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  Speaker 2: thing they wanted to prove that it was all fake
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  Speaker 2: right only to be converted into the most outstanding Christians
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  Speaker 2: of our time.
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  Speaker 1: C.S.
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  Speaker 2: Lewis.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Strobel.
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  Speaker 1: Lee Strobel. So Lee Strobel was a reporter for the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago Times. He and his wife were an atheist, and
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  Speaker 1: his wife started going to church, and he was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I've got to break this or it's going to ruin
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  Speaker 1: my marriage. So he decided, you know what, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to prove that Jesus wasn't real. He thought it would
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  Speaker 1: take him a weekend. He spent months traveling all around
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  Speaker 1: the country, talking to experts, talking to doctors, talking to historians,
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  Speaker 1: and by the end of it, he was like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: it is real. And his own pursuit, he was seeking,
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  Speaker 1: and what he found was Jesus is real. He became
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  Speaker 1: a Christian, and he wrote the book The Case for Christ,
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  Speaker 1: which became the film The Case for Christ. But yes, again,
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  Speaker 1: seek and you will find. I mean, give it a try.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And just to see the difference on his face, on
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  Speaker 2: his whole being from day one. Right. Mr. Cool, okay.
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  Speaker 2: My yoga instructor told me to take a breath and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to try this. I'm going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: To day 20 when he just lets all the vulnerability
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  Speaker 2: inside of him shine.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: He is such proof of what God can do in
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit amount of time. If you seek him,
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  Speaker 2: if you trust, if you have that faithfulness to just
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  Speaker 2: stick with it. And see what God can do in
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  Speaker 2: your life.
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  Speaker 1: That's another scripture. God rewards those who diligently seek him.
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  Speaker 1: He did these four things every single day. And Christians,
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  Speaker 1: this shouldn't just be atheists doing this. Christians should do this.
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  Speaker 2: It should be a good reminder.
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  Speaker 1: Practice gratitude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right? Pray. Read the scriptures and apply the scriptures. You
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  Speaker 1: do those four things. You are diligent in those four things.
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  Speaker 1: God's going to reward you for that.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: the Ask the Mamas button. Terry Netto, Kimberly Burleson, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.