#dan mcclellan

[lenbryant]

American Taliban taking over the classrooms in Oklahoma!

[cargopantsman]

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[nerdygaymormon]

[zenosanalytic]

Hey! So I Wrote This RB back in 2013 about how the name Yeshua shifted to Jesus, and lately I've been watching videos from this biblical scholar named Dan McClellan and realized I was wrong about allot of it!

Here's A Good Video of his responding to someone with similar misunderstandings to mine, which I think explains the actl linguistic principles at play really well. Of particular interest to me is his discussion of how the aleph was pronounced(It's a glottal-stop not an 'ah' sound :D), and how the Galilean accent most likely operated. Tl;dr: it was probably pronounced something more like yea-shoo! Neat!!

Anyway, for me he shall Eternally Remain "Oily Josh" uwu uwu uwu

[shevibe]

SheVibe SHOUT OUT! Dan McClellan & DATA over DOGMA!

[kalisbaby]

"I wanna pause real quick and say, if when I said [in my previous video] 'put a serial sexual predator in the White House,' you had alarm bells going off in your head, and you immediately either felt that intuitive pinch or started coming up with objections or arguments against what you heard me say, then this video is for you. Because I'm going to discuss an important insight from the cognitive behavioral sciences[.]

[...] [Intuitive cognition] is cognition that is automatic; it's rapid, it's subconscious, you don't know about it, and you don't control it. You cannot say, 'Okay, brain, stop doing that!' That doesn't change anything. This illustrates a principle called 'dual process cognition.' [...] In short, there is subconscious cognition and conscious cognition and they frequently come into conflict[.]

[...] We don't perceive the world around us as it is; we perceive it as our minds allow us to. Our minds are actively rifling through every piece of sensory and cognitive mail that we have ever and will ever receive. One of the things this means is that not only are our senses governed by our evolutionarily installed concern to protect our physical selves, but also by our evolutionarily installed concern to protect our standing within social identities that are important to us; as well as the standing of our social identities[.]

Whether you are aware of it or not, or believe it or not, your identity politics come before any actual conscious cognition that you engage in. So if you immediately had a red flag go up and alarm bells go off when I refer to Donald Trump as a serial sexual predator that's because your subconscious, intuitive cognition perceived some kind of threat to either a social identity that is important to you or your standing within a social identity that is important to you.

That is an obstacle to critical thinking because we will frequently leverage our reflective cognition in defense of our intuitive cognition. It's called 'rationalization.' We want to perceive that we are good. We want to perceive that our intuitions are good. So we might even say God is talking to [or] the Spirit is telling us to do something [but] it's our intuitive cognition telling us what it thinks we need [and] want.

[...] I've seen a number of stories recently about folks who have had relationships severed, particularly women. They've either [severed the relationships] themselves [or] had them severed by family members and close friends because they've raised objections to putting a serial sexual predator in the White House. And those friends and family don't care. They say [these women] are ruining relationships because of politics. And that's just a rationalization.

I want you to do a thought experiment with me. Imagine you're a child growing up in a house where there's emotional[,] physical[,] or maybe even sexual abuse. And it is either done by the authority figures in the house or it is excused[,] ignored[,] or facilitated by the authority figures in the house. People who grow up in situations like that often don't feel safe or comfortable in their own homes because they know at any moment someone could come in and can abuse them. They have nowhere they can turn. The people they're supposed to be able to turn to are telling them, 'It doesn't matter. It's your fault. Their future is more important,' or, 'Whatever need that they can give us is more important.' So children growing up in an environment like that frequently feel dehumanized, devalued, and unsafe.

Hopefully they get out of those situations. And they grow up and there's probably years and years of therapy. [M]aybe they feel safe living on their own; or, at least, they don't live in a household where, at any moment, someone could come in and rob them of their autonomy [or] safety [or] have authority figures [who] are supposed to protect [them and say] it doesn't matter, it's [their] fault, and they can't ruin this promising individual's future. And then we elected a serial sexual predator[.]

And a lot of people don't realize how retraumatizing this was. Because it took that limited scope where inside their house they felt unsafe and then expanded it to the whole nation. So that now they don't know who around them might excuse serial sexual predation. [...] They don't know if something might happen in the post office [or] when they're picking up their kids from school [or] while they're sitting in a pew at church. It retraumatizes people to find out that they are suddenly surrounded by folks who respond to them in the exact same way that their abusers or their abusers facilitators responded to them in that much smaller scope in which they grew up.

So when you don't take seriously the fact that electing a serial sexual predator to the presidency turns the nation into a place where a lot of people no longer feel safe [nor] can trust the people around them, that's a problem. And when you just dismiss them as putting politics ahead of relationships, that is just finding a rationalization for why you should not have to care about the fact that you have made the nation an unsafe place for so many people.

And if you immediately set to coming up with excuses again, that's that intuitive cognition trying to make you feel like you're a good person for [electing a serial rapist to the presidency]. And if you did [...] it doesn't necessarily mean you're a bad person; it means you made a bad choice. But you can still be better. You can still do better. We all need to do better so this country does not become a less and less safe place for a larger and larger portion of our population.

It is imperative that you learn to think critically. You need to learn to Google competently as well. If you cannot be bothered to take seriously [that] 'your body, my choice' is a gigantic threat to the well being [and] humanity to an awful lot of people in our society because you need to feel good about your vote to put a serial sexual predator in the White House, you need to grow the hell up." - Dan McClellan, Bible & Religion Scholar

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[joe-england]

Does scripture say gender is immutable?

[lenbryant]

Eyewitnesses? Yeah, right.

[nerdygaymormon]

Dan McClellan shares an important way a scripture was originally understood and intended versus how Latter-day Saints now use and understand it.

It doesn’t make sense that whatever our church president says is the same as God saying it. Rather, the scripture is saying all of God’s word will be fulfilled, whether by God’s voice or the voice of His servants.

Here's an example. There are many verses that in different ways say that all are alike unto God. We are all one in Christ. God does not shows partiality, doesn’t show respect to some people and not to others. Love your neighbor as yourself. Treat others how you want to be treated.

Unfortunately we have a history of LDS presidents denying whole groups of people from having access to blessing and from having access to leadership. That was in opposition to God’s word. We also have moments of LDS presidents removing some of those restrictions and those were cases of fulfilling God’s words.

[vigilante-duck-hawk]

I'm in a parasocial relationship with him actually

[the-psudo]

Bible scholar Dan McClellan has several videos analyzing this, including this one.

This is a reference to the Talmud, where the rabbis determined that between 40 days gestation and birth, a fetus is a part of a woman's thigh, like a limb. Prior to 40 days gestation, it's just considered water. For this reason, within Jewish Halakha, Jewish law, abortion is permissible. And there are even times when it is considered a religious obligation. ... We have other parts of the Hebrew Bible that make clear that a fetus was not considered a full legal and moral person until birth.

He details a couple of Bible passages that confirm that thesis sentence. Christians call the Hebrew Bible "The Old Testament." It's part of the Christian Bible, too.

For the overwhelming majority of the history of Christianity, a fetus was not considered a full moral and legal person until what was known as the quickening, which was associated with the feeling of independent movement on the part of the fetus, which was associated with its full development.

It's odd how often modern Christians don't believe what Christians used to believe, or what was believed by the societies that wrote the Bible.

[andrewpcannon]

The Bible Has No Inherent Meaning

In this episode, I consider the claim that the Bible has no inherent meaning or authority.

[illnessfaker]

idk how to rly mentally handle the fact that dan mcclellan is mormon i mean i get that mormonism is a situation that can be hard if not impossible to leave once you're apart of it due to high-control group dynamics (especially in utah) but i dunno about the intellectual honesty(?) of assuming his circumstances are in line with that idea & he staunchly refuses to talk about his own personal faith situation aside from the fact that he is mormon & used to work for the church as a translator or something