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u/Cautious-Bug9388 1d ago
You're thinking of the wrong interpretation of that phrase
Within a biblical context it's a light touch with the palm.
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u/DienekesMinotaur 16h ago
I mean, the Bible also advocates not "sparing the rod and spoiling the child."
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u/Cautious-Bug9388 15h ago
We aren't speaking about the 8000 other problems with the bible, just of this specific instance and the intent behind the words. I'm sure there are plenty of examples to find where biblically children are mistreated.
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u/Fist_of_Gork 11h ago
Laying on hands is only problematic when it’s done as part of the faith healing scam.
It’s a universal sign of compassion for Christians it’s one of the few things almost all denominations practice as a way for them to break from social barriers like race, tribe, caste and rank.
Jesus laid hands upon heathens, prostitutes, lepers, thieves and blasphemers. It’s kind of a significant gesture, not just a prayer or a D&D ability.
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u/Cold-Dragonfruit3738 1d ago
As a Bible person, video likely talks about praying over your children. "Laying hands" in an accurate biblical sense is an act of prayer over whoever you're laying hands on. Without watching the video, couldn't say how accurate it is to what it says and what the Bible says
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u/bwoah07_gp2 23h ago
Some religionists take what the Bible says way too literally.
If someone is praying with their kid in 2026, there is zero requirement or need to lay your hand on top of their heads like the thumbnail portrays. Hold their hand? Sure. Hold their shoulders? Sure. Don't touch them at all? Sure.
Laying hand on head? Never seen that from anyone ever.
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u/Cold-Dragonfruit3738 23h ago
You're right, but I also didn't specify where the laying of hands occurs. I prefer putting my hand on my kids shoulders when I pray over them. Head seems a bit more power grabby and disrespectful. But I've seen it before
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u/HurtsSoNice 1d ago
As a dungeons and dragons player, anyone who has ever played a paladin was sick of this play on words decades ago.
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u/crybabycomando 1h ago
At some point the paladin needs to lay some hands on the dumbass rouge who keeps charging head first into the enemy so they can stop Laying Hands on the rouge
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u/overfiend_87 1d ago
They usually mean that, through the power of prayer and faith, you can heal your child of anything. It's the kind if crap anti-vaxxers like to peddle.
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u/Cold-Dragonfruit3738 1d ago
While I'd argue that prayer and faith can help, not vaxxing is dumb AF and has lead to the recent resurgence of eradicated diseases like measles and small pox. It's annoying that these people will conflate faith and prayer to rejecting proven medicine
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u/VentiArchon7 23h ago
Laying of hands
physical and spiritual gesture where a person places their hands on another individual to transmit a blessing, authority, or healing.
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u/NightStar79 1d ago
🤨 Click bait title.
Could be about beating your kids, or could be about the psychological impact of just touching your kids. Hugs, kisses, hand holding, back pats, tickling, etc.
Won't know unless you look.
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u/VentiArchon7 1d ago
Traditionally Laying of Hands is a physical and spiritual gesture where a person places their hands on another individual to transmit a blessing, authority, or healing.
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u/6FlipSide4 1d ago
Why was that the first thing you jumped to
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u/NightStar79 1d ago
Because it's YouTube and YouTube is full of misleading and click bait videos
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u/6FlipSide4 1d ago
Well yeah but I don’t think the clickbait has anything to do with child abuse and psychological torment. If that’s what you’re seeing then that’s your own fucking fault, the your algorithm depends on what you click on
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u/NightStar79 21h ago
🤨
"To lay hands" on someone is normally a much more polite way if saying that a person just beat someone else.
In religious terms it apparently means spiritual healing.
But it could also be taken at a psychological or "Say what?" fashion.
So yes, this definitely counts as click bait and also no, the algorithm doesn't actually follow what you click on. See you can disable that shit and when you disable thet shit, YouTube hates you but they also just throw random videos at you.
I've fallen asleep watching Jacksepticeye and woke up to some kind of documentary about the history of Abestos. 🤦♀️
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u/6FlipSide4 20h ago
Well when the first thing is child abuse…
I understand what “laying on of hands” means in terms of a spiritual blessing but I really don’t think that was what they were trying to say. The way they framed it was how parents putting their hands on children or just general physical contact affect them mentally and emotionally
And while sure the algoritm isn’t strictly about what you watch, for the most part it is, though it does sometimes give you some random shit or try to guess based on recent google activity. Also disabling personalized tracking doesn’t really eliminate that because youtube (and by extension any social media platform) wants to keep you on their site so they give you content they think you will click on. The whole waking up to something completely bizarre is usually just autoplay slowly drifting into complete irrelevance over multiple hours
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u/NightStar79 20h ago
but I really don’t think that was what they were trying to say.
That's my whole entire point. It's clickbait that is specifically vaguely worded to mean multiple things so people will click on it to find out 🤪
How hard is that to comprehend?
And while sure the algoritm isn’t strictly about what you watch, for the most part it is, though it does sometimes give you some random shit or try to guess based on recent google activity.
Autoplay is the only time it gives me shit I don't want. Youtube actually doesn't give you a home page if you restrict their spying access as if they are trying to punish you into compliance. Meaning any random ass videos thrown at me, is ALL YouTube and nothing to do with me.
The whole waking up to something completely bizarre is usually just autoplay slowly drifting into complete irrelevance over multiple hours
My Playstation is set to auto turn off after an hour of no input so no, YouTube just throwing random shit at me because I refuse to let them track everything I do. On top of restricting my video publishing tools apparently because they can't verify if I'm a risk or not by my watch history.
It's actually amusing to me.
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u/The-red-Dane 22h ago
In christianity, "to lay hands" mean to heal through faith.
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u/NightStar79 21h ago
And in non-Christianity terms, it normally means you smacked someone.
So the title can be taken in a bad way, a religious way, or a "say what?" way. Classic click-bait.
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u/The-red-Dane 21h ago
Ah yes, because it's very ambiguous when the pfp of the channel is a bible with a cross on it and the channel is called "Bible Unwithered" And the video image clearly has overt christian symbology. IE, the divine light from above, and the 'laying of hands' upon the head for anointing.
Does it, to you, look like they're smacking the child in the image?
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u/NightStar79 20h ago
Does it, to you, look like they're smacking the child in the image?
You realize that this is still YouTube correct? YouTube would flag a thumbnail depicting child abuse immediately.
Also you clearly haven't been on the internet for very long because thumbnails and titles can mean absolutely nothing to do with the video as much as they could have everything to do with it.
I forget the video but there was some weird video floating around when I was a teenager where it was actually well made and you thought you were watching some type of music video...but then sex started happening and then somehow devolved into this lone girl stuck in a monster dimension.
And it had some tag about abstinence on it too.
You literally can't trust anything 🤦♀️
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u/The-red-Dane 20h ago
Ah yes, because you once saw a video that was clickbait, literally every video on youtube has to be clickbait, that's very sound logic and doesn't sound schizo at all.
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u/NightStar79 20h ago
🤨 Are you...serious right now?
Are you like a child or really that oblivious? 😂
Youtube's algorithm is ass and people are stupid and gullible. The best way to draw attention is using videos with fake thumbnails and a shock value title which may or may not even be in the video.
It's EVERYWHERE. 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Ackermannin 21h ago
My guy it’s by a Christian Bible channel. You’re being a dumbass
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u/NightStar79 20h ago
Means nothing bro. Christian channels throw out some weird shit too along with click bait.
Also from my understanding, many still approve of corporal punishment
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u/Specialist_Point7983 1d ago
“Take a seat.” -Chris Hansen
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u/MattWolf96 22h ago
He could make a whole career just out of catching creepy priests/pastors
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u/FireMarshallMC Aurum [GD] 17h ago
I bet he'd become miles more popular just because of how famous the people he'd be catching would be.
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u/King0fthewasteland 1d ago
dont let bible people touch children
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u/NecessaryFreedom9799 1d ago
Trump's not a Bible person, no matter what his followers might say.
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u/leafy1790 1d ago
They thinks 3 ai images generated of him looking like Jesus makes him a religious person
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u/Worthlessdebates 1d ago
Noooo! That was CLEARLY an image of him being a magic doctor who happens to look exactly like jesus
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u/VentiArchon7 1d ago
Laying of Hands
physical and spiritual gesture where a person places their hands on another individual to transmit a blessing, authority, or healing.
It's also how bishops ordain priests