Religion

“I think it'll be more like sects than new religions. So you could write your own version of Hindu sacred books or your own version of Shiite Islam with your own, you know, slate of who the true Imams are or should be. And we're just going to see proliferation.…”

“It's really hard to know because once, once that, a cultural norm like that goes away, it's super hard to reinvent in the absence of extremely strict religion.”

“People get religion all wrong, by the way. They think you have to, especially in the current generation, you have to feel something, and then you'll believe something, and then you'll practice something. That's exactly backwards when it comes to religion. Firs…”

“Everybody wants to believe that there is something after death. You know, this is universal in almost all religions in different forms, and the evidence is so meager.”

“Like, for me, religion is, is in many ways the opposite of spirituality. That religion is about giving people answers that you are not allowed to question.”

“And if you take away religion, then I think you actually, you get something in its place which is actually worse than what was there before. I mean, it's like destructive, basically. You get like the white work mind virus filling, filling the hole that religio…”

“I think it is making a comeback. Yeah. And part of the reason is after like 15 years being stuck on a small screen, and after, you know, 20 years of going to Equinox, bars, boot camp, or whatever, you know, these institutions are for you depending on where you…”

“And I think the issue might, so my one, I think economics have caused no talent to go to religion. So like the really talented leaders don't go to religion because you can't make any money. So there hasn't been any innovation in it. That's my capitalist view o…”

“On average on average women are more religious than men for three or 400 years. It's like a known fact of sociologists on average. And like, but that's changed in the last eight years since the wokeness thing started going, where now women are less religious, …”

“That's the zeroth step, is, you know, don't die is the most played game By every human, by every living being on every animal, every plant, every human, it's don't die every second of every day. And so it's played more than capitalism. It's played more than re…”

“If you look at the data, I think it might be fair to observe that religion has been the most powerful An effective and durable technology in all of history. It has outlasted nation states. It's outlasted technological trends. It's outlasted every other form of…”

“Don't die is the most played game in existence. No, there's no game on planet earth that intelligence, all intelligence plays more than don't die. Every second of every day, all of us are playing don't die. And it's played even more than capitalism played it p…”

“There's always going to be the same amount of religion in a society, and if it's not going to be a historic world faith, it's going to be a political ideology, right? Or it's going to be, like kind of a cultural phenomenon. Like, I think that that, I think tha…”

“When you really do that work, what you find is that the effect of the correlation between religion and happiness seems to be pretty fully mediated by those religious behaviors. So going to church, doing nice things for other people, you know, taking part in al…”

“We've talked about religion, which is the greatest free IP in the world.”

“If you're gonna say this about horoscopes, you better also say it about religion, otherwise I view you sort of as a hypocrite there.”

“The reason I love it so much is that I think we all have a desire to be part of something larger than ourselves, something that's transcendent. In history, that's typically been religion, but it's not the only thing. It's not even close. For some people, it's …”

“Religion is a virtual reality game that provides people with meaning by imposing imaginary rules on an objective reality.”

“Faith is a very personal thing. You know, religion, there are Hundreds and hundreds of religions in the world, but how you choose to believe and what your faith is and your relationship with that which you call the higher power, your creator, God, that's your …”

“I do think religion is an incredibly potent tool. I think it can be used like everything that's powerful. And I think it basically gets people playing an infinite game”