YouTube Thursday – This Has to Be a Joke…Right?
I’m back from Egypt, and I haven’t had the time to watch any interesting YouTube videos that I could share with people, however I just watched one that I have to make a comment on. It’s called “Converting an indian to christianity -- don’t let the devil win” by some YouTube newbie, and it is either a display of outright ignorance, or a hoax.
The video is a discussion between two American kids and their friend “Saraa” who is Indian. In it, they discuss Indian culture and the Hindu religion, before attempting to “convert” poor Saraa to Christianity. If you don’t have time to watch the video, here are a selection of face-palm quotes you might want to peruse:
This is just an epic fail in geography.
Molly: [Saraa's] Indian. It’s like…an African country in Asia.
This is plain ignorance, not to mention quite racist.
Molly: Do you consider yourself Asian or African?
Saraa: Asian.
Molly: Because you look African…but you’re Asian.
Rachel: Why are you so dark then?
Saraa: Because I’m from Asia!
Molly: Why aren’t your eyes pointy…or slanted?
*pause*
Molly: It’s ok, I know you can be what you want, but it’s not what you look like.
Rachel: Yeah, I think she’s lying to us.
Yet more ignorance regarding race.
Rachel: It’s like, if an African and an Asian had a baby.
Then they move onto religion.
(After Saraa explains she is Hindu and doesn’t believe in Jesus)
Molly: But why don’t you change if you’re wrong? You know that believing in multiple gods is a sin?
No amateur discussion of religion is right without one mention of Pascal’s wager.
Molly: Ok, how about this. There’s a chance…well, a very good chance that Christianity is the right religion, and that’s the religion that has a hell, so if I’m wrong in your religion I don’t go to hell, but if you’re wrong in my religion then you go to hell.
So why do I think the video might be fake? It’s just an inkling I get when watching it, perhaps because I’ve seen so many Poe’s in videos, but it doesn’t come across as how actual conversation goes. Especially at the end when Molly tells Saraa that she can’t be her friend because she’s not Christian, and Saraa sort of just accepts it and says “I need to go home to eat rice”.
I’ll leave it up to you to decide.


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