Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Shipkitsheared podcast.
I'm your host Austin Creed.
Well friends, I'm on the road again and I've been busy and I gave out two episodes, you
know, how I regularly do them because I really wanted to do the...
I missed the camera, I truly do.
But that's not the reason we're here today.
We're here today to discuss why I believe you should avoid the trap of religion.
Now I want to pause right here and I want to make a couple of disclaimers to prevent
any misunderstanding.
Number one, I am not telling you that if you were a religious person, you are stupid.
No, I would never say that.
Number two, I am not telling you I am an atheist because I am not.
And three, you might ask me, well, Austin, what are you talking about?
Religion, how do you avoid the trap?
Like, what are we talking about?
Well, I'm going to fight it for you.
Some people is can't be patient, I guess they all want it right now.
But anyways, what I mean is I don't like organized religion in general.
What I mean is I don't like the church, mainly the Christian church.
I've actually wanted to go to synagogue and I want to explore that.
I would like to see what a mosque is like because I am convinced, my friends, I am
convinced that the world in general, like the church is just full of people who it's
all about money.
And it's all about the people at the pulpit telling you what to do, what not to do.
And they don't actually talk much about spirituality.
They don't really talk about spiritual health.
It's more just giving you programmed answers, not teaching you how to think.
What to think.
And I find that very distasteful.
Truly.
I was having a conversation with one of my friends today.
She and I were going around talking about religion, talking about spirituality and all
that.
It was interesting, but at the same time I actually hated it.
And the reason I hate it is because so many people, they hate the idea of free thinking.
They hate the idea of questioning, wait a minute, maybe I'm wrong.
Wait, maybe I've been letting a lie.
Maybe the whole thing is just a two card monty.
Maybe the whole thing is a sham and God or whatever higher power you believe in it is
more than what you've been told.
You know, I always ask people who are religious, of any background, when we have a conversation
about religion, I ask them, what do you view God?
And most of the time we end up believing that God is infinite or he's outside of time and
space, right?
And I end up asking them, well, then what is the purpose of your religion?
Then if God is infinite, then how do you explain that there's only one way, in other words,
your way of understanding him?
Yeah, people don't like that.
They don't like that type of questioning because, you know, I was told once by my mother, God
bless her, that I should not discuss religion or politics with people because at the end
of the day, people tend to have their minds made up.
Well mom, you were right in a lot of ways, but now I'd mainly discuss religion, politics,
relationships, the male issues and how we as men were largely we put the lie to guys.
You know, it's funny.
It's funny because every time, you know, I sometimes give flack as a content creator
for not not telling people who are in my personal life where I stand on everything and rise
out shout out to you.
I want to appreciate you for challenging me brother.
I do.
But what I'll tell you is I mainly keep I don't tell them everything mainly for their
sake not for mine.
The reason I say that is because there are so many Mickey Mouse people out there who
want to just live their basic life.
They want to care about things other people tell them the value.
They want to sit on their behind and think the world could be better if only someone
did that or they did this and I'm sick of it all.
I need to know what's funny is a lot of people who share the same very cynical viewpoint
as myself and maybe you if you're listening to the show and you're you're cynical.
A lot of us end up turning to drugs, alcohol, sex to to feel something because we oftentimes
see reality for what it is and it's depressing.
I don't know how if you see reality, if your reality is not depressing or at the very least
deliberating like it makes you it takes the air out of your sales, then you're not seeing
reality.
Reality is very disappointing.
They else had it right.
Everybody was disappointing and that's why people everybody wants the reality stone.
They want to sit there and they want to be like this is what I want reality.
Boom snap.
There it is.
That's what they want.
And companies are more than happy to come in there and do that.
Why?
Because they want to make money, obviously.
And so my friends, we need to break this whole thing apart because I can't stand the fact
that people use religion as a crutch.
They use it as a get out of jail free card.
They don't want to use it to address real issues in the world and make them a better
place, make the community better.
Because that's what religion was.
Religion was a set of rules to keep people in society in order, mainly the Jews back
in the old days and in ancient times.
That's what the Old Testament is, by the way.
You look at Leviticus law.
That's what it was for.
But what I can't stand are these people and mainly the Christian church because that's
where I've had most of my upbringing and my experience in.
And I don't want to speak out of turn about other people's religions that I don't know
as much about.
But what I will tell you is religion tends to people today.
They hear so much about how a religion makes them feel, but they don't want rules.
They don't want to follow the Vatican law.
They don't want to listen to what the Old Testament has to say.
They look at the New Testament.
They want everything to be about how I feel.
How do you feel?
Do you feel close to God?
Do you feel like you have a relationship with God?
Do you feel like you have this?
I don't care about feelings.
Who the fuck has time for this shit?
I don't care about this garbage.
People talking about, oh God loves you.
I don't care if God loves me.
They don't want to say here and listen to this rubbish about, oh God loves you Austin.
I don't care about this bullshit.
Know what I care about?
I care about how God operates if I can seem impossible or maybe people's understanding
of God is so backwards.
I'm so sick of these people gaslighting and manipulating people.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of people going on the pulpit making people feel like crap.
Was it Eric?
I think it was you brother.
You were talking the other day yesterday I think was about you write up Satanism which
was interesting to me at first when I was thinking about it.
And then I saw I was thinking about it.
I was like, oh my God.
You got the good point.
A lot of Christian denominations you're made to feel like crap all the time by everything.
Shame, shame.
It's like that scene from Game of Thrones where sources walk you down the street and
everybody's like, shame, shame, you're bad, you're evil.
I actually saw that in New Bromney by the way.
I actually walked those steps but I'm not trying to get far or feel the and I'm not
saying I'm a saint in this.
I'm not.
What I find interesting though is I'm sick and tired of people telling me, oh God loves
you and you know God is love and God has many things.
God is not Mr. Rogers.
He's right for his just little I'm sick of this garbage of people put out that God's
like Mr. Rogers.
Hello neighbor.
I'm glad we're together again.
God is not Mr. Rogers bro.
I'm sick of these people out here telling me that God is this nice guy who's here to
help me.
No he's not.
No he isn't.
I'm my experience.
No he isn't.
The whole thing is ridiculous to me and I'm sick of it.
That's why I'm spiritual dude.
That's why the whole biblical bachelorette lifestyle is not about telling you that you
need to read the Bible for badm and follow it.
But asking hard questions, developing a worldview about trial and error and thinking for yourself
and not just listening to some two book short pastor who's telling you this and the other
thing.
I'm sick of that rubbish.
It's all crap.
It's all garbage.
I'm sick of these people out here telling me about this.
This is the other thing.
Oh no.
Please put money in the offering play.
I mean the whole thing is a fraud and a sham.
I'm sick of it.
That's why I'm a spiritual guy.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of these grifters and these gaslighters out here.
I'm tired of it.
And then these women you want to come out here and tell me as a guy like oh you're not a
spiritual leader.
All these fucking skeezers and hoes telling me about the Bible.
Get the fuck out of here.
I'm sick of y'all.
Y'all, y'all make me sick and the reason why men don't go to church no more.
You and your repackaged vagina.
Fuck out of here.
I'm sick of these people man.
Look I'm sorry guys.
I'm not trying to sound like an emotional pussy right now.
I'm just telling you I'm sick of this garbage man.
I was talking about this all morning and I was like I need a drink.
I can't take this shit.
I can't take these people out here telling me like I have a total logical point of view.
Given the logical arguments they out here give us something like AI jab bots with like
the oil war you see according to this definition and I don't give a fuck about the definition.
If I wanted it I could look it up on the internet.
What do I need you for?
I'm trying to have a conversation over here.
And then you and these people go give me these pearl granddaughters and I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of these people out here just giving me these basic stupid second right answers.
I'm sick of it.
Guys you know what this is what I had planned for today.
I didn't have this plan.
I didn't plan to come out here and sound like some beta cuck-ass simp manjina with this
emotional bullshit.
I didn't come out here to talk about this shit.
I didn't.
I'm just I can't be alone with.
I can't be alone with the fact that I'm sick of these people out here telling me about
this emotional bullshit with religion and I was supposed to sit here and buy it like
it's not like completely out of context completely bullied of logic and I was supposed to sit
here and pretend like it's not happening.
It is happening.
It's happening everywhere.
All these Mickey Mouse mentality people are out here trying to act like they know everything
when they haven't even seen a glimpse of reality.
Nothing zero.
Nothing.
Now I want to sit here and tell you about how you could be a good man and yet they're
out here.
There's no need to be a man.
That one there.
They're too stop.
No count at 200.
That's the grams per milliliter.
Fuck out of here.
Now I tell me being a beta cuck who's out here pretending like his wife being cheating
on him while he's out on a business trip.
They all got sex once a month and they want to sit here and tell me they're a real man
because they read the Bible.
I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of this crap dude.
You know I you know as much as I disagree with with Muslims man I gotta tell you the
fact of the matter is they don't take a shit from people and they have actual ways to enforce
the religion that are out here just giving you love the morality garbage every day and
night.
It's interesting to me man.
I mean I can't be alone.
I'm not telling you that I suddenly not really just sitting more or not spiritual.
No it's not like that.
It just made me realize why I wrote the book in the first place.
Every time I talk with these people from my past or I talk with these people and I don't
know or suppose theologians and Bible avid Bible readers and stuff.
The more I realize these people they think they have all the answers but they haven't
actually researched anything.
Nothing all they do is they sit around or they pretend like they know everything because
they get recited a Bible verse.
Meanwhile they have no concept of history no concept of how things play out in the real
world nothing and they want to say you're in lecture you and lecture me about how to
live our lives how to handle our relationships how to handle our finances how to handle all
this shit and I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it that's why I'm an intellectual nomad why I'm a biblical bachelor I sit out
here and I've been sighted from a distance what to believe what not to believe what has
weight what doesn't and I'm sick of this garbage and I can guarantee you if you listen
this far you're in the same boat as me you're sick of all these people out you're telling
you how to live your life when they are you don't even respect them because they're out
here talking about this that and the other thing and they're totally cocked in their
marriage they're totally out here acting beta as fuck and you're sick of it you don't
respect these people the only way you can get respect is through the Bistro religion
if you take the religion out of the equation what are they nothing zeros if they're not
anything and they want to say here in fact like they know everything about every concept
of like human condition they don't know anything.
My friends this is what I'm talking about this is why I'm not a quote religious person
I'm more spiritual now and I'm out here trying to discover what's real what's not real who's
out here trying to lie and deceive you for money and who isn't I'm sick of this crap
dude and I know I'm not alone I know a lot of you of this you boys you're just hanging
with the church you're trying to get re-engaged or you're done with the whole thing all together
I understand both sides I do well friends this is an important conversation because
at the end of the day we have needs we have physical needs emotional needs sexual needs
spiritual needs we have all these different kinds of need and the question is what do
you value more do you value logic do you value credentials or do you value emotions that's
for you to decide because for me I'm sick of the emotions and I'm sick of the people
out here just having letters by their names or a degree and they want to sit here and
lecture lecture us about how we live our lives I'm sick of it dude if you can't make logical
sense then you get no sway you get no play not not not here not on this show not on my
world no way my friends we know what you think hopefully hopefully you found a little bit
of entertainment amongst any any kind of knowledge I spit because I'm not usually an emotional
guy I'm really not I tend to be more logically minded but you know what I'm sick of this
car I'm sick of it and I know you guys are sick of it too I know you are but you don't
want to sound you don't want to sound like you don't want people to judge you I don't
give a fuck if people judge me I don't I sincerely don't give a shit you know why because if
you care so much about what my what my spiritual life looks like you care so much about this
then that's your business my mind I don't care I'm just one man with a microphone out
of your trying to figure out the truth that's it anyways enough of my emotional outburst
mixed with the somewhat semblance of logic but anyways my friends let me know what you
thought please share your experience with me I guarantee you I'm not alone with what
you heard I guarantee you a lot of you resonated with this I can tell my sixth sense my spidey
senses are tingling I get sent to a lot of you resonated with what are we talked about
today anyways take care of yourselves my friends keep vigil in our ear don't let these people
get to you as they let like I let them get to me from time to time be better than me
but anyways my friends take care I'm out peace.