What Jack Weatherford thinks about religion

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Anthropologist and author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, and DeWitt Wallace Professor of Anthropology emeritus at Macalester College.

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1. 31 Jul 2025

   Our readingGenghis Khan made religion the choice of the individual rather than a right granted to institutions, and nobody in history had thought of that before.

   Their wordsIt allowed that, but he said, every person has the right to choose their religion. No one can stop them. No one can force them. The idea that it was individual choice, no one in history had ever thought of that, that it belonged to the person.

   ↗Jack Weatherford: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #476youtube.com 12th of 22 in this recording