Redeemed Zoomer

Richard AckermanThe Secret to Retaking American Culture better known online as Redeemed Zoomer is an American YouTube personality known for making Minecraft content while talking about Christianity or explanations about Christian beliefs and creeds. He runs the Christian-themed Minecraft server KingdomCraft, which is often featured in his videos.
==Personal life==
Not much is known about Richard Ackerman's personal life outside his YouTube videos, although it is known that he is a member of Presbyterian Church (USA), a mainline Protestant church in the United States. Ackerman's father is Jewish making him half Jewish, something he seldomly mentions in his YouTube videos. He lives in Manhattan, New York City for right now. He is both a quarter Lithuanian and Italian (likely from his mother's side) which he revealed in an "ask me anything" Instagram story. He originally lived in New York but started attending college/university in Texas. In High School, he converted to Christianity through attending a youth camp and soon thereafter his family followed with conversion. 
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Richard started his Instagram and YouTube career which he continues to be highly active in. Compared with his YouTube channel, he is slightly more active in Instagram. His Instagram mainly revolves around Christian memes, facts and miscellaneous posts. Zoomer is socially conservative, and he often describes himself as theologically conservative. However, he is open minded and ecumenical towards other Christian traditions and denominations.
He is currently dating his girlfriend who is known by her online handle as the "Future Mrs. Zoomer." They met through a bible study ran by one of her friends who goes by the name of "Redeemed Zoomer Third-Wheel" during the COVID-19 pandemic. She convinced Redeemed Zoomer to join her bible study group after viewing one of his Instagram posts which gave her the impression that he would have good chemistry with her friend (Future Mrs. Zoomer) thus she decided to set both of them up on the basis of their shared beliefs. They started dating 13 days after meeting each other. 
On the 16th of March, Ackerman announced his engagement with the Future Mrs. Zoomer. 
===YouTube Career===
Redeemed Zoomer originally created his current channel on 29th February 2020, being inspired by the many sermons he watched from reformed theologians such as Tim Keller. Earlier on in Zoomer's YouTube career before coming to be known as "Redeemed Zoomer" he started a small YouTube channel called Gospel for the Least during the COVID-19 pandemic where his content held much looser and more relaxed views on Christianity. However, his channel did not grow as much as he hoped thus he decided to restart as the nascent Redeemed Zoomer, which embraced a much more traditional and reformed perspective of Christianity.
Zoomer's content revolves around explaining Christianity particularly towards his demographic: Generation Z (hence the name Zoomer). His earlier videos provided a basic explanation for a variety of Christian topics such as Jesus Christ or Baptism. These videos discussed these topics typically from a Reformed/Calvinistic perspective. Overtime Zoomer's explainers evolved into discussing other Christian denominations such as the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches of which he provides reasons he is or is not within different denominations outside Presbyterianism. Zoomer also covers Christian apologetics such as the theological positions and methods used in apologetics.
In addition, Redeemed Zoomer spearheads the "Protestant Reconquista": an online community of young Christians that intends on supporting and returning mainline denominations back to biblical Christianity and traditional roots.Meet the Zoomers’ Martin Luther
===Christianity Simplified Series===
Zoomer's channel is well known for his commentary skits which provide a basic explanation on Christianity. These explainers provide an incredibly simplified commentary on many Christian related topics such as each book of the bible or on the denominations of Christianity often with a humorous tone. This series includes Zoomer's most popular YouTube video: "All Christian denominations explained in 12 minutes" that has garnered over 7 million views as of July 2023 making the series amongst the most viewed on Zoomer's channel.
===Other Content===
Zoomer frequently collaborates and discusses with other Christian influencers and youtubers through various livestreams on his channel that cover various topics such as Christian unity and systemic theology. Zoomer's livestreams also involve ranking various Christian denominations or Presbyterian branches on tier lists along with infrequent Q&A streams where his viewers would submit to him questions of various subjects through social media.
==Minecraft Server==
Zoomer's videos often feature his Kingdomcraft Minecraft server where he was seen constructing a large church which has now been completed. On 17 May 2023, Zoomer decided to open his Minecraft server to the public with many players building churches/structures. The server initially struggled with many players joining and as such had to be upgraded to cope with higher capacity although it frequently lags, as seen in Zoomer's videos. The Kingdomcraft server routinely closes down on Sundays to encourage Christians to attend Church as well as for observing the [Christian] sabbath.
==Impact and Inspirations==
As the "Every/All Type Of _ Explained In _ Minutes" format of his videos started getting popular, he started a trend of creating videos about certain topics in similar styles. These types of videos are simple and get straight to the point as soon as the video starts. This aspect of them have got popular since people don't have to wait through a lengthy intro. Some notable people inspired by Redeemed Zoomer are:
#The Paint Explainer
#Paint Guy
#The Evaluator
#The Analyst
#Quick2Get
==Quotes==
*“I’ve seen guys that look like Chernobyl victims and still managed to get pretty girls.” 
*“The book of Ecclesiastes is one big existential crisis.”
*“Yes I finally found diamonds! (mines diamond which falls into lava) Okay well that was predestined to happen so it's not my fault.”
*“Infralapsarian or Supralapsarian.”
*“Alright that's about it. Did I forget anything? (Revelation appears on screen) Oh Yeah...”
*“Theology people like to use big fancy words for things.”
*“I used to not believe the bible and that changed when I read the bible.”
*“Atheists tell me miracles don't happen, but I know that they do happen because even I was able to get a girlfriend.”
*"Deal with it."
*"If God is good, why can't He destroy evil?""Well, He eventually will.""Why can't He do it now?""Because He'd have to destroy you."ALL atheist arguments answered in 10 minutes
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
===Video view milestones===
*10 million views: June 19, 2023
==Trivia== 
*Zoomer's Minecraft username is gaCrafterman.
*He is part of the PCUSA (Presbyterian Church USA).
*Zoomer has publicly stated he believes in evolution.
*There is a running-gag which Zoomer accidentally started known as the "Zoomerverse" whereby Instagram accounts with the name "zoomer" or accounts with shared beliefs in Christianity were created thus establishing a "Zoomerverse". The Zoomerverse also has unrelated accounts which aren't as focused on Christianity.
*Zoomer has used political compass several times with him scoring on different positions.
*Zoomer plays the Viola.
*He is ethnically Jewish and at one point identified as a Zionist. But has since become disillusioned with Israel, considering it a "rebellion against God".https://x.com/redeemed_zoomer/status/1790871954401992750
== References ==
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