Dr. Dennis Prager
Appearances
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
But nevertheless, this Jew, this Westerner is very frightened of a post-Christian society.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
Can somebody explain to me, because I admit I've wrestled with this as long as I've studied Christianity, In the beginning was the Word. I've never fully understood that, especially if it harkens back to Genesis. I don't have an issue with it. Please understand, this is truly a question from ignorance. Is the Word, when God said, let there be light, is that the Word that's being referred to?
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
It's a willingness to die. So it's the death of the old tyranny. Why was that forgiveness of sin? I didn't follow that.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
No, no, but the people who pass through are. Well, forgiven. So you have Egyptians inside. They're saved, but they're not forgiven. I never understood the Jews on the other side of the sea being forgiven for anything. because that's not what's said. They were just saved from the death of the Egyptian army.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
That's what women do after they're raped. It's a very powerful imagery.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
All the Christians at the table correctly are making clear the references to the Old Testament, specifically the Pentateuch, the Torah. So I have a question which is sort of outside of the province of the Bible study. But it's always puzzled me, and maybe you in particular, Maida, because you expressed the fact that you were an evangelist for the faith.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
I never understood why so many Christian groups will only hand out the New Testament to would-be converts. Big mistake, yeah.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
Huge problem. No, I'm glad this is on record. Yes, yes.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
In your read of this, this is typical when we read something and then all of a sudden, after so many times of reading it, something pops up. Yeah. So, I'm sure, I may be wrong, but the angel describing to Mary whom she will give birth to does not describe him as God, correct? No. as a divine being.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
He will be great and he'll be called the descendant of David, he's the new... Right, but that's not a divine being. Yeah. So, is that not interesting or worthy of note that that Jesus, if indeed is God incarnate, that that would not be stated in the description of him by the angel to Mary?
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
If everybody gets the exact same story.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
I'd like to answer my own question, which is classic Jewish way of learning. So, it occurs to me, it's actually very real. He's speaking to a Jewish woman, and the whole context is Jewish. The Lord God shall give him unto the throne of his father David. He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end." It is all Jewish references.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
If he'd have said, if the angel had said to Mary, I want you to know you're giving birth to God, she would have thought it was a hallucination or she had gone mad. This made perfect sense to her. And again, the Jewish context is so central. And that's why I raised my point about only giving out the New Testament.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
The Hebrew is army. Pardon me? The Hebrew is army.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
So Bishop, I have a question. which I know a lot of people watching this will have, but I have it too. I agree 100% if we all acknowledge the God of the Bible, it would be a much better world, even a peaceful world. So how do you explain, because it's a very real question for all of us, not just people who think
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
claimed to believe in God who did horrible things, but horrible things to other people who believed in God. The Christian wars in Europe probably precipitated the rejection of religion, ultimately. Yeah, I agree with that, yeah. So I'm just curious, and I really am curious, it's not a provocative question, it's in fact The first book I wrote is called The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
And one of the nine questions is, if religion, specifically Judaism, is supposed to make people good, how do you account for unethical religious Jews? It's one of the nine questions I asked in my first book. The question of people who believe in God who do bad, I mean, the God of the Bible, that's all I'm talking about, is a very real one.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
Okay, I'm not sure they're the best example of bad guys.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
Thank you. It's wonderful to be here with all of you. I'm Dennis Prager, and it's a joy to be back with you. So, I have a slightly different background. I'm a religious Jew. I went to yeshiva until I was 18, 19 years of age, taught Jewish religion at City University of New York, written books on it. I have a five-volume commentary on the Torah, four volumes of which are completed.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
I'm now working on Leviticus. Wish me luck. It's not the easiest of the five books, but I'm falling in love with it for other reasons. So I'm here for a number of reasons, one of which is to learn. And I've always found that I learn best from those who believe in the text that we're studying. I had a Buddhist teacher in England when I studied in England, and it was the best way to learn Buddhism.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
I'm also here because though I'm not a Christian, the death of Christianity frightens me. It is my nightmare. And I ask people all the time, name me one ideology that has supplanted Christianity that has done good for humanity. And nobody can come up with an answer. There is a quote attributed to G.K. Chesterton, though it's not verifiable that he actually said it, but it's brilliant.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing. They believe in anything. And as I point out on my radio show each day, I probably say this once a week, only secular people say men give birth. Not all secular people say that. but only secular people say that. We have entered a post-Christian or really post-Judeo-Christian world of the absurd. One final word.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
I see Christianity as a divinely ordained vehicle to bring the world to the Torah. So I have a very pro-Christian Jewish-based view It hasn't always been done right. But Christians are human, and human nature is awful, or at least not particularly good. So people can screw up anything.
Global News Podcast
US demands Panama 'reduce China's influence' over canal
But when done properly, and I think America and Britain have been particularly good, it was Christians who abolished slavery. It's also Christians who made the Inquisition. I'm well aware. I wrote a book on anti-Semitism, and I pray that Christians come forth now and speak out against a raging anti-Semitism that I did not think I would see in my lifetime.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Birth of Christ | Biblical Series: The Gospels
So, Shannon, the mission of DOT and FAA is safety. That has been the historic mission of this agency. And over the last four years, when they're having a conversation in the last administration about changing names from cockpit to flight deck, or notice to air men to notice to air mission because it's too gender specific.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Birth of Christ | Biblical Series: The Gospels
They're focused on social justice and in the environment, racist roads and EVs. They've lost sight of the mission of this department. And so we have no place for anything other than the best and the brightest. When you look at what went wrong, you've got to look at the people that you have in place at the DOT and the FAA and the leadership and the direction that leadership gives them.
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Birth of Christ | Biblical Series: The Gospels
And it's been misplaced over the last four years. We're back on mission. We're focused on safety and having the best people delivering that safety. And I don't care your race, your religion, your sex, your sexual preference. That doesn't matter. Just the best and the brightest.