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What's the deal with religion in utopias? And why did we start this video description like Jerry Seinfeld? And why are we suddenly craving soup...?

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English Language

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Literature / Dystopian Literature

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Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Utopian religion last
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month Is religion a source of conflict in utopia Yeah
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it is it's there's No conflict within the nation but
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thomas more definitely notes that part of what causes conflicts
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is religion in the outside world So within utopia there's

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no official religion people are free to believe in whatever
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they want and worship whatever god they want For the
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only unfair belief is a belief in kind of an
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unjust afterlife that not everyone gets to participate in So
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it's weird a little bit that it's a nation that
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tries to police what its people believe But when you
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compare it to all of the religions outside what there's
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actually a remarkable amount of religious freedom there Our people
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free to not worship a deity and utopia i suppose
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so It doesn't really come up But yeah the idea
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is you can worship anything and no one's watching you
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So if you worship nothing at all you'd probably fit
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in as well Is religion a source of conflict in
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utopia Our people free to not worship a deity in 00:01:25.289 --> [endTime] utopia
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