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You can believe in your Deity and be tolerant · Talk to Prince Show - Solving World's Problems

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  Hm. When when it comes to religion, you know, and people are
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  very stiff, but where people are very possessive, you know, and defensive,
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  and and you find it difficult, you know, and challenging to talk
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  religion to people, you know, And it's not a difficult thing, right
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  you can. You can still believe in what you're believing and be open minded.
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  Right, we have an open mind, and and just listen to others.
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  Right, you can just listen to others, you can. People always
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  think as if they have faith or believe it's on the threat. Now you're
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  you only only already believe in something. But that's your reality. And if
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  the reality is true, then people who believe in the same religion will all
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  think alike. Right, I come therefore that people go to the same church
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  or the same faith, or the same mask or the same temper or the
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  same what that faith place might be, and they believe in the same God
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  and the same rituals. But they did they argue about their about their fight
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  theys, the disagree on their faith, right because they disagree. Because faith
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  it's a charaturalization or religionization of a deity. Say it again, fate's a
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  culturalization or religionization of a deity, so that culturalization and religionization needs some texts,
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  some rules, some laws, some customs, some traditions, some rituals,
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  in order to make people come from belief and regiment or follow that fate
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  with some assumptively of some order and form and tradition. Persistency not change.
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  So customarization and religionization it's an attermat to change. Could change brings inconsistency.
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  Change sometimes bring confusion, sometimes anarchy. It brings differences, it brings different
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  voices, It brings critique, of which in itself is good. But if
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  change becomes the thing, then the faith falls apart or it becomes questionable and
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  leads to own believers and disappointments. So the goal of faith is to make
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  people believe in something and hold onto that thing did the day they die,
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  believing that after they die, their faith either we save them or give them
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  something the afterlife that they didn't have in the present, or we give meaning
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  of purpose to their lives or to their soul or to the afterlife. That's
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  why when you get into the discussion of religion, it becomes so dicey,
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  so antagonistic, sometimes violent, and sometimes deadly because people's lives are at stake,
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  their well being, their ancestry, their culture, their history, their
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  deity or their God. It's at risk. So you see, it's not
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  that deity that is at risk, because if it's a deity, deity is
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  not human. So deity always be a deity because deity should be omni design
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  or omnipresent, omly known. So the deity therefore, in the service in
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  essence, cannot be a physical thing or a physical being. So the deity
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  therefore cannot be threatened. What therefore is threaten or threatened, it's the text
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  about that deity, is the culturalization of that deity, the ritualization of that
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  deity, and the regionalization, the religionization of that deity that is a threat.
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  It means people need to rewrite everything again, and it would be like
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  they need to reinvent the will. So people don't want to do that.
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  That's why most people with religion be a deterministic in their way of thinking.
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  They believe in determinism, they believe in destiny, they believe in fate.
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  Fate and if a t urge are almost synonymous, even though different. When
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  you have faith and that faith turns to faith, it means your faith in
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  the deity has become religious or culturalize or something. Therefore you can practice,
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  you can ritualize. The God stays a sign that people believe it. The
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  God stays a sign. If the God changes, then it's not God then.
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  And the texts should therefore stay the signed. The texts or the preachings,
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  or the writing, or the customs and traditions. Why should stay the
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  same too, because there is the fear that if he changes, it means
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  their God is not true. This in itself is a conflict, and this
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  might be the reason why young people believe in the religion. And when they
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  grow up and start to learn critical thinking and logic start to ask questions,
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  most of them abandon their fight or they become enemies of their own fight because
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  the fight has refused to evolve with the time, and some of those religious
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  leaders they don't know how to separate their God from the religionization, culturalization,
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  and ritualization of that God. Your God can still be true, but your
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  texts can be changed because those texts, even though inspired by God, humans
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  have evolved. What was then cannot be the same today as you make God,
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  religion tradition and culture to be the enemy of the future, an enemy
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  of progress or change of freedom or liberties, but the pursuit of happiness.
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  God can still be God in the changing world because God doesn't change. I
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  ask a very londed person a question one day that what if the gender of
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  your God happens not to be true? We used to believe in our God.
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  What if the image of your God that you see happens not to be
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  true? We used to believe in our God. One person said, yes,
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  I can, and another person said I cannot. And I said,
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  if you cannot believe, if you cannot believe in your God if the changes,
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  if the gender changes, right, or believe in your God? If
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  the image that given to their God changes, it means you don't believe in
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  that God. You believe in that gender? Are you believe in that image
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  that you say so? Therefore your God therefore is limited to that image and
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  gender. Even asked one person, we used to believe in your God if
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  their culture the religionization that God changes, and the person said, no,
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  I can't, And I said, therefore you believe in the culturalization of your
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  God, in the religionization of your God? And the ritualization of your God,
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  and not in your God is itself or himself or herself. Religion was
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  made after a God. That God did not make religion. Somebody somewhere was
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  blessed by a God or something that mighty, that powerful, that they choose
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  to believe in that thing or being or essence or mightiness or omniness, and
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  they chose to call that thing or God or deity or omnliness a God.
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  They choose to call that wish they believe in a God. Even if they
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  did not call it that thing, that thing in itself still is. Is
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  that thing in the serf that is God? And if that be that thing
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  itself, that thing itself should be good and fair. If it's not good
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  and fair, then that thing in itself cannot be God for everybody. If
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  you give goodness to everybody, everybody will accept it. If you everybody with
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  fairness, everybody will accept it. If you are good to everybody, everybody
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  will accepted. The question becomes what is good. You can debate what is
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  good, You cannot debate what is fair. If you find yourself debating what
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  is fair, it means you don't have that basic conscience of right or wrong
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  or good? And the question asked again, what is right and wrong?
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  Again? Right and wrong? Is it in itself right and wrong without you
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  giving it a name? Right and wrong? And that thing is called fairness.
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  If the sun shines, it should shine on everybody that needs it.
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  Else it's not fair. It therefore cannot be of a deity of God.
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  The air will braid if everybody can not braid it that got no stress,
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  then that is not of God. Because you be fair to everybody and good
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  to everybody. I can reduce that simple generalization of what good or right is
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  all wrong to that that therefore should be of God and should be good.
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  But if that is that God is fair and good, why should there be
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  so many God? Then why should there be so many religions in the name
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  of God? Because it's not about actually being good in goodness sake or being
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  fair in fairness sake. It's believing in what good and fair is based on
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  a particular school of thought, a particular religion, a particular culture, a
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  particular tradition, or a particular way of life or thought, ideology, or
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  philosophy. That's why you have so many gods, so many religions, to
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  decide for themselves what they think is fair and when they think is good.
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  When that power therefore is taken from that thing itself and giving to humans to
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  determine, therefore, based on a particular God, that they choose to make
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  for themselves what is right unfair. That's the beginning of the conflict in the
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  whole. That's why it becomes difficult to talk religion to anybody without it becoming
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  confrontational. Remember, they will hardly be talking about what is fair and good
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  for everybody, As my God will say, due to everybody, we like
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  them, don't to you. Remember the most religion, when they are talking
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  and fighting each other about their religion, about their faith, it's always not
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  about fundamental for fairness and fundamental good. You can therefore hold fundamental fairness and
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  fundamental good, and you can still become part of any religion. If it's
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  talking about that wich is good and the wich is fair, it means you
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  can go to any religion. Therefore you will still be part of that community.
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  But you see, that would not be possible because most religions uses God
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  to define what they think is right and wrong, good or bad, or
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  what is fair. So they choose to create and have autonomy, agency,
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  and control in the name of God that is undefined, where they choose to
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  define that God and then create a religion in the name of that God.
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  And He used that authority, autonomy, and control to define, decide,
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  legislate, adjudicate or execute, reward and punish people and what is right and
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  wrong, evil or bad or good, unfair or just. If God is
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  of which God is, God can be in any religion, in any faith,
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  in any society anywhere anyhow. That's the human The sun is the sun,
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  the airway, bread is an ever bread. There is no particular religious
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  son, or a particular religious moon, a particular religious oxygen, every bread,
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  a particular religious tree, a particular religious ocean, or hydrogen or nitrogen
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  or carbon. But the basic things that humans live to be has no religion.
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  If humans say it comes from a God, why should that God be
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  given different names or used differently to confuse humans about what that one and only
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  God is, And why should many religions use that same God and said that
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  same God is the only God and the other god. We cannot fight about
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  the sun, we cannot fight about the moon, we cannot fight about the
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  air we breed. Why should we therefore fight about God? Because humans,
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  for good intended purposes maybe something wrong, have needed that agency, no authority,
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  an autonomy of control and administration to render society to be orderly, peaceful,
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  governable, and fairer and just in their own way. They needed something
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  to be able to punish what is wrong, to create and teach values,
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  to make humans to believe in something, to find meaning in their lives,
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  to live for something am willing to die or something to have faith in something
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  that is good, that is fair, to have faith in something that is
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  mighty and superior to either that is peer, that can give them hope,
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  that can treat them to miracles, to good fortune and good luck, that
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  can give them something that they can pass on to their children, the basic
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  fundamental values of society. That should be the call of every religion or every
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  fate that believing in a God. But you get to see some religions use
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  God to fight wars, to become terrorists, to discriminate, to become sexist,
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  racist, bigoit, antisemite, or all type of phobias in the name
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  of God. You get to see that some religions make God not to be
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  God. They reduce God to themselves and use God like a twilet paper.
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  They use God like an object, like a car. They use God for
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  their own design and their own purposes. They twist God to justify their wrongs.
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  They twist God to discriminate. The twist God to be cruel, to
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  be humane, to be brutal, to be savage. They will use God
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  to kill innocent children and women. Tis true our lives and property. They
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  will use God into nationalism. If you find a politician using God, she
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  becomes suspicious. Ay, they may not believe in that God. B is
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  necessary, se is sufficient as an as a means to an end, not
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  for the purpose of the goodness of fairness of it. The issues now by
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  God, the issues about what people do in the name of that God.
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  So therefore the war or religion has nothing doing with God. It has everything
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  to do with the way of life that has been written through a text,
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  through culturalization, ritualization, religionization, indoctrination, through us various schools of thoughts
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  and learning for good intended purposes. There some time wrong as a means to
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  an end. But when you do teach people religion, you cannot therefore take
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  away their spirituality. Spirituality is intender to the human being, is the seed
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  of God or good that that fairness or that fundamental good lies in that you're
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  born wit that you came with to know that what I am doing is not
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  right, it's not fair. But be careful because some religion can take away
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  that fundamental good man fairness in you. I justify you to kill, to
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  do evil, to be racist, to be bigot, to be sexist,
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  to be cruel. They will lie to you that you are God. Justify
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  that you will know that it's not true. If it's not fair to everybody
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  and good to everybody, then it's not of God but from a particular human
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  being with power in the name of a God, with that has given them
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  agency, autonomy, control and supremacy and supremacy to use that God to subjugate,
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  to punish, to reward, to indoctrinate, and sometime just destroy the
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  spirituality and the goodness the lie in people. When you go around the world,
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  you see how much humh has been done in the name of God through
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  the religion. As a philosopher, God can still be God with our religion,
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  and that God that can still be God with that religion. The human
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  being can still have the spirituality to believe in that wich is good and do
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  that which is good, to give back to society, to be fair to
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  one another, because that set of good and fairness is the God in you
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  intrigically that you have come with. Religion can help you share that God if
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  it allows you to be good and fair to everybody. I said again to
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  everybody. If somebody uses the name of God to tell you that I hate
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  somebody, discriminate against somebody, subjugate women, and make women to be subsidient
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  to you, you will know that it's not the God of God and the
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  God of fairness. Remember, to be of God should be the God of
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  God and the God of fairness. To be good, therefore should be fair
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  as this discrimination. If I choose to be good to one group of people
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  and terrible to a group of people, that is discrimination. It can therefore
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  not be of the God of the universe. It can only be of the
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  God of your religion, and therefore not a religion of artists. Religion is
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  a way of thinking. It's a particular school of thought in a particular way
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  that sees God in a reduced way, and a reductionist where through the teachings
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  of a particular group of people in their culture, their traditions, their morals,
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  and their way of life. And if that be it, you can
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  see that the tradition, that culture, that maras that way of lives,
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  and therefore that religion is going to be antagonistic or contrary, contrarian to other
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  so called religions themselves that think them thinks the sign We therefore create this many
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  religions in the name of one God that sounds a little bit contadictory and preaching
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  different things and believe different things, and say there is one God, how
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  can that God be the opposite of itself doing good to one people and doing
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  the contrary to the other group of people. You get to see that sometimes
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  religion is actually getting the way of God, and religion at the same time
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  can be the tool of God if it's doing good and being fair. Have
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  been the poor amidst the poor everywhere in the world. For religion to be
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  religion, it needs to be universally good, are universally fair, because God
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  is God of the universe, not of a particular tribe, of a particular
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  group, of a particular culture, of a particular religion a particular people.
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  But if there is that God, it cannot therefore impose itself on the universe
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  with humans of different traditions, different religions too, diferend gods and deferend belief
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  system. That's when there is conflict. That's how you got the so called
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  religious wars. Think about how many lives were lost do not come back to
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  live again. So we should always think that we should be tolerant, which
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  might we must not always make talk about religion so confrontational that people become so
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  divisive, hateful and fight one another, kill one another, or worse,
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  become terrorists to destroy whose civilization and people. You can see that you're not
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  doing the name of any God. You're doing any name of a particular religion.
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  Somebody taught you and use God to tell you that you should do this.
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  Are you gonna be blessed? I can't be blessed by God by doing
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  either by killing in us and children and women and destroying property, by discriminating
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  against humans in the name of they are faith or whatever they believe in,
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  in the name of their gender or their race or their ton skin, the
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  way they look their high they are right. I can use God to do
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  that. You can use God to do that, but you can know that
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  God is to reduce God. It's your God that you've created. Don't be
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  just a fearbot. You cannot therefore impose a discriminating God on God's universe or
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  in God's universe. You know that's not right, that's not good, and
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  that's not fair.