Why Governments Fear Religion - Where Does Morality Come From？
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Where does morality come from? What does it mean to be a moral being? Why does the government want us to stop believing in God? What is the difference between Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism? What are the differences between Christianity and Judaism? What do they have in common? How do they differ from each other?
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I got a few questions I want to talk to you about and I want to see how you process this.
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It's a conversation we're having about morality and law and prayer and religion and why do
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oppressive governments fear opposing faith and religion and they kind of want to get rid of it
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specifically when you think about what Mao, Stalin, Karl Marx, what they believed in,
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they got to get people to believe in God less and it sounds like we're kind of going in that
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direction in certain places that we pulled up some weird data. What country prays the most?
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What countries go to church the most? What age prays the most and why? And we pulled up a scale
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like what is really the difference between different religions when it comes down to certain
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morals and values? Same sex marriage. Change today with Catholic. I don't know if you saw what the
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Pope said. Killing, adultery, stealing, sex change. What are some similarities between Christianity,
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Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism? What is it and where does morality come from and how it differs
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from law? We're going to talk about that today. Morality. Where does morality come from? If I was
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to ask you right now, where does morality come from, what would you say? Would you say, well,
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I was just born a moral person? You think you and I are born moral? Do you do certain things or not
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do certain things because you're just so moral above and beyond everybody else? They say morality comes
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from three different places and every one of them makes an argument for whatever it is. Let's
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entertain all three of them. One is divine. It comes from God. It comes from Emmanuel and then we learn
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about it so we stop killing each other or killing friends or, you know, adultery with somebody else's
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wife and he's married and you, or vice versa, she's married. You go after the husband or same-sex
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marriage according to Quran. You know how they are or not for it, not accepted. Christianity, not
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accepted, not addressed in scripture for Buddhism and not accepted in Judaism and diverse perspective
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in Hinduism and adultery and stealing, not accepted, not accepted, not accepted, not accepted,
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sex change, not addressed. They didn't talk about in the Bible, not addressed, not addressed,
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not addressed, not addressed. And you talk about these things. Okay. One area of morality maybe
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comes from divine, church, religion. Some say, no, no, it's, it's, it's based on a social contract
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that we have. Neil deGrasse Tyson kind of talked about this as we, as the populace have a social
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contract to do what's right for the other person. And you are liable as a social contract to get the
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vaccine to, you know, and that, that was the pitch. Wait a minute. What, I never signed this social
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contract. And the other one is individual reason, like stoicism, you know, what's right. You feel it
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in your conscious and that's where morality comes from, but does it now, if you're an atheist and
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maybe you're morally sound, but you don't believe in God, but you know, you're like, well, I've been
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like this my entire life, but maybe your parents taught you the right morals and values. And maybe
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they were faith-based and if they weren't faith-based, maybe their parents were, but eventually in
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the lineage, somebody, you know, lived a morally right life. Well, that's what laws are for. Laws are
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different than moral laws. You just follow because you don't want to go to jail. You don't want to pay
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fine. You don't want to do certain things. You don't want to get sued. Those are laws. Morality,
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I just don't think this is the right thing to do. Having said that, when you think about this,
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we go in the direction of different religions of what they're doing and we think about prayer,
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what they're taking out. So having said that, let me tell you a couple of things that different
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people have said in the past. Thomas Jefferson said, the two enemies of the people are criminals
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and the government. So let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution. So the second
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will not become the legalized version of the first, which is criminals. And what if government
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starts recruiting criminals and they work together against you? By the way, this happened. Some people
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may be watching in some different countries saying that's what's going on in Mexico right now. That's
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what's going on in XYZ right now. Some of that may be going on in America right now. That's the fear,
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right? Watch this. Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto said, communism begins when atheism
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begins. Communism begins when atheism begins. Why do you need people to stop believing in a higher law
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so their God is replaced with the government? Oh, the government's my God and a ruler or president
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becomes my God. Okay. Maybe this guy just wrote a book. He didn't know what it was. How about Mal?
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Here's what Mal said. During the cultural revolution, religion became a target of Mal's campaign to
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eliminate the four olds, four olds, old things, old ideas, old customs, and old habits, and replace
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it with Mal, the new thing. I am who you follow and I rule over you. Not God, not this. To the point
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where all religion activities were banned and religious personnel were persecuted, parliamentary
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Red Guard attacked, or destroyed many temples, shrines, churches, and mosques, and some were
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abandoned, closed, or confiscated Chinese people who wanted to maintain their faith, practice,
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and secret. And even today, Xi, in 2013, when you think about what he said, the government banned
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evangelization online, tightened controls over Christian activities outside of registered venues,
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and shut down churches that refused to register. Authorities also arrested prominent church leaders,
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and some Christians reportedly have held in camps. Christianity in China is governed by several sets of
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rules. So if you want to practice Christianity in China, you got to do it underground. And Stalin,
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he argued, the new socialist man was an atheist one, free of the religious chains that had helped
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to bind him to class oppression. Here's a guy talking about class oppression that took everything
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away from everybody, and he became the powerful one. It's interesting how they spun it. He closed
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churches, synagogues, and mosques, and ordered the killing and imprisonment of thousands of religious
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leaders in an effort to eliminate even the concept of God. So it didn't matter what the religion was,
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whether you were a Christian, a Jew, or a Muslim, got to get rid of these. Why? He saw this as a way of
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getting rid of a past that was holding people back and marching towards the future of science and
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progress called the Stalin's Holy War, which was religion. And the Godless Five-Year Plan launched in
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1928 gave local cells of anti-religious organizations, League of Militant Atheists,
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new tools to the established religion. And by the way, keep in mind, I'm coming from a place of,
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I'm a faith guy. Faith is risky, right? You don't necessarily know what's going to happen after we
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die. There's a risk we're taking, whether you believe in God or not. If you don't believe there's
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a risk, if you do believe there's a risk, I'm not coming from a place of certainty. Where I am coming
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from a place of certainty is if we eliminate faith or the opportunity for people to have a different
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religion, you have to replace that with somebody coming up with the morality, and then we start
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questioning everything. What makes you think it's immoral for somebody to cut off and chop off their
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private parts and transition? Who says it's immoral? Who are you to say it's immoral? Well,
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my religion does. Well, your religion, you believe in religion? You're that naive? You're going to take
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your morality based on a book written by however many people 2,000 years ago, and it's been translated
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so many times. What makes you think it was written about this? What makes you think? Oh, maybe they're
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right. So you know what? I will take my morality from this governor in California or from this president
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from Delaware, and maybe that's what I need to do. And yeah, I'm really starting to question
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this concept of morality. Wow, I never thought about this before. And then that's the whole
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game. And then they'll introduce, yeah, this is okay. Yeah, this is okay. Yeah, this is okay. No,
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it's not okay. And if you're somebody that's single watching is like, I don't know where the
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hell Pat's coming from. I thought we're going to talk about this. And what is this all about? But if
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you're married with kids, you're sitting there saying, this is a worry of mine and a concern of mine.
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What's been eliminated for this to become normal? Prayer from school. So where daily prayer is most
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common? Nigeria, according to Statista, 95% of the time. Iran, 87%. Then it's India. Then it's Brazil.
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Then it's us. Right now in Iran, 99.4% of the people there are Muslims with their religion. And
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America is diverse, right? Remember, there's also this element of the government using the religion
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to force you to do something. That's not what we're talking about here. We're not talking about
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some countries that rule their people with God said this and guilt and all this other stuff.
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Listen, go practice your church. But why are some of these totalitarian oppressive places
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trying to eliminate opposing ideas of faith? What if people believe in a God that something is
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possible and I can do this, I can overcome this. Are those types of people tough to control? Are
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those types of people enemies of the state? Are those types of people enemies of a controlling
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oppressive state? Of course they are. We don't need people to have faith. What happens if we have
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people that have faith? Do you believe the future looks bright? That's not a good thing. We should get
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people to believe future is bad and ugly and nasty. Oh my God. Control. You do what we do. We're here
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to protect you and morality. Everything I'm telling you is you've seen in movies and you've seen in
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some countries. We've read about in history books. Could it happen in your couple? It never happened in
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America. Why not? We get rid of morality. And now we're like, yeah, who cares? That's the guy. Who
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cares? His wife. Yeah. Okay. Who cares? It's a kid. I can't marry you. Yeah, but this 42 year old man
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loves his 13 year old girl. So morality more. Yeah. But Bible is, do you see how weird this gets?
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Slippery slope. And this is all a by-product in my opinion of tolerant Christians who are sitting
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there and thinking, yeah, maybe they're right. Maybe tolerant Catholics and maybe tolerant this.
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It's a slippery slope. If you're a parent, this is something, again, I'm thinking about this. So
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we look at stacks. Weekly worship attendance is most where life is the shortest. Makes sense. Again,
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keep in mind, these are all questions that I want you to process and think about, right? Because I'm,
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yeah, I'm kind of going through it with you. I can show you a lot of data. When you look at data,
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here's what you'll notice. Countries where life expectancy is the lowest, people pray the most.
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Countries where life expectancy is the highest, people pray the least. Countries where are the
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wealthiest, they pray the least. For example, if I were to look at what countries, you know,
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pray the most, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Senegal, Chad, Iran, these guys pray a lot. If I say countries
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that pray the least, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, Germany, right? And US, even though,
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you know, we have one of the higher life expectancies in the world, we pray 53% of US
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pray. I can give you this data and, you know, all this other stuff, but I want to, I want to make,
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I want to make the one point here. And I want you to really think about this here. What is better for
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society? What is better for you, your kids, your family, where you live, no matter what part of the
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country or the world you're living in? Is it better for the people to fear God? Is it better for people to
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fear their government? Or is it better for people to fear being socially ostracized? Let's kind of
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unpack that, those three questions for you. And you get to answer this question for yourself.
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If people fear God based on certain set of values and principles, because they want favor from God
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and they want grace from God, will they be a better net positive to society? And by the way,
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I'm not talking about, you know, fanatical where, you know, the whole, the church and state separation
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between some governments wants you to only believe in their church. Trust me, I lived in Iran and they
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use their religion as a fear they impose on their people. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm
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talking about America. You want to be Christian? Go ahead. Scientology? Go ahead. LDS? Go ahead.
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Atheist? Go ahead. Agnostic? Go ahead. That whole concept in America is we're talking about. But let's
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go to it. Is it better for when the populist fears God? Or is it better when we fear the government?
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Oh my God. Oh, I fear the president. Oh, fear, fear the government. Governor, California. What if?
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Fear, don't say anything. There's a fear of socially hate. Don't say anything. What if we get canceled?
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What's my real opinion on? They're transgender and all that. What's my real opinion on this? Oh my God.
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They're not going to be accepting me. I'm not going to be able to go to that party. What's better for
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society? I'm sorry. What is better for society? If I have to sit there and fear my kids going to
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school and praying to a God, yeah, we don't believe in God. I don't care. Prayer by itself is strong,
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positive affirmation. So imagine what a prayer is really all about. Thank you, God, for this great
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life you've given me. Well, I don't really have a great life. I have an average life. Can you find
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something to be grateful for? I can't. Thank you, God, the fact that my mother is still alive. Thank
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you that you've given 32 years of my dad and my life. I have friends that don't have a father in
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life. Thank you that I know both my mom and my dad. Thank you for keeping me healthy and thank you for
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being able to go to the school and learn a few things. Is that that scary to start the day being
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grateful and thankful? Does that make the relationship of the kids with the parents better? Does that make the
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relationship with the kids and their peers better? Do they become a better society if they are thankful
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and grateful? Do you see where I'm going with this? For me, I'm a little bit concerned about the
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direction we're going with, with the Pope coming out and saying, ah, it's okay. It's okay. Another
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tolerant, you know, Christian figure, powerful figure. There's nobody more powerful than a Catholic
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church Pope going out there saying, yeah, we accept and that's totally fine. It's going to be okay.
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It's not a big deal. We're all sinners. You know, these guys just sin in a different way. Yeah, I don't know.
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I don't know about that too. So we're no longer following this, this, this book called the Bible.
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Mr. Pope, you know, it was written on you for many, many years. The reason why you're a Pope is
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because somebody back in the days was teaching out of this Bible and the Catholic church got bigger.
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And we know the history of the Catholic church and what happened and what's that? Oh yeah, but let's do
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this. Yeah. I don't know. I have a hard time with this. If there's any, I think a country where the
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populace fears God more than they fear their government, these people cannot be controlled and they inject more
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hope and confidence into the people than a society where people fear God or social ostracized. Oh my
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God. What if I get Judd? I don't know about that. So for you, if you're watching and saying, well,
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what can I do about it? Challenge, impose. Say, I'm not afraid. I believe in God. I think everything's
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going to be okay. We're going to pray. We are going to be grateful. Have that conversation. At the end
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of the day, nobody knows a hundred percent what's going on. The only thing is what society has proven
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better results. When we're asking this basic question on a podcast, why do Muslims move to Christian
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nation like America? But why do Christian people and Jews not move to Muslim nations? Why? Because
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maybe America economy tolerance, allowing others to coexist. We can maybe, what is that? Is there
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something good about that or no? You have to understand these are some questions that people
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are asking and these are valid questions. You may agree or disagree with it. That's where the debate
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starts and that's where the conversation begins. And that is something we at Valuetainment and PPD
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podcast are very comfortable with because we need more of it today. If you have value out of this
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