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Dennis Prager is a popular nationally-syndicated radio show host, creator of PragerUniversity.com, and the author of several books, including "Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph.”
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Were it not for the Jews and their Bible, there would be no Christianity – and therefore no Western civilization. The abolition of slavery was led by Bible-believing Christians. The Bible, not Aristotle, was their moral inspiration.
Because of my early preoccupation with good and evil, already in high school, I hated Communism. How could one not, I wondered.
As is well known, last week, pagers used by Hezbollah terrorists exploded, killing a handful of them and wounding hundreds more. Amazingly accurate, the exploding pagers killed very few noncombatants.
And why did this massive leftward shift of young women occur?
The no exact change excuse is typical of people who break laws – they don’t blame themselves; in fact, they regard themselves as perfectly innocent.
While all men are created equal, as the American Declaration of Independence put it, based upon the biblical, Judeo-Christian origins of the American Revolution, it is not possible to achieve equality without violence.
Hamas boasting to their fellow Palestinians about what they did to Jews while the Nazis tried to hide what they did from fellow Germans means there is not only a moral difference between Hamas and the Nazis
In the case of the Trump trial, the Left has done something never done before in American history: put on trial a former president and the opposition political party candidate for president.
Universities have been morally and intellectually damaging for more than 50 years. How many young people return home after four years at college (let alone additional years in graduate school) a finer, kinder, more moral or intellectually more developed person? Let’s just say it’s rare. I have never met one.
Most civil rights organizations are also essentially left-wing groups. They use alleged concern for black people to attain and retain power, but they harm blacks considerably more than they help them.
Had I had any suspicion that this was a clinic that engaged in affirmative action, I would have wondered about this anesthesiologist: Was she chosen, at least in part, because she was black?
Had Mr. Schumer told the truth, he would have said this: Israel’s being a pariah among the world’s nations tells us much more about the world’s nations than about Israel. Just as it did a mere two generations ago.
Instead of good and evil, we now have a set of other moral categories: rich and poor, white and black, colonizers and colonized, strong and weak, oppressors and oppressed.
Meanwhile, the NFL continues to paint "anti-racist" slogans in end zones and play the "black national anthem" before important games.
To make matters worse for many Jews’ psyches, not only has the institution they most revere turned out to be a moral wasteland and the most congenial place for enemies of the Jewish people – and of the United States (but that is another story) – at the same time, the people whom many Jews have most feared, conservative Christians, have turned out to be the Jews’ most loyal friends.
As American society and Americans individually become less religious, i.e., less Christian, the Jews become less significant.
Since World War II, most American Jews have believed that the more secular American society is, the more secure their status. This has been, as I have argued all of my life, a colossal error.
It is probably the easiest conflict in the world to explain. It may be the hardest to solve, but it is the easiest to explain. "In a nutshell, it's this: One side wants the other side dead."
Either Moral Confusion or Hatred of Israel
The second reason is most liberals have chosen to believe that the Democratic Party is still the party of John F. Kennedy. They are fooling themselves
It is almost certain that the great majority of American high school and college students could not name five of the Ten Commandments (presuming they know what those are) or the names of two Shakespeare plays.
The last time I saw so few cars on a Los Angeles freeway was in the first weeks of the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. Apparently, many people were just as spooked as they were in 2020.
Aside from food, the greatest human need is for meaning
That is how I feel. I know my chronological age, but nothing has changed in me that makes me believe it. So, then, while how I feel and my energy levels are a blessing, like many blessings, they come at a price: massive cognitive dissonance.
America has been the freest country in the world for all of its history. That is why the French gave America the Statue of Liberty. It is rapidly relinquishing that title.
I will not address the specious attacks on Charlie Kirk. I will only note that this alleged “hater” devoted his entire half-hour speech to explaining why he, though a Christian, observes the Sabbath each week from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday.
Though the Bible commands us to love our neighbor, love the stranger and love God, there is no commandment to love our parents. On the other hand, there is no commandment to honor anyone except our parents.
There is one argument made by opponents of American aid to Ukraine that holds no water – the argument that Ukraine is corrupt.
This lie that whites bear animus toward blacks is destroying the American nation.
From the first time I asked this question to the present day, in nearly every instance, one-third of the students voted to save the stranger, one-third voted for their dog, and one-third declined to vote.
In other words, other countries imported 41 times the number of black slaves into the Western Hemisphere compared to the United States.
Conservatives have no issue with change or innovation – when warranted or harmless.
Beginning in the second half of the 20th century, people in nearly every white-collar profession ceased finding their work inherently meaningful. So, they sought to use their profession to change the world.
Given that many of us view this president as unprecedented in the extent of damage he has done and continues to do to this country, this guess would be understandable. But it would be wrong.
No secular idiocy is greater than the belief that the conscience can replace G-d, the Bible and Judeo-Christian values as a producer of moral behavior.
The most obvious example of America in decline is the perverse American doctrines surrounding transgender issues
Most Christians failed to explain Christianity to their children and most Jews failed to explain Judaism to theirs.
Was there, for the first time in California history, some outbreak of doctors “misinforming” their patients about medical matters, thereby causing them harm?
Candace Owens has now been charged with antisemitism — for defending and not condemning her friend Kanye West after his antisemitic outbursts.
Many people oppose generalizations. “You’re generalizing,” is a common objection to an argument using a generalization. The objecting person assumes that charge alone defeats the generalizer’s argument.
Why are "new" and "change" intrinsic to leftism?
This is a society in which refusing to say that men give birth can lead to social banning and the loss of one’s job and income.
One result of the breakdown of parental authority is that we probably have more child-parent alienation than at any time in American history.
My reasoning was that self-esteem needs to be earned, that it cannot and should not be given. People walking around with unearned high self-esteem are often a danger to society.
Historically, much evil has been abetted by nice people.
The Secular Brainwash Is the First Reason
Ironically, talking to so many people has made me aware how many people do not have friends, people with whom they can freely share their thoughts.
To be clear, the message of the Bible is not that human nature is basically bad. What matters is that we acknowledge the reality, noted in the Bible and affirmed by all of human history, that human nature is not inherently good.
The decline of Christianity: writ LARGE
The whole issue is saturated with irony. With regard to men and women, most of what feminism fought for has hurt women and benefited men.
Order is composed of distinctions. Natural order was dependent on the distinction between night and day and land and sea, and moral and social order was dependent upon the distinctions listed above.
In feminist Newspeak (Orwell's term for the totalitarian redefining of language), when applied to women, "strong" means "easily offended," and "perceiving oneself as a victim."
Were it not for many well-intentioned people who believed in communism, the truly evil people who implemented these genocides might not have come to power.
As noted earlier, this was not only a hate-filled speech; it was a speech of the Big Lie. The Big Lie of white supremacy as a major threat to America generally and to black America specifically.
The great irony in this instance is that the Left labels as an act of hate a man giving a speech titled “Creating Moral Leaders in Children” at a religious Jewish institution.
If the Left were concerned with what is in America’s interest, it would not advocate — and, under Biden, implement — policies to change America from an energy-independent country into an energy-dependent country.
It is even more absurd when one considers the countries Russia allegedly fears will invade them. Which one of their Western-border countries – Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine – is likely to invade Russia?
Most Americans see themselves as protectors of the weak against bully nations. This is the first time in our lifetime that America has abandoned that role.
Ruin the lives of those who dare disobey Justin Trudeau.
To most Americans the answer is clear: Thomas is cheating.
Since each side regards the other as anti-science, what is the science?
If people are basically good, what is the Torah for? What are all the commandments for? If people are basically good, why would God need to command us ...?
Freedom reigns...for now, at least
We are faced with a lockdown on speech the likes of which have never been seen in America. And the parallels with Germany are even more stark.
“Wisdom begins,” both Psalms and Proverbs teach, “with fear of G-d.” In other words, no G-d, no wisdom.
If you think even this list overstates the problem, put any of these statements on any mainstream social media platform and see what happens.
You can meet happy and unhappy liberals and happy and unhappy conservatives, but you are unlikely to ever meet a happy leftist.
Why did the Left LIE about what I said?
It is worth noting that it is not only racial minorities and the poor who make these elections possible; it is also prosperous whites.
The left has always been anti-Israel. Liberals have always been fervent supporters of Israel.
Most American Jews identify the Democratic Party with secularism and the Republican Party with religion (religious Christians and Orthodox Jews). And they are as committed to secularism as Christians are to Christ.
I don't know if young Jews think about this, but nearly all Jews who grew up in the decades following the Holocaust often wondered: Would this non-Jew hide me?
Jefferson and Franklin proposed that the great seal of the United States depict Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt. The seal’s proposed motto: “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to G-d.”
Today, the Left is leading a three-pronged assault on liberty:
I can say that until this moment, I have not read or heard a single cogent argument from proponents of American withdrawal as to how exactly it benefits America.
As regards bad and destructive ideas, big cities almost hold a monopoly.; It is not surprising that so many of Israel’s great prophets were shepherds, the most rural of folk.
The fact is that Kabul 2021 IS Saigon 1975. And everyone with eyes to see knows this.
“If my mother or father became a murderer, terrorist, (or a) Republican … would I still love my parent. Here the answer is less sure.”
It is hard to imagine greater proof than that comment of the power of mass media and of the left. That a normal woman would celebrate her daughter’s choice not to be a mother and not to make her a grandmother can only be described as deranged.
If religion is irrelevant to moral behavior, why are almost no violent criminals regular churchgoers?
Children, in particular, have been so coddled that American children of the last two generations have probably had far less joy and far more fear than children of any previous American generation.
To this question there is only one possible answer: They do not believe what they say about America.
Unconditional love is, in the final analysis, a bad secular idea.
Many parents do not want to know what their children are being taught and the consequent damage done to them. They don’t really believe school(s) will ruin their child, let alone their child’s relationship with them.
Why attack American or French or British Jews? Why curse "the Jews"?
The left's moral compass always shows north as south and east as west. And men giving birth
America is the land of systemic opportunity, not systemic racism. The only people to deny these facts are America's homegrown America-haters. They see America as a force of evil at home and abroad.
People need meaning. After food, that is the greatest human need.
So, too, is America hated for placing the Bible at the center of its value system, its belief in being a "second" chosen people, its freedoms, and its capitalism.
The mainstream media have a mission that has nothing to do with reporting truth.
Forcing hundreds of thousands of people to die alone will go down as one of the cruelest policies ever adopted by American authorities.
In America today, more people fear the print, electronic, and social media than fear G-d.
You read that right: The number of incidents "soared" and "jumped" to 28 – in a city of 8.4 million people.
More and more American women have come to rely on the government, not on a husband. The results have been calamitous.
When and where does 2+2=5? The Oregon Education Department announced that teaching there is "one right answer" in math is an expression of white supremacy.
Would America be better, worse, or the same if all Americans dropped their religion and became secular?
You can't love G-d if you don't hate evil.
