#Caller Claims It's IMPOSSIBLE to Have #Civilization or #Morality Without #Religion | Matt & Seth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dH517ulVGw

Caller Jimmy presents the common argument that civilization requires religion for #moralauthority and #lawenforcement. Hosts #MattDillahunty and #SethAndrews break down this assumption, demonstrating how #societies can establish rules and consequences based on #mutualbenefit and #harmreduction.

"I think it is a very, very human impulse, to think that because you went through some horrific experience you therefore have a kind of moral authority. And, therefore, not capable of inflicting horrors on other people." - Ta-Hehisi Coates, on Amanpour and Company, "Ta-Hehisi Coates on Visit to Israel/West Bank: An Immoral Apartheid", YouTube, Oct. 2, 2024

#HumanExperience #MoralAuthority #TaHeisi #qoute

I am pro-humanity. That makes me anti- #genocide. That does not make me #antisemitic or pro #palestine. The oversimplification of student protest gives me deja vu to #vietnamwarprotest

This war, like most is about economics and power hiding behind the guise of #religion and #tribalism.

It is about the worst in humanity. We should hold Hamas leaders to account for their actions. But we must hold Israeli leaders to account for their disproportional response. More than 30 Palestinians have been killed for every Israeli. Gaza has been flattened to make way for an Israeli takeover. Who hasn't been murdered, is being starved to death.

I am horrified that my government is aiding and abetting #Israel . I understand the complex reasons. I will still vote for #biden because the alternative is more horrific. But make no mistake I am not happy with America's leadership. Private negotiations can't make up for public chastisement of genocide. You can not speak with #moralauthority when you don't call this out.