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Well, I, I would say something that could almost sound heretical -
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I would say that I think there is truth in every religion.
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It doesn't mean that the religion is true, but the point is that
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the Bible says that everything that is good,
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everything is of God, right?
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So if somebody is ideologically totally
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crazy, but there's one thing they say that's true,
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then I can say yeah, that's, that's true. I don't need to reject you,
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and your whole tribe because you don't agree with me on everything.
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So I think that
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we need to understand that there can be truth and beauty in other religions.
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Ultimately, I would say that they're not,
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they're not going to lead you to the whole truth, and that's really the issue,
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but I would even say that most of Christianity historically
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has confused people and has not represented God.
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In other words, you're, you're talking about, you know, when you're talking about God,
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you're talking about something so beautiful, so amazing
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that it's easy for people to get it wrong.
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So when Christians sort of argue
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that like, "I've got the best religion," on some level they're off-base
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because what's true is true, and you're not,
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I'm not trying to sell somebody on religion.
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I'm trying to sell somebody on God.
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In a weird way, Jesus, when he came to earth, like, destroyed religion.
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The whole, the whole idea that he comes and he offers us free love,
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and says, "I love you, and I died for you,
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and I want you to, to, to know me."
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It's the opposite of what the world traditionally calls religion,
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which is "you gotta do this, you gotta do this, you gotta believe this, gotta believe this, gotta believe this,
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otherwise you're going to hell." Like, that's religion.
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In a way, Christians can sometimes be a part of that kind of religious
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thinking, which really is antithetical to the love of Jesus.
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And so it can be really confusing, so I guess I would say
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in a nutshell, people who are, like, arguing, "it's all about ideology, it's all
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about theology," and they get into these arguments, it's besides the point.
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When you think about the thief on the cross
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who Jesus says to him, "I tell you this day
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you'll be with me in paradise," what was his religion?
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What was his theology? It's so simple.
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This was a human being turning to Jesus and saying,
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"I'm looking to you for, for truth. I'm looking to you."
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That's not very ideologically or theologically complicated.
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It's really simple. So I think that
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ideology, theology - these things are important.
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Doctrine is important, but a lot of times people,
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and again Christians included, have used that
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to kinda beat people over the head and act as if what you believe intellectually
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is what gets you into heaven, or, and it's,
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it's a little bit more than that.