 G'day, May 40 here So I went to a beautiful party last night filled with beautiful people beautiful food beautiful times and it was predominantly orthodox Jews and The the birthday boy Someone sent him like this gay greeter who came and sang him a happy birthday and sang him YMCA It It was pretty funny, so I don't think this would have gone over particularly well with the Haredi party All right, so if this party had maybe been of traditional orthodox Jews but So there are traditional orthodox Jews who generally allow orthodox Judaism to just dominate all of their life and Then there are more modern orthodox Jews for whom orthodox Judaism plays a role, right? It's it provides a structure, but More modern orthodox times will watch TV go to movies and their life During the week will be largely indistinguishable from how secular people live a life so That's that's kind of the the great divider between traditional orthodox and the modern orthodox So this you know more modern orthodox gathering You know almost everybody found this gay entertainer hilarious and I was laughing I was funny quite quite amazing. Am I listening to Rabbi Yosef Mizrahi and Rabbi Reuvene? No, I'm not It's too low IQ bro. So I can't believe it. I just Laughed and laughed this Amy Schumer video. I Can't believe I laughed it Amy Schumer, but There's this this video That she released from her Comedy Central Show it's called football town nights. It's a play on Friday night lights And there's this small town high school football coach played by Josh Charles And he's the new coach in town and he comes in talks to the team says, okay We're gonna run hurry up offense. We're gonna practice twice a day And my third rule is and just trust me on this guy's no raping And so for the next half hour His team is outraged and they're coming up with all these objections to his no raping rule like well, what if I'm not raping anyone but my friend is and All I'm doing is is capturing the video on my phone. No, you're not allowed to do that Well, what if the girl says yes to something else? I asked her last week. Is it then okay to rip it? No Well, how about just reaping on away games? No and so The the town revolts against the coaches no raping rule and these like old ladies come by his house and say you know How are these players supposed to let off steam? How are they supposed to relax if you've got these intrusive no raping rules and Then the team plays and they get their asses kicked and they're down by 15 points at halftime and And the coach comes in he says you think the other team is just gonna lie down and let you have it No, you have to grab them. You have to take it You have to go out there and possess you have to violently subjugate this team Then everyone gathers around for the final cheer like clear eyes full hearts no raping I Love this Religion in secular society book by Brian Wilson. It first came out in 1966 But they've released an updated edition and They've made some changes. They no longer call blacks Negroes. They now call them blacks and They no longer refer to God as a he So they've updated the book for 2016 and they've included a lot more explanations about what he's talking about because we're a much less Religious society in the West today than we were even in 1966 but the trends towards modernization were clear in 1966 so The more a society develops becomes more modern the less religious it becomes so the most advanced societies are the least religious generally speaking and The most religious societies generally speaking are the least advanced and it's inevitable it seems as the Processes of modernity progress societies increasingly become less religious and there doesn't seem to be any way that this is going to Change So countries like Norway according to some UN report is the most advanced society we have today And only about three percent of Norwegians go to church every week So why there is no way back for religion in the West? It's a professor David verse. So he's a quantitative social science Scientist with a background in demography So I'm going to link that that talk so So provocative thesis why there is no way back for religion in the West right religion in secular society chapter 3 so I gave a little hint about The first two chapters of this book. So now it talks about the social context of secularization So talks about people's religious. So from a secular perspective the primary purpose of religion is emotional gratification And so the thesis of this book is that people now have a lot more ways to get their emotional needs met outside of religion hence they no longer need religion as much as Their their ancestors did So we are now living in it in the least religious time in human history So we now have all sorts of new channels for emotional gratification and emotional expression We have YouTube. We have psychiatrists. We have therapists. We have psychiatric drugs. We have TV We have movies. We have music. We have recreational activities. We have spiritual activities We have 12-step we have yoga So we have all these new avenues for emotional gratification that people in history did not have And so people are now increasingly getting their emotional needs met outside of religion Then what about people's social, cultural, political and economic needs? People are now not primarily looking to religion for these needs. Instead, they're looking to cultural movements, political movements, recreational associations So a sense of community has shattered in the modern age because we now associate primarily on the basis of our increasingly specialized professions and our increasingly specialized recreational activities So if you're really into yachting, you're gonna spend around spend a lot of time around people who yacht If you're really into 12-step, you're gonna spend a lot of time around people who 12-step If you're really into mixed martial arts, you're gonna spend a lot of your spare time with other people who practice mixed martial arts so when we struggle with issues of social arrangements distributions of power wealth, prestige, life chances, general patterns of life We now primarily look not to supernatural intervention or religious intervention to change these things We now primarily look to pragmatic political action So the widespread religious teachings that we must show contentment with our lot We must simply fulfill our obligations whatever social class we're in or Or we can simply pray that God will enter the human scene again and impose a new dispensation these orientations which Consistently diminish in strength as modernity rules on and as realistic political possibilities are increasingly realized So there's been a steady shift in focus from the afterlife to this life And with that has become an increasing sense of Self-direction that we have the potential for increasing Mastery over our own lives and our own fates now To be honest, I think we all realize that we tend to be much less effective at self-direction then we would like to be and we increasingly realize the complexity of human purpose and emotions and We we understand our own human frailty and so that's what we blame our problems on rather than This is just God wanting to try us in this world or this is just God giving us each his cross to bear So religious and moral interpretations of factual circumstances have diminished scientific political and cultural and artistic interpretations have taken their place So preoccupation with the morality of nation-states has diminished Well preoccupation with the morality of nation-states has replaced preoccupation with individual morality as the dominant moral concern In button society and the chat is just going wild. They're absolutely loving this show Bro Luke Ford is giving me a personal lecture. Thanks, bro How is your young Kapoor fast? It was not easy, but Spiritually redeeming bro spiritually redeeming so as we become increasingly scientific in our orientation So we increasingly look to science to get answers for how the world works as we increasingly see medical and technological benefits from science science rises in prestige and Prestige is relative. So a science rises in prestige religion drops in prestige. So one way that you can see The battle between science and religion is over is that increasingly religious leaders Over the past 80 years have wanted to say look, there's no conflict between religion and science. So what type of person? You know, what what's the agenda when you're emphasizing that you have no Conflict with you know another modality or essentially you're saying that you don't want to have conflict You don't want to compete because you recognize that you can't compete So religious leaders saying there's no conflict between religion and science They're recognizing that science is essentially one in the hearts of minds of modern people Yeah, I think both Rabbi Mizrahi and his buddy Rabbi Reuven are low IQ buffoons Have I read poke others? Yes, the ethics of the father. I've read it many times So the way we operate in society is increasingly Guided by science and increasingly subjected to rational planning and organization So people are more and more involved in social activities In which their own emotional dispositions are less immediately relevant. So we're more cogs in a machine So our thinking has become more pragmatic and more matter-of-fact and we're spending more of our time in rational organizations such as firms public service educational institutions working for the government the state which impose rational behavior upon us So the church with from a secular perspective their dominant function was the institutionalization of emotional gratification So the church now stands in sharp and increasingly disadvantaged Contras to the increasing rationalization of society So we've got the growth of political movements organizational techniques that have reshaped our sense of social decency our shape of Propriety and They've provided us with new outlets for our efforts and our energy So it used to be people put much of their spare time into religious activities into doing good deeds Teaching people how to keep showers how to wrap to fill in We're in voluntary organizations We would you know share the gospel if we were Christians but now people are increasingly inclined to devote their spare time to recreation and to the arts and social activities based on Professional specialization and recreational specialization so in the in the Protestant denomination particularly Methodism you had the Rise of opportunities for the laity for the nonclergy even to give sermons so The floodgates opened up for this wider participation of the laity in diverse religious activities And so this was a way for nonclergy to get prestige to move into good standing in the community by their voluntary effort, but now people are taking their energy in their efforts and Not so much volunteering in religious organizations, but in recreational cultural and secular organizations so Recreational associations like your local soccer club, right? You're not going to get the reverence necessarily the community esteem with regard to these efforts, but people find Recreational activities and secular activities To they get more out of it So if people get more out of watching a TV show or going to a book club Then praying in church or synagogue. They're going to go to book club or to soccer club People will find that engaging in secular activities Provides benefits of largely recreational and more here and now benefits than the other worldly benefits of religion Whatever became of ethics or the mothers? well men Standardize men love rules men love hierarchy right women aren't into The making of rules the making of legal systems nearly and and the making of abstract Documents and abstract teachings nearly as much as men. So the ethics of the mothers is much more based on relationship So it's much more emotional. It's not primarily Cognitive rule bound and hierarchical Rabbi Rubin thinks that any lost semen causes 300 million evil spirits to develop in the underworld and they will come after you Why do I think about Henry Abranson? I don't think I have any opinion on him Why do I think about turning off a light or driving a car on the Sabbath? I believe that these are sins for orthodox Jews That's a that's a knock meaning the Hebrew Bible forbids neither yet orthodox or hardcore about this Yes, because Judaism orthodox Judaism in particular is not primarily based on the Bible. It's primarily based on the Talmud So the Talmud is a largely legal code that developed about 2000 years ago While the the last book of the Tanakh the Hebrew Bible was put into final form about 2200-2300 years ago So we now have a much wider range of recreational activities leisure opportunities available to us than we did 100 years ago 200 years ago 300 years ago So the basis for the orthodox Jewish prohibition on starting or stopping electrical current on Sabbath is That it's starting a fire right that electricity equals fire But there were leading 19th century orthodox rabbis who disagreed with the notion that electricity is fire so by no means clear that electricity is fire it was a debate among orthodox rabbis and Eventually those rabbis who held that electricity is fire They won out and the reason you can't drive a car on the Sabbath is spark plugs Now what if they start cars develop cars that don't have spark plugs? it still will go against the The feeling the communal sense of of the Sabbath So I don't think you'll ever find cars are going to be accepted in orthodox Judaism Talmud has no discussion about lights or cars. Yes That's true, but it has discussion about fire. So Obviously a document composed 2000 years ago is not going to anticipate every technological development that we have today Now I did find an example of the word radio in the Talmud So radios refer to in the Talmud. I'm not sure if it's the same I'm not sure if it's the same Radio that we think about but Radio is mentioned in the Talmud New York scholar recall. So this is from the Jewish theological The Jewish telegraphic agency January 1 1924 So the new discovery of the radio is not a discovery, but a rediscovery is the claim of a Jewish scholar Samuel Cahan So he mentions in the fifth chapter of Yuma That talks about the rabbis have learned three sounds which travel from one end of the world to the other They are the sound of the sun traveling Around the world the sound of the soul when it leaves the body and the sound of a mob in a large city And some rabbis say that the sound of the radio also does the same thing So yeah, there are rabbis who claim that the radio is referenced in the Talmud Rabbis seem to add a lot of stuff and make some things far harder than the actual bible says while downplaying real sins well remember Judaism is primarily the culture of a particular tribe And so all tribes have and all civilizations have ways of adapting and developing new laws to deal with with new situations So the rabbis will grab grab a pursuit a test in the Torah text in the Torah Which says you know listen to your elders and then they will say we are now the elders and so people should listen to us Now rabbis will Will make legal rulings, but if the people ignore them then those rulings tend to lose their power Colin Liddell says look get your massive audience to check out my latest short pod So Colin Liddell examines recent events in Afghanistan season the historical echo of an earlier U.S. attempted nation building The efforts of the federal government to remake the American south following the clash of civilizations that we call the American civil war That looks quite interesting And the chat says most Jews in second temple Judaism never knew of a Talmud And they didn't listen to the rabbis So They didn't listen to the Pharisees So yeah, but Pharisee Judaism was the only form of Judaism which perpetuated itself So there were many forms of Judaism 2000 years ago only one perpetuated itself That's Pharisee Judaism, which is Talmudic Judaism So just because rabbis seem to add on to things that are not in the Talmud Doesn't mean that their rulings are less true or less objective or you could even argue that they're They're just as divine. Maybe they They receive divine inspiration that that's not the traditional Jewish way the traditional Jewish approach claims that the rabbis are They're just Interpreting these ancient texts to apply them to today's changing circumstance So religion in secular society an absolute classic in religious sociology published by Brian Wilson in 1966 so It used to be that the church had a monopoly on information the church dominated printing presses And you'd get a lot of your information and your intellectual stimulation at church from your clergyman And and the churches dominated the institutions of higher learning. So Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, these were all started as theological seminaries But times have changed. So now education is increasingly in the hands of secularists and we now have the emergence of Artistic forms such as films movies music that increasingly meet people's emotional needs more effectively than organized religion so Say that the film industry and the tv industries Uh, these are much more immediately appealing to people's emotional appetites Right and These industries can offer people, you know, anything that that will turn a profit So it's these industries are ideologically uncommitted. They will test the market to see what people will pay for To see as entertainment They're prepared to defy social conventions and the accepted morality when it's in their profit interest to do so And if they can avoid government interference So the entertainment industry From the very beginning has been a challenge to religion because from a secular perspective both religion and the entertainment industry Their primary function is to provide us with emotional comfort And so the entertainment industry has offered people more immediate emotional gratification More immediate emotional titillation more immediate emotional comfort more diversion Uh, they've they've offered us new interpretations of our daily life that may be more compelling than what people hear in church or synagogue And they have increasingly out competed organized religion for our time for our attention and for our money And so the the content of the entertainment industry is not just an alternative way for us to spend our time It also offers us an alternative set of ways to understand our lies new new ways of Of moral values So Entertainment has replaced religion's attempt to awaken public sentiments By offering titillation of our private emotions more effectively than organized religion So the church has lost its monopoly over communication So rather prosperous as I come For the lectures, but I stay for the teeth One of the chief characteristics of religion is extraneousness That's interesting. So I know extraneous means Irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with of external origin Separate from the object to which it is attached That's a That's an interesting thought there colon so So prior to the mid 19th century People primarily got their information from organized religion and their intellectual stimulation from organized religion But now secular press and secular media and secular entertainment have supplanted that So used to be prior to the mid 19th century the clergyman was If not the most powerful voice in his local community He would have been like one of the the top three most powerful voices in his local community but now A clergyman is just one of hundreds of diverse voices that we can tap into just going on youtube or the radio or tv or movies or books and so The clergyman now is competing with you know a whole array of offerings that are increasingly far more effective than he is That are increasingly much more sophisticated in how they use mass media So the church is able to use mass media, but it doesn't do it nearly as well as other people So the amount of entertainment music news drama secular education other types of information that's carried by tv radio press cinema The internet religious information is just a tiny part of that flood and professional religious people generally not as good at using the media as more secular people So religious people who use the media tend to use it as a courtesy and on-sufferance. They tend to be older and They're using media that's increasingly dominated by youth and so when organized religion uses the media It's often employed by media magnates to kind of whiten the image of an industry which is Often charged with being subversive immoral and deleterious So the church is willing to use the mass media and then the media controllers use this in their own defense as evidence of their own social responsibility but Religion claims preeminence right religion claims to have preeminent truth religion claims to Have access to the divine Religion claims that it knows best of all modalities how you should lead your life So when religion is competing with all these other groups and individuals in mass media they are relegating essentially religious material to a marginal place In mass communications and it's kind of in opposition to its own religious message so So when the the church uses mass media It's relegating itself to the level of this medium So that detracts from its own claims to preeminence So the when the church uses mass media that changes the image of the church and in an increasingly secular society Religion increasingly accepts a more marginal position in mass communications which is in complete defiance of its own self-assessment as the preeminent source of wisdom and morality Robert says America's best hope for media is that Islam takes it over All the rabbis quoted in the Talmud are from like 60 BCE to 600 AD yet they claim it went back to 1300 BCE with Moses. Well, that's that's a very traditional approach is Throughout the Middle Ages non-Jews and Jews would claim that the origin of their teachings came from Far, far back that made their teaching seem more authoritative Robert says Luke knows all this, but he derives social benefit from these people so he does not want to rock the boat You would think that stuff going back to Moses would have people from Moses's time quoting it How could there have been an oral Torah if almost no Jews of the second temple had ever heard of it? Well, maybe the whole doctrine of the oral Torah was was developed in response to circumstances. So situations change and we have to change in response to those circumstances if we're going to be effective and one of the most effective ways of running a community is to claim that your teachings harken back to a much more ancient time The weird thing says Robert is the so-called oral law was always written and the written law began orally Well, I don't think you're right here Before the the Torah was ever written down. It was relayed orally And then eventually it was written down and commentaries on that writing were carried on orally and then eventually they were written down In parts of brooklyn, they still get their information from their Rebbe Yes, but even in in brooklyn even in Hasidic brooklyn. They're still exposed to the internet to radio to tv to music Yeah, it's not just that the catholic church has its own oral law and the muslims too all peoples have to have their own oral laws All right It's not just enough to have laws written on the books You also need oral interpretations about how to apply those laws. So you go to work Right, and you may be given an employee handbook But the employee handbook it's all written down, but that's just one source of information about how you should operate You learn from your fellow employees like which rules are enforced and which aren't enforced Did you know that Passover wasn't celebrated until King Josiah found the book of the law Deuteronomy? You think they knew of an oral Torah that was never quoted in the Tanakh? Good questions So back to this terrific book religion in secular society So think about the conflict between religion and science. So origin of species was published in 1859 and then in 1860 Samuel Wilberforce was the bishop of oxford. He was the third son of William Wilberforce the anti-slavery campaigner He was an ardent critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection So he gave this 1860 address to the british association And he asked Thomas Huxley friend and defender of Darwin Whether it was through his grandmother or his grandfather that Huxley considered himself descended from a monkey So religion at first went to war against Darwinism and in some areas of religion It still is that war with Darwinism But overall Darwinism has won that conflict because since about the turn of the century and even back in the 19th century many religious leaders became increasingly Focused on telling people that there's no conflict between religion and science So that's the type of thing you say when the other group is winning All right, if religion was winning it would not need to emphasize that there is no conflict between religion and science This is going to help Luke meet a good fertile woman with whom to breed Or is the question at this point moot? I think this is one of the very best ways that I could, you know, meet a young fertile woman It's talking about religion in secular society So when when art Became liberated from the religious perspective on life The artistic conception of the world Has proven to be perhaps more challenging to the religious orientation than science is because art More immediately and in a more compelling function for many people meets the emotional needs that religion used to meet So art deals as religion deals in emotion In communication in meaning in interpretation in evaluating in evoking responses and inviting a visual participation in a very complex set of Conceptions and feelings now science doesn't do any of these things So when science's factual presentation analysis are done, there's still room for religious interpretation But artistic interpretation is increasingly More compelling to people in the modern world than religious interpretation. So my friend Robert Prosper, for example, he finds far more Spiritual and emotional meaning in reading or watching Lord of the Rings than in going to synagogue So there was a debate between scientists and religionists and scientists overwhelmingly won So religionists, generally speaking, surrendered that fight and said, hey, there's no necessary reason that we need to fight the Puritans You would have thought they would have favored science and opposed art as many Puritan sectarian movements do still So they favor science they are opposed to art Why because art has become the repository of more magical and emotional aspects of religious values Art has acquired increasing prestige And art has fed our impulses for the irrational and the magical more effectively for many people than religion So art has fostered an idolatry That's completely at odds with monotheistic religion So the art world has become autonomous from religion It's no longer used just specifically to evoke religious responses So art has embodied values and has evoked emotional responses Not in the service of religion And so there was an imperceptible gradualism in the way that the arts freed themselves from religious preconceptions So started with literature with moral tales that are often intrinsically shocking such as in Daniel Defoe it had painting with gradual romanticization of the landscape and subtle but increasingly obvious invocations of other gods And then in poetry you got the candid expression of emotions that were removed from a religious context so the arts That remained in service of the church became steadily emaciated. They lost spontaneity They lost their earlier deeper sense of values their their sense of intrinsic association So late 19th century religious art poetry and architecture shows this emaciation So outside of the service of religion arts came to represent competing values and competing interpretations of human predicaments political ideals and just the experience of living so this is uh Brian, Brian Wilson writing that the churches today are so concerned to assert that there is no conflict between science and religion Is perhaps the best indication that the struggle is over And that religion has conceded wide territories to science Now the real conflict remains in the minds of people and they are increasingly Tending to regard science as more reliable or practical more pragmatic and therefore more valuable than religion So our society is increasingly irrational and pragmatic Which is a very different mindset than the religious mindset Now you've you've had these religious movements particularly in america developed that are highly pragmatic the whole new thought movement christian science movement All right Very pragmatic movement It's it offers ways that supposedly help us to live better essentially proposes You know new age thought The secret if you just you know think about something that's how you can achieve it So you've had the growth of these religious movements that are highly highly pragmatic And so religion in america generally speaking is highly pragmatic compared to traditional religion And even in more orthodox denominations there's a growth of healing courts, you know spiritual proofs of the afterlife And emphasis on the value of religion as an agency of mental therapy Colin Liddell says science wins Because it goes to the low-hanging fruit and apple says my screen time was up 10 percent Last week to two hours and 40 minutes a day on my phone Yeah, robert prospin had super orthodox jews in brockland and new jersey don't teach the kids science or even english Robert prospin says that doing yoga poses and hoping a young fertile woman is ensnared by your yoga live stream seems closer to reality for Finding a wife then discussing the Tanakh Maybe yeah, maybe I wasted too much sperm during my youth and now I've got billions of demons against me in the underworld Underworld as per rabbi roovin women are into yoga. Look. That's what you should be doing yoga Luke Ford won't talk about semen retention. Hey, I've got a loyal member of this Channel who promises that he'll continue to regard me highly And retain his his paid membership of my channel as long as I remain No fap. So I've been no fap for over eight years All right, this is the face of a man who's no fap my father But the college teacher he said he could tell just by looking at his students whether they were no fap or not Because the people who are fapping it would give them a sallow complexion I don't know what your what your fap faptar is like Can you tell just by looking at someone whether they are lost to the to the great sin of fapping? Bro, it's easier to be no fap when you're in your fifties. Yes, it is easier But it's still an accomplishment And I started at 47 So I'll take my accomplishments where I can find them. I've been watching these videos on anxiety and one of the tips that that they give to reduce anxiety is to Take notice of your accomplishments like write them down or you know check off a list And if it's not on a list put it on a list things that you've accomplished. So I was no fap for 15 months I think basically 1991 into 1992 so I was About 24 years of age at the time and I went no fap for about 15 months When I was first converting to Judaism So I went no fap and I substituted by hugging trees Colin Liddell says when science tries to explain high hanging fruit ghost prognostication the meaning of life just looks stupid So the real danger of science to religion Lies in the increasing prestige of science and the decline in the intellectual prestige of religion. So science has answers Science has positive tangible fruits. So it's increasingly commanding widespread respect and approval Governments have become less concerned with the promotion of religion And instead they're increasingly disposed to promote and subsidize science. They sponsor science. They give prizes and awards endowments to scientific inquiries and they fund scientific education so Prior to 200 years ago, we would associate the wise men of society as the religious As as clergy But now when you think of the wise men around us today, you don't necessarily think of religious people So prior to about 150 years ago the church dominated intellectual life But intellectual life is now primarily in the hands of people who are secular And our society is increasingly pragmatic and rational increasingly relies on science for economic and technological advancement So 19th century businessmen in the early period of industrialization. They relied on religion as an agency of social control Religion like Methodism helped to instill a sense of discipline and order in the workforce This was the primary factor of production, but as industry became more capitalized machinery increasingly controlled labor And so that control is now more specifically adjusted to a particular task at hand And it doesn't need to control people in their private lives outside of work So the old control used its letters of testimony. It's you know characters as the working class knew them The the old control relied on a workers general dispositions to industriousness punctuality thrift sobriety willingness and reliability The new control demands none of this doesn't care about character because the conveyor belt Will exact all the control that is needed amazon's detailed system Exacts all the control it needs for its workers. It doesn't need external character values, right? internalized character values have been replaced by mechanical manipulation So business has turned from religious socialization regulating the work situation to mechanical control so Industry needed to control workers. It used to rely on religion to do this But now industry increasingly relies on the new sciences the sciences of management industrial relations on machinery on surveillance So in economic terms it's become wasteful to demand that the whole person should be self-discipline When a more specific method of manipulation can be developed So just that part of the person which is needed for the job needs to be disciplined So industry has increasingly rejected the blanket control of religious moral socialization of workers For mechanical instruments of production. So businessman used to give To religious causes today. They increasingly give to science and education really meaning scientific education Bro, you must have lost lost like 50 billion sperm from fapping. It's like way worse than holocaust deaths as per rabbi roo vane Fapping is 50 billion deaths, bro. If Hitler didn't fap that means luke Ford is worse than hitler due to his fapping deaths Do I agree with rabbi roo veins analysis? No, I don't If the Torah is no fap, why isn't it mentioned in the Torah? Well, you have to read between the lines, bro Look, is this youtube gig paying any of your yeshiva tuition bills? I make a couple hundred bucks here and a couple hundred bucks there You've got to have key Japan's tendency to mix science mysticism and the paranormal And japan is an interesting culture So science became a profession its social prestige steadily increased As our society becomes increasingly pragmatic We're increasingly impressed with the results of scientific endeavor So what science is showing us on on a daily basis? For most people is, you know more dramatic than anything that religious clerics are producing So ancient wisdom Does not seem as impressive to people today as Compared to the new learning science is rising in prestige art is rising in prestige Innovation is rising in prestige technology is rising in prestige Religion is falling in prestige and so As these other fields rise in prestige than our best and brightest minds increasingly go to those fields to get their prestige So the minister of religion was a specialist at an earlier stage of social development But as all societies become more advanced, they inevitably become less religious And the most religious societies inevitably the most primitive so the The clergyman's specialist expertise his knowledge of theology and of liturgy And his license to perform sacramental acts That's increasingly less relevant to our increasingly pragmatic society And the prestige of science is increasingly affecting theology. So the cannons of objectivity neutrality empiricism Are strongly present in the movement towards the higher criticism which places religious authority under scrutiny And usually in ways not conducive to the maintenance of actual authority of the clergyman in the pulpit Religion is not falling in prestige in afghanistan Correct, but afghanistan is one of the world's most primitive societies Bye. Bye