6028 The Salvations of Philosophy! Twitter Response
Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux
Stefan Molyneux
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In this lecture, Stefan Molyneux examines the theme of indifference among Christians during his childhood experiences of violence and trauma. He highlights the contradictions between Christian moral teachings and the inaction of those professing these values, reflecting on a pervasive neglect he encountered from supportive figures. Molyneux discusses the challenge of evil as a critical issue for humanity, arguing that both religious frameworks and atheistic nihilism fall short in addressing this problem. He introduces his ethical system of Universally Preferable Behavior (UPB), which aims to provide an objective moral foundation independent of religious beliefs or governmental authority. Central to his discussion is the protection of children, with Molyneux critiquing existing moral and educational systems for failing to ensure their safety. He concludes by urging exploration of concepts like peaceful parenting and UPB as pathways to a more moral society.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, yo, Stefan Molin, you from Free Domain. |
| 0:02.1 | How you doing? |
| 0:03.7 | A couple of points. |
| 0:04.5 | Thank you, everyone, of course, so much for this amazing conversation that's going on on X or Twitter. |
| 0:10.3 | You can join it at X.com slash Stefan Molyneux. |
| 0:13.0 | I put the link below. |
| 0:14.5 | Great conversations. |
| 0:15.8 | I really, really appreciate everyone's feedback. |
| 0:17.6 | Just want to sort of clarify a couple of points. |
| 0:20.6 | And we can continue on with |
| 0:22.3 | this great interchange, exchange. So when I say I suffered under great evils as a child, |
| 0:32.0 | violence and madness and all kinds of stuff. And one of the things, of course, that was kind of impossible to miss was that I was surrounded |
| 0:41.8 | by Christians. |
| 0:43.3 | I, of course, I went to church many times a week when I was in boarding school. |
| 0:47.3 | I was in the choir and I was surrounded by Christians. |
| 0:53.6 | We were in apartments with paper thin walls and the violence and all of that was occurring. |
| 0:57.2 | Everyone could hear it and so on. |
| 0:58.8 | And, you know, we're not talking sort of personal confrontation, |
| 1:01.4 | but, you know, a phone call to the authorities would have probably changed things quite a bit. |
| 1:05.4 | And possibly for the better, I think to some degree for the better. |
| 1:09.3 | And so I was surrounded by family members who were Christians, extended family, who were |
| 1:13.8 | Christians, priests, teachers, neighbors, all for the most part were Christians. |
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