[this15testing]

I remember his religion and morality coming up in more than one occasion in his videos, only to then learn that he worked for a weapons manufacturer. It was really jarring and made so much come off as disingenuous that I just can't watch his content anymore, not that promoting weapons on his channel was good on its own anyway.

[freetime2]

Can you give a specific example of something that he said that you felt was disingenuous? Or even just elaborate further why you feel that is disingenuous?

It seems like you are implying that someone who works for the military cannot be religious or have morals. But even if your religious beliefs or morals prevent you from working for the military, surely you must recognize that there many people whose morals and religious beliefs do not conflict with military service. And that’s not being disingenuous, that’s just having a different point of view.

[theideaofcoffee]

I'm not the poster that you replied to, but I feel the same way that this15testing does. I was turned off from all future videos by a specific line in one of this recent videos, specifically #242 "World's Fastest Pitch - Supersonic Baseball Cannon" (see starting approximately one minute into that video) because of just how unexpected him mentioning his work as a "developmental weapons tester" jarred with his supposed piety and his aw-shucks folksiness.

Couple that with a grinning photo of him sitting on top of an industrially-produced cannon-type weapon in that same video just made me uneasy. The end of every video on that channel has a bible verse citation so it's especially mind boggling. Isn't the fifth commandment "do not kill"? I believe if you're a religious person working in weapons development and choose to compartmentalize your beliefs for a paycheck then you are either naive or malicious, I don't know which is worse.

[freetime2]

The commandment is more accurately translated as “though shalt not murder”, or commit unjustified killing. The bible provides many examples where killing is justified, such as punishment for a crime, defending ones’ self or property, and - especially relevant here - warfare. [1] So no compartmentalization of beliefs is necessary to work in defense.

I see this a lot where people try to use christians’ beliefs against them to try pigeonhole them into thinking and acting a certain way, or call them hypocrites for not acting the way they believe christians should act. But religion is open to many different interpretations - just look at the number sects within every religion - and we shouldn’t really assume anything about a person’s beliefs just because they are “religious”.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_kill