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Thursday, 4 June 2026

Talking to Objective Ethics about the nature and purpose of religion


1:00  Our beliefs are sacred to us even if we are atheist.
2:00  Our lived experience is sacred to us.
2:00  Superstition
3:00  Religion
4:00  Right/wrong, good/evil
5:00  Religion is about moral convictions, not a mere preference.
6:00  Beliefs should be rationally discussed.
7:00  Supernatural/superstition
8:00  Flood
9:00  It could just have been a tidal wave.
10:00  Attribution of cause and effect
11:00  The Trinity
13:00  Christian imperialism
14:00  Violence and hatred or peace and progress?
15:00  Abrahamic religions are more powerful than the Eastern religions.
16:00  Cause and effect
17:00  God created good and evil.
18:00   If there was a Creation, there must have been a Creator.
19:00  Was there a Creation?
Infinite regress
20:00  The Universe is eternal. 
What about red-shift?
21:00  Quantum physics
Ockham's Razor
24:00  Religious wars
26:00  Clearest rules
27:00  Secular political ideologies, ego, pride
28:00  Free will
29:00  Demographics is destiny.
31:00  Animism
32:00  Anthropomorphism
33:00  Ancient religions
34:00  Narratives
35:00  Worshiping the most powerful deity conceivable
38:00  The perfectly moral god
40:00  Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
41:00  The Holy Bible
43:00  Rome and the West
Freedom of belief
44:00  The weakening of Christianity
46:00  Republic v Monarchy
47:00  The Founding Fathers
Secularism
48:00  Atheist
49:00  Schopenhauer
50:00  Martin Luther King
51:00  Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
53:00  Morality is objective.
54:00  Shared values
55:00  Moral non-cognitivism
58:00  Meta ethical commitments
59:00  Mutual cooperation and reliance
1:00:00  Noahide laws
1:01:00  Reciprocity
1:03:00  It would help if our group worshiped the same God ie the one that forbade idolatry and blasphemy. 
1:03:00  quran.com/2/256
1:06:00  Shias are the most prestigious sect of Muslims whose state is a republic.
1:07:00  Values
1:08:00  quran.com/5/33
1:09:00  The Koran does not mention blasphemy.
1:10:00  The option of mercy
1:12:00  US Supreme Court appointments are fought over fiercely.
1:13:00  The Koran is a more sophisticated document than the Torah.
1:14:00  Buddhist principles are hard to apply. 
1:15:00  Koranic principles of warfare
1:16:00  Liberalism is also faith based. 
A mixed economy
1:17:00  Deceased dictators
1:18:00  Group solidarity
1:19:00  Not only must justice be done, it must be seen to be done. 
Corruption
1:20:00  Breaking the rules
1:21:00  Not bearing false witness
1:22:00  Corruption is ignoring the truth. 
1:23:00  Obedience and compliance
1:25:00  Sex outside marriage
1:28:00  Slavery
1:29:00  Overpopulation
1:30:00  Global warming, water
America is not a Christian nation.
1:31:00  The First Amendment
1:32:00  Sweden has a low recidivism.
1:33:00  Switzerland
Why does Sweden award Nobel Peace Prizes to American Presidents who start a war?
The American people
1:35:00  Cultural Muslims
1:36:00  Mormons
1:37:00  If his spouse converts to another religion in their open relationship
1:38:00  Veganism, halal and kosher slaughter
1:40:00  We have five competing systems of morality 
1:41:00  Objective morality
1:42:00  Rehabilitation
1:44:00  Jumping over a fence
1:45:00  Are people getting stupider?
1:46:00  Flat earthers
1:47:00  Enforcement
1:48:00  Praetorian Guard
Ancient religions
1:49:00  Most people identify as religious.
1:50:00  Comparative religion as a social and political experiment
1:59:00  Boom bust cycle
2:01:00  Good parenting
Hindus have a lower birth rate than Christianity.
2:02:00  Affluent countries have a lower birth rate. 
2:04:00  Humans as a virus.
2:05:00  Atheism promotes antinatalism and sexual liberation. 
2:07:00  We  are agreed on two parent households

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