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Jeff Bethke let sex, partying and pornography dominate his life before turning to Jesus. 
  
 The 22-year-old Tacoma native started out sharing his newfound beliefs with fellow Pacific University students at open mic nights. 
  
 Then he became a YouTube sensation after posting a spoken-word poem, “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus,” on Jan. 10. The 4-minute video went viral in less than two days, and had acquired more than 20 million hits by Thursday. 
  
 Since then, he’s been the subject of national media coverage – The Washington Post dubbed him an “e-evangelist” – and appeared on Fox News’ “On the Record” with Glenn Beck, and was the subject of an ABC “Nightline” special. 
  
 Churches, universities and high schools across the country are flying him in to speak at packed events. Online, more than 200 response videos have cropped up on YouTube. 
  
 “I’ve learned a lot. It’s been really humbling,” Bethke said this week. “I want to share my heart but I want to continue to learn and grow.” 
  
 He’s started work on a book to expound on his beliefs and why he created the religion video – which took him six hours to fine-tune. 
  
 Bethke delivers his recorded message in front of Stadium High School, rhyming about what he sees as the purity of Jesus’ teachings and the hypocrisy of the church and self-righteousness sometimes associated with churchgoers. 
  
 He asserts that “Jesus came to abolish religion” and appeals to a younger generation with lines like, “Religion puts you in shackles, but Jesus sets you free. Religion makes you blind, but Jesus lets you see.” 
  
 Bethke stresses he loves church. Since becoming a born-again Christian in 2009, he attends hipster Mars Hill Church in Federal Way. He will speak at the megachurch April 8 for an Easter service. 
  
 His issue is with organized religion, as he sees it. He says religion is a man-made invention and complains it has started wars and built churches while failing to feed the poor. He also rails against those who claim to be Christian but don’t live by those standards, often judging others and refusing to forgive differences. 
  
 But Bethke admits there are flaws in his theology, and his definition of religion is based more on his personal experiences than on the institution. 
  
 Being raised by a single mother and hearing so many acquaintances equate religion with hating homosexuals or affiliating with the Republican Party shaped his views and led him to write lines like “I hate religion. In fact, I literally resent it.” 
  
 Bethke recognizes his video’s subject can be polarizing. While striking a chord with people who consider themselves Christian but don’t trust the church, it also has provoked a few lashings in the national media. An angry few have even called him the anti-Christ. 
  
 In an opinion piece, David Brooks of The New York Times took Bethke to task for – like the Occupy movement – making an ineffectual protest and not having a solution to the issues he raises. 
  
 On the “CBS This Morning show,” a pastor (the Rev. Edward Burke) debated the accuracy of what Bethke says in the video. 
  
 “Yo, Jeff, let me give ya a holla from the collar,” Burke raps. “I don’t think it’s religion you should be dissin’, I think it’s the nuance that you’re missing.” 
  
 The recent college grad said he was shocked by how much attention his video has received. Before posting it, he bet his best friend – now his manager – the video wouldn’t get more than 2,000 hits. 
  
 In two days it racked up more than 1 million hits, and at one point was the second most viewed video in the world. 
  
 “Religion and God deal with the most fundamental basic questions of life,” Bethke said in response to a question about why his video has elicited such a big response. “Those words spark up the big deep questions everybody can relate to.” 
  
 Bethke said he has been humbled by the overwhelming response and while happy to have sparked a conversation, he has learned not to take the criticism too seriously. He is just as unaffected by the adulation being heaped upon him, insisting the focus should remain on Jesus. 
  
 “What’s beautiful about Jesus is that he frees you from both the praise of man and the critique of man,” Bethke said. “No one can critique me more than the cross already has, and no one can show me my worth more than the cross already has.” 
  
 Bethke has a way of communicating with youth that many church leaders seem to lack. He believes the divide has occurred because his generation grew up hearing religious and political leaders tell people how to behave and then get caught in a sex scandal months later. 
  
 Bethke isn’t a pastor and has no formal training in theology, but his rapport with youth is undeniable. Usually clad in a hoodie and jeans, he fits in well among teens and college students and unabashedly answers their questions about sex, alcohol and Christianity. 
  
 At a gathering Monday of a Young Life club in Tacoma, Bethke performed a spoken-word poem and spoke to dozens of high schoolers about the benefits of waiting until marriage to have sex. 
  
 He then answered a handful of questions from the audience that were anonymously text messaged, always bringing the focus back to Jesus. 
  
 Bethke says he loves speaking to kids and is happy to take his message directly to the public via the Internet, offering an example of how churches can use technology to reach a younger crowd. 
  
 “Bethke perfectly captures the mood, and in my mind the confusion, of a lot of earnest, young Christians,” the Rev. Kevin DeYoung wrote in his blog on the Gospel Coalition before describing inaccuracies in Bethke’s video, verse by verse. 
  
 “The video is the sort of thing that many younger Christians love,” DeYoung wrote. “It sounds good, looks good and feels good. But is it true? That’s the question we must always ask.” 
  
 DeYoung writes that he loves Bethke’s passion but believes religion is the wrong word for what Bethke is speaking against. He points out that Jesus attended service at the synagogue, that Jesus founded the church, that Jesus didn’t want to abolish the doctrines of religion but rather fulfill them. 
  
 The concept of hating religion but loving Jesus is hardly new, but Bethke’s video stood out because of the form he presented his message and the quality of the recording. His friend Matthew Robertson, a film student, shot and edited Bethke’s message, giving the video a polished look. 
  
 Bethke now has 130,000 subscribers on YouTube. 
  
 Religion isn’t the only topic Bethke has tackled in a video. He talks about the youth’s attitude toward sex in “Sexual Healing” and most recently discussed marriage in “Sex, Marriage & Fairytales.” 
  
 He’s not yet sure what issues he’d like to delve into or what the future holds. Bethke has taken a leave of absence from his job at an after-school program for a Bellevue nonprofit organization so he can travel to speaking engagements but said he’s like to stay local. 
  
 While he figures out his next step, the Auburn High School graduate is enjoying the familiarity of his normal life. He still lives with nine other guys in Parkland and sleeps on a bunk bed. 
  
 “I’m just trying to enjoy it and ride the wave,” Bethke said. 
  
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 stacia.glenn@thenewstribune.com ||||| Bethke watched a panel discussion in which some theologians lamented young people’s disdain of organized religion. “Right when I heard that,” he told The Christian Post, “it just convicted me, and God used it as one of those Spirit moments where it’s just, ‘Man, he’s right.’ I realized a lot of my views and treatments of the church were not Scripture-based; they were very experience based.” 
  
 Bethke’s passionate polemic and subsequent retreat are symptomatic of a lot of the protest cries we hear these days. This seems to be a moment when many people — in religion, economics and politics — are disgusted by current institutions, but then they are vague about what sorts of institutions should replace them. 
  
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 This seems to be a moment of fervent protest movements that are ultimately vague and ineffectual. 
  
 We can all theorize why the intense desire for change has so far produced relatively few coherent recipes for change. Maybe people today are simply too deferential. Raised to get college recommendations, maybe they lack the oppositional mentality necessary for revolt. Maybe people are too distracted. 
  
 My own theory revolves around a single bad idea. For generations people have been told: Think for yourself; come up with your own independent worldview. Unless your name is Nietzsche, that’s probably a bad idea. Very few people have the genius or time to come up with a comprehensive and rigorous worldview. 
  
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 If you go out there armed only with your own observations and sentiments, you will surely find yourself on very weak ground. You’ll lack the arguments, convictions and the coherent view of reality that you’ll need when challenged by a self-confident opposition. This is more or less what happened to Jefferson Bethke. 
  
 The paradox of reform movements is that, if you want to defy authority, you probably shouldn’t think entirely for yourself. You should attach yourself to a counter-tradition and school of thought that has been developed over the centuries and that seems true. 
  
 The old leftists had dialectical materialism and the Marxist view of history. Libertarians have Hayek and von Mises. Various spiritual movements have drawn from Transcendentalism, Stoicism, Gnosticism, Thomism, Augustine, Tolstoy, or the Catholic social teaching that inspired Dorothy Day . 
  
 These belief systems helped people envision alternate realities. They helped people explain why the things society values are not the things that should be valued. They gave movements a set of organizing principles. Joining a tradition doesn’t mean suppressing your individuality. Applying an ancient tradition to a new situation is a creative, stimulating and empowering act. Without a tradition, everything is impermanence and flux. 
  
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 Most professors would like their students to be more rebellious and argumentative. But rebellion without a rigorous alternative vision is just a feeble spasm. 
  
 If I could offer advice to a young rebel, it would be to rummage the past for a body of thought that helps you understand and address the shortcomings you see. Give yourself a label. If your college hasn’t provided you with a good knowledge of countercultural viewpoints — ranging from Thoreau to Maritain — then your college has failed you and you should try to remedy that ignorance. 
  
 Effective rebellion isn’t just expressing your personal feelings. It means replacing one set of authorities and institutions with a better set of authorities and institutions. Authorities and institutions don’t repress the passions of the heart, the way some young people now suppose. They give them focus and a means to turn passion into change. |||||
“Religion puts you in shackles, but Jesus sets you free. Religion makes you blind, but Jesus lets you see.” If you're one of the 20 million who have seen Jeff Bethke's viral video, "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus," you've already heard these words. The 22-year-old Tacoma native posted his spoken-word poem on Jan. 10, betting a friend it wouldn't top 2,000 hits. Now he's appearing on cable news shows and facing criticism from commentators as lofty as David Brooks, the Tacoma News Tribune reports. Bethke doesn't oppose religious feeling or even churches—in fact, the born-again Christian still attends one and is visiting churches on a new national speaking tour. But he argues against what he calls a man-made organization that starts wars and fails to meet its own standards. Anti-gay feeling and Republican affiliation among churchgoers also leave Bethke simmering. But "I've learned a lot," he says. "It's been really humbling. ... I'm just trying to enjoy it and ride the wave."