Daniel Haqiqatjou

It's something that's the opiate of the masses.

It has to be exterminated.

Wow.

They destroyed churches.

They destroyed mosques.

They killed millions of Christians, Muslims, like in Soviet Russia, for example.

Jeez.

But even a less aggressive version of that is American liberalism with the founding fathers.

People like Thomas Jefferson, for example, they thought that, well, we shouldn't really be constrained by the dictates of the church or the dictates of the Bible even.

We are free thinkers.

We are not limited by these traditions, and we should be willing to

Explore beyond them and adapt with new technologies, with new ways of life.

So that kind of opposition to traditionalism and religion is actually something that goes way back 300 years.

So it actually came from the Enlightenment European context with European philosophers.

And they were...

deliberately going against the church and the Bible in the European context to say that, look, we have science and we have technology.

We just had the scientific revolution.

We have all these new technologies and life has to evolve and has to progress.

Otherwise, we're going to be constrained by these superstitions, these religious superstitions.

So we have to be willing to get rid of these kinds of old ways of life, like ideas of marriage or family even,