Totalitarian Faith: The Danger of Absolute Belief #shorts

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]The claims to govern everything from hygiene to sex and the afterlife, and with which contains detailed prescriptions for the good and bad versions of itself, again strikes me as somewhat totalitarian, and they're both based upon two very, very questionable and not very peaceful concepts. One is the idea of a perfect human being, the prophet Muhammad, and the other is the idea of a perfect book, the Quran, the recitation.

[00:00:28]Now, the the category perfect human primate or mammal, and the category flawless book that could possibly not use any kind of change, revision, or editing, are categories that do not exist. There are no members of these categories.

[00:00:45]Therefore, any challenge to this faith is bound to lead to heresy and to schism, and does.

[00:00:55]And just as all forms of absolutism and totalitarianism, leader worship, and revealed truth, unalterable text always do because they can break, perhaps, but they cannot bend.

[00:01:10]And thus the latent potential of violence with between them, among them, as well as within them, is very great.

[00:01:17]And at any change at any moment, someone is in danger of being accused of being an apostate or an unbeliever.

[00:01:24]Now, demands that you believe the impossible do not lead to peaceful outcomes.

[00:01:31]Nor do they lead to peaceful or tolerant regimes.

[00:01:33]Nothing but war and tyranny has ever come from the adoption of formulae like these. The only way to moral and intellectual satisfaction, even temporary, but only temporary, but a very kind of dull, is comes to those who are willing to take the great risk of thinking for themselves at all hazards, and to to share the benefits of that tolerance and that open-mindedness with others. And with that, for now, I I'll rest my case.