WEBVTT - Wisdom from Dennis Prager 0:00:01.200 --> 0:00:05.040 So we've got a big one, guys, because Dennis Praguer 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.840 is in the house. He is one of the most 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:12.920 respected and influential thinkers, writers, and speakers in America. I mean, 0:00:12.960 --> 0:00:14.640 you know who he is. He's also the host of 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.120 the nationally syndicated radio show, The Dennis Praguer Show. Look. 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.040 I've been in this business since you know, maybe two 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.800 thousand and fourteen or something. Look, it's a tough business. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.120 It is remarkable that Dennis Praguer has remained such a 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:31.320 prominent voice for so long, and it has such wisdom 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:33.159 to give. You know, the motto of his show as 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.080 I prefer clarity to agreement, I could not agree more. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.320 I couldn't agree more with that that sentiment. He's also 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.760 the founder of Praguer University Praguer You. It's the most 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.640 viewed conservative video site in the world, with one billion 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.479 views a year, where than half of those people are 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.400 under the age of thirty five. So he's doing a 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.440 lot of work and trying to reshape the indoctrination that 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:57.360 we're seeing in schools across America, trying to change that trajectory, 0:00:57.480 --> 0:01:00.640 changed the way people think. He's also a New Times 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.800 best selling author of nine books on a ton of 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:08.880 different subjects, from religious to morality, the left, America, happiness. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.720 He's also written extensively on religion. His book The Rational 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.160 Bible is the first volume of his five volume commentary 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.440 on the first five books of the Bible, rooted in 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:23.080 his knowledge of Biblical Hebrew. I mean, the guy has 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.200 just done so much, has so much wisdom to give us. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:27.759 So it's truly an honor to have him on the show. 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.319 We're going to talk about a whole host of things, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.600 the decline of society that we're seeing, the decline of religion, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.560 the decline of the American family, and we're also going 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.600 to talk about what can we do about it? How 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.800 can we right the ship, how can we change the 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.800 trajectory that we were on as a nation. So who 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.040 better to get into some of these really deep questions, 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.120 really deep thinking than Dennis Brager, Right, So it's an honor. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:02:07.360 I hope you love this. Here's Dennis Bragger. So, Mr Prager, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.280 it's such an honor to have you on the show. 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.960 You know, this is a tough industry of the media business. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.160 You've been such a prominent voice for so long, and 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.800 conservative media, which is really a testament to you. And 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.280 and you know, there's a lot going on in the 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:23.480 country right now, so I'm really looking forward to getting 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.639 your insight on just the current state of affairs for 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:28.040 the country. So it's an honor of a deep amount 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.600 of respect for you, my pleasure. Thank you for that. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.120 Thank you so sir. You were born in Brooklyn, New York. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.440 You've also you know, you've posted your radio show out 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:39.040 of Los Angeles for for quite some time. We've seen 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.160 these cities and cities across America really in a decline 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.839 right now. I mean, the country seems to just be 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:49.120 in a societal decline. Why is that? Why why are 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.519 we in such a decline right now? I actually think 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.840 I have an answer, and it's not the one that 0:02:56.919 --> 0:03:00.639 even most conservatives offer. Some do, and it's certainly one 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:06.280 that the entire left would reject. When your country is 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:11.320 founded on a couple of principles, or two or three principles, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:15.880 and those principles are then demolished or on the way 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.000 to being demolished, it's not possible for the society to 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.560 maintain itself. We have three principles. I didn't make them 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.600 up there on every coin, So it's a pretty old standing, 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.680 the statement of what America stands for. And on every 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.680 coin and every bank note, you have what I call 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:41.040 the American trinity, and they are liberty, de pluribus um 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:46.040 for many one, and in God we trust. And the elites, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.400 run by what we now call progressives or the woke 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:54.920 or the left, have made war on all three. They 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:59.960 have wants a radically secularized society. They that's so getting 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.800 would have been called we trust. Liberty has never been 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:07.080 a left wing value. Equality they claim to be a 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.280 much more important value, or now equity, which is very dangerous. 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.440 And they don't believe in eplur brazoonum from many one. 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:20.160 They believe from many many that the idea that everyone 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:25.480 should have an American identity strikes them as neo fascistic. So, uh, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.480 how do you survive when the three primary values of 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.080 your society are being demolished? Well, and we've seen those 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.880 come under attack, you know, particularly when you look at 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:40.520 liberty during COVID, And I know, you know, look, I've 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:43.039 always loved this country, I've always valued this country. But 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.120 I don't really think I realize how fleeting freedom truly 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.680 is until COVID and we really saw how susceptible we 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.440 are at to tyranny as a nation, how how many 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.720 people are willing to go along with it as well. 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:59.800 You know, why do you think we reacted so rationally 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.120 as a country And what did that show you about 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:08.760 how fleeting freedom is in America? Well, least of the 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.640 experience you have had is one that I have had. 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:16.279 The last two years have been very sobering for me. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.839 I've been in love with this country all of my life, 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:24.640 and frankly, I would not have predicted the amount of 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:30.320 irrational obedience to irrational law on the part of at 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:35.800 least half of my fellow countrymen. It has been that 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:43.000 has been disappointing, the the collapse of virtually every national institution, 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:48.159 from the American Medical Association to the FBI. Fifty one 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:54.960 fifty one leaders of FBI, CIA and other intelligence agencies 0:05:54.960 --> 0:06:01.039 signed a letter a month before the election saying that 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:08.680 the Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. So you realize the 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:15.320 other and total corruption of all of our intelligence agencies. Again, 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.880 you wouldn't have predicted this. I wouldn't have you named 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.760 the institution. American Medical Association announced a couple of years 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:27.159 ago that we should not put the sex of a 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:30.960 child what it is born on its birth certificate, because 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.280 the child will determine one day what sex they are 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.480 or what genders that they now use the term. So 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:46.560 I share your sadness and what has developed? Why did 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:50.160 it happen? Well, you said it in your question, and 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:56.240 Reagan put it beautifully when he was president that liberty 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:01.120 is a fragile thing and we our own one generation 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.360 in any time away from getting rid of it. I 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:11.600 would add this, liberty is not the most fundamental human yearning. 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:18.800 More people want free things than freedom. That's human nature. 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:23.360 Human nature is to yearn for free things, not freedom. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.520 And that's that's what the left. That's the reason the 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.600 left isn't it has been in power in so many countries, 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.679 most countries at some point in the last hundred years. 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:38.120 People rather have free things than be free. Well, you know, 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.400 we're talking about liberty being under attack as we as 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.000 we saw throughout COVID. You also talked about the pillars 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:47.280 of society being knocked down, and I totally agree with you. 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.720 You know, everything that holds up a civilized society is 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.480 being burnt to the ground right now. Why does so 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.800 many people that live in America have such disdain for 0:07:55.840 --> 0:08:05.440 this great country. It's a combination of of two huge things, 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:12.680 affluence and secularism. They produce board people. The poor people 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:17.000 are not bored. Their life is filled with meaning, and 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.440 the meaning is get lunch, get dinner, get breakfast, feature family, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.880 put a roof over your head. So the poor don't 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:30.960 have a problem, oh with meaning. And the religious poor 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.000 or wealthy don't have a problem with meaning. They get 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:39.520 it from their religion. When you take away poverty and 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:45.080 you take away religion, people have to find meaning elsewhere. 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:51.040 And the left in this country has filled the vacuum 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:57.320 left by the death of Judeo Christian and patriotic values. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.200 They used to be a superman. It used to be 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:07.160 a proud American superman has renounced his American citizenship, being 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.280 now a citizen of the world. And they have dropped 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.840 truth justice and the American way to truth, justice and 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:19.040 the better way. So there's nothing American about superman anymore. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:25.640 So you have this massive whole left by the collapse 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:31.880 of Strudeo Christian religions and the massive affluence that boredom, 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:36.960 that yearning for meat meaning has been filled by what 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:42.040 we call progressivism. Well, that progressive ism seems to always 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:45.560 lead to division as well, and intentional division. And we 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.840 saw that during COVID. I know you had talked about 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.560 being unvaccinated. I am as well. I chose not to 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:52.199 because it didn't make sense to me, and I was 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.559 looking at the data. I'm young and healthy, it made 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.520 no sense. I was also looking at the fact that 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.120 wasn't much deadlier than the flu. So why am I 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.680 going to get a vaccine that I don't need for 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.680 a virus that's not a threat to me? Uh? You know, 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.480 but what we saw unvaccinated really being treated as a 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:12.080 persecuted group, and you know, threats of not wanting people 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.160 like me to be able to go to the grocery store, 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:17.760 to make our lives as difficult as possible. And I 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:21.120 think that's sort of like hatred. Really made me concerned 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.480 for the future and what things could be possible and 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.920 the treatment of our own citizens as we continue to 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.960 go down this path as a country. The parallel that 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.679 I drew about half year ago in a column, I 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:43.439 was the pariah status at some point of days with age, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:48.680 and I said, this is uh, we have now seen 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.840 this happen to a far larger number of Americans the unvaccinated. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.000 For the left went ballistic that I would dare compare 0:10:57.440 --> 0:11:03.480 anybody to h to gay victims because Kay's blacks and 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:07.320 women are supposed to have a monopoly on all victims status. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:11.480 There are no other victims. But the fact is the 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:17.520 hatred of the unvaccinated, the wish the wishes expressed publicly 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:25.720 publicly that they die of COVID, the talk about banning 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.040 them from all travel, which, by the way, it did 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.360 happen in Canada. In Canada, the unvaccinated could not enter 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:37.120 an airplane or a train or a bus. What Canada did? 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.880 I wrote a column on that to Canada is the 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:45.680 new the new North American Cuba. You know, nobody cares 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:51.240 about it, which is really sad to see. So, uh, 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:56.959 that's right, the unvaccinated. I don't know who the next 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.400 pariah will be, but it may well be again over 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.800 health quick break back with a great Dennis Brigger on 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:10.959 the other side. So was the hatred towards the unvaccinated? 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.600 Was it about the vaccine or was it about the 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:19.080 fact that unvaccinated people refused to submit to their will? Both? Yeah, 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:24.240 it was. They didn't read anything about the science. They 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:29.680 read nothing. Uh, and and so the obedience, this was 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.480 the frightening part. It was, That's what I said, obedience 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.640 to irrational authority. The fact that parents would give young 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.880 children a vaccine. Uh. Of course they didn't want to 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:45.160 deliberately hurt their child, but the chance that they would 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.960 hurt their child was much greater than the chance that 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:52.000 they would help their child. What was done by that 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.760 side of the American public, shutting down schools for two years, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.240 putting two year olds on masks, on planes and an airport. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.400 I mean, the the abuse of children, the hurting of 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.520 children deliberately. Now wasn't deliberate in the sense that we 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:13.800 want to hurt children, but what they did was obviously deliberate. 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.959 They just they just thought they were helping. But the 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:21.160 irrationality of it more. I mean, this is this is 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:25.840 from the Washington Post. A few weeks ago, more Americans 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:31.199 in under the age of six died of suicide than 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:37.680 of COVID. That's a product of your progressive totalitarians and 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:40.000 the half of the country that went along with them. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:46.960 It's it's actually a very very scary thing that we 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.720 have gone through and will probably do so again. That 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.520 is why it is so important to alarm people at 0:13:55.520 --> 0:14:00.800 their obedience to authority without question. I mean, we we. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.360 I wrote another column in a year ago, in the 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:08.360 middle of the worst lockdowns, I wrote, I wrote a 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.840 column a week. One week it was the Good German, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:14.040 in the next week the good American. I'm a Jew, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.920 and I've I've written about a book about anti Semitism, 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.840 and I studied the Holocaust my whole life. There's a 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.320 there's a common reference called the good German, the guy 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.480 who didn't do anything bad to a Jew in Germany, 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.080 but who did nothing. And that good German was a 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:37.640 sarcastic term held holding the quiet German and contempt. But 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:40.880 of course I'm not comparing what happened. There's no comparison 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:45.120 to the Holocaust. But there is a comparison to obedience 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:50.760 to irrational authority, and and the the hatred of the 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:55.160 ones that didn't submit to irrational authority. And when I 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:59.120 see the fear that dominated Americans here without a Gestapo, 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:04.440 I mean, at least the good German had the had 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:07.240 the fear, the legitimate fear of being picked up by 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:11.520 the Gestapo. But there was no Gestapo here, and people 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:15.440 feared Facebook and the New York Times and what their 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:20.560 neighbors would say, and they were obedient to authority. And 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.120 again that the squashing of children's lives. This is this 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.360 is a very bad, bad moment in our history, and 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.840 we have not recovered from it. But it seems you know, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.960 you talked about the treatment of children and how they 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.960 were really punished the most during COVID, but it's not isolated. 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.280 We increasingly, you know, you look at the left, they 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:44.560 support abortion basically up until you know, the day of birth, 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.560 and maybe even beyond it in some instances. But you 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.280 have a party that believes and that even party that 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:53.400 wants to indoctrinate young children, tell them that they should 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.000 derive value from the color of their skin, things that 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:57.800 they were not that they were born with it they 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.920 had no control over. Uh, look at what's happening in 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.720 schools with sort of a lot of this transagenda that's 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.080 being pushed on children as well. I mean, what does 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.840 it say about a society that doesn't protect its most vulnerable? 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.760 That's right? What do you say, that's exactly right? You 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.520 say that the society has become sick. And I'll tell 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:22.320 you what's even sicker. Another another revelation in my life. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:27.360 I thought most of my revelations had already occurred, and 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.680 that is I had always, truly, always taken for granted 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:37.480 that it is instinctive in women to protect child's children's innocence, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:45.200 and that that belief is has been a jettison. The 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:50.440 women are overwhelmingly disproportionately involved in robbing children of innocence. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.720 The teachers, the teachers, unions, the principles, the professors of 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:01.200 gender studies overwhelmingly their female and they are in the 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:05.760 vanguard of doing something for the first time I don't 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:10.560 know in Western history, very possibly, but certainly American history 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:18.879 deliberately robbing children of their sexual innocence. It's there's a 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:24.359 sickness that pervades our society. And only God knows the future. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.399 I only know. I don't know the future. I'm neither 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:33.520 optimistic nor pessimistic. I find both of them useless. I 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:35.760 only know that I have to fight them now. It 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:38.960 does seem like an evilness has sort of overtaken the 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:42.080 country and it's just become much more perverse. Uh. You know, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.879 COVID really seemed to brought out inner demons and a 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.679 lot of people in America. And you know, I know 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:49.960 you've referenced this, but you've spent a lot of time 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.720 studying religion. You've lectured at the Hebrew or that you've 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.719 lectured on the Hebrew Bible at the American Jewish University, 0:17:55.720 --> 0:17:59.400 have written numerous books on religion as well. The American 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.960 Enterprise and She recently published a survey finding that more 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:07.080 than one third of Generation Z identify as religiously unaffiliated, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:12.520 unaffiliated the least religious. Yet, why are we losing religion 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:18.119 as a society? Like what's behind that? The left understands 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:25.640 that the only unified opposition to the left is religion. 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:31.920 The the Soviets understood this. That's why they they squashed 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:37.639 and murdered so many Orthodox priests, so many rabbis, so 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:42.800 many Catholic priests. But but especially May don't really May 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.960 have many Catholics in Russia, says, mostly the Orthodox priests. 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:53.200 They I've understood this. The Chinese understand this with regard 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:58.720 to Christianity, and the Soviets understood this. Soldier NEETs, in 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.960 the greatest single critic was of course a religious Christian. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.720 The Jews in the Soviet Union were a big nemesis 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.080 the Muslims and the Soviet Union, who are a big nemesis. 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:21.320 If it's sort of either either the Judeo Christian religions, Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Judaism, 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:26.240 either they will prevail or the left will prevails. It's 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:31.720 truly a a death fight of finding to the death 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.520 one of them will prevail. And they have taken over 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.800 the institutions. Not only have they taken over education and 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:46.840 were there profoundly anti religious, radically secular agenda, they have 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:50.200 also taken over a good chunk of Judaism and Christianity. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.960 They look at the Pope and Catholicism, look at the 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.680 mainstream Protestant churches, and look at non orthodox Judaism. They 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.119 have been taken all the can over buy the left. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:07.040 They're all failing, they're all alienating people from them. And 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:10.879 it's no wonder then, Also, I must be honest, it 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:14.080 is also the failure of religious people who did not 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.160 know how to make the case for a religious life. 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:22.640 Most religious people, I think are wonderful people, but they 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:26.080 have no clue how to make the intellectual case against 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:30.040 the left and against the anti religious forces that are 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.879 part of the Left. So the kids here these arguments 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:38.520 at school that the God has nonsense and religion is 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:43.040 actually worse than nonsense, it's dangerous, and the parents had 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:47.560 no idea how to counter these arguments. That's why I 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:52.280 do so much work, especially in my Bible commentary, the 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:58.000 Rational Bible, the third volumes coming out this here, and 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:03.000 I I'm doing this to give people the intellectual ammunition 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:05.879 for the greatness of the Bible. Well. And it also 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:09.120 seems to be an effort by the left to remove 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.639 anything that gives someone value in their life, that roots 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.879 them to something more meaningful. And you know, it's attack 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.640 on religion, it's the attack on the family unit. It's 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:23.199 taking away from people that bring value to life, that 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.159 that roots you in life. And I believe the reason 0:21:26.240 --> 0:21:29.080 is because people that don't have religion, as you pointed out, 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.080 people that don't have a strong family, you know, they're 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.239 more easily controlled because they're not rooted in anything. They 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:37.160 don't believe in anything deeper. I was at the Democratic 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:41.960 National Convention when they made that the famous and fascinating 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.320 claim over the loudspeakers. Government is the only thing that 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:52.480 all Americans have in common. The this country was found 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:56.520 to have a small government so that the individual is 0:21:56.600 --> 0:22:00.200 infinitely precious. For the left, it is the us that 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.119 the government is precious, the individual as a cog in 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:07.439 the machinery of the government. I I contended on my 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:13.159 show after this horrible massacre at the Texas school that 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.960 a big part of the gun issue is exactly about this. 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:22.840 The left really does believe only the government should have arms, 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:28.679 and the that that underlying the passions is really the 0:22:29.560 --> 0:22:35.200 the fundamental difference is the individual strong or the state. 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:40.240 The individual that has arms is strong. The individual with 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:44.000 no arms and the government has all the armaments that 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:47.680 then the government is strong. They believe in the state. 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:51.200 But as I point out, and has never pointed out 0:22:51.240 --> 0:22:54.479 at college or high school or elementary school, never pointed 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:59.200 out this is revelatory to a typical college student, the 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:04.000 mother of all genocide is big government. There's no such 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:09.159 thing as genociah government. With one exception Rwanda, that was 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:14.240 ethnic genocide done by tribe against tribe. But otherwise the 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:19.160 hundred million people massacred, I'm not talking about combatants, I'm 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:23.320 talking about noncombatants. In the twentieth century, everyone was the 0:23:23.440 --> 0:23:27.880 victim of big government and almost in every case left 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.440 wing big government. But this was the exception of Hitler 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:37.360 and and the Turkish murder of the of the Armenians 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:42.840 that was religious. So they this is what it is about. 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:48.359 Brussels should be dominant. That's why they hate Brexit, That's 0:23:48.400 --> 0:23:53.440 why they hate Hungary. Any country that defies Brussels rule, 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:59.960 defies big government. Ultimately, they would like the big government 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:03.480 be an international government. That's what Davos is about. It's 0:24:03.480 --> 0:24:07.560 what Brustles is about. So this is the stuff that 0:24:07.600 --> 0:24:12.360 they that they want, and we are stopping them. I mean, look, 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:14.560 I've never owned a gun in my life, but I 0:24:14.600 --> 0:24:17.440 support the Second Amendment because I understand that it protects 0:24:17.480 --> 0:24:21.320 us from government tyranny. And when you look at communism 0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:23.920 when it takes over, authoritarians when they take over, and 0:24:23.960 --> 0:24:25.760 I know you as someone who understands is a deep 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:29.040 understanding of history, the first two things to go are 0:24:29.320 --> 0:24:34.320 a freedom of spreech speech and guns, because it makes 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:35.600 it a lot, a heck of a lot easier to 0:24:35.640 --> 0:24:38.560 control a society when you control the flow of information 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:44.600 and you disarm a population. It's so irrational. The hatred 0:24:44.840 --> 0:24:52.200 of individuals being armed that I said years ago on 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:54.760 on Fard Ball, the show that they used to have 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:57.679 on MSNBC in days when they actually would have a 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:01.879 conservative on. And I don't know why why it was 0:25:01.960 --> 0:25:06.320 raised with me, but I said, and I was devoted 0:25:06.400 --> 0:25:08.879 much of my life to fighting anti Semitism. I have 0:25:08.920 --> 0:25:11.879 a book on anti Semitism. I was on the Holocaust 0:25:12.160 --> 0:25:17.640 Museum board of directors and I said I wish every 0:25:17.720 --> 0:25:24.040 Jew in Europe had been armed, and the they went ballistic. 0:25:25.400 --> 0:25:27.800 They almost threw me off the show. I mean, it 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:31.639 was really, it was incredible, the hatred of what I 0:25:31.680 --> 0:25:36.520 had to say, As if it's a bizarre notion. It 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:39.400 wouldn't have been a blessing if every Jew. I don't 0:25:39.400 --> 0:25:42.040 say that they wouldn't have been mass murders of Jews. 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:46.399 I thought there wouldn't have been six million. And not 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:50.119 only that, it would have given Jews the dignity of 0:25:50.240 --> 0:25:54.560 dying while fighting instead of the indignity of walking naked 0:25:54.600 --> 0:25:59.840 into a gas chamber or being buried naked in mass shootings. 0:26:00.600 --> 0:26:04.480 I mean to say that it wouldn't have been a 0:26:04.520 --> 0:26:07.440 great thing if every Jew had a gun in Europe. 0:26:07.880 --> 0:26:10.520 You know how sick that person must be to save that. 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:12.640 And there are a lot of Jews who say that 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:16.920 because leftism has poisoned their minds too. A lot of 0:26:17.000 --> 0:26:21.040 Jews are anti Israel. I mean, leftism is a poison. 0:26:21.960 --> 0:26:25.720 It corrupts the conscience, it corrupts the ability to think clearly, 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:29.560 men give birth. You've gotta be kidding. I mean, it 0:26:29.640 --> 0:26:32.280 really is just you know, I'm thirty seven and I 0:26:32.320 --> 0:26:34.720 feel like I'm like ninety years old now looking at 0:26:34.800 --> 0:26:37.320 society and just some of the things that we're saying. 0:26:37.480 --> 0:26:40.840 You know, Netflix having a special He's expecting just people 0:26:40.880 --> 0:26:44.040 believing things that defy logic, that defy reason. It's the 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:46.200 entire reason I name the show you Know the Truth 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:48.320 with Lisa Booth, and the whole point of the show 0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:50.160 is trying to get to the truth of these critical 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:54.879 issues that are facing the country. But it's just h 0:26:54.880 --> 0:26:56.679 I mean, there is a there is a Democrat witness. 0:26:56.720 --> 0:26:59.879 I'm sure you saw, sir h came in front of 0:26:59.880 --> 0:27:02.400 the how a Judiciary committee recently saying that men can 0:27:02.440 --> 0:27:08.360 give birth. It's just it's just what it's called that 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:11.800 that's right. And and what about the Supreme Court justice 0:27:11.880 --> 0:27:15.520 just put on the Supreme Court who couldn't define woman? 0:27:16.119 --> 0:27:20.000 Let biologists do it, which by by irony, we agree 0:27:20.440 --> 0:27:23.080 let biologists that they're the ones who should define it. 0:27:23.480 --> 0:27:27.560 The left doesn't believe that it's a sociological term, not 0:27:27.640 --> 0:27:30.600