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Cosplaying Christians · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American Mamas. Dear Mamas, what
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  Speaker 1: do you think of the guy who cosplayed as a
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  Speaker 1: Christian until he became one? Well, let's ask our American Mamas.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us now are American Mamas Terry Nedeville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burleson. Okay, 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: pretend as if God was real. And he says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do four things every day as part of
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  Speaker 1: this little experiment I'm doing to pretend and see if
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  Speaker 1: pretending that I'm a Christian makes me feel any better.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to wake up, be grateful. I'm going to pray.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to read the Bible. And then I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to try and apply what I've learned in the Bible
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  Speaker 1: to my daily life. And by day 20 of him
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  Speaker 1: doing this, atheist, by day 20 of it, he's in tears.
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  Speaker 1: He's crying. And he says, Jesus is real. I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: my life to Jesus. He's my Lord and Savior. I
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  Speaker 1: can't pretend anymore. He didn't get through his 30-day challenge.
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  Speaker 1: He got through day 20. What do you guys think?
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  Speaker 2: We will you're right we we've been in tears over
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  Speaker 2: this because when you watch the video if you go
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  Speaker 2: to his page on instagram and you go through and
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  Speaker 2: watch some of those days and you get to day
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  Speaker 2: 20 and you see everything just fall off all of
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  Speaker 2: the doubts fall away from him and he starts crying
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  Speaker 2: himself and he's like he's real bro he's real dude
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  Speaker 2: he's jesus christ is my lord and savior and you
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  Speaker 2: can feel it just like I just got chills again,
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  Speaker 2: like I did the first time I watched it. To
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  Speaker 2: see somebody and be able to feel what they're feeling
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  Speaker 2: just by watching them, that is Christ. And if we're
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  Speaker 2: ever 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's he's he
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  Speaker 1: was doing this cosplaying as a christian his his following
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  Speaker 1: went up tenfold so maybe they were doing it for
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  Speaker 1: the clicks or whatever but you've got other atheists doing
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  Speaker 1: the same thing they're practicing gratitude they are praying they
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  Speaker 1: are reading verses in the bible and they are going
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  Speaker 1: to try and apply what they read in the bible
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  Speaker 1: to their daily lives And they're recording themselves day by
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  Speaker 1: day going through this. This Brian Guan, he talked about
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  Speaker 1: how he had battled nicotine for 19 years. And since
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  Speaker 1: he started this, the feeling, the desire to have nicotine
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  Speaker 1: just faded 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. Just start practice,
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  Speaker 3: just pretend.
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  Speaker 2: If you have to.
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  Speaker 3: And then you see what happens. You are infected by
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  Speaker 3: the love of Jesus 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 yeah exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Think about in history we've had so many brilliant minded
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  Speaker 2: atheists who have sought to um go and decry god
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  Speaker 2: and decry that this is even a real thing they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to prove that it was all fake right only
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  Speaker 2: to be converted into the most outstanding Christians of our time. C.S. Lewis, 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 are 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.
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  Speaker 2: 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?
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  Speaker 2: Pray.
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  Speaker 1: Read the scriptures and apply the scriptures. You do those
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  Speaker 1: four things. You are diligent in those four things. God's
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  Speaker 1: going to reward you for that. I love it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.