Why Governments Fear Religion - Where Does Morality Come From?
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Patrick Bet-David delves deep into the complex relationship between morality, law, prayer, religion, and government control. Join us as we discuss how oppressive governments fear and sometimes suppress religious beliefs, drawing historical references from figures like Mao, Stalin, and Karl Marx. We analyze different religious perspectives on moral issues like same-sex marriage, adultery, and stealing, comparing Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism, and Hinduism. Connect one-on-one with the right expert to get the answers you need with Minnect! https://bit.ly/3N2FZqK Visit Valuetainment University for the best courses online for entrepreneurs: https://bit.ly/40XG5WD Get best-in-class business advice with Bet-David Consulting: https://bit.ly/47RYW7S Visit VT.com for the latest news and insights from the world of politics, business and entertainment: https://bit.ly/3RiqFZW Patrick Bet-David is the founder and CEO of Valuetainment Media. He is the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Your Next Five Moves @VALUETAINMENT @PBDPodcast @ValuetainmentShortClips @vtsoscast @VALUETAINMENTRUSSIAN
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| 0:00.0 | I want to talk to you about and I want to see how you process this. |
| 0:03.2 | It's a conversation we're having about morality and law and prayer and religion and why do |
| 0:08.8 | oppressive governments fear opposing faith and religion and they kind of want to get rid of it specifically |
| 0:14.5 | when you think about what Mao Stalin carmarks what they believed in they got to get |
| 0:18.8 | people to believe in God less and it sounds like we're kind of going in that direction in certain places that we pulled up some weird data |
| 0:24.8 | What country prays the most what countries go to church the most what age praise the most and why and we pulled up a scale like what is really the difference between different religions |
| 0:34.4 | when it comes onto certain moral and values same sex marriage change today with |
| 0:38.3 | Catholic I don't know if you saw what the Pope said killing adultery stealing sex |
| 0:42.0 | change what are some similarities between Christianity Islam |
| 0:45.4 | Buddhism Judaism Hinduism what is it and where does morality come from and how it differs |
| 0:51.4 | from law we're gonna talk about that today. |
| 0:53.8 | Morality, where does morality come from? If I was to ask you right now, where does |
| 0:57.1 | morality come from? What would you say? Would you say, well, I was just born a moral |
| 1:00.9 | person. You think you and I are born moral? Do you do certain things or not |
| 1:04.8 | do certain things because you're just so moral above and beyond everybody else? |
| 1:09.1 | They say morality comes from three different places and every one of them makes an argument for |
| 1:13.2 | whatever it is let's entertain all three of them. One is divine it comes from |
| 1:16.4 | God it comes from a manual and then we learn about it so we stop killing each |
| 1:21.2 | other or killing friends or you know adultery with somebody else's |
| 1:25.1 | wife and he's married and you oh vice versa she's married you go after the husband or |
| 1:29.9 | same sex marriage according to Quran you know how they are not for it not |
| 1:34.6 | accepted Christianity not accepted not addressed in scripture for Buddhism |
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