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good afternoon I'm Jim newsmen today's
main story a Youtube English teacher is
encouraging people to talk about
religion move some critics are calling
controversial ally responded to his
critics by saying communication about
any topic can be positive and
constructive
if we don't be dicks about it giorgo
pizza is in the Vatican joining us now
what's the atmosphere like there giorgio
are people concerned or are they
supportive of this lesson to depend here
thanks George oh well I don't speak
Italian but I believe that means all is
well let's move to a correspondent in
London mr. fish and chips what's
happening there fish and chips thank you
Jim
I'm here in London today and as you can
see around me many people voicing their
support of in opposition to this
vocabulary lesson about religion I spoke
to some of the people earlier and
opinions varied from hey this is
religion don't talk about it all the way
to hey this is a religion it's probably
fine and being a strangely optimistic
person I am Jim I think we're going to
be fine
back to you in the studio I see Giorgio
two people in the Vatican also have an
optimistic outlook at the bayon ear hmm
okay well I think those the only words
that he knows I'm being told now that
Ali the teacher who is going to do the
lesson on religion is about to start
we'll head over there now and try to
keep you updated but try to remember
everything will be fine and there is
absolutely nothing to worry about
religion is a topic that we should all
talk about not in a way that says I'm
right and you're wrong because that
doesn't help anyone so this lesson is
about giving you the vocabulary you need
in order to talk about it so we can all
recognize the similarities we have and
not fear the differences on a few
opinions and beliefs because that is
dangerous so first of all what do you
think is true when we want to say you
think something is true we use the verb
believe and the preposition with belief
is in so first question for you do you
believe in God or gods or do you not
believe in god or gods let me know for
example if you believe in many gods
think of the Greeks are apollo poseidon
zeus those guys
you're a polytheist poli which means
many theists you believe in God's and
this type of belief system is called
polytheism or you might be a mono theist
mono means one theist belief in God so
you believe there is only one big guy or
girl upstairs next we have types of
belief or non-belief and these are all
adjectives so if you're religious you
would say I am religious you need that
verb be I am religious if you are
agnostic you're like me maybe there's a
god maybe there's not a god I really
don't care if you are atheist this means
you don't believe in God this is the
absence of religion altogether what did
he just say atheist did he just he did
this can't be good
or maybe you're spiritual this means you
don't strictly believe in one of the
religions but you have your own
individual different ideas different
from mainstream religions so those are
the adjectives
I'm religious I'm agnostic I'm atheist
and spiritual the nouns of those I'm a
believer you believe in God
I'm an agnostic agnostic begins with a
vowel sound so an agnostic not at
agnostic same with atheist a that's a
vowel sound so an atheist I'm an atheist
and lastly with spiritual you just say
I'm a spiritual person
what happens after you
I love this conversation because it's
really interesting everyone has a
different idea it's great and I
encourage you to have this conversation
more often it's it's really interesting
so after you die places that you might
visit will go so when you die some
people believe that your energy thing
comes out of your body there are three
words for this thing
so this would be your ghost your spirit
or your soul and really they mean the
same thing however when you talk about
the scary thing in horror movies that's
this one a ghost could also be a spirit
however if you say ghost it has that
scary feeling to it
and if you have a place a building with
ghosts inside it that place we say is
haunted so do you believe that we have
spirit souls do you believe in ghosts is
your house haunted tell me in the
comments I don't know if you like horror
but on Netflix there's a show called the
haunting of Hill House it's so scary
it's about a haunted house with ghosts
super scary dude so after death if
something happens that's called
an afterlife and this comes in many
different versions one that I really
like is
this is called reincarnation you die but
then you're born again as something
different so do you believe in
reincarnation does this exist in your
religion let me know also I'm an idiot
so you need to educate me if you believe
in reincarnation can you choose what you
returners because I don't know in some
religions if you're good this happens
you have a lovely time after you die and
you're in that cloudy place everything
is lovely you can see all your family
again this is called heaven in this
place you might find God or goddess
that's the feminine however some people
believe that God doesn't have a gender
so there's that
again some religions have these places
some religions don't and if your
religion has this one chances are they
have this one as well this is hell and
if you do bad things in your life you go
here and you see this guy his name or
her name we don't discriminate sometimes
called the devil Satan there are many
names so does your religion have heaven
and hell do you believe in God or Satan
the devil tell me let me know in the
comments he does not miss leg day
don't miss leg day or you'll go to hell
so in most religions they have a
variation of this when you talk to God
in a certain way you ask for something
you say thanks for something this is
called
pray that's the verb the noun of this is
prayer it rhymes with there so be
careful with the pronunciation on the
noun it rhymes with their prayer say it
with me prayer so if in your religion
you pray how often do you pray and
different religions have different
places different buildings where they go
to pray for example Christians and
Catholics they go to church there is
also cathedrals cathedrals are basically
just very big churches if you're Jewish
you'll go to synagogue or sometimes
called temple Muslims go to mosque Sikh
and Hindus go to Temple Buddhists also
go to temple but they also have
monasteries and that is where you would
find these guys the monks so some common
questions that you might want to ask how
often do you pray how often do you go to
church or wherever did you used to go to
church
how often and bla bla bla make your own
questions in the comments let's have a
conversation another action which not
just religious people do is
when you don't eat for a certain period
of time this is not just a religious
thing think before surgery you also have
to do this you avoid food for a period
of time this is called too fast that is
a verb and a noun when you want to end
the fast we say you break the fast
fun fact that's where the word breakfast
comes from other religious words that
you might need are to sin this is a verb
and a noun and it means you do something
which is considered bad by your religion
or it breaks a rule of your religion in
the comments tell me a funny sin from
your religion for example did you know
that this haircut is considered a sin
I've been completely serious that's
apparently a sin the next word is
blasphemy
or as a verb to blaspheme basically this
means you speak in a bad way about your
God don't give an example don't give an
example for example when you use God's
name in vain for example you're very
angry and you say art Jesus Christ
I'll god damn it or holy [ __ ] oh dear
some people change from one religion to
another religion to say this situation
you say to convert he converted to
another religion
or when you convert from a religion to
having no religion
we say that you renounce your religion
you remove that religion from your life
more formally though religions refer to
this as apostasy you give up your
religion and perhaps become an atheist
so let me know about your beliefs or non
beliefs in the comments are you
religious now did you used to be what
changed your mind so I want to know your
experience let me know in the comments
and yes I know this is YouTube comments
but please remember that what you or I
think is strange about what someone else
thinks believes or feels might give them
hope or happiness or even comfort in
very dark times in their life so please
remember to be friendly be kind and
let's have a mature intelligent
conversation in the comments that it is
it finished
ok good well it seems nothing out of the
ordinary did seem to happen during that
broadcast let's go over to our
correspondent in London mr.
fish-and-chips what's happening in
Westminster ok it seems to be raining
frogs in London tonight oh dear I didn't
know frogs were so common in the city
well let's head over to the Vatican now
George Oh pizza what was the general
reaction from the public bit delayed sir
best dealings are well it appears we're
having some technical difficulties here
at the studio we will try to what's this
who did this yes I know it's blood
Ashley what's it doing in my water glass
what are we going back on live now we
let's go to London now mr. fish & chips
how are things doing in London
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yes thank you Jim he was in fact raining
frogs day just moments ago in London
however that seems to have stopped as
the wind has really increased here and
it looks like storm clouds are heading
this massive storms headed this way Jim
handle as big as my head is craving from
this guy quite scared my life but do you
know what this is December and what's to
be expected from weather in London back
to you Jim yes thank you mr. fish and
chips our London correspondent with the
update well it certainly seems like here
in the studio we have some heavy
flooding which is past my knees and can
we just
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