March 12, 2021 - Bannon's War Room
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Well the virus has now killed more than a hundred people in China and new cases have been confirmed around the world. | |
| You don't want to frighten the American public. | ||
| France and South Korea have also got evacuation plans. | ||
| But you need to prepare for and assume. | ||
| Broadly warning Americans to avoid all non-essential travel to China. | ||
| This is going to be a real serious problem. | ||
| France, Australia, Canada, the US, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, the list goes on. | ||
| Health officials are investigating more than 100 possible cases in the US. | ||
| Germany, a man has contracted the virus. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| Japan, where a bus driver contracted the virus. | ||
| Coronavirus has killed more than 100 people there and infected more than 4,500. | ||
| We have to prepare for the worst, always. | ||
| Because if you don't, and the worst happens... War Room. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Why has this administration been so reluctant to call it a crisis, with a huge uptick in the number of migrants being detained, including thousands of children? | ||
| If that doesn't qualify as a crisis, what does? | ||
| Well, because we think that it's most important to explain the substantive policy of what's happening, what the root causes are of why these kids are coming, and what we're doing to try to solve what is a very challenging circumstance at the border. | ||
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And that's the information the American people are looking for. | |
| So that's what we're working to provide. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Mm-hmm. | ||
| Hola. | ||
| Hola. | ||
| You can tell the migrants from right there for a month now, all the way back to February 10th, that now is not the time to come. | ||
| But they are coming in bigger numbers every day. | ||
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So do you have a messaging problem? | |
| Well, I would say that in the last administration, we had a morality problem. | ||
| Live from our nation's capital, you're in the War Room. | ||
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| Very special guest today. | ||
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| Okay, very special War Room today. | ||
| A very special guest, not just the top, I think, public intellectual in the country, obviously the top public intellectual, conservative intellectual, founder of Prager University, beyond a talk radio host or a radio host or a media host, much better than that, much bigger than that, I consider him the American Socrates. | ||
| It is Dennis Prager and he joins us. | ||
| So Dennis, I want to get into it. | ||
| We've only got an hour. | ||
| We've got so much ground to cover. | ||
| I have a question. | ||
| Is Jen Psaki, is she right? | ||
| Is this come down to what's happening on our southern border right now? | ||
| This issue we've been dealing with for 10, 20, 30 years, but really intensely for the last 10. | ||
| Is this a morality? | ||
| Is this an issue about the morality of the Trump administration and its policy, sir? | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And he believed that it was not moral to allow unlimited numbers of people into a country without their going through legal channels. | ||
| This has been the belief of every sovereign country in the history of sovereign countries. | ||
| You do not have a country if you do not have a border. | ||
| You do not have a home if you do not have trespassing laws. | ||
| I don't understand what the difference is between Jen Psaki's home and Jen Psaki's country. | ||
| Isn't my country my home? | ||
| I don't think she feels that way. | ||
| This is not meant as a personal attack. | ||
| I don't feel anyone on the left feels this is their home. | ||
| If you think it's your home, you protect it. | ||
| And I might add, I have said all of my life that the people coming in are often very good people. | ||
| The issue is not the goodness of these people. | ||
| The issue is the procedure of allowing people into a country when you have a border. | ||
| Is it not obvious that we cannot have an unlimited number of people come into the country? | ||
| Even legally, as it were, you can't have an unlimited number. | ||
| It's not feasible. | ||
| It ends your country. | ||
| No matter how wonderful those people are, it ends your country. | ||
| We cannot afford it. | ||
| We cannot make our poor people or poorer people. | ||
| We don't have many poor people. | ||
| We have poorer people. | ||
| We cannot render them jobless, which is what this is, and which is why big business is in 100% agreement with the left on this issue, and for that matter, every other issue to the best of my knowledge. | ||
| So yes, there This and virtually every issue of life turns out to be a moral issue. | ||
| In that regard, I would agree with her, though the upshot of her comment was not that. | ||
| It was, his was an immoral way of looking at immigration. | ||
| That's what she really meant to say. | ||
| Let's pull the camera back just for a second. | ||
| And because you've had very strong beliefs about this current, the CCP virus crisis, what came out of Wuhan and what should have been the correct policies about it. | ||
| Last night you saw Joe Biden, and he's been deemed today to be the commander in grief, right? | ||
| Kind of the therapeutic society. | ||
| And that's what America needed was a pat on the head and a hug. | ||
| And about Trump, orange man bad, orange man immoral, orange man amoral. | ||
| Overall, given Trump's policies on COVID, other policies about America first, American sovereignty, and particularly this issue on the southern border, how would you compare and contrast Because I think everything that they imply is that the Trump administration was either immoral or amoral in their choices, in their policy choices. | ||
| What would you say to that? | ||
| I judge presidents, and for that matter, not just presidents of the United States, I judge presidents of chess clubs by their policies, not by their tweets. | ||
| Not that all his tweets were bad, but many of them were over the top. | ||
| I fully acknowledge that. | ||
| But it's irrelevant. | ||
| If you were to judge the man's policies, he increased goodness on earth more than any president of my lifetime. | ||
| I'll give an example. | ||
| Who would have predicted Arab country after Arab country having a peace agreement with Israel? | ||
| Does that not increase goodness on the face of the earth? | ||
| Isn't that all that matters? | ||
| Can you say that after your administration, more good was done than harm? | ||
| If that is the criterion, how could one regard Trump as evil? | ||
| What is evil is what the left is doing to the Western world. | ||
| What was evil was not allowing people to visit dying relatives for a year. | ||
| That was evil. | ||
| If the word evil means anything, that was evil. | ||
| Masks work, but you cannot visit your dying mother. | ||
| She has to die alone, or she has to lie there alone for nine months, or now a year, even though you will wear a mask, which presumably works. | ||
| I have said on my radio show, and I know my listeners know this is true, and I know this is true, I would have violated every hospital rule to visit a dying friend or a dying relative and been arrested. | ||
| And proudly so. | ||
| I will not allow my mother to die alone. | ||
| End of issue. | ||
| And so the people who perpetrate evil on a regular basis, the firing of people for making comments that are perfectly legitimate, The distorting of the educational process, that's evil. | ||
| Teaching children drag queen story hours from the age of five, that's more evil. | ||
| Telling them the 1619 Project is true when anti-Trump historians said the Times' 1619 Project was a lie. | ||
| I mean, the list of evils from the left It's so enormous, that's what they had to do. | ||
| It's like Stalin called Trotsky a fascist. | ||
| Stalin, the father of the Red Army, the father of communism, along with Lenin, was a fascist. | ||
| Because the left, since Lenin, has used smear, not argument. | ||
| And that is what we are seeing in the United States. | ||
| Let's go back to the, I'm going to go back to the Abraham Accords. | ||
| We're jumping ahead, we're going to do that in a later section, but the left's argument would be, hey, understand, and you say it's for better good, but their argument's going to be, that's a bunch of corrupt Gulf Emirate, you know, dictatorships, monarchies, they're totally corrupt, top to bottom, supporting the railhead of the Judeo-Christian West, the patriarchy. | ||
| Right? | ||
| The Judeo-Christian West of Athens and Jerusalem and Rome. | ||
| It's at Jerusalem you've got really the beginnings of the patriarchy. | ||
| And that's what this movement's really about. | ||
| This movement's really about, hey, you guys have had 10,000 years. | ||
| You've botched it to date. | ||
| The planet's about to be burned up in climate change. | ||
| All of that. | ||
| And what Trump did is that because Orange Man bad, Right. | ||
| His partners, these corrupt monarchies, partnered with the top patriarchy. | ||
| In fact, now they're accusing it of being the biggest part of white supremacism is actually Israel, right? | ||
| Because the Judeo-Christian West is evil top to bottom. | ||
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What would be your response to that? | |
| Where outside of the Judeo-Christian world was slavery banned? | ||
| Where outside of the Judeo-Christian world were women given equal rights? | ||
| Where out of the Judeo-Christian world did races live in harmony, as ultimately did develop uniquely in the United States, the most multi-racial, multi-ethnic country in the world? | ||
| Where outside of the Judeo-Christian world did you produce free speech for people? | ||
| Virtually everything good that we know of was produced in the Judeo-Christian world. | ||
| It took a long time, because people stink. | ||
| The whole issue boils down to, aside from God, it boils down to do you recognize how awful human nature is? | ||
| Given how awful human nature is, the achievement of the West is all the more staggering. | ||
| Given how awful human nature is, the achievement of the United States as an essentially decent country, is all the more remarkable. | ||
| Comparing the West to utopia is the way to produce hell. | ||
| The road to hell is always paved by utopian ideas and utopian goals. | ||
| We have produced something remarkable here. | ||
| But you can't even say that Beethoven was remarkable. | ||
| You can't even say that Shakespeare was remarkable. | ||
| The Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university, took down the mural—that's the Department of English again—took down the mural of William Shakespeare, the greatest English writer, for a reason. | ||
| And they said the reason. | ||
| He was a white, European male. | ||
| So they put up, and heterosexual presumably, so they put up instead a picture of a non-white female lesbian. | ||
| And why? | ||
| Is she as great a writer as Shakespeare? | ||
| No one contends that. | ||
| But they don't judge excellence. | ||
| The West is excellent because it rewarded excellence. | ||
| I am a part-time conductor. | ||
| I'm very involved in classical music. | ||
| And in Japan, You have more people involved in Bach and Beethoven in Japan than you have in the United States. | ||
| Kids are raised with Bach and Beethoven in Japan. | ||
| They believe that is the greatest music ever written. | ||
| Japanese are not white. | ||
| They don't love Beethoven because he's white. | ||
| They love Beethoven because he's great. | ||
| There is a desire to tear down greatness. | ||
| The very notion of greatness, or even for that matter, mathematical accuracy, is now described as white supremacy. | ||
| It is literally accurate to say the West is at stake at this time. | ||
| Dennis Prager is our guest. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| we're going to return to the war room in just a moment. | ||
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War room. | |
| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon, and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| You have the right to remain silent. | ||
| AIM. | ||
| Anything you say will be used against you. | ||
| You are not listening! | ||
| I want your job to be taken from you. | ||
| A protest has turned violent at California Berkeley. | ||
| This is why we're fighting for the soul of America. | ||
| You should be able to share ideas without fear of being fired from your job or shouted down. | ||
| You are not to be heard. | ||
| This is one of the few things one could say we have no precedent for in the United States. | ||
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You have the right to remain silent. | |
| The only way we separate the good ideas from the bad ideas is to be free to say whatever we want about them. | ||
| Anything you say will be used against you. | ||
| There's no free speech for a fascist. | ||
| Your posts on Facebook, Twitter, and social media will be safe to shame you. | ||
| Kevin Hart has stepped down from hosting this year's Oscars. | ||
| Anything you say that we don't like will be used to shut you up. | ||
| Charles Murray, go away! Racist, sexist, in my head! | ||
| You can't be funny. | ||
| It's creating an atmosphere of fear and repression and it's gonna bust. | ||
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You cannot think differently. | |
| It makes it difficult for you to learn from other people. | ||
| Isn't it spooky we're having this discussion? | ||
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You can't challenge us! | |
| Kids grew up dipped in Purell playing soccer games where they never kept score. | ||
| There is no debate. | ||
| The type of diversity that they hate is diversity of thought. | ||
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We reserve the right to be offended by everything. | |
| No university should ever create a safe space. | ||
| You're not going to protect people and so the best you can do is to make them strong. | ||
| It bothers me for the young people who are being deprived of anything that could open their minds. | ||
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You have the right to remain silent. | |
| You have the right to remain silent. | ||
| Okay, if you're in the war room, you're in the arena. | ||
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| Okay, our guest here in the War Room today is Dennis Prager. | ||
| One of the most respected, forget talk radio hosts, respected commentators, I think one of the most respected individuals in this country. | ||
| And talk about prescient, that movie No Safe Spaces with Adam Carolla was made back I think in 2018 and 19, released in 2019. | ||
| 2018 and 19, released in 2019, it is so current today about what this issue is. | ||
| However, Dennis Prager has been talking about this for 30 years. | ||
| Dennis, what is the situation we're currently in? | ||
| You predicted this day was coming. | ||
| Did you ever think it would be this bad? | ||
| And how did we get here? | ||
| Don't ask me if I ever thought this would be this bad. | ||
| The worst question I could be asked is, are you optimistic or pessimistic? | ||
| I don't want to engender pessimism in people, but at the same time, I don't care about optimism or pessimism. | ||
| Because they're both excuses not to fight. | ||
| If you're an optimist, you figure, hey, things will work out. | ||
| Why should I fight? | ||
| If you're a pessimist, you say things will be awful. | ||
| Why should I fight? | ||
| So I don't give a damn. | ||
| I can say that I don't give a damn about optimism or pessimism. | ||
| I am not surprised. | ||
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No. | |
| And I'll tell you why and why I knew this 30 years ago. | ||
| And I knew this in graduate school by incredibly good luck. | ||
| I majored in something almost nobody majored in. | ||
| It was called Communist Affairs. | ||
| It was at Columbia University at the Russian Institute, the School of International Affairs. | ||
| My advisor was Beginia Brzezinski, who became the National Security Council person in the Jimmy Carter administration. | ||
| I learned Russian in order to read Pravda, the Soviet communist newspaper. | ||
| And I spent a lot of time in communist countries from Poland to Bulgaria and back, back North and South and Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union. | ||
| And the thing you need to know about the left, and I always contrast the left with liberals, liberals are naive, liberals are weak. | ||
| Liberals do not fight, but they're not leftists. | ||
| Liberals do believe in free speech. | ||
| The left has never, that's why I knew this so long ago. | ||
| The left has never believed in free speech. | ||
| There is no example of the left becoming powerful or gaining power and allowing dissent. | ||
| Whether it was Russia, when the Bolsheviks took over, or the university, when our Bolsheviks took over. | ||
| You don't have free speech anywhere. | ||
| And the reason is very simple. | ||
| They are ruined by dissent. | ||
| When I go to a college campus, I know that I can undo four years of indoctrination with a one-hour speech. | ||
| We undo four years of indoctrination with five-minute videos at PragerU. | ||
| It's why they hate those videos. | ||
| It's very easy to undo, intellectually and morally, undo the left. | ||
| That's why they don't want us to speak, because they're so easily undone. | ||
| It's why they don't debate. | ||
| That is why it is so rare for anyone on the left to come on my radio show, even though I'm known. | ||
| I had Howard Zinn on. | ||
| And I treated him respectfully, even though I think he was one of the most damaging human beings in American history. | ||
| But I figure if I don't treat guests that I differ with respectfully, I'll get none of them to come on. | ||
| But even with all my respect, they won't come on. | ||
| They don't debate. | ||
| They suppress. | ||
| So I am not surprised. | ||
| If the Judeo-Christian West, if we're so exceptional, and we've done such a great job, how is it that our universities, which should have been, if you look back to Athens and the Academy, they should have been the centers of great learning and wisdom and propelled us into the future with more, not just knowledge and understanding, but wisdom. | ||
| How was it that the universities became the fever swamps of this cultural Marxism? | ||
| Well, here's my answer. | ||
| It's on the internet if anybody wants to search it. | ||
| I write a column every week, so there are literally 1,000 of them up there, 20 years worth. | ||
| One of my columns was, How I Found God at Columbia. | ||
| And here's the story in a nutshell. | ||
| Walking around the Columbia campus, and I was going a little nuts. | ||
| I was learning nonsense from very bright people. | ||
| Men and women were basically the same. | ||
| I was taught that in the 70s. | ||
| This is not new. | ||
| I was taught that the Soviet Union and the United States were moral equivalents. | ||
| They just had different economic systems. | ||
| That was the way it was taught to me. | ||
| And I kept thinking, why do bright people teach me nonsense? | ||
| And then, I give you my word, it never happened before and it never happened after. | ||
| Out of nowhere, a Bible verse came to my brain that I had said in a religious Jewish school which I attended until I was 18, yeshiva, and I studied half the day in Hebrew. | ||
| So the verse came to me in the original Hebrew, wisdom begins with fear of God. | ||
| And then I made my great epiphany. | ||
| And that was, no God, no wisdom. | ||
| There are many religious people who have no wisdom. | ||
| But there is no secular institution that has wisdom. | ||
| And the most secular institution of all is the university. | ||
| Where do they get wisdom from? | ||
| If not the Bible, where do they get it from? | ||
| Karl Marx? | ||
| The New York Times editorial page? | ||
| Seriously, I've asked people on my radio show, it's been a laboratory of thought, my radio show. | ||
| Call me up and tell me where you get your wisdom, if not from the Bible. | ||
| I get my wisdom from the Bible, the wisest book ever written by far, and that's how I understand life. | ||
| How do you understand life? | ||
| So people call up and they go, well, from my experiences in life. | ||
| So then I said, well, if that's the case, if you, if all of your wisdom comes from your own experiences, you will have to acknowledge that you had no wisdom at 18, 19, 20, 21, or 30. | ||
| Why do we give the vote to people with no wisdom? | ||
| I mean, isn't that fair? | ||
| Unwise people make unwise decisions. | ||
| So the answer in a nutshell is, The Yale and Princeton and Harvard and Columbia, they were founded in order to teach theology and other subjects. | ||
| Theology literally means the study of God. | ||
| You couldn't get a BA at Harvard until the 1800s if you didn't know Hebrew so that you could read the Old Testament. | ||
| And today, I would say that the average Columbia senior could not identify Cain and Abel. | ||
| So, where do they get their wisdom from? | ||
| There's no source. | ||
| And that, in a nutshell, is your answer. | ||
| The secular world produces knowledge and no wisdom. | ||
| Unfortunately, wisdom is the key to goodness. | ||
| No wisdom, and you are guaranteed evil. | ||
| Before we go to break, I just want to announce from my vast library, I actually brought down from my room, my bedroom upstairs, the two of my favorite books, Dennis Prager's Genesis, The Rational Bible and Exodus. | ||
| And I understand, Dennis, you're going to be coming out with a third volume this year. | ||
| Right. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| These are amazing books. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| This this this this is the great Endeavor of my life is to explain the first five books of the Bible because everything in the Bible New and Old Testament is based on the first five books That's where we get love your neighbor the Ten Commandments God Adam and Eve everything comes from the first five books and I explain almost every verse so I Don't normally push what I write. | ||
| I've written ten books. | ||
| I'm proud of all of them but this nobody writes a Bible commentary to get wealthy and I wrote it to touch people's lives. | ||
| People should look at Amazon, the 2,500 reviews of the books. | ||
| It touches your life, so I hope people will read it. | ||
| No, it's an amazing book, and I strongly recommend them to everybody. | ||
| I'm looking forward to the third volume. | ||
| Okay, we're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back with the founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager, in the War Room next. | ||
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Pandemic. | |
| With Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| Our guest, Dennis Prager, has traveled to all 50 states, 130 countries, and has lectured on all seven continents or seven continents. | ||
| He's the author of The Rational Bible, many books, but The Rational Bible, which is really, I think, a line-by-line analysis of both Genesis and Exodus. | ||
| I strongly recommend it. | ||
| You can delve into these books, spend as much time as you want. | ||
| Incredibly rewarding and enlightening. | ||
| So, Dennis, if the Judeo-Christian West is so exceptional, And really, you know, the New Jerusalem of America, this vast wilderness created the greatest civilization, material civilization, that went back and saved the old world on multiple occasions. | ||
| How was it that the cultural Marxism, the incubus, got in to our centers of learning, where we would turn over our children At the age of what, 17 and 18 and 19? | ||
| Still in that age of formation. | ||
| How did that happen? | ||
| And how did this radical secularization happen in the United States? | ||
| I would only add, and then I'll answer you, that it now starts at age five, not at age 17. | ||
| The elementary school and the high school are as corrosive to one's intellect and character. | ||
| As the colleges, by the time they're in college, they're already prepared for this indoctrination. | ||
| Your question is what we used to say the $64,000 question. | ||
| So one quick answer, which people are not generally aware of is American universities did not generally give out doctorates. | ||
| So what they did at the end of the 19th century was send people to Germany, to German universities, to get doctorates and then come back to the United States and teach. | ||
| Germany was already teaching what we would call today cultural Marxism. | ||
| And, you know, I have a theory that, with tongue in cheek, but nevertheless fairly accurate, Germany is always wrong. | ||
| It's a helpful little key to understanding the world, and that includes Angela Merkel. | ||
| So, they learned these secular ideas. | ||
| A big state, which is the antithesis of the American experiment in freedom of little state, big citizen. | ||
| You have a choice. | ||
| Either the individual is big, or the state is big, and the left chooses, needless to say, the state, and we are We are nothing in its shadow or in its control. | ||
| Number two, the antipathy to the Judeo-Christian value system comes from a very deep place in the human being. | ||
| People don't want to be judged. | ||
| A man by the name of Ernest Vanden Hague, I've written a book on anti-Semitism. | ||
| I taught Jewish history at Brooklyn College. | ||
| I have some knowledge of this arena. | ||
| Ernest Vanden Hegg wrote perhaps the most lucid analysis of anti-Semitism, and it's a very short book, called The Jewish Mystique. | ||
| And he was not Jewish, and he saw it clearly. | ||
| He said the Jews brought into the world an invisible judging God, and they have never been forgiven for it. | ||
| And that's what Americans believed in. | ||
| Anyone believing in the Judeo-Christian value system believes in a judging God. | ||
| People don't want to be judged. | ||
| So there is an immediate appeal to the overthrow of the Judeo-Christian tradition. | ||
| I'm not judged. | ||
| There is no right and wrong. | ||
| Not only is there no right and wrong morally, there is no right and wrong now in math. | ||
| The Oregon Education Department has announced that the idea that there is one right answer in math is a form of white supremacy. | ||
| That's actually their position, and Bill Gates gave them a million dollars to further that idea. | ||
| Another one of the more destructive people living today. | ||
| The wealthy have decided to undo the West. | ||
| I'm not exactly sure why. | ||
| Maybe guilt, maybe boredom. | ||
| That brings me to number three. | ||
| The success of the United States produced massive boredom among secular young people. | ||
| I wasn't bored for many reasons when I was a young person, but a big one was I was religious. | ||
| So the yearning for meaning, which is the antithesis of boredom, I don't mean boredom nothing to do today, but I'm boredom of the soul. | ||
| I had, like Christian kids had, I had an answer. | ||
| My religion filled the yearning desire that is built into the human being. | ||
| What secularism has produced is secular answers to the yearning for meaning. | ||
| And so you get all the substitute isms for Christianity, for example, in the West. | ||
| Humanism, Marxism, feminism, environmentalism, these are all secular religions, and they answer The yearning that the whole, that the death of Christianity has left. | ||
| Heinrich Heine, the greatest German poet who ever lived, wrote a hundred years, right? | ||
| A hundred years almost to the day before Hitler took over. | ||
| He said, and he was a secular Jew, he was a completely non-practicing, non-religious Jew, but I'm mentioning this because he wasn't even a Christian when he wrote this. | ||
| He said it's the cross that has prevented the Germans from unleashing their barbarity on the world. | ||
| If that cross is crushed, we will have hell to pay. | ||
| When Christianity died in the West, we got fascism, communism, and Nazism. | ||
| When it dies in the United States, we get what you saw last year and worse. | ||
| Let's talk about that. | ||
| We've been doing the persecutions of all the faiths, starting at CPAC and going through, but we had a special last week on the persecution of the Jews of Europe and the global rise of anti-Semitism and focused on the United States. | ||
| Why does it seem that secular governments and even atheistic governments like the Chinese Communist Party, but others throughout the world, why is it now Regardless of faith, you're seeing this, not just oppression, but actual persecutions, whether it's Jews in Europe, Christians throughout the world. | ||
| What is causing this and what do you believe is going to be the outcome? | ||
| There is only one thing that stands in the way of communist totalitarianism, and that is religion. | ||
| It almost doesn't matter which religion. | ||
| The Muslims of Afghanistan resisted the Soviets. | ||
| Attempt to conquer Afghanistan. | ||
| The Catholics in Poland resisted communism in Poland. | ||
| The Christians of other countries, like Romania, were the only organized opposition to Ceausescu. | ||
| In the United States, the only organized, there are many secular opponents, but the only organized opposition to the left, again not the liberal, the left, is the church, or mostly evangelical churches, and of course Orthodox Jews and traditional Catholics, but mostly evangelical Christians. | ||
| So they know they can't win if there is a vibrant religious alternative to the left. | ||
| So they know what must be suppressed. | ||
| They loathe, look, Marx loathed it, Lenin loathed it, they loathe religion. | ||
| Because, again, it offers an objective moral standard backed by a judging God. | ||
| Do you know, Prager University has put out about 455 minute videos. | ||
| We put out one every week. | ||
| Almost all of our videos are attacked by the left, which is fine. | ||
| We have a billion views a year, so they know they need to attack us. | ||
| Interestingly, I have monitored what are the most mocked videos that we put out. | ||
| And if there is a consistent answer, as much as the ones defending capitalism, defending America, saying America is not racist, they're attacked tremendously. | ||
| But the most mocked are any video that argues for the necessity of God and the Judeo-Christian faiths that have emanated from that. | ||
| That's what really, really gets them. | ||
| What would be your call? | ||
| We got a couple of minutes in this segment. | ||
| We're going to talk about transhumanism in the next segment. | ||
| But I want to I want to wrap this up by the reason this show is so powerful is not because of us, but because of this audience. | ||
| And it's about agency and human action. | ||
| What would be your recommendation? | ||
| I mean, you've started Prager University. | ||
| You've got an amazing show that's nationwide and people listen to with millions and millions of followers. | ||
| You're you're an author of profound books. | ||
| What would be your call to the person in this audience of what action they need to take if they want to defend this republic? | ||
| Okay, I deal with that a lot. | ||
| People call in with great angst on this issue. | ||
| So my answer number one, good people are divided into three groups. | ||
| Those who fight, those who help the fighters and those who do nothing. | ||
| A good person who cares about goodness cannot do nothing. | ||
| So you either fight or you help the fighters. | ||
| By the way, helping fighters is just as important as fighting. | ||
| The fighters cannot fight without help. | ||
| So you help the sponsors of Talk Radio. | ||
| You help your show. | ||
| You help PragerU. | ||
| You help Turning Point USA. | ||
| You subscribe to The Daily Wire. | ||
| I mean, it's endless how these little things are massively helpful. | ||
| You subscribe to these podcasts, etc. | ||
| But if you want to fight directly, then you speak out. | ||
| Then you put out articles that are powerful. | ||
| Or tweets that are powerful on your Facebook account, on your Twitter account, and so on. | ||
| You will be hated for it. | ||
| You might lose friends for it. | ||
| Although my view is, if you do, that these are not people you would really have wanted in your life anyway. | ||
| If you can't respectfully share your beliefs about that America is not systemically racist, If you can say that without losing a friend, you should be happy you didn't waste more time with that friend. | ||
| But people have to be prepared for the blowback. | ||
| It's very hard at first. | ||
| I'm inured. | ||
| I'm used to blowback, but I got inured to it. | ||
| Most people are not. | ||
| That's why you have these terrible apologies like the The quarterback, Breeze, what is his first name? | ||
| Was it Drew Breeze? | ||
| Drew Breeze. | ||
| He made a comment, New Orleans Saints quarterback. | ||
| He said that it's like a year ago or I don't even think it's longer than that. | ||
| I mean, just maybe a year and a half. | ||
| You know, he thinks people should stand for the national anthem. | ||
| He cherishes the flag. | ||
| And the blowback was so intense within one day. | ||
| he retracted his entire statement. This happens all the time. People make perfectly legitimate comments and then they withdraw it and then they grovel like in the Chinese Cultural Revolution. | ||
| Everyone should read a book on Mao to understand what is happening now. The persecution of people so that they grovel. It is important to grovel. That is the worst thing you could do. | ||
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| Thank you. | ||
| Right before we go to break, the third volume, when is it going to come out and what books, what's going to be the title? | ||
| Well, the third volume, they're all called the Rational Bible. | ||
| It's the first five books of the Bible, the five books of Moses, the Pentateuch, the Torah, however you call it. | ||
| It's the basis of everything, and I took Deuteronomy as the third volume. | ||
| It was tougher than Genesis and Exodus. | ||
| It has 200 laws, many of them very difficult for moderns to understand, but I'm blessed with a real good knowledge of biblical Hebrew and its grammar. | ||
| And I've been teaching it my whole life, and I explain it. | ||
| So it's Deuteronomy, the fifth of the five books, the third volume of the Rational Bible. | ||
| October. | ||
| Be out this fall. | ||
| October. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| Back with Dennis Prager in a moment. | ||
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| Pandemic. | ||
| With Stephen K. Banham. | ||
| The epidemic is a demon and we cannot let this demon hide. | ||
| War Room. | ||
| Pandemic. | ||
| Here's your host, Stephen K. Bannon. | ||
| I mean, clearly, using CRISPR to protect us against virus is a great idea. | ||
| Using CRISPR, as the Chinese doctor did to Jeanette at a baby, not a good idea. | ||
| And even the Chinese put him in prison for three years. | ||
| They think that had gone a step too far. | ||
| But as this progresses and it becomes more widespread, there's going to have to be some kind of either regulatory body or somebody sitting there saying, this is OK and this is not OK. | ||
| And who's going to play that role? | ||
| I think that's Katie Kaye of BBC talking about the book Codebreaker this week with Walter Isaacson and Morning Joe, our favorite show, right? | ||
| I guess your old mentor, your professor's daughter, Mika, is the co-host. | ||
| The book Codebreaker about the Jennifer Doudna, gene editing and the future of the human race. | ||
| Also, this other book, as we've talked about on the show, Homo Deus by the Israeli historian Yuval Harari, about the brief history of tomorrow, talking about The post humans. | ||
| So Dennis, for you, because you're someone that thinks about first principles, you spend a lot of time to think about meaning. | ||
| You said, I think there's a tweet out there about you at 13, you were thinking about the afterlife, God, the meaning of life. | ||
| There was a French entrepreneur that talked to the guys at the National Rally. | ||
| Conference last year and he stood up and he's in the biotech business. | ||
| He said Enhanced man is eternal man and that man has already been born What are the set of problems and issues you see from a moral point of view that now as we're closing on the singularity, which could happen in the next 5, 10, 15 years, we don't know, the convergence of advanced chip design and gene editing brings it closer and closer that somehow man will surpass the homo sapien. | ||
| What say you, sir? | ||
| This is a perfect example of the religious versus the secular mindset. | ||
| We believe that we're created in God's image. | ||
| There is something sacred about the human being as created. | ||
| We would obviously like to help prevent disease and make people healthier. | ||
| But to enter the realm of the Creator, the Garden of Eden story is well known, but I don't know if people follow it quite as avidly as they should. | ||
| The serpent says to Eve, eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. | ||
| The only thing they couldn't do in the garden was eat from that tree. | ||
| They could eat from every other tree. | ||
| And what was the temptation? | ||
| The serpent said, because if you do, you'll be like God. | ||
| And that's the human urge, is to be like God. | ||
| The left embodies that idea. | ||
| It began, Marx said man is God, Engels said God is man. | ||
| And that is what they believe. | ||
| Man is God. | ||
| So the idea that we would create a new human, just like God created this old human, is perfectly acceptable and indeed demanded. | ||
| The desire to be a God is a deep human yearning. | ||
| Let's build a tower to reach up onto the heavens. | ||
| That's the next story in Genesis. | ||
| We want to be up in the heavens, but that violates the principle the heavens are for God and the earth is for man, a Psalm verse. | ||
| I don't have any yearning to be godlike. | ||
| It's an interesting thing. | ||
| I mean, I have a healthy ego, but I have no desire to be like that. | ||
| That's why I wrote my piece, if I may just diverge a drop, I wrote my column a few weeks ago called The Good German, and I spoke about how I've undergone one of the few great changes in my thinking in the last year. | ||
| I mean, I've always modified thoughts, but this was a great change. | ||
| I've always dismissed the good German, the German who did nothing to hurt a Jew, but who did nothing to hurt the Nazis as well, as a sort of a crappy person. | ||
| And then I realized that the fear of retribution keeps masses of people from protesting the deprivation of liberty. | ||
| In my state of California, I have not been able to eat in a restaurant, just as an example. | ||
| And so thousands of people have been put out of work, some permanently, in the restaurant business. | ||
| Because Gavin Newsom and the rest of the left, they have God-like views of themselves. | ||
| I can shut you down because I want to and can. | ||
| Whereas our side doesn't have that yearning. | ||
| This is the root of the issue. | ||
| So your transhuman, let's make a new human, is very much a result of the secularization of humanity. | ||
| Dennis, we've got about a minute left. | ||
| How do people get to you? | ||
| What's the best way, the best site, PragerU, all of it, and how do they follow you? | ||
| Well, so there are two big basic sites. | ||
| To get a hold of me is through DennisPrager.com. | ||
| To watch PragerU stuff is PragerU. | ||
| You should show it to your children. | ||
| They will learn more from our videos than virtually at any school in the country. | ||
| I'm not saying that with any joy, but it just is a fact. | ||
| That's PragerUniversity or PragerU.com. | ||
| So there are two ways. | ||
| Again, the first way, and I ask people to read the Rational Bible because that's the only way out of the abyss right now, is to understand the profundity. | ||
| Read this stuff to your kids. | ||
| It doesn't matter if they go to school because they don't get wisdom at school. | ||
| But they would get wisdom from this. | ||
| You could pre-order the Deuteronomy. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I want you to know, Steve, I'm so touched that you have them there. | ||
| I just want people watching to know I didn't send them to you. | ||
| They're your copies. | ||
| I look forward to signing them in person with one of my trusty fountain pens. | ||
| I'm a big fountain pen lover and cigar lover and lover lover. | ||
| I love life. | ||
| And so do you. | ||
| Well, thank you for coming on. | ||
| Spend the hour with us. | ||
| People have to get these books. | ||
| I keep them up on my bed stand next to them and dive into them every night. | ||
| And in the morning, Dennis Prager, thank you so much for joining us. | ||
| Tomorrow, the CCP's war plan. | ||
| Frank Gaffney will join me as co-host here. | ||
| We've got Gordon Chang, we've got Stephen Mosher, many others. | ||
| Two hours to go through the totalitarian dictatorship that is destroying the Chinese people, Chinese civilization, and is a genocidal regime out to take over the Eurasian landmass and end the world tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the War Room. |
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