Little Preston Bears His Testimony

Little Preston knows that the Mormon church is true. As they say, out of the mouths of babes...

This is a tribute to all the fast and testimony meetings I sat through as a Mormon.

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[2ool8]

Is this REALLY what parents make their kids say? I just can't believe that parents would make fools of themselves by whispering a testimony into the kids ears and have them parrot it back. That is so ridiculous. REALLY this happens?

[ExmoPastafarian]

Sadly enough, this is word for word what a real child may say in a testimony meeting. I can't stress enough how very realistic this video is. Sure, I made it as a joke, but is it really?

[DefendingMormonism]

This is a cynical and jaded view of testimony meeting.

Often when people leave the Church and cannot actually prove it to be false, do not find an adequate substitute or peace of mind, they obsessively attack and ridicule what they once knew.

Justifying your decision to leave the faith becomes paramount, even if it comes to making ridiculous cartoons on YouTube.

Talk to active Mormons without an ulterior motive to find out what really happens within the Church of Jesus Christ.

Cheers!

[ExmoPastafarian]

As a missionary I accompanied an investigator to church. Mind you, this guy was made of GOLD. An absolute shoe-in for baptism. It only took one mistake... We took him to fast and testimony meeting.

He never wanted to see us again.

He was scared to death of all the brainwashed children. I didn't believe him at first, but over time I came to realize that he was right.

Don't deny that every bit of Preston's testimony is realistic... and disturbing. LOL

[defendtruth]

This is so funny! The beginning and ending are the exact words that I've hear little kids use over and over in sacrament meetings from one coast to the other. Hilarious, but creepy. Thank goodness I escaped the cult before brainwashing my own progeny.

Thanks for a wonderfully creative video!

[moparmonster1965]

You're not brainwashed; you just got the Reader's Digest version of Mormonism, which cut out all of the inconsistancies, contradictions, and errors. They're still there if you care to look.

[crazycreature13]

This is so funny and true!

[Northernskeptic]

Hey there another exmo here and this just brought me back to all those child testimonies. So crazy I'm glad to be free of it.

[mhatlie]

"This is because the secular has never, and never will accept or even try to understand the spiritual."

Nobody paying the least attention to neurological research over the past 15-20 years would make such a statement.

Recommended reading:

* "Why God Won't Go Away" by Newberg and D'Aquili

* "Phantoms in the Brain" by Ramachandran

* articles like "The neural substrates of religious experience" by Saver and Rabin

[DefendingMormonism]

I have learned spiritual things through the Spirit of Prophecy - spiritual manifestation directly from God.

This is the same way I know that Jesus is the Christ. Not just because the Bible says so.

These spiritual witnesses are much different than mere bodily and physiological chemical reactions, because they did not originate from ME, but from heaven.

Yes, I do trust my feelings. Yet, my feelings are separate and distinct from revelation from God.

A testimony stems from revelation.

[DefendingMormonism]

Most of the atheists I engage with demand I provide "proof" for my belief. They attest that they base all of their religion, yes, I view Atheism simply as another a religion, on "fact" "logic" "proof" etc.

Yet, no Atheist can prove that there is no God.

Stay tuned for a video on spiritual manifestations. To the secular world, they are mocked as "warm and fuzzies." This is because the secular has never, and never will accept or even try to understand the spiritual.

[mhatlie]

I don't know many atheists at all who "rave" about "proof." The changing conclusions of science are its strength. Knowledge is provisional, not dogmatic.

"Godly" or "divine" evidence probably means something like, "I get the warm and fuzzies and feel good about a statement if I murmur magical incantations, usually referred to as prayers, while thinking about a statement. I then conclude that the statement is true."

Recommended reading: "On Being Certain" on Robert A. Burton.

[DefendingMormonism]

We probably fundamentally disagree about what constitutes evidence.

For all of the so-called rational thinking Atheists out there, they rant and rave about scientific "proof."

If there is one thing that is constant about science, it's that it is constantly changing!

So, me as a spiritual person, put more weight on other Godly and divine evidence than I do on evidence promoted by man.

As I child I was taught this, repeatedly. And as I have become older, I have become more grateful for that!

[mhatlie]

"Repetition is a powerful tool and it works both ways - either bringing us closer to God or farther away."

...or we can engage in rational argument, evidence, etc. Simple repetition is good for learning multiplication tables or foreign language vocabulary. For complex bodies of thought, it is only good for implanting uncritical acceptance (brainwashing). Getting people to proclaim faith/"knowledge" publically is also a strong mechanism for immunizing them against arguments and evidence later.

[DefendingMormonism]

My point is: it depends on what you are being taught.

Growing up under government-sanctioned and aggressively-promoted atheism can be considered 'brainwashing' because the result is a lack of knowledge of truth.

However, growing up immersed in the gospel of Jesus Christ is anything but, because the result is a knowledge of things as they really are, a knowledge of truth that brings true happiness.

[DefendingMormonism]

Wow. I forgot about this video! Still going strong!

I think the "brainwashing" argument is interesting in terms of testimony meeting. Here's why:

We all must admit that we're all "brainwashed" by SOMETHING - whether it's MTV, a particular BLOG, our friends, our parents, famous people, musicians, etc.

We are all shaped by our environment and the people around us.

Repetition is a powerful tool and it works both ways - either bringing us closer to God or farther away.