 Could you just touch on briefly about the morality of Christianity versus the morality of capitalism and how contradiction it is? Sure. I think that the essence of Christianity, of the morality of Christianity is sacrifice. It's suffering for a cause, a cause external to you, a cause that you have no interest in this life in, only in another life, in a mystical life, in a pretend life. So it's all about sacrificing for others. So think about Jesus on a cross. I don't know how many of you follow Jordan Peterson. Or watch Jordan Peterson. Like Jordan Peterson views Jesus on a cross as a superhero. He is the ultimate human hero. Why? Because he's willing to give up his life in the most brutal, horrible death for sins other people commit. It's the ultimate altruistic act. It's the ultimate act of self-negation and of living for other people. And that's the most simple. So you to be modeled. The ultimate to be modeled. The standard of morality is the superhero. Dying, not for sins he committed. That would be understandable if you commit sins, you pay for them. But for sins other people commit. Right? But nothing he did for no reason he dies. And so the whole idea here is that you should live for other people. You should sacrifice for other people. You should die for other people. If you look at saints, Christian saints. Ever seen a painting of a Christian saint smiling? No. That would defeat the idea of a saint. What makes you a saint is not helping other people. If helping other people made you a saint then no gates would be a saint. Then Carnegie and Morgan and Rockefeller would be saints. The great entrepreneurs and industrialists in Korea would be saints. Because they helped other people. They changed the world. They made the world a better place for millions and billions of people. But businessmen are saints. But no, they're not saints. Christianity doesn't think they're saints. Why? Because they benefited from helping other people. They helped themselves while helping other people. And that's not acceptable in Christianity. It has to be pure. You have to live for others. You have to suffer in helping others to be a saint. Some other Teresa who helped very few people, relatively speaking, is a saint because she suffered. She had a miserable life. That made her a saint. If you have a good life while helping other people, you don't get a saint. Lots of people have helped more people than other Teresa. Lots of people have helped. I mean from businessmen help, the world more than other Teresa. Charity workers. Social workers go out there and work with poor people. Lots of people have done more good than other Teresa. But they didn't suffer as much. They didn't project that suffering. They didn't make up a deal of their suffering. She did. She became a saint. That's the standard. So Christianity at the end of the day is about sacrifice. It's about altruism. It's about living for others. And that's what gets you into heaven. And when you don't do that, Christians who pursue their own interests in this world and accumulate wealth, maybe run a business, do stuff like that, they feel guilty. So guilt is part of Christianity because altruism is anti-life. And when you live, you feel guilty because you should have been a Mother Teresa. You should have suffered. And I think there's this real conflict. And that's why you can't base capitalism on Christianity. Because capitalism is about succeeding. It's about trading. It's about win-win relationships. Not about suffering. Not about sacrifice. Not about giving. It's about making, producing, trading. And Christianity is not about that. It's not the essential element. You want to ask about this? Yes. What would you say to those who would describe Christianity as an essential element of Christianity as being, oh, there is a spark of the divine in everyone. Potentially, I'm not exactly sure about what the Christians totally believe, but that every person is a value or potential value and how that's kind of opposed to the sort of low-ending fruit of this oh, altruism is evil. Well, I think that Christianity is mixed. And any primitive philosophy, which is what religion is, is mixed and contradictory. And Ein Rand said that the one good thing about Christianity, the one thing that Christianity added if you will to Western civilization, the only thing really that it added in terms of value, is this idea that the individual mattered. That you had this spark of divinity and therefore you mattered in some way. See, I think she overestimates that. I mean, that's my personal view. I think that already existed in Greece. Individuals mattered. Look at Greek sculpture and tell me that they didn't care about individuals. So I don't think that contribution to Christianity. And if you look at Christian history, it doesn't matter. Christian history doesn't care that you have a divine spark. Because if you look at the periods where Christianity dominates, it oppresses you, it crushes you, it commands you. It doesn't care about your opinion. It doesn't care about anything about you as an individual. Sacrifice to God, sacrifice to the church, sacrifice to your fellow man. That's it, right? So when Christianity is dominant during the Dark Ages, during the reign of the Catholic Church, or even in Calvin's dictatorship, right? If you want the Protestants, right? What did Calvin do with the spark of divinity in every human being? He created the dictatorship because these little sparks needed to be told what to do and how to behave. And in pain, he didn't inflict it on them. And if you read Martin Luther, what does Martin Luther write about this world? He says, this world is horrible. This world is disgusting. Human beings are awful. Disgusting creatures. And that we only can attain the beauty and the full manifestation of our humanity in the afterlife. That's when the world is beautiful and divine. So you have to die in order for that to happen, right? So all of the history of Christianity negates this idea of the spark. And to me, that's what's important. Because even if it's somewhere in the New Testament, right? It doesn't play out. Nobody cares. Not Aquinas' case, right? And Aquinas changes the world. But Aquinas changes the world across secular philosophy, not quite Christian philosophy. So I'm very down on Christianity. And down in Judaism, right? Because I read the whole Testament saying you have no freedom of religion, no freedom of speech, no economic freedom. And you're supposed to obey. It's very authoritarian. I mean, the essence of religion is authoritarianism. God says you go kill yourself. Yes, sir. Off I go. And that's what makes you a moral hero. Is that you don't question. Right? You don't question. Abraham doesn't say to God, go to hell. Right? Which is what he should have said. He obeys. And that is moral authoritarianism. And that's off. I wrote that down. I want to talk more about that. About what? About Abraham and Isaac. It's clear-cut. It's what they call involve, you know, clear-cut a shut case. Right? And there are a thousand examples like this. Right? Moses comes down with the Ten Commandments. He comes down from Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. And he sees a few Jews worshiping a golden calf. He doesn't calmly put the tablets down. Go over to them and say, you know, you do your thing, we do my thing. We just don't have anything to do with you. Go over there and do your worshiping. We believe in one God. That's not what he does. He gets angry, drops the tablets. He shouts. He goes to his brother. They get a bunch of people. They catch a sword and they kill, 30,000 people that day. And God rewards them. God says, good job. Aaron, you can be the priest of the Jews from now on. Because you did such a good job defending my religion from those pagans. I didn't, oh, just let's follow this stuff. Slaughter and mayhem in the name of God. And obey, obey, obey. Right? Why doesn't Moses see the light of Israel? These are what we're raised on, right? Moses is never allowed to go into the state. He takes the Jews out of Egypt. He does all those things. He travels with them for 40 years in the desert. He's not allowed to go on. He strikes the rock. He strikes the rock instead of just, you know, because God is going to bring the water out of the rock. And he strikes the rock instead of just letting the water just spring out of it. And God says, you have little belief. You had to hit it so that the water would come out. If you didn't believe, I could do it without you hitting it. So you're not going to see, I mean, really? What kind of God are you? I mean, I've worked 40 years to get the people here. 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