Valuetainment - Why Governments Fear Religion - Where Does Morality Come From？

00:00:00.000 I got a few questions I want to talk to you about and I want to see how you process this.

00:00:03.380 It's a conversation we're having about morality and law and prayer and religion and why do

00:00:08.920 oppressive governments fear opposing faith and religion and they kind of want to get rid of it

00:00:13.900 specifically when you think about what Mao, Stalin, Karl Marx, what they believed in,

00:00:18.420 they got to get people to believe in God less and it sounds like we're kind of going in that

00:00:22.120 direction in certain places that we pulled up some weird data. What country prays the most?

00:00:26.440 What countries go to church the most? What age prays the most and why? And we pulled up a scale

00:00:31.840 like what is really the difference between different religions when it comes down to certain

00:00:35.460 morals and values? Same sex marriage. Change today with Catholic. I don't know if you saw what the 0.99

00:00:39.520 Pope said. Killing, adultery, stealing, sex change. What are some similarities between Christianity, 0.98

00:00:45.100 Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism? What is it and where does morality come from and how it differs

00:00:51.380 from law? We're going to talk about that today. Morality. Where does morality come from? If I was

00:00:55.980 to ask you right now, where does morality come from, what would you say? Would you say, well,

00:00:59.420 I was just born a moral person? You think you and I are born moral? Do you do certain things or not

00:01:04.900 do certain things because you're just so moral above and beyond everybody else? They say morality comes

00:01:10.240 from three different places and every one of them makes an argument for whatever it is. Let's

00:01:14.120 entertain all three of them. One is divine. It comes from God. It comes from Emmanuel and then we learn

00:01:19.020 about it so we stop killing each other or killing friends or, you know, adultery with somebody else's

00:01:25.160 wife and he's married and you, or vice versa, she's married. You go after the husband or same-sex 1.00

00:01:30.880 marriage according to Quran. You know how they are or not for it, not accepted. Christianity, not 0.99

00:01:36.380 accepted, not addressed in scripture for Buddhism and not accepted in Judaism and diverse perspective

00:01:41.700 in Hinduism and adultery and stealing, not accepted, not accepted, not accepted, not accepted,

00:01:46.920 sex change, not addressed. They didn't talk about in the Bible, not addressed, not addressed,

00:01:51.520 not addressed, not addressed. And you talk about these things. Okay. One area of morality maybe

00:01:55.780 comes from divine, church, religion. Some say, no, no, it's, it's, it's based on a social contract

00:02:02.100 that we have. Neil deGrasse Tyson kind of talked about this as we, as the populace have a social

00:02:07.020 contract to do what's right for the other person. And you are liable as a social contract to get the

00:02:12.160 vaccine to, you know, and that, that was the pitch. Wait a minute. What, I never signed this social

00:02:16.360 contract. And the other one is individual reason, like stoicism, you know, what's right. You feel it

00:02:21.280 in your conscious and that's where morality comes from, but does it now, if you're an atheist and

00:02:26.480 maybe you're morally sound, but you don't believe in God, but you know, you're like, well, I've been

00:02:31.660 like this my entire life, but maybe your parents taught you the right morals and values. And maybe

00:02:35.760 they were faith-based and if they weren't faith-based, maybe their parents were, but eventually in

00:02:39.620 the lineage, somebody, you know, lived a morally right life. Well, that's what laws are for. Laws are

00:02:46.000 different than moral laws. You just follow because you don't want to go to jail. You don't want to pay

00:02:49.420 fine. You don't want to do certain things. You don't want to get sued. Those are laws. Morality,

00:02:53.260 I just don't think this is the right thing to do. Having said that, when you think about this,

00:02:57.240 we go in the direction of different religions of what they're doing and we think about prayer,

00:03:01.180 what they're taking out. So having said that, let me tell you a couple of things that different

00:03:04.680 people have said in the past. Thomas Jefferson said, the two enemies of the people are criminals

00:03:08.660 and the government. So let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution. So the second

00:03:13.640 will not become the legalized version of the first, which is criminals. And what if government

00:03:17.600 starts recruiting criminals and they work together against you? By the way, this happened. Some people

00:03:21.060 may be watching in some different countries saying that's what's going on in Mexico right now. That's

00:03:24.140 what's going on in XYZ right now. Some of that may be going on in America right now. That's the fear,

00:03:28.100 right? Watch this. Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto said, communism begins when atheism

00:03:33.660 begins. Communism begins when atheism begins. Why do you need people to stop believing in a higher law

00:03:40.380 so their God is replaced with the government? Oh, the government's my God and a ruler or president

00:03:45.680 becomes my God. Okay. Maybe this guy just wrote a book. He didn't know what it was. How about Mal?

00:03:49.240 Here's what Mal said. During the cultural revolution, religion became a target of Mal's campaign to

00:03:53.560 eliminate the four olds, four olds, old things, old ideas, old customs, and old habits, and replace

00:03:59.860 it with Mal, the new thing. I am who you follow and I rule over you. Not God, not this. To the point 0.51

00:04:06.540 where all religion activities were banned and religious personnel were persecuted, parliamentary

00:04:10.700 Red Guard attacked, or destroyed many temples, shrines, churches, and mosques, and some were

00:04:15.120 abandoned, closed, or confiscated Chinese people who wanted to maintain their faith, practice,

00:04:19.940 and secret. And even today, Xi, in 2013, when you think about what he said, the government banned

00:04:25.040 evangelization online, tightened controls over Christian activities outside of registered venues,

00:04:29.920 and shut down churches that refused to register. Authorities also arrested prominent church leaders,

00:04:35.480 and some Christians reportedly have held in camps. Christianity in China is governed by several sets of

00:04:40.840 rules. So if you want to practice Christianity in China, you got to do it underground. And Stalin, 0.65

00:04:44.900 he argued, the new socialist man was an atheist one, free of the religious chains that had helped

00:04:51.260 to bind him to class oppression. Here's a guy talking about class oppression that took everything

00:04:56.360 away from everybody, and he became the powerful one. It's interesting how they spun it. He closed

00:05:00.680 churches, synagogues, and mosques, and ordered the killing and imprisonment of thousands of religious

00:05:05.820 leaders in an effort to eliminate even the concept of God. So it didn't matter what the religion was,

00:05:10.680 whether you were a Christian, a Jew, or a Muslim, got to get rid of these. Why? He saw this as a way of 0.99

00:05:15.740 getting rid of a past that was holding people back and marching towards the future of science and

00:05:20.560 progress called the Stalin's Holy War, which was religion. And the Godless Five-Year Plan launched in 0.73

00:05:25.960 1928 gave local cells of anti-religious organizations, League of Militant Atheists,

00:05:31.240 new tools to the established religion. And by the way, keep in mind, I'm coming from a place of,

00:05:36.100 I'm a faith guy. Faith is risky, right? You don't necessarily know what's going to happen after we

00:05:41.380 die. There's a risk we're taking, whether you believe in God or not. If you don't believe there's

00:05:45.500 a risk, if you do believe there's a risk, I'm not coming from a place of certainty. Where I am coming

00:05:49.520 from a place of certainty is if we eliminate faith or the opportunity for people to have a different

00:05:55.980 religion, you have to replace that with somebody coming up with the morality, and then we start 0.59

00:06:00.120 questioning everything. What makes you think it's immoral for somebody to cut off and chop off their

00:06:05.420 private parts and transition? Who says it's immoral? Who are you to say it's immoral? Well,

00:06:10.020 my religion does. Well, your religion, you believe in religion? You're that naive? You're going to take

00:06:14.980 your morality based on a book written by however many people 2,000 years ago, and it's been translated

00:06:20.620 so many times. What makes you think it was written about this? What makes you think? Oh, maybe they're

00:06:24.580 right. So you know what? I will take my morality from this governor in California or from this president

00:06:29.380 from Delaware, and maybe that's what I need to do. And yeah, I'm really starting to question

00:06:34.920 this concept of morality. Wow, I never thought about this before. And then that's the whole

00:06:39.580 game. And then they'll introduce, yeah, this is okay. Yeah, this is okay. Yeah, this is okay. No,

00:06:44.760 it's not okay. And if you're somebody that's single watching is like, I don't know where the

00:06:48.780 hell Pat's coming from. I thought we're going to talk about this. And what is this all about? But if

00:06:52.120 you're married with kids, you're sitting there saying, this is a worry of mine and a concern of mine.

00:06:57.080 What's been eliminated for this to become normal? Prayer from school. So where daily prayer is most

00:07:03.300 common? Nigeria, according to Statista, 95% of the time. Iran, 87%. Then it's India. Then it's Brazil.

00:07:10.080 Then it's us. Right now in Iran, 99.4% of the people there are Muslims with their religion. And

00:07:16.420 America is diverse, right? Remember, there's also this element of the government using the religion

00:07:21.960 to force you to do something. That's not what we're talking about here. We're not talking about

00:07:26.200 some countries that rule their people with God said this and guilt and all this other stuff.

00:07:31.820 Listen, go practice your church. But why are some of these totalitarian oppressive places

00:07:35.740 trying to eliminate opposing ideas of faith? What if people believe in a God that something is

00:07:40.520 possible and I can do this, I can overcome this. Are those types of people tough to control? Are

00:07:44.780 those types of people enemies of the state? Are those types of people enemies of a controlling

00:07:49.040 oppressive state? Of course they are. We don't need people to have faith. What happens if we have

00:07:52.820 people that have faith? Do you believe the future looks bright? That's not a good thing. We should get

00:07:55.760 people to believe future is bad and ugly and nasty. Oh my God. Control. You do what we do. We're here

00:08:02.680 to protect you and morality. Everything I'm telling you is you've seen in movies and you've seen in

00:08:07.620 some countries. We've read about in history books. Could it happen in your couple? It never happened in

00:08:11.400 America. Why not? We get rid of morality. And now we're like, yeah, who cares? That's the guy. Who

00:08:15.980 cares? His wife. Yeah. Okay. Who cares? It's a kid. I can't marry you. Yeah, but this 42 year old man 0.82

00:08:22.780 loves his 13 year old girl. So morality more. Yeah. But Bible is, do you see how weird this gets?

00:08:28.860 Slippery slope. And this is all a by-product in my opinion of tolerant Christians who are sitting 1.00

00:08:34.760 there and thinking, yeah, maybe they're right. Maybe tolerant Catholics and maybe tolerant this. 0.73

00:08:38.980 It's a slippery slope. If you're a parent, this is something, again, I'm thinking about this. So

00:08:42.380 we look at stacks. Weekly worship attendance is most where life is the shortest. Makes sense. Again,

00:08:48.560 keep in mind, these are all questions that I want you to process and think about, right? Because I'm,

00:08:51.940 yeah, I'm kind of going through it with you. I can show you a lot of data. When you look at data,

00:08:54.980 here's what you'll notice. Countries where life expectancy is the lowest, people pray the most.

00:08:59.300 Countries where life expectancy is the highest, people pray the least. Countries where are the

00:09:03.600 wealthiest, they pray the least. For example, if I were to look at what countries, you know,

00:09:07.200 pray the most, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Senegal, Chad, Iran, these guys pray a lot. If I say countries

00:09:12.360 that pray the least, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, Germany, right? And US, even though,

00:09:18.700 you know, we have one of the higher life expectancies in the world, we pray 53% of US

00:09:23.300 pray. I can give you this data and, you know, all this other stuff, but I want to, I want to make,

00:09:26.860 I want to make the one point here. And I want you to really think about this here. What is better for

00:09:30.400 society? What is better for you, your kids, your family, where you live, no matter what part of the

00:09:34.500 country or the world you're living in? Is it better for the people to fear God? Is it better for people to 0.64

00:09:40.700 fear their government? Or is it better for people to fear being socially ostracized? Let's kind of

00:09:47.360 unpack that, those three questions for you. And you get to answer this question for yourself.

00:09:51.160 If people fear God based on certain set of values and principles, because they want favor from God

00:09:58.400 and they want grace from God, will they be a better net positive to society? And by the way,

00:10:03.800 I'm not talking about, you know, fanatical where, you know, the whole, the church and state separation

00:10:08.740 between some governments wants you to only believe in their church. Trust me, I lived in Iran and they

00:10:13.520 use their religion as a fear they impose on their people. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm

00:10:17.860 talking about America. You want to be Christian? Go ahead. Scientology? Go ahead. LDS? Go ahead. 0.75

00:10:21.120 Atheist? Go ahead. Agnostic? Go ahead. That whole concept in America is we're talking about. But let's

00:10:24.800 go to it. Is it better for when the populist fears God? Or is it better when we fear the government?

00:10:29.380 Oh my God. Oh, I fear the president. Oh, fear, fear the government. Governor, California. What if?

00:10:33.620 Fear, don't say anything. There's a fear of socially hate. Don't say anything. What if we get canceled?

00:10:37.740 What's my real opinion on? They're transgender and all that. What's my real opinion on this? Oh my God. 1.00

00:10:41.340 They're not going to be accepting me. I'm not going to be able to go to that party. What's better for

00:10:45.460 society? I'm sorry. What is better for society? If I have to sit there and fear my kids going to

00:10:51.920 school and praying to a God, yeah, we don't believe in God. I don't care. Prayer by itself is strong,

00:10:57.020 positive affirmation. So imagine what a prayer is really all about. Thank you, God, for this great

00:11:02.420 life you've given me. Well, I don't really have a great life. I have an average life. Can you find

00:11:06.880 something to be grateful for? I can't. Thank you, God, the fact that my mother is still alive. Thank

00:11:12.740 you that you've given 32 years of my dad and my life. I have friends that don't have a father in

00:11:17.120 life. Thank you that I know both my mom and my dad. Thank you for keeping me healthy and thank you for

00:11:22.760 being able to go to the school and learn a few things. Is that that scary to start the day being

00:11:26.960 grateful and thankful? Does that make the relationship of the kids with the parents better? Does that make the

00:11:31.900 relationship with the kids and their peers better? Do they become a better society if they are thankful

00:11:36.440 and grateful? Do you see where I'm going with this? For me, I'm a little bit concerned about the

00:11:40.040 direction we're going with, with the Pope coming out and saying, ah, it's okay. It's okay. Another

00:11:44.420 tolerant, you know, Christian figure, powerful figure. There's nobody more powerful than a Catholic

00:11:50.080 church Pope going out there saying, yeah, we accept and that's totally fine. It's going to be okay.

00:11:53.620 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.

00:11:58.020 I don't know about that too. So we're no longer following this, this, this book called the Bible.

00:12:02.520 Mr. Pope, you know, it was written on you for many, many years. The reason why you're a Pope is

00:12:06.500 because somebody back in the days was teaching out of this Bible and the Catholic church got bigger.

00:12:10.360 And we know the history of the Catholic church and what happened and what's that? Oh yeah, but let's do

00:12:14.260 this. Yeah. I don't know. I have a hard time with this. If there's any, I think a country where the

00:12:19.020 populace fears God more than they fear their government, these people cannot be controlled and they inject more 0.98

00:12:25.760 hope and confidence into the people than a society where people fear God or social ostracized. Oh my

00:12:32.520 God. What if I get Judd? I don't know about that. So for you, if you're watching and saying, well,

00:12:37.000 what can I do about it? Challenge, impose. Say, I'm not afraid. I believe in God. I think everything's

00:12:41.640 going to be okay. We're going to pray. We are going to be grateful. Have that conversation. At the end

00:12:45.620 of the day, nobody knows a hundred percent what's going on. The only thing is what society has proven

00:12:49.260 better results. When we're asking this basic question on a podcast, why do Muslims move to Christian 0.53

00:12:54.320 nation like America? But why do Christian people and Jews not move to Muslim nations? Why? Because 0.67

00:13:00.120 maybe America economy tolerance, allowing others to coexist. We can maybe, what is that? Is there

00:13:06.680 something good about that or no? You have to understand these are some questions that people

00:13:10.680 are asking and these are valid questions. You may agree or disagree with it. That's where the debate

00:13:15.500 starts and that's where the conversation begins. And that is something we at Valuetainment and PPD

00:13:19.580 podcast are very comfortable with because we need more of it today. If you have value out of this

00:13:24.060 video, I got two videos I want you to think about watching. One of them is the angriest people in 0.99

00:13:27.720 the world. And by the way, I'm, my background is number three on this list. The other one is a

00:13:32.000 Muslim versus Christian debate that we had where millions of people worldwide watched. If you've

00:13:36.680 never seen it, click here to watch that. This one is a debate. It gets heated. You're going to get

00:13:42.140 angry one way or the other, but it's discourse, something we need more of in the world today.

00:13:46.780 Take care, everybody. Bye-bye, bye-bye.

Valuetainment - January 08, 2024

Why Governments Fear Religion - Where Does Morality Come From？

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