HIGHLIGHTS

04:32 The drop in religious membership is happening globally

13:26 Religiosity is NOT encoded in our DNA

16:45 Measuring religiosity with the 3 B's: Belief, Behavior, and Belonging

24:05 The foundations of the US Constitution do not mention God

31:47 Universal and national causes of secularization 

37:39 There is no political "Christian Left"

47:50 There are sociological and ethical evidences of the benefits of secularization 

51:15 What ethics and morality will look like in 50 years

QUOTES

32:20 "Increased education, increased prosperity always leads to levels or degrees of secularization. So the more people can read and write and have scientific literacy and reading, just basic literacy, opens up the world." 

36:58 "If you don't have control over your life, you're going to turn towards religion. There's no question about it."

47:26 "Passionate search for meaning can serve ill or good. It depends on how it's channeled."

48:35 "The nations today that are the least religious, the democracies that are the least religious, the least churchgoing, the least believing in god, are the safest and most ethical societies the world has ever known."

50:10 "We learn how to be moral and ethical preverbally by the people that raise us. We are not taught how to be moral, we are socialized into morality. We learn it from the experiences we have from zero to ten by the people who care for us."

To find out more about Phil Zuckerman, please see the links below.

• Amazon Author Page - https://www.amazon.com/Phil-Zuckerman/e/B001HD3S8U/
• Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment - https://www.amazon.com/Society-without-God-Religious-Contentment/dp/0814797237
• What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life - https://www.amazon.com/What-Means-Be-Moral-Necessary/dp/164009274
• Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00INIQQEA/

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