The night Jefferson Bethke, 22, posted his “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus” video on YouTube, he made a bet with his roommates about how many views the video would get by morning.
“The lowest bet was 1,000 and the highest bet was 6,000,” Bethke said in an interview.
By the time Bethke woke up the next day, the video had more than 100,000 views. Eight days after the video posted, it has been watched more than 14 million times.
The viral video, Bethke said, was not an attempt to bash all religion, but rather “to write a poem against legalism, self righteousness, self-justification and hypocrisy” — the definition of bad religion that is preached at Mars Hill, the church he attends in Washington state.
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