0:43 - What do you think about alternative theories regarding the origin of Islam? 2:13 - How much do you think Christianity, Islam, and Judaism influenced each other? 4:48 - What was your earliest religious thought? 7:10 - Are you familiar with Integral Theory or Spiral Dynamics? 7:27 - Why do you think so many foundational religious texts appeared around 500 BC? 11:12 - What do you think is the “lowest common denominator” of all religions? 13:06 - Do you think religion is better than philosophy or science for determining the meaning of life? 15:06 - Do you think the phrase “Spirit of the Universe” provides a better way to talk about religions than the word “God”? 16:38 - Were Muslim converts to Christianity or Judaism common in the past? How were converts treated by the state and religious authorities? 20:08 - Is Hinduism too complex to be considered a single entity? 23:36 - How did Bulleh Shah become such a common subject in Sufi rock music? 24:57 - Are there any human societies, in history or in modern times, that function well without an active, organized religion? Could science or philosophy replace religion in this capacity? 28:49 - What do you think is the role of culture in religion? 31:34 - How do you separate the philosophy of religion from the practice of religion? 34:54 - What is your take on the connection between Abraham/Sarah and Brahma/Saraswati? 36:36 - How did Sufism evolve out of Islamic culture? 40:28 - Do you consider the five books of Moses to be a divinely inspired revision of older Mesopotamian myths?
@@777joemac The Almighty God never promised everything to everyone in this life. Because this life is a test from God. This life is short. Afterlife is never ending life.So there will be sorrows and sufferings along with happiness. God test every one of us differently. To some He gives Happiness and to some gives sorrows. Atleast we should believe that there is Only God.who created this Universe and everything that exist. God is One and there are no partners and associates in His powers. There are many Religions that claim they are Monotheistic but in reality they are not. But Islam defines Clearly what means Monotheism andThe purpose of life. So please study ISLAM
Spent the entire video switching between: -) looking at the swaying of the grass with the wind, and -) looking at the swaying of the beard with the chin.
Hey. Filip. I wanted to take a few moments to praise you. Never ever have I seen a candid Q&A like this one which offers immediate, satisfying and proper answers. I love your wide knowledge about different cultures around the world. I'm especially smitten by your work in Indian philosophical traditions and Arab ones. Your videos in many cases are my prime resources when it comes to philosophies and history. Moreover, you are a musician practicing Middle Eastern Music, icing on cake. I absolutely love you my man ❤️❤️
@@adminomhfoz1908 sure. But to search abt something we need to be aware and interested of it. Filip does a good job in making things interesting enough to delve abt
About the culture and the religion topic, in my humble opinion, despite being heavily interacted I don't think that they are the same thing. I personally witness times in which some aspect of the religion and culture collide so eventually, one of them has to compromise to the other more dominant one which in most cases happens to be the culture as I see. But I guess at the end, this comes to the problem of essentializing the religion (to which I pretty much always have a tendency to commit because of my religious identity:'))
@The Redemption nice try little buddy, but I won't let you. My religion is a part of my individual identity, an important framework in my life, as the individuals are made of those frameworks that we choose to embrace. And it seems that hàtred is a big part of yours... how sad😁
@The Redemption bc u believe that we r here by hazad and some more amazing things i don't know about... maybe we don't even exist and u r life is not that of an online hater...
@The Redemption Exactly we r very stupid bc unlike u we dont like out of context statements and likes accuracy ! If u want to learn about something u start by the beginning, dont jump on the end of things ... Your ego will always be a barrier in ur head, watchout for ur mind is all i can say to you internet warrior.
I'm loving the change of scenery! If that's something you're cool with and able to do, would you consider doing more videos like this? I think it adds a really nice layer to discussions about religion and philosophy. It feels like when a cool humanities professor decides to have class outdoors lol
Religion is an Intellectual and Behavioral formula for the expression of Spirituality. If you choose to follow a mystical path you can add input from the Emotional and Intuitive planes as well.
29:20 Culture and religion is two separate entities we can seperate them Because There are many people groups who are culturally same but practice different religions
I wonder, how can someone be culturally the same as me, if say, I am vehemently against eating pork and celebrating Christmas, but they are the complete opposite. What do you mean by culture anyway?
_I freaking love this channel!!!_ Thank you for fixing your hair. I was having a hard time even hearing what you were saying because it was flying around so noisily. 😄😆😂🙄 LOL You are an international treasure. Blessings from Flaming California. 💜💙💚
BTW, "Spiral Dynamics" is not _really_ representative of Integral Theory. Integral _includes_ SD as part of its library of theories, but really *"The 4 Quadrants"* is more primary Integral Theory. SD became popular among Integralists who like to classify people - which is now more problematic than ever. It's better to consider a wider spectrum of Developmental Theory such as the work of Robert Kegan and Susanne Cook-Greuter. Piaget is a pioneer in that field, but others have taken it much farther by now. One Theorist who has studied how Development effects Spiritual/Religious life is James Fowler. Blessings and good luck!
"When too much brain is used to work something out that it reaches its wall of fate, then it is time to use instinct, as there is only one power that control it, the one who created all beings" -Humble servant of The Only Mighty Stand Alone Creator-
@@Facerip Me too but sometimes there's people who are members of a certain community that can still be impartial but since they have the knowledge they can explain things he probably missed.
@@abuhado-verbigraciaramirez8682 You'd think so, but he might know more. One thing that can be seen while traveling as a religious researcher is... especially with older traditions... the members don't seem to know much. So I am grateful for researchers like this guy
thank you for your videos and your channel! these videos are life changing and gives me a spirit of understanding. i grew up half my adult life a muslim but was born into a christian family. i loved learning more about the religion i am a part of! sufism is amazing as well! please keep your videos coming subbed and liked!
The study of lived religion is the province of the anthropologist and sociologist. Philosophy of religion requires all the multitude of tools developed in any area of thought.
I would quite like to ask a question about the religious aspects you can identify in Liberalism - I am not very fond of the interpretation that the West today is predominantly irreligious, atheistic yes, but not irreligious. If religion is a way of life like you mentioned earlier with metaphysical claims, claims to meaning, collective rituals then modern Western society does have all of these things, they are simply much more nuanced and informal than in more explicit religious settings e.g. liberalisms metaphysical claims can be seen to have partly originated from "prophets" like Kant and Locke viewing individuals as an end unto themselves etc and other sources such as post-black death Western-European Christian social structures etc, we have common rituals like public debates, voting and protesting and quasi-religious symbols like the American flag or the Pride Flag, much of the political turmoil we see today could potentially to construed as a religious schism between different schools of liberalism, Wokeness and Right-wing populism are both essentially liberal but emphasise different aspects of the common liberal world framework. But the vigour with which people today are excited to fight their side of these political debates can in many aspects be seen as a kind of religious fervour. Any thoughts?
Hmmm I like your train of thought here. But there is a large influence here from protestantism, the effects of religious self-determination becoming just self-determination echoes from the wave of protestant scholars in germany 600 years ago. It's not just the thought train of liberalism it was also a religious element to it. And that kindof can still be seen in the ways protestants have expressed themselves in say, america versus the scandinavia. Very similar but the differences tell you how the culture of competativeness through calvinism that broke out large in the US. Was very different from a state level church like each of the scandinavian lutheran churches. (Edit: should clarify my comment was to the part of prophets of liberalism influencing this.)
I recall a couple of my own early philosophical thoughts. I was around age 6, I think, when I discovered the concept of infinity on a cereal box! You know how they would picture a bowl of the cereal with the box of cereal on a table (or something like that). Well, there was a picture of the cereal box on the cereal box. So we ended up with a smaller picture of the cereal box on the picture of the cereal box on the cereal box, and on and on, smaller and smaller. I think I actually turned the box to the back to see if the images came out on the other side! Then there was the idea of infinite regress of origins. I was looking at the oak tree in our back yard and realized that there were acorns on that tree that could grow into new oak trees. Then I realized that oak tree had grown from a earlier acorn that came from some other oak tree. Then I began to wonder "where did the first oak tree come from?" And then I started wondering "where did the first come from?" for everything!
Me at the age of 8 years: want to become a fighter jet pilot Philip at 8: thinking about philosophy Me as an adult: studied engineering Philip as an adult: keeps thinking about philosophy That's constance! That's persistence!
Strangely, I only started thinking about the meaning life, philosophy, religion and God when I was 20 years old. I guess we all ask the same questions at different times.
@@Oatmeal_Mann it's just how we are as a developed creation. We conciously or subconsciously think of it, whether we really have a purpose on this plane or where do we go, it's just instilled in us. Human nature
@@Oatmeal_Mann I started to think about it when I was 14-15 and still am, I think it happens when we become more self aware, at least in my case (not saying that at the age of 14 I was the most self aware lol), and when we try to make sense of things around us that maybe we never really noticed nor cared about, or maybe it's when we learn about arguments that are different from ours so we try to compare them and understand that maybe what we were taught was not the "truth". I guess I don't know I am just speaking from experience
Just a side note about color. Technically, color is a range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, so blue is still blue no matter what u may see it as. The boundaries of those ranges aren’t that strictly defined but are defined enough to say color is not subjective.
On the 500 BC question, I think that even more than writing (which was already there before), the transition from the Bronze Age to Iron Age may have had a greater impact. The Iron Age made weaponry and tools cheaper for the masses, which led to less hierarchical societies than in centuries past. This could have led to more free discourse on the questions of life.
I truly appreciate your anthropological approach🙏...so important to give meaning and depth to our lives in this time/all times. By virtue that we were actually born into this world (insert infinite scientific probability of you entering this world and not another sperm/egg combination here)
Always great to hear your thoughts and ideas Funny story, I too had the question of the colors .... But it wasn't as early as when you had it 😅 ..I think I was 26??? I guess that indicates your analytical maturity
i would disagree. i know enough people that dont belive in anything supernatural, and they all seem to be doing as good, if not even better than most religious people i know. i think people are afraid of admiting to themself the non-existance of the supernatural, so they build themself a "religious" worldview, to witch they grasp so strongly they start genuenly beliving. but thats just my oppinion.
@@jkr9594 Well, but sometimes they do believe in something, such as moral principles and the need to solve human problems and promote the good of mankind... people believe such things without supernatural beliefs, or sometimes alongside supernatural beliefs.
28:50 you mentioned that you see culture and religion as the same thing but I would disagree with that. There are things at least I can talk with Islam and the Islamic world, that people practice certain things and say that’s part of Islam but it’s not part of the religion itself but it’s part of the culture. there are even some things within that culture that’s totally opposite to the teachings of the religion but a lot of people might even not know that. so because it’s totally integrated it doesn’t mean it’s part of the religion itself. while the same religion might be practice differently in different parts of the world that aspect is more from culture than the religion itself. for me religion is more on what the teaching of Scripture is and not the later development or additives of the culture and people. it doesn’t mean that the religion can’t embrace aspects of the culture it certainly does but it’s not the same thing as the religion of self and I hope that makes sense. I really love your content and I really learned a lot and enjoy your academic perspective to those issues
I don't agree with that either Religion and culture are seperate things and should be seperate Culture of middle East(where Islam Christianity etc started) has influence in other parts of the world. But still they have their (regional) culture engrained in their religion. Only religion (in my opinion )where culture and religion are same maybe yazidis and some tribal religion. Becose outsiders cannot convert to their religion and the religion is strictly practiced within their tribe.
@@Thejas_Gatty I see your point and there are certain aspects within the religion that have cultural influences. For example, the Quran gives a lot of examples that speak to the culture (use of camels, the dessert, poetry, and sayings, etc) and practices of the people at that time, specifically the Arabs. but if we don't separate or make the distinction clear between culture and religion some malpractice in culture is assigned to the religion itself. For example, women issues in some so-called Muslim countries have laws and practices that don't align with Islam but people perceive it as Islam. if that would be the case other Muslims would do it as well but they don't. While women in Saudi Arabia are just recently allowed to drive a car women in Malaysia were in rankings of high judges. Or another example is in South Asia where the family has to give a huge amount of money to the groom's side so they take their daughter. I mean I could go on with things Muslims do that have nothing to do with the religion but because they are uneducated about their religion as well they perceive it as a religious practice as well.
@@Thejas_Gatty that’s what I was trying to say. Because cultures can exist independent of the religion and it is in my opinion wrong to say culture and religion is the same
I used to ask my mother when I was young about the colour thing you said you'd think about when you sleep. I also used to think about life after death so much and are so scared of the feeling of nothingness, it is a weird tingly feeling which I thought that I can almost feel it
Great you are fulfilling needs of all religious groups & mashallah very educative for learners. You are just amazing giving your time, talent & Knowledge & at the same time earning blessings. Stay blessed always 🙏👏
The discussions about the development and discovery of writing as an influential force at 7:27 is interesting. Bernard Stiegler was an interesting contemporary thinker who devoted his academic life to considering the development of technics across time, more specifically, technics insofar as they are mnemonic. A central dimension to self-consciousness, human or non-human, is obviously the extent to which memory plays a part, allowing for the capability of reflection upon itself, conditioning the possibility of their being a sense of self that continues through time. I find it interesting to look through a sort of Hegelian lens in considering the genuine development and progression of mnemonic technics, the development of self-consciousness itself. I wonder what modern technological capabilities might hold for bursts of future development in religious and philosophical thought, in the same way that perhaps, if it played a central role, writing had back in 500 B.C.
No I don't agree on his answer .Sufism of Rumi is love and compassion but mainstream islam is totally bullying and harrasing people of other religions. Pure Sufism is very different from mainstream islam. there is spirit in pure Sufism it does not classifies human as not hindu muslim or kafir or hate speech against other religion which preached in Quran.so pure Sufism is like advait vedant of hinduism which is very liberal.
@@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259 it's up to you to agree or disagree my friend. But "pure sufism" "mainstream islam" "very liberal".... So many bold claims my friend... Have you ever watched his videos? maybe watch his "Ibn Taymiyyah" episode at least so we can have a more reasonable discussion... there's a bit more nuance...
@@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259 Sufism is expressed in varying ways and many of its aspects are shared across the majority of Islamic beliefs such as it’s tolerance which is more often found among those from the Al Shafi school of thought.
Please talk about the tragedy of Karbala. It happens in this month.. The 10th of Muharram, where prophet Muhammad and his progeny mourn for Imam Hussain
My first ones were when I was 10 as I did my investigation I was convinced that God exists for not best reasons but it helled me to get into the more sophisticated and more convincing Aristotelian and Thomistic arguement for God so I am now a Catholic and not so long ago I got very much into Neoplatonism and Johannes Scotus Eriguena. Thanks for the video, it was a good one.
I have always enjoyed learning about religions since I was young; Alhamdulillah I am a Muslim. Your channel i must say is becoming more interesting; you do give quite an objective outlook on most topics - and you give details on a lot of things I have heard or know just the basic about them. Just like to say one thing if I may, no offense intended and I am not trying to correct you or say I no more - not at all. Your knowledge Mashallah is awe-inspiring. In my humble opinion, culture and religion are intertwined but they are not the same; I would recommend you look into Dr Umar Abdallah Faruq's articles/lectures on this topic. He is an American convert who is a professor of history and also a scholar of Islam. Islam accepts cultural ways as long as they do not interfere with the true Monotheism or the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam. Its only the Wahabis who want a mono-culture - but there is no such thing in Islam. This thought of culture and religion being same in the west is what always makes westerners think all Arabic ways and Islamic ways - which is so wrong.
Sharif Gaber did a very good video about "The Truth about the Qu'ran" and did an in depth analysis into some of the language used that doesn't come from Arabic but rather from Aramaic. Good proof to me that the Qu'ran was originally a series of Christian writings brought into Arabia to escape persecution.
the theory of petri instead of meca is related to the alignment of the earliest of mosques as well as the description of the geography of the prophets homeland
The human eye is not capable to perceive the color "yellow", there are no cones on the retina that are for receiving yellow. Yellow is totally made up in the brain, perhaps like the process of colorization of black and white movies. Each color has its corresponding gray on the gray scale, so a computer assigns a color to the gray, and renders a new image that includes color. Ted Turner was infamous for buying MGM Studios, selling the studios, and keeping the film vault to colorize its vast black and white catalog. This caused the director John Huston to say as his dying words: "Don't let Turner near my movies with his crayons". An image on the television actually has two images superimposed, the black and white "luminescence" and the color "chrominance". A great advance in video technology was leaving behind "composite video" in which both the luminescence and the chrominance traveled together - and thereby created a degradation with copying - to "component video", in which the two signals travel separately... I see language as a religion, a system of beliefs. The beliefs such as "If I make this mouth noise, or write these specific symbols, other people of the same belief system will be able to more or less understand the reasons - my intentions, intention being the foundation of language - that I made those actions". I just realized that the reason that clerics were writers - from which the modern words such as clark and clerk are derived - that perhaps the first timid steps into written language were made by shamans, who passed their traditions orally, but wanted to make a more certain record of their teachings - perhaps as a means to insure that the teachings would continue in the event of the shaman's early death before the transfer of knowledge was complete...
Religion is a by product of an essential element to life. This element is not a product of the mind. One can be enslaved to religions concepts but the path to God is not a concept but a transcendent experience. This experience has been recorded by many religious works in words like "God is light". Look at the studies about the pineal gland.
Have you considered Charvaka, also called Lokayata (Sanskrit: “Worldly Ones”), a philosophical Indian school of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, karma, liberation (moksha), the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self?
Yo creo q la religión te da mas q el pertenecer a un grupo te enseña el bien y el mal y la sensación de que la vida continúa después de la muerte…. Bendiciones Filip de México 🇲🇽!
Maybe u are right about writing being the possible cause. U wud not believe i was having the exact same question in my mind. Why did so many Indian philosophies, Chinese philosophies and Greek ones appear at around the same time. Give or take a century. And your suggestion that it might have to do with writing makes for a very good reason.
Hej Filip, kan du göra en video om Iman Mahdi eller den förväntade i framtiden som kommer göra "peace"?. Typ varje religion har en sån räddare. Btw fortsätt med det du göra, dina videos är jätte grymma!
I am a Christian and can say that the Jewish/Christian/Islamic religions have some things in common. The Jewish religion was the forerunner of Christianity. Islamic religion was started by Abrahams firstborn son Ishmael. This is a very nutshell answer since it’s difficult to explain religions on a comment.
I think he was asking if there have been studies of groups of people who don't have a religion. What did they do, believe, pray to, exeperience, share without doing it for the glory of a deity. Which I think is a fasinating quesiton
"HInduism is a way of life." "Christianity is a relationship." "Buddhism is a philosophy." None of these are problems. What are problems is when these are posited as alternatives to them being religions, IE, "Hinduism isn't a religion, it's a way of life", "Christianity isn't a religion, it's a relationship", "Buddhism isn't a religion, it's a philosophy". These posit two things which aren't in conflict as being in opposition to one another, and are generally used (in the west, anyway) as empty calories in apologetics discussions. I usually just change the subject, because when I'm trying to have a civilized discussion (not an argument, mind you) with adults about their religious beliefs and they posit that they believe in god, believe in Christ (for example) but that they "do not believe in religion" because they think that "religion" is something that, for instance, is something only Catholics do, or even that what they do is a relationship with God and Christ and that "Christianity" is what you call it when it's "organized religion" despite the fact that they themselves attend a non-denominational Protestant church every Sunday, I don't want to have an argument about what WORDS MEAN instead of a discussion about what they believe. I'm one of those atheists who isn't a seeker but I'm interested in what other people believe and why, particularly if it's different than my own past. But I don't want to lecture why BELIEVING IN A GOD IS A RELGIOUS BELIEF just because I accidentally called their belief in God and Christ "Christianity". People get so hung up on words and not being called certain things. Landmines everywhere.
I suggest all of you to check out Sheikh Ahmed Deedat(The Lion of Comparative religion) and Dr Zakir Naik(The Tiger of Comparative Religion) Dr Zakir Naik was the student of Sheikh Ahmed Deedat.
@@briannelson3830 It's not that I haven't spoken to muslims nor that these sort of "Islam is a way of life, not a religion" landmines don't exist, it's just that those are not the sort of Muslims I have personally encountered, so I haven't had those experiences. Muslims willing to talk frankly and openly about their religion to Christians and ex-Christians in the west tend not to have those sorts of cultural blinders that their faith is something outside of what most people would call a religion. I think someone having those conversations in a predominantly Islamic country would be more familiar with these sorts of blind spots.
Honestly you just summed up the agnostic mindset. Most people would believe in their own belief system and hold that up like it’s the Gospel but turn a blind eye to the other side of the coin. Nothing more than word gymnastics and how others interpret those words. But those same people would pretend that gives them the right to judge others like they are some divine being.
@@Ziiphyr Oh, I'm definitely atheist. But I'm interested in religions and philosophies - not exclusively those I adhere to. All "atheist" means is that I am not "a" "theist", not that I can prove or convince anyone else not to be theistic. Only that such claims haven't met my criteria for convincing me, personally. I've also never felt compelled by the idea of "rebranding" it, such as "agnostic atheism", which posits a four square systemology, despite almost all theists being convinced that they are (in the terms of that foursquare systemology) "gnostic theists" and almost all atheists being "agnostic atheists" (including the so-called "firebrands" who may feel they have pretty strong proof that particular gods don't exist, but disproving, say, a deistic clockwork-creator god doesn't exist would be as difficult as it would be unimportant since very few people intrude on the political and social freedoms of others based on that sort of liberal deism). I also think that, for me, "atheist" is the more appropriate label than "agnostic", because "agnostic" has the general understanding of "being able to go either way if the evidence comes in and maybe I'm kind of seeking it and I'm kind of wishy-washy on where I am exactly", which wouldn't be honest, in my case. I could conceive of convincing evidence, but it would have to be testable, repeatable, and pretty irrefutable, and definitely not emotional, so by the time I got there, most other people would be "hey, what took you so long?" So, hardcore, friendly, humanist atheist who is interested in what you believe and why, but isn't here to convert you out of your religion unless you start asking me questions suggesting you want to be converted.
The revisionist thinking about Petra never caught my interest but the connection between Arabic and Syriac is very fascinating. The connection between Arabic and Syriac is noteworthy because: (1) Syriac is used as a liturgical language in certain Eastern Christian groups and is one of the few surviving dialects of Aramaic, a language supposedly spoken by Jesus (2) The Mus'haf (codex of the Quran) claims its Arabic language to be divine and the connection with other semetic languages provides a framework for inter-religious discourse. Gabriel Said Reynolds' work persistently highlights the Biblical context of the Mus'haf and it is undeniably the case that there are many Biblical references. Christian polemics throughout history have included a theme of dismissing Islam as a Christian heresy due to similarities Arianism and non-trinitiarian "heresies". Given all this, would be unfair to call Islam a non-trinitarian sect of Christianity even though modern orthodoxies would suggest otherwise? Maybe... I personally think that Islam sits as a bridge between Christianity and Judaism, reconciling aspects of the two under a banner of strict monotheism. The unique language of the Quran, which sits between Syriac and Hebrew, serves as an illustration of this by being a linguistic bridge between the scriptures of Christianity and Judaism.
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī once wrote: “Being led by the call to pleasure and going along with it is nothing but domination by desire and its obliteration of intellect. It behoves the intelligent man to scorn desire and consider it as beneath him, rather than acting like male goats or bulls, or other beasts which engage in no reflection or consideration about consequences. These philosophers put forward the very constitution of man to prove that he is not constituted for occupying himself with pleasures and lusts, seeing how deficient he is in this respect compared with the irrational animals but rather for the use of thought and reflection For a single beast experiences more pleasure in eating and having intercourse than a large number of men can possibly achieve; while, as for its capacity for lapsing in concern or thought and enjoying life simply and wholly, that is a state which no man can obtain or replicate. The very fact that man is so deficient in his share of these things, whereas he possesses such a share of reflection and thought, should teach us that it is better to use reason”
I notice you focus more on major religions. Would you ever do videos on folk religions of the past or current? Such as norse/ celtic/ greek mythology, native american/ african/ south east asian/ chinese etc folk religion.
May I ask, have you covered the Armenian Orthodox religion on your channel? I have watched a few resulting from searching your channel and key term Armenian but none of the resulting videos had any material of this.
Just some random info in Indonesia before there is top 5 religion brought by foreign society the people there have known their own believe in universe and nature's such as Kejawen / Jawi ( Javanese people ), Sunda Wiwitan ( West Javanese people ), Kaharingan ( Dayak's people in Borneo, Tirtha ( Balinese ) etc.
I would like to believe something spiritual, like you, but I just can't. There's 0 evidence for any of it, it feels like I would be fooling myself. I would like to believe that my loved ones are in a better place, or that there's something more to life, but I just can't. It simply doesn't make any sense, and the fact that there are soooo many religions on earth tells me that everyone just made something up that happened to suit their culture at the time. I did recently experience great sadness of loss, and I had the urge of making a little altar on a cupboard, where I would put the person's photo + some candles and some stuff that belonged to them/that they liked. I just felt like I needed to do *something* to honour that person. Is that spiritual or religious? Because I still feel like it's something I do for myself to make myself feel better. It doesn't help the one who died (how could it?). It's like a mental cure to my own desperation of not being able to help that person. And it makes me feel less guilty, because at least there's still a spot where they are not forgotten. Maybe I just learned too much, from biology to chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, classical physics and quantum physics. Free will, how the brain works, evolution theory, abiogenesis, I know a bit of everything, and being aware of all this knowledge leaves very little room, if any, for believing in divine stuff. And still I'm happy to have learned all this, and wouldn't have it any other way. But there are times I think it'd be easier if I were still able to believe in something supernatural.
Maybe you put too much criteria on what the "divine stuff" is supposed to be? Defining it in a way that it could never be proven, as something totally "other" than what is experienced through sense perception or scientific methods, rather than having the "spiritual" be a different way of looking at the very mundane things you contrast it with.
I thought like you until I ate mushrooms and I can tell you I have no idea what's going on when we're asleep let alone when we're dead because of the 6 hours I went through after. I was given the chance to "peak around the corner" all because I ate some fungi.
I like you read a lot and do follow science and accept scientific method and results based on this process. Nevertheless i am on a quest to find "god" or at least come to and understanding of it all. The universe is a big place and while we generally view life in three dimensions with the fourth being time, there are other dimensions beyond at least my understanding and just maybe there is something that i am at this point not capable of seeing or completetly conceptualizing. So i keep looking and learning and studying in the hopes that someday an answer will come. In my mind i would rather gamble that there is more beyond what we see now, than to presume to be certain that there is just nothing.
I think the problem is that you define God as the "God of the Gaps", the one who's only role is to fill the empty spaces left from the scientific explanation of how things work. So naturally as your knowledge of science grows, God seems more and more unnecessary to you. But this is solely because of your definition of God considering not all religious folks are uneducated people who know nothing about science. Sorry for your loss by the way, I hope that you find the peace soon in your own way.
It's an appealing hypothesis that the "axial age" is related to the spread and practice of writing as a means of teaching! Can it be further evidenced historically? It seems that science tries to give answers about how the physical world is and it works and relies primarily on evidences from its functioning. It seems religions at bottom try to give answers about people's metaphysical concerns and anxieties, and rely primarily on 'revelations'.
To me reincarnation makes more sense, build up of karma causes another incarnation. Karma and reincarnation role are best described in a plain language by Paul Twitchell in his book "Eckankar, the key to the secret worlds".
Concept of God in Hinduism books 📚 1) Rigveda 📖 book 2, hymn 1, verse 11 & Rigveda book 📖 3, hymn 30, verse 10 & Rigveda book 9, hymn 67, verse 30 👇🏻 " One of the name of God is ALLAH 2) rigveda book 1, hymn 164, verse 46 "The truth is one and the God is only one 📖" 3) Chandoya upanishad 📖 chapter 6, section 2, verse 1 "Akam avidityam,God is only one without second" 4) ridveda book 📖10, hymn 114, verse 4 "The God is only one but,God has many names 5) Rigveda book 📖8,hymn 1,verse 1 "God is only one and only worship of God " 6)Sevetasvatara upanishad 📖 chapter 6, verse 9 "God has no father and no mother and no son and no daughter and no wife and parents" 7)Sevatasatara upanishad 📖 chapter 4,verse 20 "No one seen the God" 8)sri bhagwat gita 📖 chapter 10,verse 3 "God is not born and God has no beginning and i am the God of all" 9) sevetasatara upanishad 📖chapter 4, verse 19 "naa tasya pratima asti " there is no image or idol (statue) of God and no shape of God 10) Yajur veda 📖 chapter 32,verse 3 "naa tasya pratima asti" there is no image or idol (statue) of God and no shape of God " 11) Yajur veda 📖 chapter 40, verse 8 "God is formless and pure and no one like the God and God is not like human " 12) Yajur veda 📖 chapter 40, verse 9 " those peoples do worship natural elements they all are going in the hell and those peoples worship idols (statue) and man made things they all are going in the darkness " 13) Sri bhagwat gita 📖 chapter 7,verse 20 " "Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures." [Bhagavad Gita 7:20] The Gita states that people who are materialistic worship demigods i.e. ‘gods’ besides the True God. 14) brahma sutras" ekam brahmm,dvitaya naste nen ne naste kinchan" There is only one God, not the second and not at all,not in least bit" 16) Allo upanishad"📖: amongst the various upanishads one of the upanishad is named as ‘allo’ upanishad in which god is referred to as “allah” several times.
Inherant spirituality is something I agree probably exists and most likely is unprovable. What is almost obsessive about us is noticing patterns and then assuming they have meaning. X,Y and Z happened around 500BCE, what does it mean? Yet there's always the null set that it doesn't mean a thing.
@@LetsTalkReligion true, it feels wrong to call it a religion due to its characteristics of not believing in God but if u look at part of Sam Haris work and other atheist who tries to invent something that tries to deal with the lack of spirituality in atheism, we will see how atheism is becoming some sort of a religion. There are many other things that makes it similar to religion. These days, you will find a lot of atheist (common people) who are atheist just because they want to be (my experience after few years of living in Europe) not because it is convening or because of a proof. They are like any ordinary human who follows a religion just because he was born in it and the west is somehow moving away from God (any God).
I think atheists are just egoistic people because they think that all the laws and universal truths are humans ideas came through evolutionary process. They just don’t like to give credit to God. Why people like sam Harris and Richard dawkins need marriage contracts to live with their spouses if marriage is proven to have come from God as it is approved by God in all the religious books and fornication is rejected by God. That’s why people of all religions have concept of marriage. Atheists should be less ironic.
@@sammyjoe431 a lot of western atheist values came from Christianity and Judaism. They either try to build an argument for objective morality or assume it is subjective. Laws are built on your morality. I can see why marriage is accepted by some atheist since it helps in organizing the scocity. In the same time there is no good motivation for males to marry (regardless of the are theist or not) in a scocity with materialistic way of life. I mean marriage comes with responsibility while you can have your fun by changing ur mate every once in a while.
Im so exhausted by the sophomoric attitude of otherwise intelligent people who take it on themselves to define a religion/all religion as something 100% negative then act as though they are making some interesting point by stating that negativity. If i said 'all people who wear red shirts are idiots', and acted like this was somehow profound, and then you showed me a smart person in a red shirt and i answered 'that's more of a mauve', you'd say i was insane. Yet with religion - 'all religions/this religion is horrible and oppressive' - 'what about this one thats not?' 'Oh that's not religion, that's spirituality/philosophy/a way of life-and im going to insist on this regardless of how actual believers conceive of themselves' is some how a very common and perfectly acceptable stance to take.'
I don’t agree with the idea that not all can considered as religions but as way of life and guidance in someway. I m muslim and u can feel always that everything is moving around or through god for believers, but I didn’t get this feeling when i visited china for example
Intersting..so when parmenides said that existence is One did he mean the spirit of univers or the transcendental god whos distinct from his creation/？
On the question of whether there's any significance to the appearance of religions and philosophy during the last millennia of the BCE era I suggest to you the book The Yugas by Joseph Selbie and David Steinmetz
0:43 - What do you think about alternative theories regarding the origin of Islam?
2:13 - How much do you think Christianity, Islam, and Judaism influenced each other?
4:48 - What was your earliest religious thought?
7:10 - Are you familiar with Integral Theory or Spiral Dynamics?
7:27 - Why do you think so many foundational religious texts appeared around 500 BC?
11:12 - What do you think is the “lowest common denominator” of all religions?
13:06 - Do you think religion is better than philosophy or science for determining the meaning of life?
15:06 - Do you think the phrase “Spirit of the Universe” provides a better way to talk about religions than the word “God”?
16:38 - Were Muslim converts to Christianity or Judaism common in the past? How were converts treated by the state and religious authorities?
20:08 - Is Hinduism too complex to be considered a single entity?
23:36 - How did Bulleh Shah become such a common subject in Sufi rock music?
24:57 - Are there any human societies, in history or in modern times, that function well without an active, organized religion? Could science or philosophy replace religion in this capacity?
28:49 - What do you think is the role of culture in religion?
31:34 - How do you separate the philosophy of religion from the practice of religion?
34:54 - What is your take on the connection between Abraham/Sarah and Brahma/Saraswati?
36:36 - How did Sufism evolve out of Islamic culture?
40:28 - Do you consider the five books of Moses to be a divinely inspired revision of older Mesopotamian myths?
Thank you for the timestamps
@@cat_pb Welcome!
Thanks
@@777joemac The Almighty God never promised everything to everyone in this life. Because this life is a test from God. This life is short. Afterlife is never ending life.So there will be sorrows and sufferings along with happiness. God test every one of us differently. To some He gives Happiness and to some gives sorrows. Atleast we should believe that there is Only God.who created this Universe and everything that exist.
God is One and there are no partners and associates in His powers. There are many Religions that claim they are Monotheistic but in reality they are not. But Islam defines Clearly what means Monotheism andThe purpose of life. So please study ISLAM
@@777joemac Sheik Zayed is a Human Being and Human Beinga Die. All the happiness you are getting is bcoz of Almighty God not Sheik Zayed.
Classic Filip, schlepping all his recording gear on vacation just for us. You legend 😘
I had never heard of the word 'schlepping' before but I've heard it twice now in the last few days.
@@chendaforest it's Yidish, means to carry or drag something heavy originally
@@AvrahamYairStern you say it in German too
Spent the entire video switching between:
-) looking at the swaying of the grass with the wind, and
-) looking at the swaying of the beard with the chin.
My first though when I saw you with a mike in a field was, “And now for something completely different.” 😀
Nudge nudge, wink wink
It'ssssss
Watch out for the killer sheep.
You have explained very nicely. The back environment was very good.
Hey. Filip. I wanted to take a few moments to praise you. Never ever have I seen a candid Q&A like this one which offers immediate, satisfying and proper answers. I love your wide knowledge about different cultures around the world. I'm especially smitten by your work in Indian philosophical traditions and Arab ones. Your videos in many cases are my prime resources when it comes to philosophies and history. Moreover, you are a musician practicing Middle Eastern Music, icing on cake. I absolutely love you my man ❤️❤️
broaden your scope of prime resource - there are plenty out there
@@adminomhfoz1908 sure. But to search abt something we need to be aware and interested of it. Filip does a good job in making things interesting enough to delve abt
About the culture and the religion topic, in my humble opinion, despite being heavily interacted I don't think that they are the same thing. I personally witness times in which some aspect of the religion and culture collide so eventually, one of them has to compromise to the other more dominant one which in most cases happens to be the culture as I see.
But I guess at the end, this comes to the problem of essentializing the religion (to which I pretty much always have a tendency to commit because of my religious identity:'))
@The Redemption nice try little buddy, but I won't let you.
My religion is a part of my individual identity, an important framework in my life, as the individuals are made of those frameworks that we choose to embrace.
And it seems that hàtred is a big part of yours... how sad😁
@The Redemption You must be a very educated and busy person...
@The Redemption bc u believe that we r here by hazad and some more amazing things i don't know about... maybe we don't even exist and u r life is not that of an online hater...
@The Redemption Exactly we r very stupid bc unlike u we dont like out of context statements and likes accuracy ! If u want to learn about something u start by the beginning, dont jump on the end of things ... Your ego will always be a barrier in ur head, watchout for ur mind is all i can say to you internet warrior.
I agree
Culture and religion are two different entities
I thought the background was a green screen at first 💀
Same
Maybe it's just a really good one 🤣
I'm loving the change of scenery! If that's something you're cool with and able to do, would you consider doing more videos like this? I think it adds a really nice layer to discussions about religion and philosophy. It feels like when a cool humanities professor decides to have class outdoors lol
I loved having outdoor classes in school and this has the same vibe
so true 😂😂😂 this reminded me of outdoor class
Religion is an Intellectual and Behavioral formula for the expression of Spirituality. If you choose to follow a mystical path you can add input from the Emotional and Intuitive planes as well.
Man your understanding makes things clear for me. Thank you
I really love watching your videos and enjoy so much q&a because of the deep answers you give.
Do you have any favourite books about religions?
29:20 Culture and religion is two separate entities we can seperate them
Because There are many people groups who are culturally same but practice different religions
I wonder, how can someone be culturally the same as me, if say, I am vehemently against eating pork and celebrating Christmas, but they are the complete opposite. What do you mean by culture anyway?
I love listening to smart people and you're one of those people. Enjoy your holidays, I envy you because the weather is really bad where I'm
Let's talk religion before
100K (hardly 2 months ago)
Let's talk religion now about 200K
you’re one of my favorite content creators, been watching for about a year now.
Are there any plans in the future for a video about Alevism?
Cheers
_I freaking love this channel!!!_
Thank you for fixing your hair. I was having a hard time even hearing what you were saying because it was flying around so noisily.
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LOL
You are an international treasure.
Blessings from Flaming California.
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BTW, "Spiral Dynamics" is not _really_ representative of Integral Theory. Integral _includes_ SD as part of its library of theories, but really *"The 4 Quadrants"* is more primary Integral Theory.
SD became popular among Integralists who like to classify people - which is now more problematic than ever. It's better to consider a wider spectrum of Developmental Theory such as the work of Robert Kegan and Susanne Cook-Greuter. Piaget is a pioneer in that field, but others have taken it much farther by now.
One Theorist who has studied how Development effects Spiritual/Religious life is James Fowler.
Blessings and good luck!
Congratulations on 200K Subscribers!
Here's nifty thing he should do in the future...he should bring scholars, Imams, Priests, Monks, Hakhaim, Pastors etc in his channel
Idk. I kind of like his (somewhat) impartial point of view
"When too much brain is used to work something out that it reaches its wall of fate, then it is time to use instinct, as there is only one power that control it, the one who created all beings"
-Humble servant of The Only Mighty Stand Alone Creator-
Try to invite Prof. Omar Suleiman
@@Facerip Me too but sometimes there's people who are members of a certain community that can still be impartial but since they have the knowledge they can explain things he probably missed.
@@abuhado-verbigraciaramirez8682 You'd think so, but he might know more. One thing that can be seen while traveling as a religious researcher is... especially with older traditions... the members don't seem to know much. So I am grateful for researchers like this guy
thank you for your videos and your channel! these videos are life changing and gives me a spirit of understanding. i grew up half my adult life a muslim but was born into a christian family. i loved learning more about the religion i am a part of! sufism is amazing as well! please keep your videos coming subbed and liked!
This guy is an angel
That’s the most idyllic setting ever ✨
That's how all of the country of Sweden is aranged ;)
The study of lived religion is the province of the anthropologist and sociologist. Philosophy of religion requires all the multitude of tools developed in any area of thought.
What is your point?
The 500 B.C. question reminds me of The Axial Age; I'd love for you to make a video on this, my favorite time in history.
Had you not mentioned the hair we never would have noticed! Great Q&A and enjoy your vacation.
I would quite like to ask a question about the religious aspects you can identify in Liberalism - I am not very fond of the interpretation that the West today is predominantly irreligious, atheistic yes, but not irreligious. If religion is a way of life like you mentioned earlier with metaphysical claims, claims to meaning, collective rituals then modern Western society does have all of these things, they are simply much more nuanced and informal than in more explicit religious settings e.g. liberalisms metaphysical claims can be seen to have partly originated from "prophets" like Kant and Locke viewing individuals as an end unto themselves etc and other sources such as post-black death Western-European Christian social structures etc, we have common rituals like public debates, voting and protesting and quasi-religious symbols like the American flag or the Pride Flag, much of the political turmoil we see today could potentially to construed as a religious schism between different schools of liberalism, Wokeness and Right-wing populism are both essentially liberal but emphasise different aspects of the common liberal world framework. But the vigour with which people today are excited to fight their side of these political debates can in many aspects be seen as a kind of religious fervour. Any thoughts?
Hmmm I like your train of thought here. But there is a large influence here from protestantism, the effects of religious self-determination becoming just self-determination echoes from the wave of protestant scholars in germany 600 years ago. It's not just the thought train of liberalism it was also a religious element to it. And that kindof can still be seen in the ways protestants have expressed themselves in say, america versus the scandinavia. Very similar but the differences tell you how the culture of competativeness through calvinism that broke out large in the US. Was very different from a state level church like each of the scandinavian lutheran churches.
(Edit: should clarify my comment was to the part of prophets of liberalism influencing this.)
I recall a couple of my own early philosophical thoughts. I was around age 6, I think, when I discovered the concept of infinity on a cereal box! You know how they would picture a bowl of the cereal with the box of cereal on a table (or something like that). Well, there was a picture of the cereal box on the cereal box. So we ended up with a smaller picture of the cereal box on the picture of the cereal box on the cereal box, and on and on, smaller and smaller. I think I actually turned the box to the back to see if the images came out on the other side!
Then there was the idea of infinite regress of origins. I was looking at the oak tree in our back yard and realized that there were acorns on that tree that could grow into new oak trees. Then I realized that oak tree had grown from a earlier acorn that came from some other oak tree. Then I began to wonder "where did the first oak tree come from?" And then I started wondering "where did the first come from?" for everything!
Me at the age of 8 years: want to become a fighter jet pilot
Philip at 8: thinking about philosophy
Me as an adult: studied engineering
Philip as an adult: keeps thinking about philosophy
That's constance! That's persistence!
Strangely, I only started thinking about the meaning life, philosophy, religion and God when I was 20 years old. I guess we all ask the same questions at different times.
@@Oatmeal_Mann it's just how we are as a developed creation. We conciously or subconsciously think of it, whether we really have a purpose on this plane or where do we go, it's just instilled in us. Human nature
@@Oatmeal_Mann ,
@@Oatmeal_Mann I started to think about it when I was 14-15 and still am, I think it happens when we become more self aware, at least in my case (not saying that at the age of 14 I was the most self aware lol), and when we try to make sense of things around us that maybe we never really noticed nor cared about, or maybe it's when we learn about arguments that are different from ours so we try to compare them and understand that maybe what we were taught was not the "truth". I guess I don't know I am just speaking from experience
Phillip had both Achievement
Just a side note about color. Technically, color is a range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, so blue is still blue no matter what u may see it as. The boundaries of those ranges aren’t that strictly defined but are defined enough to say color is not subjective.
i might be misunderstanding but isn't the debate about how the receptors in the eye might receive the same frequency differently?
It is about the fact that we can never answer the question how you experience blue. This simple question alone destroys naturalism
I love listening to you. Thank you!
On the 500 BC question, I think that even more than writing (which was already there before), the transition from the Bronze Age to Iron Age may have had a greater impact. The Iron Age made weaponry and tools cheaper for the masses, which led to less hierarchical societies than in centuries past. This could have led to more free discourse on the questions of life.
I truly appreciate your anthropological approach🙏...so important to give meaning and depth to our lives in this time/all times.
By virtue that we were actually born into this world (insert infinite scientific probability of you entering this world and not another sperm/egg combination here)
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We ARE the "lucky sperm" of our times...take time out to greet your fellow lucky sperm
Always great to hear your thoughts and ideas
Funny story, I too had the question of the colors .... But it wasn't as early as when you had it 😅 ..I think I was 26???
I guess that indicates your analytical maturity
Basically everyone needs something to believe in. Something that gives hope That there is something bigger than us
i would disagree.
i know enough people that dont belive in anything supernatural, and they all seem to be doing as good, if not even better than most religious people i know.
i think people are afraid of admiting to themself the non-existance of the supernatural, so they build themself a "religious" worldview, to witch they grasp so strongly they start genuenly beliving.
but thats just my oppinion.
@@jkr9594 Well, but sometimes they do believe in something, such as moral principles and the need to solve human problems and promote the good of mankind... people believe such things without supernatural beliefs, or sometimes alongside supernatural beliefs.
A very infantile view of humanity
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28:50 you mentioned that you see culture and religion as the same thing but I would disagree with that. There are things at least I can talk with Islam and the Islamic world, that people practice certain things and say that’s part of Islam but it’s not part of the religion itself but it’s part of the culture. there are even some things within that culture that’s totally opposite to the teachings of the religion but a lot of people might even not know that. so because it’s totally integrated it doesn’t mean it’s part of the religion itself. while the same religion might be practice differently in different parts of the world that aspect is more from culture than the religion itself. for me religion is more on what the teaching of Scripture is and not the later development or additives of the culture and people. it doesn’t mean that the religion can’t embrace aspects of the culture it certainly does but it’s not the same thing as the religion of self and I hope that makes sense.
I really love your content and I really learned a lot and enjoy your academic perspective to those issues
Like the ottoman Harem
I don't agree with that either
Religion and culture are seperate things and should be seperate
Culture of middle East(where Islam Christianity etc started) has influence in other parts of the world. But still they have their (regional) culture engrained in their religion.
Only religion (in my opinion )where culture and religion are same maybe yazidis and some tribal religion.
Becose outsiders cannot convert to their religion and the religion is strictly practiced within their tribe.
@@Thejas_Gatty I see your point and there are certain aspects within the religion that have cultural influences. For example, the Quran gives a lot of examples that speak to the culture (use of camels, the dessert, poetry, and sayings, etc) and practices of the people at that time, specifically the Arabs. but if we don't separate or make the distinction clear between culture and religion some malpractice in culture is assigned to the religion itself. For example, women issues in some so-called Muslim countries have laws and practices that don't align with Islam but people perceive it as Islam. if that would be the case other Muslims would do it as well but they don't. While women in Saudi Arabia are just recently allowed to drive a car women in Malaysia were in rankings of high judges. Or another example is in South Asia where the family has to give a huge amount of money to the groom's side so they take their daughter. I mean I could go on with things Muslims do that have nothing to do with the religion but because they are uneducated about their religion as well they perceive it as a religious practice as well.
@@Betulz7some cultures may exist independent of religion.
@@Thejas_Gatty that’s what I was trying to say. Because cultures can exist independent of the religion and it is in my opinion wrong to say culture and religion is the same
I used to ask my mother when I was young about the colour thing you said you'd think about when you sleep. I also used to think about life after death so much and are so scared of the feeling of nothingness, it is a weird tingly feeling which I thought that I can almost feel it
Great you are fulfilling needs of all religious groups & mashallah very educative for learners. You are just amazing giving your time, talent & Knowledge & at the same time earning blessings. Stay blessed always 🙏👏
The discussions about the development and discovery of writing as an influential force at 7:27 is interesting. Bernard Stiegler was an interesting contemporary thinker who devoted his academic life to considering the development of technics across time, more specifically, technics insofar as they are mnemonic. A central dimension to self-consciousness, human or non-human, is obviously the extent to which memory plays a part, allowing for the capability of reflection upon itself, conditioning the possibility of their being a sense of self that continues through time. I find it interesting to look through a sort of Hegelian lens in considering the genuine development and progression of mnemonic technics, the development of self-consciousness itself. I wonder what modern technological capabilities might hold for bursts of future development in religious and philosophical thought, in the same way that perhaps, if it played a central role, writing had back in 500 B.C.
The Hejaz used to get more rainfall, Petra wasn't Mecca.
I loved your answer regarding "Islam vs Sufism"
No I don't agree on his answer .Sufism of Rumi is love and compassion but mainstream islam is totally bullying and harrasing people of other religions. Pure Sufism is very different from mainstream islam. there is spirit in pure Sufism it does not classifies human as not hindu muslim or kafir or hate speech against other religion which preached in Quran.so pure Sufism is like advait vedant of hinduism which is very liberal.
@@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259 it's up to you to agree or disagree my friend. But "pure sufism" "mainstream islam" "very liberal".... So many bold claims my friend... Have you ever watched his videos? maybe watch his "Ibn Taymiyyah" episode at least so we can have a more reasonable discussion... there's a bit more nuance...
@@chitranjankumarkushwaha4259 Sufism is expressed in varying ways and many of its aspects are shared across the majority of Islamic beliefs such as it’s tolerance which is more often found among those from the Al Shafi school of thought.
Please talk about the tragedy of Karbala. It happens in this month.. The 10th of Muharram, where prophet Muhammad and his progeny mourn for Imam Hussain
My first ones were when I was 10 as I did my investigation I was convinced that God exists for not best reasons but it helled me to get into the more sophisticated and more convincing Aristotelian and Thomistic arguement for God so I am now a Catholic and not so long ago I got very much into Neoplatonism and Johannes Scotus Eriguena. Thanks for the video, it was a good one.
You will really like Ken Wilber's Intergral Theory, and Spiral Dynamics. It's a paradigm shift.
I have always enjoyed learning about religions since I was young; Alhamdulillah I am a Muslim. Your channel i must say is becoming more interesting; you do give quite an objective outlook on most topics - and you give details on a lot of things I have heard or know just the basic about them. Just like to say one thing if I may, no offense intended and I am not trying to correct you or say I no more - not at all. Your knowledge Mashallah is awe-inspiring. In my humble opinion, culture and religion are intertwined but they are not the same; I would recommend you look into Dr Umar Abdallah Faruq's articles/lectures on this topic. He is an American convert who is a professor of history and also a scholar of Islam. Islam accepts cultural ways as long as they do not interfere with the true Monotheism or the fundamental beliefs and practices of Islam. Its only the Wahabis who want a mono-culture - but there is no such thing in Islam. This thought of culture and religion being same in the west is what always makes westerners think all Arabic ways and Islamic ways - which is so wrong.
Religion is organised efforts which is used as a tool. The best way to understand to God is "Nature"
You mean Animism or Shinto⛩️
Sharif Gaber did a very good video about "The Truth about the Qu'ran" and did an in depth analysis into some of the language used that doesn't come from Arabic but rather from Aramaic. Good proof to me that the Qu'ran was originally a series of Christian writings brought into Arabia to escape persecution.
@@amba74 my name is not Shlomo though I do love that name
the theory of petri instead of meca is related to the alignment of the earliest of mosques as well as the description of the geography of the prophets homeland
The human eye is not capable to perceive the color "yellow", there are no cones on the retina that are for receiving yellow. Yellow is totally made up in the brain, perhaps like the process of colorization of black and white movies. Each color has its corresponding gray on the gray scale, so a computer assigns a color to the gray, and renders a new image that includes color. Ted Turner was infamous for buying MGM Studios, selling the studios, and keeping the film vault to colorize its vast black and white catalog. This caused the director John Huston to say as his dying words: "Don't let Turner near my movies with his crayons". An image on the television actually has two images superimposed, the black and white "luminescence" and the color "chrominance". A great advance in video technology was leaving behind "composite video" in which both the luminescence and the chrominance traveled together - and thereby created a degradation with copying - to "component video", in which the two signals travel separately...
I see language as a religion, a system of beliefs. The beliefs such as "If I make this mouth noise, or write these specific symbols, other people of the same belief system will be able to more or less understand the reasons - my intentions, intention being the foundation of language - that I made those actions". I just realized that the reason that clerics were writers - from which the modern words such as clark and clerk are derived - that perhaps the first timid steps into written language were made by shamans, who passed their traditions orally, but wanted to make a more certain record of their teachings - perhaps as a means to insure that the teachings would continue in the event of the shaman's early death before the transfer of knowledge was complete...
now i just asume all pikachus, are just dittos in disguise haha 😄
Religion is a by product of an essential element to life. This element is not a product of the mind. One can be enslaved to religions concepts but the path to God is not a concept but a transcendent experience. This experience has been recorded by many religious works in words like "God is light". Look at the studies about the pineal gland.
Ohh wind with mother nature so Beautiful and amazing.
Humble gentle & kindness is the best religion ❤
aaah, I remember having this color paradox ...
Ah yes, a fellow Beatles fan! Who's your favourite Beatle? :) Someone ask him in the next Q&A lol
Have you considered Charvaka, also called Lokayata (Sanskrit: “Worldly Ones”), a philosophical Indian school of materialists who rejected the notion of an afterworld, karma, liberation (moksha), the authority of the sacred scriptures, the Vedas, and the immortality of the self?
What aint they reject then?
Sounds like the Epicureans then
Sounds like some lazy dudes who are too lazy to do devotion or meditation
Yo creo q la religión te da mas q el pertenecer a un grupo te enseña el bien y el mal y la sensación de que la vida continúa después de la muerte…. Bendiciones Filip de México 🇲🇽!
Question: Where did you plug your mic in this empty field to give us this lesson?
I imagine him setting opposite a cabinet or a little hut with wires coming out of every window
Have you studied ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) spirituality, which is the predecessor of the world religions?
Thank you. I share something in common with you. My degree is in philo...
Maybe u are right about writing being the possible cause. U wud not believe i was having the exact same question in my mind. Why did so many Indian philosophies, Chinese philosophies and Greek ones appear at around the same time. Give or take a century. And your suggestion that it might have to do with writing makes for a very good reason.
Vedas existed before, so was Upanishads.
Hej Filip, kan du göra en video om Iman Mahdi eller den förväntade i framtiden som kommer göra "peace"?. Typ varje religion har en sån räddare.
Btw fortsätt med det du göra, dina videos är jätte grymma!
i learn a lot from ur chanel, thanks man
I am a Christian and can say that the Jewish/Christian/Islamic religions have some things in common. The Jewish religion was the forerunner of Christianity. Islamic religion was started by Abrahams firstborn son Ishmael. This is a very nutshell answer since it’s difficult to explain religions on a comment.
I think he was asking if there have been studies of groups of people who don't have a religion. What did they do, believe, pray to, exeperience, share without doing it for the glory of a deity. Which I think is a fasinating quesiton
Oh, you're in a field
He's clearly, both figuratively and literally, outstanding in his field.
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"HInduism is a way of life." "Christianity is a relationship." "Buddhism is a philosophy." None of these are problems. What are problems is when these are posited as alternatives to them being religions, IE, "Hinduism isn't a religion, it's a way of life", "Christianity isn't a religion, it's a relationship", "Buddhism isn't a religion, it's a philosophy". These posit two things which aren't in conflict as being in opposition to one another, and are generally used (in the west, anyway) as empty calories in apologetics discussions. I usually just change the subject, because when I'm trying to have a civilized discussion (not an argument, mind you) with adults about their religious beliefs and they posit that they believe in god, believe in Christ (for example) but that they "do not believe in religion" because they think that "religion" is something that, for instance, is something only Catholics do, or even that what they do is a relationship with God and Christ and that "Christianity" is what you call it when it's "organized religion" despite the fact that they themselves attend a non-denominational Protestant church every Sunday, I don't want to have an argument about what WORDS MEAN instead of a discussion about what they believe. I'm one of those atheists who isn't a seeker but I'm interested in what other people believe and why, particularly if it's different than my own past. But I don't want to lecture why BELIEVING IN A GOD IS A RELGIOUS BELIEF just because I accidentally called their belief in God and Christ "Christianity". People get so hung up on words and not being called certain things. Landmines everywhere.
Islam?
I suggest all of you to check out Sheikh Ahmed Deedat(The Lion of Comparative religion) and Dr Zakir Naik(The Tiger of Comparative Religion) Dr Zakir Naik was the student of Sheikh Ahmed Deedat.
@@briannelson3830 It's not that I haven't spoken to muslims nor that these sort of "Islam is a way of life, not a religion" landmines don't exist, it's just that those are not the sort of Muslims I have personally encountered, so I haven't had those experiences. Muslims willing to talk frankly and openly about their religion to Christians and ex-Christians in the west tend not to have those sorts of cultural blinders that their faith is something outside of what most people would call a religion. I think someone having those conversations in a predominantly Islamic country would be more familiar with these sorts of blind spots.
Honestly you just summed up the agnostic mindset. Most people would believe in their own belief system and hold that up like it’s the Gospel but turn a blind eye to the other side of the coin. Nothing more than word gymnastics and how others interpret those words. But those same people would pretend that gives them the right to judge others like they are some divine being.
@@Ziiphyr Oh, I'm definitely atheist. But I'm interested in religions and philosophies - not exclusively those I adhere to. All "atheist" means is that I am not "a" "theist", not that I can prove or convince anyone else not to be theistic. Only that such claims haven't met my criteria for convincing me, personally. I've also never felt compelled by the idea of "rebranding" it, such as "agnostic atheism", which posits a four square systemology, despite almost all theists being convinced that they are (in the terms of that foursquare systemology) "gnostic theists" and almost all atheists being "agnostic atheists" (including the so-called "firebrands" who may feel they have pretty strong proof that particular gods don't exist, but disproving, say, a deistic clockwork-creator god doesn't exist would be as difficult as it would be unimportant since very few people intrude on the political and social freedoms of others based on that sort of liberal deism). I also think that, for me, "atheist" is the more appropriate label than "agnostic", because "agnostic" has the general understanding of "being able to go either way if the evidence comes in and maybe I'm kind of seeking it and I'm kind of wishy-washy on where I am exactly", which wouldn't be honest, in my case. I could conceive of convincing evidence, but it would have to be testable, repeatable, and pretty irrefutable, and definitely not emotional, so by the time I got there, most other people would be "hey, what took you so long?" So, hardcore, friendly, humanist atheist who is interested in what you believe and why, but isn't here to convert you out of your religion unless you start asking me questions suggesting you want to be converted.
You should really interview Theologian David Bentley Hart!
The revisionist thinking about Petra never caught my interest but the connection between Arabic and Syriac is very fascinating. The connection between Arabic and Syriac is noteworthy because: (1) Syriac is used as a liturgical language in certain Eastern Christian groups and is one of the few surviving dialects of Aramaic, a language supposedly spoken by Jesus (2) The Mus'haf (codex of the Quran) claims its Arabic language to be divine and the connection with other semetic languages provides a framework for inter-religious discourse. Gabriel Said Reynolds' work persistently highlights the Biblical context of the Mus'haf and it is undeniably the case that there are many Biblical references. Christian polemics throughout history have included a theme of dismissing Islam as a Christian heresy due to similarities Arianism and non-trinitiarian "heresies". Given all this, would be unfair to call Islam a non-trinitarian sect of Christianity even though modern orthodoxies would suggest otherwise? Maybe... I personally think that Islam sits as a bridge between Christianity and Judaism, reconciling aspects of the two under a banner of strict monotheism. The unique language of the Quran, which sits between Syriac and Hebrew, serves as an illustration of this by being a linguistic bridge between the scriptures of Christianity and Judaism.
Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī once wrote:
“Being led by the call to pleasure and going along with it is nothing but domination by desire and its obliteration of intellect. It behoves the intelligent man to scorn desire and consider it as beneath him, rather than acting like male goats or bulls, or other beasts which engage in no reflection or consideration about consequences. These philosophers put forward the very constitution of man to prove that he is not constituted for occupying himself with pleasures and lusts, seeing how deficient he is in this respect compared with the irrational animals but rather for the use of thought and reflection For a single beast experiences more pleasure in eating and having intercourse than a large number of men can possibly achieve; while, as for its capacity for lapsing in concern or thought and enjoying life simply and wholly, that is a state which no man can obtain or replicate. The very fact that man is so deficient in his share of these things, whereas he possesses such a share of reflection and thought, should teach us that it is better to use reason”
@The Redemption better than believing cow is your mother and a monkey is your god
Thank you for your profound input
I notice you focus more on major religions. Would you ever do videos on folk religions of the past or current? Such as norse/ celtic/ greek mythology, native american/ african/ south east asian/ chinese etc folk religion.
May I ask, have you covered the Armenian Orthodox religion on your channel? I have watched a few resulting from searching your channel and key term Armenian but none of the resulting videos had any material of this.
Just some random info in Indonesia before there is top 5 religion brought by foreign society the people there have known their own believe in universe and nature's such as Kejawen / Jawi ( Javanese people ), Sunda Wiwitan ( West Javanese people ), Kaharingan ( Dayak's people in Borneo, Tirtha ( Balinese ) etc.
The common denominator between religions could be Devine revelation and those who seek. Social grouping might be a post effect.
Could you talk about how Christianity became the official religion with Costantino and Teodosio and how they came to choose the 4 Gospels?
this reminded me of an outdoor class in school 😂
I ordered Arby's Beef and Cheddar. You look hungry. I hope you like it.❤
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I would like to believe something spiritual, like you, but I just can't. There's 0 evidence for any of it, it feels like I would be fooling myself. I would like to believe that my loved ones are in a better place, or that there's something more to life, but I just can't. It simply doesn't make any sense, and the fact that there are soooo many religions on earth tells me that everyone just made something up that happened to suit their culture at the time.
I did recently experience great sadness of loss, and I had the urge of making a little altar on a cupboard, where I would put the person's photo + some candles and some stuff that belonged to them/that they liked. I just felt like I needed to do *something* to honour that person. Is that spiritual or religious? Because I still feel like it's something I do for myself to make myself feel better. It doesn't help the one who died (how could it?). It's like a mental cure to my own desperation of not being able to help that person. And it makes me feel less guilty, because at least there's still a spot where they are not forgotten.
Maybe I just learned too much, from biology to chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, classical physics and quantum physics. Free will, how the brain works, evolution theory, abiogenesis, I know a bit of everything, and being aware of all this knowledge leaves very little room, if any, for believing in divine stuff. And still I'm happy to have learned all this, and wouldn't have it any other way. But there are times I think it'd be easier if I were still able to believe in something supernatural.
Maybe you put too much criteria on what the "divine stuff" is supposed to be? Defining it in a way that it could never be proven, as something totally "other" than what is experienced through sense perception or scientific methods, rather than having the "spiritual" be a different way of looking at the very mundane things you contrast it with.
I thought like you until I ate mushrooms and I can tell you I have no idea what's going on when we're asleep let alone when we're dead because of the 6 hours I went through after.
I was given the chance to "peak around the corner" all because I ate some fungi.
I like you read a lot and do follow science and accept scientific method and results based on this process. Nevertheless i am on a quest to find "god" or at least come to and understanding of it all. The universe is a big place and while we generally view life in three dimensions with the fourth being time, there are other dimensions beyond at least my understanding and just maybe there is something that i am at this point not capable of seeing or completetly conceptualizing. So i keep looking and learning and studying in the hopes that someday an answer will come. In my mind i would rather gamble that there is more beyond what we see now, than to presume to be certain that there is just nothing.
I think the problem is that you define God as the "God of the Gaps", the one who's only role is to fill the empty spaces left from the scientific explanation of how things work. So naturally as your knowledge of science grows, God seems more and more unnecessary to you. But this is solely because of your definition of God considering not all religious folks are uneducated people who know nothing about science.
Sorry for your loss by the way, I hope that you find the peace soon in your own way.
@@Sheezytaughtme What did you see around that corner?
I like the beard style. You look very wise. :D
It's an appealing hypothesis that the "axial age" is related to the spread and practice of writing as a means of teaching! Can it be further evidenced historically?
It seems that science tries to give answers about how the physical world is and it works and relies primarily on evidences from its functioning. It seems religions at bottom try to give answers about people's metaphysical concerns and anxieties, and rely primarily on 'revelations'.
To me reincarnation makes more sense, build up of karma causes another incarnation. Karma and reincarnation role are best described in a plain language by Paul Twitchell in his book "Eckankar, the key to the secret worlds".
Awesome explanation
I would be very interested in mesopotamia religion video.
Concept of God in Hinduism books 📚
1) Rigveda 📖 book 2, hymn 1, verse 11 & Rigveda book 📖 3, hymn 30, verse 10 & Rigveda book 9, hymn 67, verse 30
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" One of the name of God is ALLAH
2) rigveda book 1, hymn 164, verse 46
"The truth is one and the God is only one 📖"
3) Chandoya upanishad 📖 chapter 6, section 2, verse 1
"Akam avidityam,God is only one without second"
4) ridveda book 📖10, hymn 114, verse 4
"The God is only one but,God has many names
5) Rigveda book 📖8,hymn 1,verse 1
"God is only one and only worship of God "
6)Sevetasvatara upanishad 📖 chapter 6, verse 9
"God has no father and no mother and no son and no daughter and no wife and parents"
7)Sevatasatara upanishad 📖 chapter 4,verse 20
"No one seen the God"
8)sri bhagwat gita 📖 chapter 10,verse 3
"God is not born and God has no beginning and i am the God of all"
9) sevetasatara upanishad 📖chapter 4, verse 19 "naa tasya pratima asti " there is no image or idol (statue) of God and no shape of God
10) Yajur veda 📖 chapter 32,verse 3 "naa tasya pratima asti" there is no image or idol (statue) of God and no shape of God "
11) Yajur veda 📖 chapter 40, verse 8 "God is formless and pure and no one like the God and God is not like human "
12) Yajur veda 📖 chapter 40, verse 9 " those peoples do worship natural elements they all are going in the hell and those peoples worship idols (statue) and man made things they all are going in the darkness "
13) Sri bhagwat gita 📖 chapter 7,verse 20 "
"Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures."
[Bhagavad Gita 7:20]
The Gita states that people who are materialistic worship demigods i.e. ‘gods’ besides the True God.
14) brahma sutras" ekam brahmm,dvitaya naste nen ne naste kinchan" There is only one God, not the second and not at all,not in least bit"
16) Allo upanishad"📖:
amongst the various upanishads one of the upanishad is named as ‘allo’ upanishad in which god is referred to as “allah” several times.
Inherant spirituality is something I agree probably exists and most likely is unprovable.
What is almost obsessive about us is noticing patterns and then assuming they have meaning. X,Y and Z happened around 500BCE, what does it mean? Yet there's always the null set that it doesn't mean a thing.
nice to hear from you
I don't know if you already studied his works, but if you have some time, check Muhammed Iqbal's books.
Keep up!
So, according to ur definition of religion, is atheism a religion? if so are you going to make a video about it?
@@LetsTalkReligion true, it feels wrong to call it a religion due to its characteristics of not believing in God but if u look at part of Sam Haris work and other atheist who tries to invent something that tries to deal with the lack of spirituality in atheism, we will see how atheism is becoming some sort of a religion.
There are many other things that makes it similar to religion. These days, you will find a lot of atheist (common people) who are atheist just because they want to be (my experience after few years of living in Europe) not because it is convening or because of a proof. They are like any ordinary human who follows a religion just because he was born in it and the west is somehow moving away from God (any God).
@@iyadal-najjar3512 "Believing in Belonging" all over again :)
I think atheists are just egoistic people because they think that all the laws and universal truths are humans ideas came through evolutionary process. They just don’t like to give credit to God. Why people like sam Harris and Richard dawkins need marriage contracts to live with their spouses if marriage is proven to have come from God as it is approved by God in all the religious books and fornication is rejected by God. That’s why people of all religions have concept of marriage. Atheists should be less ironic.
@@sammyjoe431 a lot of western atheist values came from Christianity and Judaism. They either try to build an argument for objective morality or assume it is subjective. Laws are built on your morality. I can see why marriage is accepted by some atheist since it helps in organizing the scocity.
In the same time there is no good motivation for males to marry (regardless of the are theist or not) in a scocity with materialistic way of life. I mean marriage comes with responsibility while you can have your fun by changing ur mate every once in a while.
Hey man watching from Armenia
Barev
Can you talk about sikhism please
Your wish came true
You should do it like this more often
Please make a video to talk about Budhism . Thank you for the great content
you are in my view a great scholar. What does the word spiritual mean to you? I don't need an answer. This ones for you
Fantastic video
I like how you pronounce 'a lot' is like 'a lat'. This isn't meant to offend. It's melodic 😁
Im so exhausted by the sophomoric attitude of otherwise intelligent people who take it on themselves to define a religion/all religion as something 100% negative then act as though they are making some interesting point by stating that negativity.
If i said 'all people who wear red shirts are idiots', and acted like this was somehow profound, and then you showed me a smart person in a red shirt and i answered 'that's more of a mauve', you'd say i was insane.
Yet with religion - 'all religions/this religion is horrible and oppressive' - 'what about this one thats not?'
'Oh that's not religion, that's spirituality/philosophy/a way of life-and im going to insist on this regardless of how actual believers conceive of themselves' is some how a very common and perfectly acceptable stance to take.'
I don’t agree with the idea that not all can considered as religions but as way of life and guidance in someway. I m muslim and u can feel always that everything is moving around or through god for believers, but I didn’t get this feeling when i visited china for example
Intersting..so when parmenides said that existence is One did he mean the spirit of univers or the transcendental god whos distinct from his creation/？
On the question of whether there's any significance to the appearance of religions and philosophy during the last millennia of the BCE era I suggest to you the book The Yugas by Joseph Selbie and David Steinmetz