Episode 10: Christianity – The Container for Western Values

The target audience for this video is the hundreds of millions of people who don’t quite believe the whole Bible, but still propogate Christianity because of its value as a set of moral guidelines. All creative assets used under fair use. Music Credits: Opening and Closing: Bitter Sweet Symphony, by The Verve Yoga Nidra, by Meditation Spa Meditation, by Relaxing Piano Music Consort One, by Metallica, played by a tribute band Meditation Spa Canon, by Meditation Spa Richard Dawkins video at the end: www.youtube.com Transcript: ———————————- Many Americans use Christianity as a way to teach very positive modern values to their children. In this video i will address the following question. Is religion good or harmful when used in this way? [The majority of the story in this video took place in the late 1990's and I have no remaining legal obligations based upon these events.] In his recent book Beyond Religion the Dalai Lama proposed that religion based ethics are no longer sufficient for our modern world because we are too diverse too connected and our weapons too powerful for us to go on living by “revealed” moral codes that conflict with one another. He proposed that we develop a common set of secular ethics that everyone can agree upon. In the beginning of the book he said that if internal values are like water then religion is like tea. And while no-one needs any specific type of tea, we all need water. His opinion is that religion, like tea, bears …
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