[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