
There Are No Gods
TheraminTrees, a YouTube essayist responding to a video from saizai, spends three parts explaining exactly what he does and does not believe about gods, having left Christianity behind. Part one reconstructs the theism he actually held, tracing how it shifted across distinct phases rather than staying fixed. Part two lists the god-concepts he considers affirmatively false, and part three separates those from concepts he treats as simply unknowable, a distinction he insists matters. Along the way he reaches for unlikely reference points: Harry Harlow's wire-mother experiments on isolated rhesus monkeys become a way to talk about attachment and comfort, Robert Graves's novel 'I, Claudius' surfaces as a model for autobiographical honesty, and A.A. Milne's poem about the imaginary friend Binker stands in for the psychology of belief in something unseen. There is no host, no reenactment, just direct-to-camera argument built on personal history and borrowed evidence, aimed at mapping the space between certainty and doubt rather than declaring one side won.