 Okay. Hello and welcome. First annual release warm presented by the second student line to UTSA. I'm the vice president of the second student lines, and that will be a lot right here. Everyone in the group has worked really hard to make this possible. So, just really quick, but I get all the help from the second student line to stand up really quick. Good, James. In a second, I want to say thank you to everyone who actually came here. We can't get too many people to come out and visit when people talk about beliefs all day. But I thank you for being willing to do just that. Now, I'm going to take time to introduce the groups I'm meeting here. If I can add this to that, each group stand up when your group is named, and remain standing until all groups have been introduced. So, if I could introduce the groups that are taking part today are the University of Christian Fellowship. Welcome to Student Association. The gloves are applied to yourself to help people see fast. Student Association. First and foremost, I need to point out that this is not a debate. Each group will have equal time to present their views on each question. Before the forum starts, each group will have two minutes to introduce themselves. Groups will be chosen out of this box in November of particular. Just keep it fair. Once the forum actually starts, each group will have 90 seconds to answer each question. In 90 seconds, I'll raise my hand. At 10 seconds over, I'll start waving. And at 20 seconds over, I'll set that to self speaking. Can all the panelists see me for you? After that, the portion will start accumulating portion. This is required for no cards that you've got to hand in. If for any reason you have a question that you do not want to attribute to you, then the new card in our hushers will come over and collect it. Can our hushers please stand up? Alright. They'll be going around for a few minutes to get the new cards, and they'll hand it to me and I'll ask them questions. They will also come around with a microphone. Anyone who has a question, they'll ask you what the question is first. Just to make sure it is not inappropriate. And then, if they hear the question, they will actually ask the question. My name is Carol Jay. I'm a music education major. So, if you belong to the Church of Jesus Christ, you may know us better as new Mormons, that we are a Christian church. We believe that it is in Christ that He returned from the point. And we believe that Christ church is here on earth. He established what He came in person, that He includes all of the establishments in the Church and in the New Year, because that is the power of history sitting in power to perform miracles. So we believe that so we can see which is the best here on earth. Thank you. Next up, we have the United Catholic Students. I'm also involved in part of the United Catholic Students here on campus. I'm a junior in the business college of business. Now, our ministry right now is based on community. So, just like what I mean, Carol, we do believe that the Christ we come through to this Christ we receive from our life. But around the campus what we're doing is just holding community and religious people amongst ourselves. We'll put the same beliefs. Also, we do that in our Bible studies and such. Just diving into the word. Thank you. Next up, we have... Hello. Hello, I'm Alex. I am an art major. And I'm also a teacher at Missing College which is more than an art major. Hello. Most of my answers, as you just know, Jewish student organization will be coming from the form which there are many types of Judaism. But regardless of what my perspective is, there is no similar answer to any question. And we have this very accepted letter to you which is that we have two Jews in the room. You may believe me in this. So... I think that's all. Next, we have... the Muslim students organization. Hello, everyone. I'm Sarah from IAM Missing College, JSA. I'm also an English and a Charter of Community major. Thank you very much for your service. The overarching and basic belief of Islamic faith is that there is no God but God. And at last, I'm going to comment on this. I'm John Coffin. And he serves as a human guide to life. And to follow this example as a location worker. Hi, my name is Tom. I'm a political science teacher at JSA, so I believe it's awesome. If you want to discuss this discussion with me, I'm going to show you that either Sarah or I are the other Jews that are behind the headings in the field of religion. Our answer is to move to our best to try to represent the Islam in the most true way that we can. But we can't promise that. Islam is no longer so legitimate. We have 1.68 followers. We have various thoughts and beliefs within those followers. And we will be giving our individual respect for that. I ask that it be for everyone else. Next up, we have a great discussion. We're going to start with Secretary Student Alliance. Hello, I'm Charles Student Alliance. We are an organization for all agnostic, secular, humanist people who consider themselves re-thinkers or anyone who is a religious skeptic. And we are a group that basically has meetings. We have discussion topics. We can simply do everything we can to basically bring people together and have amazing dialogue about church, state, issues, any kind of problem associated with separation of churches, whatever it is. And so we try to do everything we can to basically educate people about those things. And also, the scientific literacy is well as a sense of rational scientific knowledge. My name is... What's your name? My name is... My name is... I'm a financial sponsor and I... I'm not sure if I... it's a part of the individualized... I'm trying to be... but I actually think all of their students will have their goals and their interests and come to be things like this. That's a different point of view. And as for what you're saying, the Secretary of Alliance is their goal is to have to be an agist or not a religious to be a part of this. No secularism is just focusing on the idea of a separation of churches. So any religion is invited to have a conversation and I understand that there's some kind of problem in this organization, but it's open to small, small communities for all to have some kind of secularism that's allowed everybody to take or explore their positions. But if not, you agree on this and that's later. Technology or is it not? Not. I'll say it right now. We do invest in the shines tough-up subject. It's the best I can. We're presenting a couple of lectures on technology. I see that. Basically, we're working with spiritualists. We study ancient contexts time and order in these pages, what are the documents of Baba Gita and basically we're going to be discussing the ancient philosophy of time and order. Things like meditation and eternity to acquire these but we also need to realize what science is all about. We also get to some of the help of our daily vegetarian lunch program and it's really in terms of helping all these students have a healthier option to get to the campus that's only free and affordable. But to us spirituality is a science choice. In any religious group to us we must have faith in science. Because without interreligiously there's only faith in the science of explaining things. They become sentimental from that. Science, philosophy without faith, spirituality religion mental speculation. So, the other is that we share basically the same knowledge of how anyone, any background in either way have inner peace with us. And so everyone in this room for us we're all connected and we're in a spiritual now. I'm Robert Berger, vice president of the club for questions. We'd like to tell you that we're more focused on consciousness. Sorry about that. Okay, now we're just going to get started with questions on each group. So, hopefully they have time to think about their responses. First question will also be up on the projector. So, the first question is does your group believe that morality is directly tied to religion? To explain on this, what does your group use for the source morality? Do morals change over time? How do we, and how do these changes in social norms relate to the religious morality? And first group to go on this one will be the club for applied spiritual technology. I forgot to tell you. I am so sorry. I'm Christian Balsam. I'm really sorry about that. The problem is, I'm not a part of the first Christian Balsam here in M.C.S.A. We are from campus that is interest-nominational. With that being said, we are open and welcome everybody from all backgrounds of the faith and the Catholicism. And I'm going to just start with you. What we are going to put into this is building a relationship with Jesus Christ and we engage that through a lot of smoke by the study through exploring the Bible and scripture to get better professional leaders. In fact, I know that here is perfect for that belief that Jesus Christ is perfect. And that through him, we can see the channel life in that we are moving. To repeat the question that we asked of blind and spiritual technology, does your group believe that morality is the right type of religion? What does your group believe to be the source of morality? How do you change your social life to the source of morality? And maybe I'll try to do this in 90 seconds. Basically, does morality have to come from supreme divine source? And that doesn't necessarily mean religious salvation. There needs to be a God of the source of all creation. Because if morality is not absolute, then it's subject to change, speculation of the time. There is one day everyone agrees that killing babies is bad, then thousands of years later people all of a sudden agree that babies are okay. But we have to have that divine source as it becomes speculation and handles the people. Which would be great. Basically, basically we take a sense of morality from the divine to be a God, because if any of us are able to define morality in our home, we are very willing to find and to try to find something we can provide in the house. This is impossible. We have to stay in touch with the Supreme so we understand what is right and what is wrong. And what we're going to do is we're going to go down this way so each group has a chance to go first and last. So next up we have this I'm very sorry. So according to our the Methodist Church we believe that we bother Jesus as the top control. He is our example. Now, whenever you look into does morality change? Considering that we believe that we are born to send morality to change what's being said in practices for a lot and uses the practices of Jesus. Then the social morals kind of just ties in. Moral but it's moral. You look at it good and bad but next we have the Andrew R. Schubert. Yes, we believe that morality is tied to God. He is the right source for having the time to live. We believe that God's moral security can change time for the rest of us and then we can see him in the time to question him. Without ruining God's kind of truth we can all set our official standards to oneself based on just the objective assessment and what is considered good and bad. Morality in reality is not to be a person the fact that it is impossible to be good on our own. Rather, humanity is about releasing eventually the family of Jesus. And you next we have Jesus the Chief. We believe that morality comes from God. We all are in basic senses of what is right and wrong. Things like murder and theft that we all know to be wrong and what is wrong. Our Heavenly Father has given us the facilities of disdain and acknowledge and we call that lack of price and it does not change over time. Age is in social moments and it's way of recently rationalizing the breaking from moral values on a large scale. One of our church leaders, Russell M. Nelson, said in April that public opinion polls should not be used as grounds to justify disobedience to God's commandments even if everyone is doing it wrong is never right. Evil, error and darkness will never be true even in popular. I also just wanted to add one thing that is great comes from God and it doesn't matter who you are and it doesn't matter why you believe any good business if you come to the right. And so I just, I wanted to share a scripture from the Book of Mormon that says that if you hold that which is your God you might have an enticing to do good continually. Whereas for everything which is I have an enticing to do good that's a lot of God and to serve this desire. Next up we have we do not want to be a moral or a good person we do not want to be a moral or a good person we do not want to be a moral or a good person is that one of my bad is that God has commanded that people of Israel choose to fulfill needs of these are just commandments for us we do not hold the same laws to other nations or to other parts of the world there is no need to be religious and it's not the nations needs to be fulfilled by anyone and the goodness is based on three things charity, justice and what you have to do even if our deed is a path of life which there are a few mentions of in the Old Testament and in your respects is that you do not have to be a Jew to be a good person or to go to heaven or to go to hell to not go to heaven I find that my Jews have led me to a more moral and a more moral and spiritual life through Sadaqa and through Sadaqa means justice or charity but also in the long run it seems to work out a world that every person has a duty to fix the world of the broken yourselves so basically as far as morality is concerned we believe that morality can be driven without religious context we don't believe that you have to follow the mandates or the dogma rather of a religious faith in order to be moral in any sense there are many societies that have actually that are actually more secular or have more ideas for agnostics or whatever that are actually that show the sign of morality that are equal to regression in Rome that are essentially just like less people in jail less people being prosecuted basically because of the violence or any such matters morality has to be derived from religion but we basically believe that morality is volunteering to treat other people as we wish to be treated showing our common human nature in the sense of building up passion and volunteering and so it's all centered around respect and passion and so basically philosophers do have a history basically how to introduce all kinds of thoughts towards you know treating people like people in the world treating others as you wish to be treated basically that's a thought put around for thousands of years that ancient philosophers have definitely contributed to that as such and so many ways that it comes from Hebrew, Chinese et cetera and so morality does not necessarily have to come from religion so we have that one our simple answers about being known and the example for that is that there are many people that practice religion around the world and there are many bad people that practice religion around the world that practice religion I think so to directly tie the situation of religion to morality it makes that an air of mistake that never connects to religion is going to be moral they see examples of that every day whether they think people will claim to be Muslims or bad things or just yesterday night when the man at FSU shot at the school he claims to be a Christian these guys, no matter what you think of them claims to have direct ties to religion and that not reflect in their morality however what we do believe is that if we practice our own religions with maximum capacity and that's the word of the ground and that we can go beyond the normal standards in what's considered being good if you're just being greedy and not learning anything in the example like that we like to think that Islam doesn't allow us to sacrifice for us an example to try to maximize who we are to use also I would we do believe that every thing that's ever been created is to be everything essentially and so morality comes from that essentially before organized religion so it's a participle name and a label in that community just follow basic commandments don't be a juxtapit simple things like that be a good person, don't need businesses this is a way before organized religion so apparently community needs to be some RIs not outborn and just in so we have to be willing to choose what is right and what is wrong and it's just too little to just calculate more of that what is your group what is your group what is your group's state the relations between religious influence and state power have been helped to worry where does your group stand on top so what degrees of religion is your group to go with state affairs to develop group start this one as for religious influence state power is a first in our topic well of course in common sense in the first interpretation we have this war on Christmas Just because something's been in the condition of a practice still doesn't make it easy to regret. And they've got to take hands down and carry everyone on their own. Private property is fine, but the government doesn't recommend that people as a whole adopt this unfortunately because people seem to derive their identities and their moral boundaries. But once you're arguing from why it's been becoming too long based on the kind of mind, the basic law set us up. That's not an argument that's rational to be discussed. If you come to the table saying, I wouldn't be able to get married because of this logical process that I'm going to be disillusioned with, then I can deal out with the people who have it, especially if it's only just a good law set us up. That is your welcome to the table to present your position. That should be created as an example of why that should be done. I actually have a personal student association. Correct. So I was really happy to see this question on here because there is this irrational fear of Islam in this country, not by everybody, but it's largely because of the media and even the big government is trying to pass laws to prevent Sharia law from coming into our modern day lives. We find it pretty funny. I mean, honestly, I remember just put that in the middle of their eyes. You know, our answer would be very similar to yours. We have a very diverse group in this country. There's over 300 million people that live in the United States. But in this room of these 70 people, there's at least six different favors to subject any of them to one particular favor, the heinous and practice. But I do believe, however, that individuals should be allowed to cover according to specific religion or religious beliefs. For example, if you have a divorce between two consenting Muslims and they choose to want to practice the apples of the divorce, whether it be the splitting of children and many kinds of property or things like that, and they both consent as a both in this country to be heard by the Islamic law, of course they should be allowed to do that because it's not affecting other people. But any laws that affect the group as a whole should be something I'd say this word is secular. Everybody should obviously think that first groups of people can be governed under one broad brush. So there's a statement that when a religion wants to, you know, come into the government they're going to, you know, make everybody go into these harsh laws that are essentially bad for them. Well it's actually more reaction to what religions really are. Essentially the simple rules that we have are just better than they can be because it's better, right? So it's better for the whole nation to be accepted, right? Not because it's Muslim or not. For example, they'll all say hello but it's your peace act and $1 is going off for that. Anyway, so if it's better for the group, you know, you should do it. It's better for everybody to go for it. But not for the party. That's just some gut. Next we have a couple of questions about me. Okay. Hey, my name is David. Most people don't have that idea of chairs and states mix together fear of one particular religion in politics and how people should live lives. That's not necessary but we don't believe that the church decisions should merge together and form something like that, the opposite, or no, something that can be managed as a part of those. But we believe this. You know, some of the nice advantages that morality should present in politics, you know, is some form of religion should be in politics to inspire, you know, guidance to do good works compared to some people. Like good is like things like that. Like say that religion is very important to help inspire excessively well people. Not necessarily to give more tax, to give more to charity to nearly no one else or to make an industries corporation to be more responsible to the environment. If it's ours to make a charity, we can't let this one ruin the property. Or inspire the government to make it more a ding-a-pack job for the young people like us. So no one's stuff. We're making dollars on me in college. But by the end, inspire the government to save the young people like us. Invest more in education. So in college it was more formal. It's not that no one at the four years of very important studies starts with graduation. Yeah. Those attempts to do good works I'd like to see them in the vision in politics for the government. Not in the industry, it's like a policy expression of marriage, gay marriage, abortion, sex marriage, which I'd like to see the Western person do very much. Next we have... I'm going to get this right, I'm going to get this right, I'm going to get this right, I feel that it doesn't need to be separated. Just in the back of why should Christianity be... I mean, why would Christianity open up the form of government when not everyone believes it? I just feel that it would just, there wouldn't be fear, but we need to end up with diversity. Next we have the university. We should both agree. So before I answer this question, I want you to all know that this is the question that we'll have a very good answer to your question here. Also one university as well. So I'm going to provide my personal stance on this. I think that the government can enforce the belief of religion upon our nation because that and my opinion, that should not be a genuine way of thinking about our natures. Can we try to save and separate it? I can even can. Different leaders have their beliefs and ideals in the world. And they bring them to the table of politics to make decisions on the act of people. I believe those are questions that we are responsible for. I'd like to look at yours at the room of honor and where you go. Next we have the Leibniz Sanctuary Association. This is something that is pretty serious to my mind. We need to believe very strongly that church and government should be respectful to each other, but also very distant. Like a government cannot properly represent everyone. It is too much to do with one religion and we understand that everyone has their rights to believe what they believe or not believe what they don't believe at the same time. You believe that the government should should... So beyond the government being respectful of everyone in the states, we believe that as a Christian in a lot of these states we are also respectful of the government and the laws of the government. Whether or not we necessarily believe in that law, we will always have a whole host of things. Just to add to that, some of the scriptures that we have regarding this is we believe that all men are bound to sustain and uphold the respective governments in their state-of-the-art, while protected in their territory, and in any legal rights, by the laws of such governments. And that sedition and rebellion are becoming every citizen of us protected and should all of us have a right to an access clause as in their own judgments are best calculated to secure public interest at the same time, or however pulling in sacred for fear of conscience. We also believe, or we also do not believe, that Kimmelbaum has a right to interfere in prescribing the rules of worship to find the consciousness of men, or dictate forms for public or private emotion that a civil magistrate should through a strange crime, but never suppress the freedom of the soul. That's enough. These can be up to 11. Of course, the separation of church and state is essential for democracy to function in a very way, that pluralism and respect to the individual is the only way that peace can ever be sustained. And this country is here at the prologue, and I'm very happy to see that there's an emphasis on this table, because as a Jewish person of a history our cultural history would be a past from one country to the next, and finding, coming to America where we can practice our religious beliefs, but only to accept there's still lots of exists that violate our religious beliefs, such as bands and things that we manage. People interested in bands on certain religious purposes, such as circumcision, things like that, of course, when you have bands that affect actions that are essential to a religious community, then you are inherently missing churches. Next question, to be starting with the University of Christian College and the question is what are the words you use on the afterworld? Do religions have a wide variety of exceptions to what happens after death? How does your country visualize the afterworld and how does your perception of the afterworld affect your everyday actions? We're here, hunger, pain, tears, and war, sorrow, sickness, and suffering. All things in this world are brought to God in reckonsettlement in the afterworld community, which in that case affects how we know our community. Start by saying this is a full answer to the first one in that sentence, but summarize we think after we die we go into a spiritual spirit world which is actually long-served, and you're divided into spirit paradise for those who come through things like baptism and such are able to continue working and doing things that are part of our religion like missionary work and other eternal things. Whereas people who have baptism and other things that are required for our eternal progression are in something called spirit wisdom where their bodies are taken from them and so their spirit remains, but it's still attracted to and sometimes even addicted to things this life, like drugs or alcohol. And so because they can't experience things from their bodies, they're the slave idols that are able to anticipate them, so their spiritual progression is altered. And so that's why we do mission work where we do mission work and temple work because we believe that the soul or the spirit can change after this life and that you can even have eternal progression if you announce it with debt. And after we are judged, we go into one of three levels of glory. The highest level of heaven and then there are other levels of glory and then hell as most people see it is a very difficult question so not a personal one. There is very little addiction after life in the Old Testament. There are only a few passive phrases. That addiction was described as the world beyond and there's a concept that describes your role which is actually a canonized act of life and does not pertain to two years in that period of time. Because of this, there is no existence in the Jewish community of what happens with them. And I think that's extremely important because in order to do the deeds you must be honest. So if you're not fulfilled and it's both the things that God has asked you to do, then it should end. So one of the things that I was taught actually by my wife who is, they are going to be very good old, very conservative in Jewish traditions, but also in Jewish school, I was reading that if anyone tells you that they know what happens when you die, they're lying. And that was sort of any Jewish person because it's hate and it's also not important to the Jewish community. Personally, I think it is I don't believe in any form of an act of life. I believe that basically once you pass away, that should actually give us basically an incentive or motivation to try to live a full life here now while we're Catholic and doing the things that we like to do. Enjoying hobbies, enjoying the presence of friends, family, doing everything that's possible to basically enjoy our lives. It's the only chance we're really able to do that and so we want to do it on campus to maximize our life and all of the life. To comment, I don't know and I think that's the perfect balance and since I've known them actually this life has said for what I do now that I exist here in my Irish community it's amazing. What was the name? I just heard of being a minor in mortality so I think it's a good answer. I guess a lot of people do believe that Heather and I all unlike the Old Testament integrates that's what they mentioned, Heather and I all have a way that people are held accountable for their actions and their intentions in this life and the other. We also think that regardless of how someone might be perceived by other human beings it's not up to us to judge anybody we don't know the background of anybody we don't know where they're coming from and what their intentions are in this real life. We also certainly don't believe that our journey to heaven to any limitations on our enjoyment in this life we certainly have the ability to live this life to the maximum capacity and to try to attract more people around us and try to make this world a better place Just to answer the long question and the part that has effected our daily actions it just does. I mean all of our actions are just to plead the old war to gain his mercy right that in heaven or hell our world's my destiny so everything we do we're going to be held accountable for whether it's good or bad or subject to that. Also people don't understand that we think religion and afterlife provides a sort of comfort or comfort things so that the people who are treated unjustly in this life are treated unjustly by a God who is just. Okay. I'll start with you in the car over there. In case the other people believe in the current reaction of the American population in case the car over here on the 7th day just goes around and contemplates. I have some other things on justice so I wouldn't be sure to go too much back in the case of just that. In the idea of being a part of this is very much the type of science that gives bodies to build up eventually because of what power it is to solve this the identity we choose to recognize ourselves with. Basically to us, isn't that a question after that because just like it doesn't really matter it's constantly changing the birth disease all day just after all the causes of different bodies and different species to us basically we use high consciousness and spiritual housing to save the current reaction of the American population who just go back to God when it's given all the time and no mentioned group on this here would not agree with the 7th day of current reaction of the American population that we all agree on that we're all out of the same thing as the being of God. You know, there are not these bodies and once we the idea of death once you die and subscribe to death and be as you you set out in your car and you go to death for people so this is just people that are experiencing what we call receiving the life paths of any other forms of life that can be taken out of me if you know I can't remember when I was 5 years old without that I would remember why I didn't breathe this life for whether there's a possibility that we could experience life the fastest and this world there's one planet in the universe today a particular planet do you have a soul? you are a soul self how many souls do you have in this student group? we do believe also in eternal life and how it goes but the key is to think that we will be empowered living a life to Christ and accepting Christ into your life meaning to be accepting Christ into your life that we came together to take away your sins that is the key that we believe we have that also meaning a place of no pain no sorrow just happy life next question next question question is how does your group incorporate traditional religious beliefs in the modern world so many challenges are believed to be an issue so traditional religions in the modern world science can make you as threatening super religious except for the others and new ideals and values make challenge traditional beliefs how does your group run out of religion and culture? that's a pretty big question and we cannot move forward with the world that we once created living in the past so in order to perform to the law you have to the things that you believe are attacks like prophets or artisans must see the demands in the air and that can come in in these ways part of the one the youngest the biggest rangers that she views and the one that she views has used also our writings to meet things such as the abortion or same-sex marriage we have to use this to confront that and we would hand out to that by viewing things the same way that they did in 2000 years ago because their roles have changed and we live them at home and I cannot see world-wide responses okay so science is not religious it's a thought process it's how we determine what what they have and that's all that is so you look at the data that it allows everybody to table an arbitrary thing make your boss proud of you the best thing for the existence of an arbitrary voice being picked now we set up an arbitrary bar you now have things that are not arbitrary such as burning people and do that scientific process and you now can discuss what happens when people start finding out where things are falling from the cracks and applying because they don't want to share their path in order to get access to people until they're already starting falling as far as having a conversation with people so we can just speak up over this I'm not if you have questions to the association upon reading this question I don't know okay upon reading this question it might have taken a little effectively to ruin the false pretense that all religions have scripture that can put the modern science in the modern world my religion is e-praying 5 times a day e-fasting 30 days throughout the year and other starting days e-rich for black or white and of other religions and that's pretty much the extensive in believing in God and the Muhammad as his messenger how that would be put in modern science in modern world I'm not sure as long as the way of text that would influence the with modern science for example in the Quran that might be contradicted within other scriptures we don't have to deal with that so my very simple answer to condense that is not a problem also I should be saying that question is not for my students just because we're religious we've been in a primitive time and he said it's a primitive thing because it's not half the world with the rest of humanity this from our faith that we're very out of the West much to say there are basic things that can fall in any time period and for the greater areas in our faith we have scholars that have changed to study the religion to be willing to see questions for us I'm not going to lie I'm going to say the ancient days come back to the modern world of modern science and back then in today it's just practically the same exact same we're just going to go to the scripture and we're going to practice it about four or five years ago kind of get some credibility but in the faith it's a topic of logic about science and which accidents now there's a division okay I'm going to make a video what we're trying to say is we're more focused on spirits and knowledge right there in the religious and religious system we need to simply practice the Christian consciousness we need to get that emotional we need to get that muscle we need to get that emotional you're so great and speaking of that looking at a traditional religious grace the thing that comes to my mind is that baptism except in once day being more than just a bit if you look at different types of accusations and different denominations of churches we have the strength of the wire to let you read the Secturian it's a spiritual and And like, that's a stretch, it's difficult to do some work. But it all means the same thing to us. I think the challenge really not necessarily the, like, how we're doing it, it's just like, why are we doing it? But then, at the end of the day, it's, I guess the challenge is just believing in something that you can't see, but that's just, wasn't it? Thanks for having me. You're welcome. Thank you. We accept the modern world and suddenly, we're like, the truth of Jesus in our life is where it is. One of the modern world is within mind of God's truth. One is not. That comes from the prayer of a community and seeing how, as a whole, and finding what the world is in the college of God and what not. We are here in this world, because the gospel is its own. Whether it's human or not, the improv of it is representative of his truth. Church is always looking to be relevant in our times. But we cannot simply just accept modernism without question. Thanks. Do we have some leverage in the Saints' Association? In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there are some absolutes. There are some commanded. There are some teaching that, in regards to whether or not they are cool or hip right now, they are true. And we live by them and we love them. That's how we've been sent. That still leads you. The ability to pursue some of these different ideas and cultures. And I'm a scientist. And I take with it everything that comes with being a scientist. And even the way science is. And there's just so much tenors in the church. We just remember the doctrines of the gospel. And everything else, you know, we live our lives according to our conscience, and everything else that you can pursue. Adding on to that, God doesn't change and scripture is... One thing that we use to teach scripture for traditional values in modern days is how we can, you know, not experience those same things, but utilize those stories and those principles top. You know, we don't have to worry about following someone as they go apart for a seat. You know, we don't have to be worried about being thrown into the lion's den for what we believe. But we can take principles and doctrines from those things. From Moses, we can take the idea of following the prophet, even if it means to do something that we perceive from what we know as something that we can get. And from then we can take, you know, being truthful to your faith no matter what and that God for us. Okay, next question. You're starting right up. Oh, not in the same student association. Question is, why does your group uphold your beliefs in truth or other beliefs? Acknowledging the wide variety of religious beliefs, why do you believe your beliefs in truth or other beliefs? What separates your beliefs that give them greater validity than other popular cultures? So one thing that we believe about truth is that it's universal, that it's not just for one group to have over another, that God does dispense truth to everyone. And we believe that the fullness of the gospel of Christ has to be restored, but it is not a reason for anyone to feel superior in any way towards others because of God's children. Rather, it requires greater validation from both the essence of the gospel of Christ to love, serve, and bless others. Our Church leaders in 1978 issued a confirmation that said, we believe that great religious leaders of the world, such as Muhammad and Fugius, the Christianity reformers, like Martin Luther, as well as philosophers including Socrates, Plato, and others receive a portion of God's life. Moral truths were given to them by God to enlighten moral nations and to bring a higher level of understanding to individuals. I respect for the sincere religious beliefs of others and appreciate others extending the same courtesy and respect for the tenancy we hold dear. And so, we have a role. I really don't like the way this question is worded because it implies that we inherently do uphold our beliefs about others, and we certainly don't. I mentioned earlier that in Judaism that we have a set of laws that are given to us but we also have in the Talmud which is going to be extra biblical texts is that we have the nocturnal laws which are, because Noah lived in a time of court Judaism but the text describes him as a righteous man and it's because of this that there are a certain set of laws similar to what was in pyramids as they are that no righteous person regardless of whether they are Jewish or not wouldn't have to be condemned. And we certainly believe that there is value and something to learn from every single faith. The Talmud also says, everything within God's creation is a moment for us to learn and particularly one of the most striking things for me in my experiences was reading a text from the Palachian Code which is a master of Habab who says that he needs to be used at the age for the unrivaled compassion without a promise of reward. So it is SSM? So basically we know how to say to subscribe to the religion because it's saying we have to be opposed to just freedom and also freedom of worship and there are going to be many people who do it by mistake and I also think in this community to see either opposed to religion or rightfully show some disdain for religion in that opposite area from one person to another it doesn't have to be in this community but the part of this question is concerning to pull ourselves together and see what else we are we came to our conclusion that we don't believe in God because of lack of scientific evidence and that's done and that conclusion basically seems to be more of a research and so we don't basically know and say that there are ways rightfully to choose to believe because of lack of scientific evidence and so we obviously have to be opposed to freedom and stand up again for scientific rational thought and basically stand up to superstition and discipline and so on. Alright so we will turn on the dumb thing if the evidence is presented to a viable scientific way that can be opposed to viable we were hoping to change 100% like this and I said I don't know or something like that but I don't know if he showed me I will now talk over to that if he showed me a tree I cannot not believe that that tree is not a bad piece of evidence and I am not saying over it it's why I am understanding that it's not possible Association I think that I think it's okay to say obviously that we don't hold ourselves to other religions but I also do think that everybody chooses to believe in the religion that they choose for specific reasons there's a reason why I am Muslim and I am not Christian and there's a reason why some Christian people are not Muslim and there is a whole set of beliefs but they are their system that draws towards that and I think it's entirely for the dualistic and different people are drawn to think for different reasons some people that I can't be not able to have that you know experience will say well you know I was praying and I said that's not actually true I myself I believe in God and I believe in Islam as we believe in the Quran because we believe to be the literal word of God and when I say that there's a lot of aspects of the Quran that we that I might consider to follow over the human from the linguistic beauty of the Quran that we see not being able to match by man to some of the historical religions in the Quran and they reference this thing that we have discovered hundreds of years later and despite everything even like I learned earlier whether it be really such a nature the universe I was talking about in the Quran amongst other things so this is what I believe that the Quran in the way that it provides has enough evidence to draw me to Islam as a post-racial religion in other beliefs in the Quran with all respect and of course thanks to Jesus Christ for all he said to the child of God Hi I have a question very personal that I can relate I can't develop it to the person what it is to talk about something more not but that's your voice I have found that I am indeed in need of a guide to life you know this song is not just a religion but it serves as a guide to life teaching you how to clean myself to you know how to pray and all these different things I have done my research about other faiths just to be more inclusive and know what the differences are sorry sorry and we have a C-best we do not think ourselves superior to the same we say God, I want you to believe you should not think yourself the way that you think and all these different things may have the differences but to us they all start off with the same meaning deep down every person through a rich person has to be the same thing it tells you spiritual knowledge but the look and the similarities between the religions it happens to more people trying to go back to God bigger person will only focus on the differences between these beliefs that's this chaos that kind of variable to know that a revolver robber on a Tuesday and ragged a call by an age-old player will follow the ground I mean I'll need a sample name to prove to a player robbing a revolver was at this location similar to the one who's wanting to experience the contingent cosmos know that a is cause so they're doing cause that cause the cause that cause the cause that cause the cause basically everything comes from God all these religions all come from the same person and all from the person going back to God you know even though there's a difference if you look at the drug itself it's diverse if you've got all the beings in existence love that person look at this for everyone here there's two voices and a name and a thought and you need to believe there's still the unity in the world even with the students that's unity by diversity I think that's something which is not that's it so now I don't favor people to do the favor for another as long as it was going to the same purpose to me God is there to work everywhere in everyone's heart it's an everywhere church it's God's heart he's there he loves you I'm sorry I'm a little less okay before we start the next question I'd like to ask you to go around and read these next questions and go ahead I thought I was going to do it again but here are the Christian fellowship so what's really cool about it is that since we are a non-racial fellowship you can see all these different beliefs that come with questions about Jesus and we acknowledge that we see that the truth that Jesus Christ is true over others just the culture that it brings throughout this entire world just different believers we just look at people we believe that Jesus is the way of truth in the light we believe that as a born in his life as we in faith we live alone in our lives we see that through just a blessing that in their bodies we be very safe because that's when we fall short I'm the subject of seeing Jesus moving around in life genuinely experiencing what can only be described as supernatural and only seeing the magnitude of her Jesus I had it down so next question hearing this question I'd like to collect from my first friend about you doing your questions we do all the questions so it's kind of nice we're going to start in this one we'll bring you to the Muslim Association the question is a kind of a topic what is your group's view on non-heterosexuality subject of gay marriage and non-heterosexuality is frequently tied to religion that being the case where does your group stand on non-heterosexuality? so obviously marriage in the government's institution is regulated by governments actually as an American so that's relevant to this I don't think that the government would want marriage that's what I do think it does as a result of the diverse society with the right to regulate marriage and that's it just to add on to that just remember just be strong with religion although it is normal we do not allow same-sex marriage to our community we don't agree with that however of course we have to respect what they believe I just would not agree with that also in our face we believe that God possesses rules but not just for nothing there's reasons behind rules so we're not just agreed with that for no reason we believe there's reasons for it and so I guess he says that any marriage in the government serves well and when you two people marry they're safe marry to make themselves very good to never become better-severed to God better-severed to each other amongst them because another thing is the story of any one they're safe amongst them marriage can't be selfish compared to something can't go to someone saying I'm married or I'm married except all of them because based on selfishness there's a bunch of selfishness that I can actually satisfy more married families in fact it seems that marriage is long of course one of two marriages is of course it's a two-hours marriage to each other that man is never meant to do this and they have to you know frown on me I've grown with eight people around me and they're great people already have people who can't just know how culture is in the country but most of the we've got to be non-homosexuals to exist to make it Arab as a word being homosexual we believe that Catholicism is heterosexual we believe that it's not church but to perpetrate pain but rather to respond to pain Jesus is not going to condemn this homo-homosexuality or gay marriage if you're not a human you're feeling this I'm very grateful for that last response because I feel a lot of faith who do the way they do sometimes all short in expressing their being to an appropriate amount of respect and compassion and love that all children have got to serve that having been said I mentioned before that God has a way to cause them and there are things that we as human beings can't change and so we believe that marriage not an institution of man is not a government institution of God it's established and then marriage between man and woman is what we believe in God and it's central to God's plan for our eternal best to be as His children on that having been said you know as a church we have only advocated for rights as same sex couples for housing and equality and hospitalization rights employment rights all such things where they don't have the right to practice what we believe to be marriage between man and woman we believe that we know the wrong people that we are trying to do someone on the same sex it's not a sin and it does not condemn you and it does not make any less loves by our father in heaven Next up is the lower um so to start with um lots of people love each other because um um of course they never begin with Hebrew and I I have of course part of the tradition that everyone's memorized but um in Hebrew for the infamous passage the hermitage was used for man and woman a more first rate it's the word that is only ever used in sexual assault and other than the being with that mind um modern Judaism sees it as an economic issue and in fact because the text mentions subjudication robbed someone of their dignity to deny someone their right to marry woman ever they choose robbed someone of their dignity which is something that Judaism has sort of explained itself to the point is the dignity of each individual um furthermore in our text also in Hebrew uh it's also referred to as neshima which is a feminine word that others also protect us and also relates to that here in the broken world uh must find each other regardless of the bodies uh being in attendance well basically as an aegis and a second human essentially is very important for everybody to be able to love who they want to express their feelings emotions uh and basically develop all the last relationship regardless of man and woman or whatever you know if you do that you know basically makes them happy you should be able to do it as long as you physically are the person you know doing what you want to do as long as it doesn't bring upon someone else or either physically or psychologically and so I believe it is important for us to protect the rights of you know people in the LGBT community and you know not actively you know not just us but anyone no government no relationship actively try to have them have them their rights as long as it doesn't bring upon themselves or anyone that was part of it and a quick follow up is that this is a question to consider by social finances they've done studies and look at the well-being of the bars so there's welfare that children raised in a two-parent household kind of just it doesn't say two male two female male or social questions that we still struggle with because we haven't figured out how to behave but those who can so your position on this according to my autonomy it doesn't matter because we can say this in terms of the conclusion that next problem is started right away okay start alright so the next part we decided on about the time And we'll give them 45 seconds. OK, so in terms of the generalized question, we'll give 45 seconds to each group. In terms of a question that's directed at a specific group, we will have one question from the milk bar, and then we're going to have two one-question questions. So to start with, we'll do one question from the milk bar. Modern January quality events are focused on allowing men and women to do the same things and have the same opportunities. Does your role view or religion allow men to do the same things they can do? I mean, does the modern idea of gender equality fit with your role view or religion? I guess if you start on the left over here, we'll start on the left. You know, our speaker's question. So in terms of that, it's a bit of a all-to-get. They can be perfect. They can be similar careers. They can do similar roles. God didn't say, however, a child for example, the same sense for a moment, not a child in the sense that they can do it. So yes, there is equality in certain terms, on the other hand, so in terms of design, there are some things that are just good for women. I would say that gender is actually an essential characteristic of our eternal existence. And so no, I don't believe that men and women are the same, but we definitely aren't equal. And as a woman who belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ, I remember it felt like my room for clipped. I remember it felt like I hadn't had the opportunity to teach him to serve and to do all this insin, that Christ asks of his children. And so I feel actually extremely liberated on by this faith, that like you know that I'm a daughter of God. He gives sons and daughters who he's a different, who he loves equally. And so we have a role. And since we take answers to the question with respect to the fact that my son God is on the other side of the world, all the coaches as of right now aren't real. He plays a man for me and my girlfriend. She is the elder male. And we have children, my age, my mother's in the care of the children. And unfortunately, it's thanks to God to push her because sometimes she's like a child. I mean, he had her to be, you know, she was saying that next to me. Because the elders just didn't understand that I had to have all the children on the role. And I just had to have more of them in all of these, you know, I had to be. And why do you have to wait permanently with gentility as it was served? And just because there's space up there in one city, one area, then not another, is why is she the most push-back on not being a problem-solving? She was certainly going to go out of this. I'm different, this question is feminist. I'm a questioner of the religion, life is a problem-relief, right? Men and women, let's talk about people, the only thing that makes sense is different is our genes, right? So men and women need to compete in our genes and our genes towards God. Just because I dress differently does not mean I am un-posed. Because the minds of me are different because I am fully religious-regulated. Safe like that. My kind of modesty is wearing a scarf. It's a little modest and lovely. Yeah, I mean, we're here, we're not right for it. But it's actually not wrong. But anyway, so we're all obviously different on religious schools, you know, that God would prefer waiting to you to start their biology or if that also falls to social goals. But what they don't know is that women are allowed to work. There's men being on the left. Say, I want you to care for the kids, there's no inequality. And if there is, I think I'm not We need power. Thanks for the seat, guys. It's the men, women, men and women who have two souls with the same name. Sorry, I'm a little late, so I don't want to do whatever you want. I also have to say, you know, I'm not satisfied with the thing by the woman being our president in the United States, but I think she'll find a great joy in the digital field. I'm not going to talk about it, I'm just going to show you. We're all men and women in this room. We all have masculine and feminine qualities, so there's just two things in there, sir. Yeah. Yes. Hope people are okay. Hope people are okay. Okay, so next up, we're 31 in the audience. So that's the question we're going to ask you right now. The question applies to Eastern women. I hope you take it. That was great to you. But I also think that women and women have a basic heart of love. What would you accept as evidence that suggests that your molten is, at least in parts, natural or flawed? Since we started with the emergency vision vision, we'll start with a lot of these things. I think that's a great question and one thing that I've always felt encouraged in my church is actually to ask questions and to, you know, really find an answer for myself and I think one thing, you know, that could, you know, show that maybe some of my local views are flawed is, you know, just everything that's around us, you know, the world itself is changing all the time and it helps me keep grounded, or it helps me keep grounded by the same focus on my vision sometimes when everything is changing, but at the same time, I have to, you know, accept things that are going on around me. I can't just turn a blind eye to that. And so I have to take them as they are and, you know, let that either change how I see things from the world or how I see things from my religious aspects. What was the question? I feel like I was a weirdo. What would you accept as evidence that suggests that your molten is, at least in parts, in accurate or flawed? To accept that my molten is flawed. In accurate or flawed? In not to suggest. I don't think I'm going to say that. But I think it's sort of a best-of-perfect belief that it is extremely important for a person, at least in a Jewish person, to say that and say, this is so, and I know there's so much of a person, because we remove any possibility of questioning and even in the Old Testament, everyone who got to talk to you, they argue about you, God, and sometimes got in some halfway, and sometimes not. And however you perceive God, of course, the change is in there. We are allowed to ask questions and if we believe that we have all the answers, then all we become, all that we have left is the change. Does any one worldview that you thought made another a question for you? I believe that everyone has a chance to examine all the different worldviews in a market place of so many different ideas, so many different religions, so many different denominations or what not. And so basically it's up to each individual person to choose for themselves, which religion or not religion that they wish to follow can and basically just know all the difference of evidence that they perceive that exists and favor about whatever faith or lack of ground that they choose to move on physically. So I don't think anyone or anyone in the world should have a necessarily priority or be elevated in love. Everyone else is physically. This is the first point, so obviously this is a reference to the whole. If you perceive the ground as the word of God, however, I believe that there's an inherent view of the each religion drawing to be discrepancy differences and however it is when you people that are right sometimes and wrong sometimes consist of, and how do you interpret this translation interpretation of different types of things going back and that's what it looks like. But just because you don't have all the answers does not have all the answers or not what faith does not have all the answers that doesn't mean what you do have is not enough. So a faith does not need to crew to the rest of the world that would be perfect. We agree, that's it. This is enough by looking at trees and looking at all of you guys. That's enough for me. And the only thing that would change the only way I would accept my religion as flawed is so literally that one letter in the Korean changed. It's been the same for 1400 years. One letter changed, I would now take it. Do you want to see this? First of all, can you just question him? I should make sure. Yeah, absolutely. What would you accept as evidence and not to stress that you will be at this important, inaccurate or flawed? Okay. What I was going to say is no one knows who's chosen to know. What is someone's knowing how little we know? I mean, I'm not here to convince you of a public perspective. I mean, we're here to kind of find what is why we're here. Who are we? Where are we going? Self-identity and self-worth those are our highs and lows. I mean, I can be wrong about all of my beliefs and that's the effort that I can figure out. There's something that I don't know. I mean, the least in knowledge we're more focused on your knowledge and what is knowledge. To know something is to be absolutely certain that it's indivisible which is the possible doubt. And is it too harsh to question those? Well, the scene of law is actually the guy who's on the phone right now. As a believer in Jesus we're accepting the fact that you are what I thought and that you're a huge marker and that you are having a tendency on Jesus and him alone for that truth and for that answer to those questions that you may not know or may be lost in your own personal life. So what you seek that is actually to scripture through prayer as well and reaching out to your fellow believers in the Christian community to do this together for you to know to call us to walk in this alone to call us to walk in this community to access our questions to look for those answers. Okay, so as we started with my understanding what's our problem? Okay, so this one question is what are your thoughts on a greeting process? Is there one, if so, is it really needed? What are your thoughts on a greeting process? What are your thoughts on a greeting process? Is there one and if so, is it really needed? Is there one and if so, is it really needed? In traditional Judaism and this is actually when you're asked for a form because I'm not as little as I am, I'm kind of confident and I do this because I'm in the seventh base morning of the Holy Shabbat which it's you're not allowed to be alone and that's for very high value reasons as I've always said personally but this time in the morning after a close family or a friend has passed there are other traditions such as saying the Qash which is a special prayer for the Jewish prayers that we have there are other things such as you hear a piece of clothing at the moment when you learn that it's not you ruin the clothing that you have on your lips such as a sleeve and you wear around your wrist to remind yourself of what they're passing Next up is the second As far as the greeting process is concerned I have obviously experienced gambling with us and it's important for our gambling members to be together to cover one another to give them such a tough time and so obviously I don't believe in any actual life there are factors that would be an actual life so I believe that it's up to brains and families to be there for each other to cover each other to help them get into that really challenging time That's all I said I don't there's no restriction on the greeting process or anything like that there is text within the Quran within some of the actions of the prophet that we follow in times of hardship and in the amount of COO which is an insurance from God that any time you have hardship it will be a follow-up service and these are the kind of ways that we feel we agree it can be if you have a family for you if you have friends for you you can also have a family there are little we've got an instance of when we're going to go to someone's funeral reception that's obviously a really recommendable thing for all black people it's just appropriate also in our faith to do our life with God and to give us the seeds we're not encouraged to remain in a tea saddle it's natural a tea saddle but then we need to pray for another one that's passed and try to go on with it Next up is C.F.S. it comes to grieving a relative friend has died we're not attached to God we agree because the eternal soul which is eternal and destructive when a dear friend or family appears to be sad we can listen but then we're not as conscious as we realize there's a soul in somebody's mind and if they all respect the soul of the body it's now just so just have your attention to the body material to understand the spirit of the everything's eternal and death and the death and the sizzle of life is definitely an initiative very hard to deal with for many, many years my own personal life after my grandmother got away from this you know in a dark village but it went to the state and I started with the ancient one So we believe that we believe that it's actually a process that's being my God it's a moped and it's a guy giving emotion to have this sadness in his heart this year but actually in Z he just seemed vital it's actually the shortest verse in the Bible and I just swept this is a guy giving emotion and it's something that you can it's a process you have your community there to support you there is that they share that to do that with you in the really great process it's also something at the time to celebrate a person that has to celebrate their lives who they are who they are in the energy that's not the least we have to write for the same students association I agree with a lot of what you just said so far we also have to read the process it's not anything that's specified but it is something that can actually be to us as humans we have to go with friends that are very close to me that pass away and I'm sad for them but at the same time we also teach that families and everyone will be resurrected and will live again and that we will all be coming together and so there's also a joy that we come from knowing what we know from the teachers of the gospel and parents that just a child or a birth will be able to be with that child again in the afterlife some will be able to be with their parents or some of the knowledge will see their parents again in the afterlife and we'll all be able to be together and see each other again now we'll take another question from the audience I wanted to know all of your thoughts on sin and when I say sin I'm different again as us continually breaking God's moral law both in God and in you continuously and if sin deserves an internal punishment because the one who sin begins is eternal and a couple of that question your thoughts on Jesus Christ and his soul satisfaction came up with that sin to see himself as he came back now I think this is more direct to that Christian life in the same shoes so if you want to just tackle it it's possible that you want to that makes sense the way I want to who's the first? you are so as far as bound by a particular religious faith in our moral code is treating others as we wish we treated old and old philosophers back in the day everybody thought it was basically a literary people with respect to compassion doing no harm to them and making sure that everything we do basically builds up and wants them to be fair people themselves how they describe it better as far as sin is concerned it's just really quite a fuss and after because it's an essential it's the idea that what is good for me is good for everybody else now the true goal is the way they want to be treated because that might take you into their circles to figure out who they are what is important to them and treat them as sides of the circle and I think next question I believe that the character of these students can be sent by that definition in the Quran very simply is if you ask for forgiveness for example a religious book that says he is most forgiving first of all for those who do bad and people to their own selves but I don't think the recognition is that we need that medium to ask for forgiveness for our own ways for our own ways but it's coming back a little late because we do not believe that humans will go into a virtual sin because you know a lot of people for us when we were born next we could have been sent so we believe that if we start talking we will sleep and we will we have the option to choose good or bad and if you don't follow about dual sex it's a bit of a sin but we can always turn bad and not perfect God is perfect on the subject of sin the most sinful thing for us to do is to be about God we make mistakes trying to deem something a live effort but as far as the punishment goes it might be just the murder of someone and in some places we don't believe in murder and return but we don't believe in karma or reincarnation in my answer I'm satisfied but still I always understand we feel guilt we think of that option we use that to take yourself to the better person but we strive for God's forgiveness so we have the universal Christian notion so real quick what was the question it was what was the public's sin and how do you feel about Jesus being the sole satisfying factor for absolving that sin was that the question and if sin by nature because it's against the eternal God that it deserves punishment so I do believe that we are all born and sin we are all broken people the fault of that is explaining Genesis or that despite what we use will sin against them through our broken actions I do believe that Jesus is the redemption that can see that sin and that he already has pain for those sins that comes through the repentance and the turning work that sin is turning to God and turning to him for freedom from that sin and freedom from that bondage is answering the question because he doesn't do that no one is perfect except for our sin which is Christ and it is still essential that we turn to him for our salvation we do believe that sin is willful to be described by man willful meaning you're not accountable to your understanding and your knowledge and so if you do believe in the Savior you're not accountable to him and we don't hold that accountability to everyone we believe in understanding the nature of it something that is unique about our church we have modern prophets that live in this modern church here one of those talks about how God says my name is Sandus and so when he says the term comes from Jesus' God's function and this comes from his God's function he's really saying that it's not any less or eternal as a matter of time but it's endless and eternal as if it's from God then we'll be able to have an end to that function once with A if we don't assess Christ so I was going to say I'm just a little Jewish teaching is that sin is any less opportunity to do good and that is it all seems that hate is in that word is that all that brings a new beginning and an effort that's how it is and that is to rob some of people and to undermine their confidence and the reason why they say that it's unforgettable is because we have a tendency to rationalize ourselves now we excuse ourselves from ever being a leader alright so the next question can be up here the question is what are your views on a believer hearing and all so start this one and we'll be in a second okay so I don't want to be just a nominal giver, it's very speculative in a different case in a song a man is allowed to marry someone who believes in God so Christian and Jew want to be able to be in God that's pretty much it believe yourself the model case is there obviously you know if you marry someone you have no commonalities but that's just a basic rule if it's generally encouraged if you marry a Christian religion because by accepting that kind of discrepancy between two parents it could mean something that affects a child in a negative way and also if you're conscious on each other that they're explaining how that might be a problem I'll just say that's a good question next question okay the question was what do you what do you think of a believer bearing a non non-gay not being offered marriage okay this one he is okay I don't know how he is people have two different visions very I'll say the problem is that both are conscious and they recognize that they can show a similar problem for God trust me they were telling me that they're going to go to hell and I'm surprised that you married the Christians God recognizes the problem and shares that same desire that's about it God is our God so do marry a non-gay believer is outside of the principles when you consider something that by God do you believe that you should marry a non-gay believer? he finds all shortcomings all short so we don't have a real steep doctrine that says you should marry someone with non-gay faith what we do have you may know that members of the church are married in a temple we believe that marriages that are found in that way of the time of non-gay so that's a great blessing being married in that way that having even said this is a new person my father is my mother my mother is I can ask for a better father so there are ways there are patients there are ways that you can marry a non-gay believer and you don't marry a non-gay believer next up we have a well so if you report in this fact that's what matters if you think this is an adulterer love or if you think that you should marry a non-gay believer then there is no question that all functions apply to a non-gay believer or a father a non-gay believer which they tend to forbid inter-gay marriages and also what proxies will ask to inter-gay I actually use inter-gay who have relationships of course of course basically inter-gay relationships are impossible and I know a lot of religions basically what's been mentioned up here refer to that people with inter-gay obviously be married to someone with inter-gay especially when it comes to the child marriage obviously opposed to be some who would know the difficulty of one is not to be the same religious the other or try to enforce their kids to choose one religion over another but I personally believe that it's very possible to have one person a Christian a Christian or Christian Muslim it would all be difficult but it's very possible for that to be the case and so it's definitely not something that should occur it's required for it is something to take another question because you're surrounded by it and that's because you feel it's within you and that does refer to what you think about that let's start with C-basses I understand that people are brought to religion because their parents are brought to religion but my perspective is that they've got inter-gay to follow each of their inter-gay parents will be there to take a third and stop sight of inter-gay if you're going to do whatever serves whatever desire you have to plan because you don't know what's everything that's important to you well I was actually raised at the monastery so when I got into the college when I just had opened up my mind I just put it down and I still I go back almost to the point my church means that it's fellowship they hand it over there so I was in a hard question it doesn't apply to you but do you think that the reason that religion is so popular is because people say you actually will be able to be true yeah I'd have to say that but he personally is fun yeah university those are much of a different perspective well as a child since you're not able to support taking care of yourself on your own or inter-gay parents just do something they'll raise you put those notes about these problems as we open the shirt yes it is it's actually done more than it on how many of you walk the way I've seen it is your salvation is not what your parents say what your parents talk about great question I actually had this issue with I grew up in a woman family very typical I'm the 9th of 11 kids so all women and all women so far but we I grew up being taught these things for my entire life around my senior year of high school and then after college I came back here after that and took off for college for a while and really took the time to figure out what I did with me and I think that as far as you're able to support other people in my faith we're asking our in-script reaction the book of women and parents says to pray about these things and find out for yourself about their truth so I do believe that like me other members I also found that it's true next up we have a little now at the church when you meet here the first question runs quite in my life usually around far by it's that the rabbi will probably ask you do you want this right now is this an intellectual decision and if it's not an intellectual decision if you feel pressure then let's wait let's step back and in fact adults who make conscious decisions whatever what faith is about is that the community will always see them as a member of your family even if they choose to become a Christian or a Muslim whatever it may be do you think that you believe because your family raised you in that religious system or like how do you feel though which I guess as I said Christian and I just have my questions answered in a way that I thought was correct or believable but I just don't understand what I'm trying to say I'm trying to explain but in the sector of the community as far as I can imagine there's no social of course strategy to believe it even if you're a Christian or even one you can believe it it's long you just sometimes have to have some conversations you're in a homo I've always wanted to have one and with a lot of other conditions that's correct is there so each time I just not to make excuses first of all I think it's incredible my dad had a taste for certain components of things that wasn't necessarily vivid my sister is now still being agnostic my mom was raised even in south of Brazil without any connection to faith my connection to faith is entirely individual decision nobody's older than me and my family made any sort of commitments that are fated for me I have got to think about and that's as much as I get I think that there is a this is actually very often that the vast majority of religious people do so without question I would be agonizing myself and I think it's not that many religious people believe that I think it's a very varied way to think that nobody else's question because I'm the only people that question in those sorts of sector I think that we all go through a process of questioning and learning and acquiring knowledge about whether or not I guess we have time for one or two more questions one more question this question is kind of an environmental thing there's two parts what does your group believe about environmental protection and sustainability and second part is what is the way to do it to be on it when we start a decade so do you believe that some of the God's coming that we are calling stewards of it and we are calling to care for what he has given us and to use the resources that he has blessed us with with responsibility and the idea that it is because of the worlds and not just ours not to be self shot but to like I said be a steward of it and to care I want to see many of you be honest with the guys of Christian the beauty center to care for and fulfill it and provide for your family necessary without any of the excessive what are they saying so do you believe that the year is just going to be burned up in 5,000 years so do we have to fall for it I'm just kidding you know the truth of the matter is that I don't know what the next decade is like but we are speaking of what will happen so exactly we are there are different degrees of glory and the highest of which will be here in the church and so the church that we live on here is eternal as well and we intend to live here forever and so with that comes the responsibility and appreciation for this planet that we have and in total I mentioned earlier we're near the world every day we're expecting that we are in less and less total growth to repair as more of a changing way divided between people with Jewish ethics with a strong emphasis on that benefits it's not just about us and those who have had tests have done it as well and that's a really simple way to put it but you know how we agree all things that God has made it we have to do to accept to preserve some form and this is it this answer might seem rudimentary but basically I feel that the requirements are important that we must theoretically protect our planet after all this is all we have to the space the planet the sustainable working life and all other life would be known as numbers and I feel like it's very important that we do everything we can to preserve and protect it really it's a moral obligation that we have to do everything we can to protect this planet the question is what is your group belief on protection and sustainability and what is humanity's duty to the planet duty to the planet so in this long year we are also having a hard time so we also believe that this nothing is all the time we are with you the earth even on our planet so tomorrow we can take care of animals and take care of the environment that we live on because it's not ours so we see maybe it's what's at the trust but it doesn't take care of it and that's our duty to the planet not that the thing is very important but as I said everything we should take care of and grant it God gives us the value that not everyone needs when we are in some grief as well as that why we're here obviously we're in a whole better place not being here to argue about the business and we need to put this in the side and together if we come together we should love this whole thing so I'm going to ask that guy okay and we have time for one more question on the audience could you give me a selfless reason to believe a selfless person 100% for a personal desire 100% what you get out of your religion what does your religion teach that you should give because it's right alright guys who's that person I can do it too what do you guys think great question I think the gospel which expresses is selflessness you guys agree with me for other these and other people above your own actually as human beings you're on their own perfect at that it's a process but I think we would come to a point where we are so full of love and charity where we were we were just part of the sacred where we would ever say we would bless and enrich the lives of the public I was very worried about getting more into the questions the first time because we're asked to get some reason to believe what they believe because cross-citing is not part of the we don't see the converts it's your choice and to try to learn what the 12 years can be so then the question is do you believe and if you believe in dignity do you believe Jewish or American at least two other Jews when we treat it in a way that they want to be treated how would we be treated as well but it's inherently the idea that if you take care of each other it comes back around to take care of us as well I talked to this gentleman he said so early we'll ask you guys to create a hellish environment around yourself which you can construct with and in the society of this life and time and so it's inherently beneficial to ourselves and in this society as well because we are part of it we don't see this as human last time we were talking about this the thing that often times there's some people that just we think that someone has to always be selfless I think she's selfless but you're not for this it's basically two for each other so in this song the really good song better than any other if I'm living for the same charity we have to do it's on its shoulders and so with that it makes people who originally were not allowed to do that and the things in our religion what we are, what we can see it's a good thing because I've been charity that's good and health that's good I mean, you know, the person you know, you're just waiting for the other group to sing so you know, I'm finding on my own I've seen this to us to be selfless I'm better served in fact to be served to God it doesn't necessarily be like a national slave relationship something like that a perfect friend a perfect father a perfect master he wants us to serve him so that he may specifically to us serve us as well in other words, he gives like 1% to the Supreme God he gives 100% back imagine if you give 100% and the Lord of all creation gives 100% back it's all just a loving action to be selfless it's just God for us it's a picture of the U.S. state of society and there's your altruistic side obviously it's not a good altruistic side and that's what I'm saying when we're dating after this we have a pair of shoes and there's your head in your head or three nothing in a worship institution I think that example of selflessness comes directly from Jesus Christ and Walker was served with a perfect life as if he was a horrible broken sinful man took on the sin of us and took on all of our transgressions and paid that price for us that was the example that I would give to some people I think our role is being to be black and religious which is hard so that's kind of the religious problem so I'm just going to take around a little bit to answer some long questions for you but before that we get a big round of applause for everyone who came out could you introduce yourselves and explain what went on today I'm Charles Duncan I'm the president of the secular student alliance here at UTSA and basically the purpose of this event was to basically show the diversity on campus we have a lot of different religious groups as was exemplified today it's a chance for people to come out ask questions and learn things about religious groups that they may not have otherwise to know about and just have a chance to have fun and learn more basically I'm Jacob Schmidt I'm the vice president I was the moderator for the event the main idea behind the event was to have a discussion and not a debate we wanted to give each group an equal amount of time to present their views we didn't want it to be like a back and forth of people yelling at each other because if we're talking about religion that's going to happen if we just let everybody say what they want as much as they want so that's why we had it set to a specific time time limit we enforced it for every group every group had to say what they had to say within the amount of time and I think it was fair and it gave everyone a chance to say what they thought so you're happy with were you happy with how it turned out tonight? I'm very happy yes the negative questions were asked I think everybody here was asking questions out of genuine interest to learn more about the other face that they probably didn't know much of anything about before they walked through the doors into this place so I thought it went pretty well in my opinion I think just the fact that we got a crowd here to listen to how much people talk about their religion I think that's an accomplishment in and of itself because not many people want to sit around and listen to what other people think but it's a heated topic just getting people to come out and listen and not cause a whole scene because people disagree with them I feel like that was an accomplishment in and of itself and where are you hoping it goes from here? most likely from here we would like to maybe hold more events like this in the future in upcoming academic semesters or potentially maybe even host a debate between a religious apologist and a nonbeliever such as an atheist or agnostic or just continue doing events like this to basically inform students of the different views the different opinions of religious people versus nonreligious people and basically just give them something to participate in and be a part of even a part of the dialogue if you notice the title of the event was the first annual a religious forum so we do intend to do this again hopefully next year we can get more groups out and we can draw an even bigger crowd for a first time event we had a pretty big crowd and we had a lot of people who were genuinely interested and asked genuinely interesting questions so for a first time this was a great start but I hope it gets bigger as the years go on it does in secular student alliance have a particular mission like mission statement does that have anything to do with say civic engagement or encouraging dialogue or anything like that yes civic engagement and dialogue definitely are like centerpieces to our mission but our overall mission is to promote scientific literacy the scientific values, secular humanism showing how we can be good and moral with that religion basically and just showing how important it is to learn science to learn about being educated and things like that promoting activism and just basically acceptance and the big idea behind this is because in recent semesters different religious groups have had pretty heated confrontations with each other and with other religious groups on campus and we felt that there was really no need for this we should be able to just talk to each other and be able to talk about what we believe and not be in each other's face and make a whole protest about it so that was the idea behind this I think this is something that the school itself needed because of how heated things have gotten recently between certain groups and I feel like just the fact that these groups were finally able to come together and discuss and share their views on these different issues with an audience gatherer who was willing to listen it was a great accomplishment and that is kind of our mission goal is to not just encourage secularism but to encourage people to learn about these other beliefs and to learn why they choose to be secular rather than believe in all these other beliefs like you can't say even though I don't know what any of this is you have to know these other beliefs to be able to decide that you don't believe in them so I don't think you can be secular without having things like this and another point is to show off the diversity of UTSA it's a campus with obviously many different religious faiths cultural backgrounds people from literally all over the globe an event like this definitely helps to exemplify our diversity at a school such as this with over 30,000 plus students and so I think that's one reason having an event such as this is important here on campus Thank you very much Thank you