00:00If God is dead, everything is permitted.
00:05That's what scares them.
00:07Well, on the contrary, that assumes that human beings have no feeling about what is right and wrong.
00:19As the only reason, is the only reason you are virtuous because that's your ticket to heaven?
00:24Is the only reason you don't beat your children to death because you don't want to go to hell?
00:30It seems to me that it's insulting to human beings to imply that only a system of rewards and punishments
00:37can keep you a decent human being.
00:40Isn't it conceivable a person wants to be a decent human being because that way he feels better?
00:45Because that way the world is better?
00:47I would like to think, I don't believe that I'm ever going to heaven or hell.
00:53Well, I think that when I die, there will be nothingness.
00:57That's what I firmly believe.
00:59That does not mean that I have the impulse to go out and rob and steal and rape and everything
01:05else because I don't fear punishment.
01:07For one thing, I fear worldly punishment.
01:11And for a second thing, I fear the punishment of my own conscience.
01:15I have a conscience.
01:17It doesn't depend on religion.
01:18And I think it's so with other people, too.
01:22Besides, even in societies in which religion is very powerful, there's no shortage of crime and sin and misery and
01:32terrible things happening despite heaven and hell.
01:35I mean, I imagine if you go down death row, a bunch of murderers maybe who are waiting for execution
01:42and ask them if they believe in God.
01:44They'll tell you yes.
01:45They'll tell you yes.
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