Dennis Prager // Speaking

the secular world adopted one of the single most stupid ideas a human can adopt that human nature is basically good everyone who is anyone with any wisdom knows what nonsense that is just the modicum of wisdom that is the great dividing line by the way between the stupid and the non-stupid if you believe people are basically good you may be a member of mensa which is also stupid why would you join a group based on iq what does that tell you about someone nothing nothing nothing this division is huge we jews and christians who take the bible seriously and not all jews and christians do uh we know that human nature is flawed to say the least yates forgive me on rare occasions i quote the hebrew not to impress you but because that's what i learned it in and so i then have to translate yet the will of man's heart is toward evil from his youth right what is it 812 is it christians know their numbers aye aye somebody comes over to me goes dennis zechariah 6 3 it's a christian i know it i know it immediately jew comes over to zechariah 6 3 i think it's zechariah is running in a race and he's six three odds anyway only because i i i kid around about both jews and christians because i'm so comfortable with both but uh the christians know a lot of jews know their scripture but not not the verse in chapter like as well as christians anyway the verse is man's heart is towards evil the will of man's heart is towards evil from his youth we know that i learned that in third grade in third grade this is no credit to me at all i believe that let's say by fifth grade i believe i had more wisdom than 95 percent of the students at harvard and it had nothing to do with me nothing i achieved nothing but i was learning the bible half the day [Applause] i knew people were not basically good in fifth grade and so i knew the key to good and evil the key to good and evil is people must fight their natures that's the key i have said all of my radio career the great difference or one great difference between secular and religious education and i don't care if it's secular public school or secular private school is this i was taught from the earliest age the greatest problem in dennis prager's life is dennis prager that's what i was taught every kid in my class was taught that about him or herself in secular school you learn that the greatest problem in your life is america your parents or anything outside of you that's why you can't be wise in the secular world you can have knowledge you can't have wisdom the secular world has no wisdom none [Applause] are there any secular people with wisdom sure and they got it from the judeo-christian roots of the western world otherwise they have none there is no wise secular institution the stupidest institutions in the western world are universities you know why they're the most secular so you learn you're not your problem your parents are your problem or now america is your problem racist sexist homophobic bigoted misogynist patriarchal heteronormative america is the problem the greatest country ever made is your biggest problem they're sick that is sick i interviewed not on not well yes on radio but as well privately this was private so i i know a bunch of uh recovering addicts they're they're all all been sober five or more years they're all around uh or under 30. so i asked one of them this was in pennsylvania and it was priceless i asked him his name is keegan i said keegan when did you decide to get sober the guy didn't even think there was like a nanosecond space between my question and his answer the day i stopped blaming my parents for my problems [Applause] pretty big huh pretty big i'm telling you this there's a bunch of recovering addicts in pennsylvania i meet uh whenever i go there my son lives there so and these are some of his friends and i'm telling you i say this i i would put my hand on the bible for the sincerity of my statement the average a.a meeting has more wisdom than princeton yale and stanford put together [Applause] uh and and i learned this i learned this from the radio i've been on radio for 38 years people call me from all over america sometimes even the world and a lot of times they come out with these brilliant insights and i go where'd you pick that up a.a where'd you pick that up a a a a a a a i knew nothing about aa and then i started to read i read the big book and i started studying and of course it's all predicated on the higher power that's the whole there's it doesn't work without god it doesn't work there is no secular answer to addiction there is no secular answer to anything [Applause] and i'd like you to know i'd like you to know when when i realized this i actually i wrote about it it's on the internet i have a thousand columns there if you want to binge read you'll do well they're very good columns about 25 years ago i originally wrote a column titled how i found god at columbia which is not the common thing that people write about but it happened and i and i i took a vow in the beginning of my my radio career never to exaggerate it works for a while but over time people don't take you seriously so this is exactly as it happened and i call it the only epiphany of my life to be clear i never had a theophany god has never appeared to me directly god appears to be anytime i read the bible but that is separate but i've never had a theophany but i did have one and only one epiphany something that out of nowhere came to me and has guided my thinking ever since when i was at columbia at graduate school i was learning a lot of nonsense even in the 70s it's not this is it's worse today today it's a cesspool but it is it is columbia university is a cesspool i'll back that up in a moment and and but but then it was just a wasteland it has gone from wasteland down and i didn't understand how could brilliant people they were all brilliant my professors were very bright high iqs massive amount of knowledge they were teaching me drivel they taught me that men and women were basically the same this is not new i learned this in the 70s men and women are basically the same and i knew that was that i'm being taught stupidity my grandmother who never went to high school knew how different men and women were maybe maybe because she didn't go to high school in any event i was taught as well my field was international relations i studied russian i went to communist countries a lot and i was taught that the us and the ussr were moral equivalents they were both just super powers fighting for power and that the only difference between communism and capitalism was that one had one way of dealing with economics and the other was another way it wasn't a matter of freedom versus tyranny it was capitalism versus marxism that's what i was taught so i was going a little nuts saying most of the students or nearly all believe what they were being told that's they're the people who were teaching this generation all the bad stuff that they learned so then i i was going a little crazy why is this happening and i give you my word of honor in the middle of the campus 116th street and broadway in manhattan all of a sudden a verse in hebrew came to me i had not said it since first grade in my jewish school i went to jewish schools till i mean really jewish schools syria half the day in hebrew after day in english very serious studies and i last said this in first grade up in first grade we said every day a few things from the bible and then we said others in other years but i had not said it since first grade came to my brain wisdom begins with fear of god and then i realized this was the epiphany you know why there's no wisdom at columbia because there's no god at columbia [Applause] there was no wisdom in the 1970s today it is much worse today last year columbia university had a separate graduation for black students you know who supports that the ku klux klan and columbia there is no difference between left and ku klux klan when it comes to race they both have contempt for blacks and they both believe in segregation and i challenge any leftist in america i will pay you any columnist at the new york times 20 000 to debate me anywhere in the country on that issue but but my friends [Applause] but they don't debate there's no fee i could pay i offered before larry elder ran larry and i have been close for 30 years i brought him to radio i am i am so proud of that fact he is such a giant and i i offered before he ever ran for governor i said i will pay 10 20 000 to any left charity you want for ibram x kendi or tanahisi coates or the author of white fragility any of them to debate larry elder anywhere in the country have your own moderator bring four of you he'll still have a massive advantage there is a lesson the left does not debate never they never debate they smear the los angeles times to its everlasting contempt said that larry elder was the black face of white supremacy and the scum who wrote that is still employed as a colonist at the los angeles times scum is right that's correct forgive me for the language i can't it's that's the best term i could he he's my man he is my man i gotta tell you you're blessed with uh with him and and this church this is so all of this is a very important thing to understand the the death of god and the death of judeo-christian values leads to the death of society this what i tell my fellow jews what happened in europe when christianity died what did we get boy scouts we got fascists communists and nazis what are we going to get in america when that dies answer me i just want to know ask anybody ask your friends ask your friends who vote democrat they're nice people by the way the amount of harm nice people do is immense it's just you know i'll tell you where i learned that minnesota i mean it there's a term minnesota nice because they're so nice in minnesota i've been there 25 times at least i they're minnesota and central minnesota california texas um florida i think are the states that most provide the the people who uh help prageru so i have a very great affection for minnesota they're very nice there if you go there people are polite and kind and they vote for despicable human beings so never confuse nice and wisdom [Applause] this was the issue in the in reverse with donald trump not nice but damn wise people right that one wasn't for me that was for him i understand that that's fine this was an amazing thing to me people speaking about how they they didn't like uh didn't like donald trump and and uh he he he had an affair with with a porn actress and i'm thinking and so therefore what and well he's he's not a model for my children so i was thinking okay i was a child never once did i think the president is my model who thinks that way you know who my male models were my dad my older brother my uncle my rabbit [Applause] when you vote for president you're not voting for uncle you're not voting for rabbi priest or pastor you're voting for president okay and by the way god seems to have an affinity for sinners he seems to be a believer that they can do a lot of good king david didn't just commit adultery he killed the man whose wife he slept with that's pretty bad that's bad news and my favorite though my favorite god takes the israelites the chosen people into the promised land right and who is makes it possible what canaanite did god choose an accountant did god choose a teacher a nurse he chose a prostitute what kind of choice is that i'll tell you what kind of choice it's god telling you please understand sinners could do a lot of good and angels can do a lot of bad it's a wise book it's a very wise book this is this is why i said i in fifth grade i was wiser than students at all your ivy league colleges not because of me because of what i was taught from i'm the biggest problem in my life to people are not basically good and all wisdom comes from knowing that there was something higher here's another thing i make a big deal of this in in my bible commentary which i fully admit i hope you read and uh i'm not afraid of sounding like a book salesman a because i wrote a lot of books and i only push this and b nobody writes a bible commentary to get rich okay just for the record okay i assure you another book on happiness would have done real real well as it happens i have to admit to my unbelievable shock my bible commentary was number two on amazon of all books sold in america i i i'm thrilled beyond words by the way better than that i got a better one so the next volume is deuteronomy it's five volumes on the first five volumes of the bible the torah's jews know what but the commentaries for everybody of every religion and no religion costco ordered 25 000 copies of deuteronomy and i keep telling people that is a sign of the messianic age right for you second time for me the first time but in any event it is definitely messianic if costco orders deuteronomy that's a big deal by the way however i will say this there's no question the real test will come with leviticus if costco orders 25 000 no 2 000 if costco orders 107 copies of leviticus we're in a very special time in american history by the way to give you an idea i really want to do this test and i think i will because some of you if you watch prageru especially young people know will wit i may i i think i'll tell him that 32 of you applauded and anyway so i would have sent him to harvard and i'm just gonna have him stand and we can definitely do this now that i think of it and i'll remember i thought this idea up here i say will i want you to go to harvard and i want you to just stand in this in the main square and ask students what is leviticus interesting right i if if 10 know it i will be pleasantly shocked i believe none know it unless by chance they went to a christian or jewish school obviously but if they went to any secular school it is it is uh very unlikely the you know what's on the liberty bell the liberty bell has one thing written on it a verse from leviticus and you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all unto all its inhabitants or unto one to all there we go again the hebrew and english you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all its inhabitants leviticus 25 and [Music] first of all it's so interesting the founders knew leviticus that alone is such a powerful statement this wasn't you know and beginning god created the heavens and the earth everybody knows that one but this is from leviticus not a well-known book and they put that on there because they were god-centered the founders of this country everyone including benjamin franklin where god sent a dino franklin and and jefferson designed a great seal of the united states look it up on the internet we have the picture of it it was the jews leaving egypt moses standing with a rod the cloud guiding them unto the sea and pharaoh's chariot about to drown in the sea that was what franklin and jefferson called deists and they weren't but they were called deists that's how god-centered and bible-centered they were [Applause] we are in a war we are we're in a war you know it and i know it and they know it and that's why you are the most hated group in america christians are the most hated well christians faithful to the bible a lot of a lot of christians are are leftists with a cross a lot of jews are leftist with the torah but jew but christians who are faithful to the bible like you you are the most hated group in the united states the only you're the only group that is allowed to be hated and by the way isn't it interesting you ever hear of islamophobia what do you call hatred of christians there is no word shows you the lies that we live with there's no oh really there's no christian hatred christians are being killed in the world today more than any other religion on earth and there's no word for christian hatred because the media couldn't care less to be perfectly honest that's the fact you are hated which means you're doing something right [Applause] one of my nightmares is that the new york times will write something positive about me it is at that moment i will realize i'm doing something wrong i uh that that i'm not joking i am not joking that is how sick the new york times is morally that is how sick it is there's a girl who uh you may have heard sit in from me i never had anybody under 50 sit in for me and uh she's 21. that is how highly i think of her she came through prager you and me she came to conservative principles she does happen to go to harvard but that's a coincidence i mean it sincerely i mean it's it's just that's not why i chose her it's i chose her because she's extraordinary and she sat in for me and now we found out that the harvard crimson the harvard newspaper is thinking of doing a piece on her for sitting in for dennis prager the well-known fascist on on her program how could a harvard student do that so we just spoke today my wife and i spoke to her on the way down here from la and to her great credit she she said i am so proud that the crimson hates me and i that was all i needed to hear so i i don't know if they'll write it up or not but that she she sits in for me is so sinful at harvard and they they don't understand they think oh she she bought or she she drank the kool-aid wait a minute she has studied leftism her whole life and she drank the kool-aid you didn't you who have not questioned the thing you have heard since kindergarten you are the ones saying that she's the one who's brainwashed when did you change your mind on one thing told to you by one teacher since first grade you harvard students not once you drank it all in like it's gospel truth to a bad bad simile because they don't believe in that obviously no they believe men give birth this is a very this is a very big deal that you have to say men give birth you have to say it if you don't say it you're a hater and now you're a denier of science science now backs the notion that men give birth that's that's their line here is the proof you're ready to give you an idea of the corruption in america the american medical association has announced that no birth certificate in america should list the sex of the newborn the american medical association if what i told you is wrong i should never be invited to speak again but if what i told you is right you should all ask your doctor what do you think about the ama statement that there should be no sex listed on a birth certificate are you protesting it and if the answer is no find another doctor the corruption the corruption in the sciences is as profound as in the so-called social sciences doctors have smeared themselves in the past year and a half there are doctors who won't treat people who are not vaccinated this is the first time in american history doctors have said they will they'll treat murderers mass murderers rapists during the aids epidemic you think they wouldn't have treated somebody who had anal sex at a at a uh at a bath house of course not and by the way they should they were morally bound to treat them as they are a murderer or anyone else that is the doctor's duty and they and there are doctors who are now announcing publicly with their names do not treat the non-vaccinated for anything these are low lifes these these are perverters of medicine [Applause] there's a reason for this and here's the reason i've said this oh at least 25 years everything the left touches it destroys you you must understand that and then you understand everything it began i remember the first time i said it with the boy scouts and i remember saying they're destroying the boy scouts and i'm just curious once they destroy the boy scouts will there be a left-wing boy scouts and then i realized of course not the left builds nothing it only destroys isn't that fascinating they only destroy now liberals build conservatives build there is nothing in common between liberals and leftists but liberals still vote left that is the tragedy of american life liberals do not defend liberalism they defend leftism because they have been brainwashed into thinking you and i are their enemy conservatives the left is the enemy of liberalism conservatives are the preservers of liberalism and i will give you example after example okay cause this is critical that you know this the difference between liberal and left when i say left i mean left not liberal liberals are wimps sweet kind whims they're in my family i love them i do they're wonderful people but politically they're wimps i i i'm not kidding when i say i love them these are wonderful people and they're not leftists but they vote left and so they're ruining the country just as much as the leftist is even though they don't mean to so this is this is an area you must understand so i'll give you a couple of examples difference between liberal and left what i already gave you it was about black graduations but i'll give you another one related to blacks black dormitories do you know that how many universities have black all black dormitories a white can't be part of it only blacks again only the left and the ku klux klan support such racial segregation so why do liberals vote left do liberals believe in segregation no liberals believe in integration but they still vote that way but that's a liberal left difference another example of a liberal left difference free speech liberals believe in free speech the left has never believed in free speech from lenin to today not john lennon vladimir ilyich lenin from lenin until today the left has never supported free speech everywhere the left is in control it suppresses free speech from the university to the country please know that they do not believe in freedom they loathe freedom that's the problem this is the first time in american history free speech is under threat that is the one freedom no one ever debated when i was a kid this the nazis marched in skokie illinois they they picked the suburb of chicago because a lot of holocaust survivors lived there so these these are pure purely sadistic people march where people had their whole families gassed every jewish organization every liberal organization defended the nazi's right to march in skokie they were right that's the way he works in america scum is allowed to speak what they want now decent people can't speak what they want [Music] all because of the left liberals believe in free speech conservatives believe in free speech no leftist does because the day they believe in free speech they leave the left you are no longer a leftist in good standing if you believe in free speech you know how many americans are afraid to say what they think because they'll lose their job and lose their friends lose their kids lose their income this has never happened in america anyway i i just wanted to make that liberal left distinction i'll give you i'll give you one more example israel liberals were always pro-israel they still are the left has always been anti-israel just another example liberals and conservatives support israel the left hates israel these these differences are critical i mentioned about might lose your kid i want to dwell on that for a moment [Music] how many of you raise your hand i i've you know i very rarely i don't like when speakers do this but it's only a personal quirk but i'm doing it because i have to do it to make my point so raise your hand and don't be self-conscious because it doesn't mean it's in your family just raise your hand if you know any family where an adult child does not speak to his or her parents raise your hands please everybody look around at how many hands are up okay so this is is it fair to say between a third and a half and this is among very conservative religious people most most of you being that and a third to a half of you know a family where it and by the way you probably don't know every family where it does take place because they're ashamed to tell you people don't like telling people that my son doesn't speak to me they tell me on the radio that's how i know how common it is you know how many of those kids are not speaking to their parents because the parent or parents voted for trump those kids uh can i use the s-word again those kids are scum i'm sorry if you know such a kid i i loathe those those kids of 25 35 45 i load them and guess what guess what the key thing is the key thing is they don't believe what you and i believe that god commands every one of us to honor your father and mother [Applause] do you know anybody who won't speak to a parent because they voted for biden i don't i ask callers to call me do you know it's crickets nobody knows anybody if you if i met a kid who didn't speak to a parent because they voted for joe biden whom i believe is ruining this country by the day nevertheless if i met a kid who didn't speak to their parents because they voted for biden i would say you're a sinner you should repent to god and to your parents and call them up and tell them you are mom and dad and i am sorry [Applause] but you see you and i believe that we are accountable to god the left doesn't changes your life i have problems with my parents most people do i had problems in my late teens in my early 20s but you know what i really did believe god commanded me me dennis to honor your father and mother and i know it from the hebrew because the hebrew hebrew has unlike english it has a plural for you and a singular for you every one of the ten commandments is in the singular it's a huge well for that alone you should get my commentary on exodus just wanted when i saw your pastor go wow i got all right all right he's ordering it now on amazon two order two yeah it's called the rational bible and and it's because i use reason to explain everything take that wisdom of honor your father and mother see my my project in life is to spread the ten commandments that is that's my project in life you know why that's all you need for a good world if people observed the ten commandments there would be no armies we wouldn't need police the world would be so beautiful you can't get better than the ten commandments and so take the wisdom of honor your father and your mother let me give you a few of the insights to how ingenious this is why i believe it's from god so for example note the bible tells us to love the stranger to love our neighbor to love god new testament to love your enemy but it never tells us to love our parents the bible is wise it understands not everybody can love their parents that's okay what's not okay is if you don't honor your parents that's wisdom you don't love your parents who voted for trump okay you're entitled i got this insight in one of my first years of radio a guy called my show and i've always allowed calls on anything which is i've learned an immense amount from callers guy calls my show this was in the 1980s and he was i would say he's about 40 years old he said dennis you got to help me out here i i am a really lousy son and i go oh and tell me why you feel that way said well for the last 10 years i have been the sole financial emotional physical support of my ailing mother and to be honest there were times to i wish she would i would wish she would pass away from her illness so i said to the guy said i just want you to know i think you are one of the best sons i have ever had the honor to speak to he actually said i'll never forget this you're making fun of me aren't you i said first of all i never make fun of listeners number two i am as serious as i can be i don't judge you by what you think i judge you by what you do [Applause] you're incredible the very fact that you would like her to pass on proves how good you are because you don't act on that you're taking care of her and it changed his life i know that but i got this i got this from the the bible i this is i don't take credit for this stuff i i have a cheat sheet i do i really do honor your father and mother you're honoring your mother you you wish she'd pass away that there's no law against not wishing your parent passed away okay i i can't find it and i know the old testament almost by heart okay i i can't find it and i'm sure it's not in the new testament uh which i know but not as well as the as the uh as the old so the guy the guy didn't understand that's that's what matters he's honoring his parents i'm not asking you to love them ask you have to honor them i had problems with my parents at those years but you know what when i i moved out of my parents home at 21 and i called my parents every week the rest of my life until my mother died at 89 and my father at 96 there wasn't a week i missed and i've been to 130 countries i call them from everywhere and i did it because of the commandment later on i did it to make them feel good and certainly we reconciled and everything but i did it because of the commandment that's good you know that this will fascinate you fascinate you in the talmud the second holiest work in judaism is the following statement two thousand years ago from the great rabbis it is better to do the right thing because god commanded it than because you think it's the right thing to do which is completely counter-intuitive alan dershowitz whom i give great credit to he has courage he's a liberal with courage which means he's not a leftist and and and he has taken on the left and he has defended trump even though he didn't vote for him so he and i have had three public dialogues in miami new york and in l.a and and on the radio and he's he he's secular completely secular and he said he said dennis i have great respect for you which he does but i'm a better person than you which is fine i have no issue with that and i said why i said because i do the right thing because i believe it's the right thing you do because you think god wants it so here's the point the genius of the talmudic statement what if you think the wrong thing what if you come up with a bad idea i'll rely on the guy who does it because god commands it way sooner than on the guy who thought it was a good idea [Applause] i called my parents every week because god told me to if i'd have left it to my own devices i don't know how often i'd have called them but i believe unlike my friend alan dershowitz i'm accountable to god for my behavior that's a big deal and given given the weakness of the human condition it's a pretty important condition it helps achieve goodness on this work on this planet by the way pastor what does that mean minus 1954 does does that mean that's how much left or how much i've gone over i think it's how much i went over isn't it no no no it's all right [Applause] thank you i feel bad no no i feel bad because i didn't say it in order for you to applaud i i i really don't know what it means i think uh i think i went over but it's okay i i hear you anyway the pastor and i are gonna dialogue so i'm not even finished when i'm finished you'll be very happy when i'm finally finished but but these are these are these are the great ideas this is this is the battle that's why you're hated you stand for someone that we're accountable to who's a leftist accountable to their conscience oh wow that's gotten us very far in history hasn't it you're accountable to your conscience that's great every murderer in prison was accountable to his conscience roy baumeister is one of america's leading criminologists and i interviewed him a number of times he has written and told me on the air of all the people he's ever treated as a psychologist the ones with the greatest self-esteem are murderers and he's right think about it you got to think real well of yourself to think you could take somebody else's life you must be the center of the earth they're just a piece of crap that's something i mean i find it hard to to in any way not not treat somebody beautifully because i walk around thinking they're all created in god's image right is that is that a good way to walk around life even this person is in god's image to give you an idea of how sick what the left is created is they not only do they tell us that men give birth they tell us that colorblind is racist that's right read it that's what they say colorblind is racist so if i see you before i see your color and i have i attach zero significance to your color i'm a racist that's exactly what the ku klux klan believes if you're black i know a lot about you that's pure racism but if you're black i know nothing about you if you're white i know nothing about you your skin color is as important as your shoe color no i'm wrong that's important and let me tell you something when i say that at a college campus there's booing that's how bad it is [Music] skin color is important i look at them you believe skin tell me what does it say about you tell me what does it say about your heart your mind your loves your your your personality your interests your values tell me one thing your skin color tells me about you it tells me nothing and you believe it's important i don't believe there's one person in this room who thinks skin color is important that's the irony and you know why because if you take the bible seriously you know it has no significance what color was adam the first human created in god's image what color hello anybody know better anybody care [Applause] so i will end with this this is a very big deal so when i hear that men give birth men menstruate it is not women giving birth birthing persons medical schools now say birthing persons did you know that yeah look that up birthing persons so this has given me a deep insight into the left the left ultimate aim aside from power that's their most immediate aim but their ultimate aim is chaos so i got this too from the bible so listen to this you'll love this so in the first chapters of genesis the word create is used three times baja is the hebrew word first verse the beginning god created the heavens and the earth and then twice about speaking about creating the human being just the world and the human are created what does god do for six days what god does for six days is make order that's what he does you mentioned it right pastor separating light from dark separation is the hebrew word for holy by the way kadosh means separate god makes distinctions so my belief is the first sentence is the most important sentence in the bible in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth because if you don't believe that don't bother reading anything else but guess what i think is the second most important verse verse two and everything was chaos null and void it's called but it means chaos chaos is the natural state it is the pre-divine state the left rejects the divine and wishes to bring humanity back to chaos because when you get rid of god you end up with chaos that is what explains men give birth that is what explains that sex just slash gender is non-binary as they use it of course it's binary and god created the human being male and female he created them doesn't say that about animals that's true there are male and female animals but where it matters is in the human race male and female is a divine distinction men give birth is the opposite of divine distinction that's what this battle is ultimately about god's order and left-wing chaos thank you very much

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