💣The End of Anonymity: Who I Am and What Comes Next💣

Ajouté : 2026-05-06

[00:00:10]Hello everyone. I’m truly glad  to be here with you today. I have something very special I want to share; it’s  something I’ve been working on intensively, and I believe you’re going  to find it very interesting.

[00:00:22]However, before diving into the topic  and telling you what it’s all about, I’d like to take a brief pause to talk about  what you’re seeing and hearing right now.

[00:00:31]As many of you know, my native language is not  English. Although this is my real face and my real voice, what you’re seeing right now is a  next-generation digital clone. I chose to use this artificial intelligence technology to ensure  the message reaches you with the greatest possible clarity and fluency. It allows me to express  myself in English with a naturalness that, for now, goes beyond my ability to  speak it directly—making sure that none of the important information  gets lost due to language barriers.

[00:01:02]With that said, let’s get to what really matters.  Hello. For a long time, you knew me as Nowachi—a voice, an avatar, and a body of research that many  of you followed with a loyalty I deeply value.

[00:01:16]But today, the anonymity ends. The project  has grown, and for what comes next, I need you to look me in the eyes. My  name is Juan Carlos… and this is my face.

[00:01:28]Many of you may be wondering: why hide my  face for so long? The answer is simple: professional strategy. When I launched the  channel “Nowachi with Common Sense,” I had already been out of Jehovah’s Witnesses for  nearly twenty years. My life was different—I was working in a high-responsibility  position in the pharmaceutical industry, and honestly, I didn’t want to mix those  two very different public identities.

[00:01:54]Nowachi was the tool I found to channel my  experience as a former elder and my research without my professional environment interfering  with the message. It allowed me to speak about the organization’s internal structures without  distractions. But that cycle has now come to an end. I’ve decided that to take this project to  the next level, I need to do it face to face.

[00:02:17]During all this time researching for the  channel, I realized something fundamental: Jehovah’s Witnesses are not an  isolated anomaly. They are just one of many rooms inside the massive  building of religious fundamentalism.

[00:02:32]I spent a long time pointing out the cracks in  the walls of that specific room, but I neglected the foundation of the entire building. I came  to understand that if I truly wanted to help others—and myself—be free, it wasn’t enough  to criticize the Governing Body. I had to go further back. I had to go to the origin of the  texts that all these structures use as weapons.

[00:02:57]Fundamentalism works the same everywhere: it  offers you absolute certainty in exchange for your critical thinking. It tells you there is a group  that will be saved while everyone else will be condemned. And that mindset doesn’t disappear just  by stopping your attendance at the Kingdom Hall; it is healed through knowledge, through  history, and by understanding how those dogmas were constructed. That’s why this  channel has to grow. I cannot stay on the surface when beneath it lies an ocean of history  explaining why the world is the way it is today.

[00:03:32]That’s why the change I’m making is not just  aesthetic—it’s foundational. From now on, the theme of the channel evolves into  something much broader. And make no mistake—I’m not forgetting where I  come from. I’ve simply realized I don’t want to remain tied to something  I left behind almost two decades ago.

[00:03:50]I believe I’ll be more myself if I share what I’m  truly passionate about. I want to talk on this channel about the anthropology of religion,  and above all, biblical textual criticism.

[00:04:02]I want us to analyze together  why we believe what we believe, and how the dogmas that govern millions  today were constructed. And yes… I also want to be more myself by turning  up the volume on irony and sarcasm.

[00:04:17]That’s why, starting today, Nowachi with Common  Sense officially becomes Heretic and Sinner.

[00:04:24]Here, we’re going to talk about the Bible and  religion with academic rigor—but without being boring. In Heretic and Sinner, we don’t like  charlatans who get their information from a chat with a buddy, a pastor’s sermon, or  the local parish priest. But we dislike just as much those scholars who put  you to sleep within the first minute.

[00:04:44]We’re going to ask the questions others avoid: Who  really wrote the biblical texts, and when? What do the original manuscripts say? What happens  if we compare the Gospels with each other?

[00:04:56]Does our perspective change if we compare the  Old Testament with ancient Mesopotamian texts?

[00:05:02]We’ll talk about the historical Jesus—the one  I really like because he challenged the Jewish elites and called them a brood of vipers, but  who at the same time provoked the Roman Empire by entering Jerusalem as king of the Jews. But  we’ll also talk about that Yahweh of armies who ordered the extermination of entire peoples,  including women and children. We’ll reflect on the current value of the Scriptures  in this highly polarized modern world.

[00:05:31]And I want to make something very clear: Heretic  and Sinner does not aim to destroy anyone’s faith, but rather to seek knowledge together.  Everyone is welcome here—atheists and agnostics, but also Catholics,  Protestants, Mormons, Adventists, and of course, my friends who are Jehovah’s  Witnesses and former Jehovah’s Witnesses.

[00:05:54]By the way, there are religious groups—such  as liberal Catholics and Protestants—who accept the kind of biblical textual  criticism we will be using on this channel. They take those contributions  and reinterpret them through their faith.

[00:06:09]I’m sure many believing friends who  watch this channel will do the same.

[00:06:14]Anyone who understands they do not possess  absolute truth is welcome. Because if your faith does not allow questioning, it’s not  faith… it’s called ego. Our attitude will be the one my dear friend Nowachi once mentioned  in one of his episodes: Seek the truth, damn it!

[00:06:31]The new name of the channel—“Heretic and  Sinner”—is a manifesto. I declare myself a “Heretic” because I choose independence from  any system that claims to possess absolute truth. And I declare myself a “Sinner” to  distance myself from the moral superiority of those who hide behind a halo of holiness.  As the Spanish singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat once said: “between those types  and me… there’s something personal.”

[00:07:00]Before closing, I want to make a pact with  you about the methodology of this channel.

[00:07:05]I don’t want you to believe me—and certainly  not to create my own cult. That’s why, in every video description, you will  find references to respected academics: archaeologists, historians, and  experts in ancient languages.

[00:07:20]My job is not to reinvent the wheel, but to share  the knowledge that scholars make available to us—in a language you and I can enjoy over a casual  conversation. If one day I make a mistake—and I certainly will—I will be the first to admit it  and correct it. Because a true heretic is not the one who believes they’ve found the truth,  but the one who never stops searching for it.

[00:07:44]To those who have been with me from the  beginning: thank you for your trust. I am still the same thinker—only now you can  look me in the eyes. To those arriving for the first time: welcome to this space  of critical thinking and demystification.

[00:07:58]Subscribe, stay close… and get ready—because now, we’re going to read the Bible like  you were never allowed to before.

[00:08:06]I am Juan Carlos Rodríguez—Heretic and Sinner—and this is just the beginning. And  remember: Seek the truth… damn it!