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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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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Dystopian literature Utopian religion last
- 00:10
month Is religion a source of conflict in utopia Yeah
- 00:17
it is it's there's No conflict within the nation but
- 00:22
thomas more definitely notes that part of what causes conflicts
- 00:26
is religion in the outside world So within utopia there's
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- 00:30
no official religion people are free to believe in whatever
- 00:34
they want and worship whatever god they want For the
- 00:37
only unfair belief is a belief in kind of an
- 00:40
unjust afterlife that not everyone gets to participate in So
- 00:46
it's weird a little bit that it's a nation that
- 00:49
tries to police what its people believe But when you
- 00:52
compare it to all of the religions outside what there's
- 00:56
actually a remarkable amount of religious freedom there Our people
- 01:02
free to not worship a deity and utopia i suppose
- 01:05
so It doesn't really come up But yeah the idea
- 01:08
is you can worship anything and no one's watching you
- 01:11
So if you worship nothing at all you'd probably fit
- 01:13
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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