He has an updated video. Seems like respectable content. Minimal religious talk. Pretty much all technical. Well documented code. No complain tbh. Source :
My dad is a very conservative evangelical pastor who works as a database administrator for a major nuclear facility.
It happens is all I’m saying.
The responses to this post are why I like lemmy.
I read this meme and dropped in here to pile on the Christian, only to find out that ya’ll are more knowledgeable and kinder than I am.
This dude is probably an expert or borderline expert at this though for real. He has had to use this information he’s giving you likely hundreds of times over the years, and use it well.
I try not to let someone’s religion get in the way of learning what they have to teach (idk maybe a scientist or something it would be harder to overlook).
This dude absolutely knows what he is talking about if he is making this video like this.
Churches use music. Some of them have pretty advanced setups with dozens of microphones for the choir, speeches and instruments, all of which is mixed down and send to a speaker setup that has to cover weird acoustic rooms and also transmitted by radio to people with hearing aids etc. Organists also use some wild midi setups at home for practicing. A surprisingly big part of free VSTs are made for that specific purpose.
I don’t really like religion or churches, but I have massive respect for their audio guys who sets up the equivalent of a big stadium concert every Sunday using hand downs from the thrift store and free software.
Churches actually do really cool stuff sometimes. unfortunately they are similar to governments, unions, and any other kind of community effort in that they require significant time investment from good people to ensure that their community and it’s leadership are safe and effective.
My childhood church was actually pretty good but also we basically had Fred Rogers’ secret twin as the pastor (like, weirdly ALSO a Presbyterian minister???) Dude knew the name of every person in his 500+ congregation on sight, knew all of their families names, what they did for work, what college their kids got into… He had a PhD in theology and his sermons were often about the sociopolitical situations the passages were referencing, the histories of the liturgical traditions, and the various different ways a passage has been translated through the years.
When my mother got the news of my brothers death she called her best friend and she must have called him because he was at our doorstep within the hour. My mother said her sister who still lived back in her home state was probably going to tell her he was in hell for killing himself and our pastor had everything from his theology background to the rudimentary developmental psychology he learned in seminary to counter that with.
This guy also founded the “interfaith council” for our area which was a collection of all the churches, synagogues, mosques, and anyone else they could get to join to pool financial and volunteer resources into a soup kitchen, cold weather shelter, and a yearly clothing and school supplies drive. My mother dragged me to volunteer at a few and we gave three outfits, a pair of shoes, a coat, and a backpack full of school supplies to a few hundred children each time. One of my required nursing school clinicals doing health checkups with their clinic doctor.
