Oct. 9, 2019 - Dennis Prager Show
02:44
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| Hi, this is Dennis Prager, and this is what you missed yesterday on the show. | |
| So are you saying you believe that people in prison for violent crime, and I mean violence against property like burglary, just as well as violence against body, do you believe that if 40% of Americans outside of prison go to church every Sunday, | |
| do you believe that 40% of the murderers, rapists, Burglars and armed robbers went to church regularly before they went to prison. | |
| Sure. | |
| I mean, that's not a big thing. | |
| We're talking about poverty here, Dennis. | |
| Wait, but you're now changing the subject. | |
| I'm happy to talk poverty. | |
| You said to me that religion doesn't matter because Andersonville, South Carolina is very religious and has a very high crime rate. | |
| So I'm telling you that the way... | |
| So you don't change the subject to poverty. | |
| I'll talk poverty, but you've got to keep it... | |
| What you raised. | |
| I'm answering your question. | |
| The only way to determine whether religion in America is more likely to make you less likely a criminal is to look at the criminal population in prison. | |
| Right. | |
| So how many... | |
| Yeah, I agree. | |
| So the biggest prison population, of course, is Christians, right? | |
| No. | |
| No? | |
| No. | |
| Secularists, not atheists. | |
| I don't care if people... | |
| Believing in God is a meaningless phrase. | |
| Are they Christians? | |
| I asked you, were they practicing Christians? | |
| Whether somebody calls himself Christian or anything else is of no relevance to me. | |
| Do you believe that the same percentage of criminals that go to church as non-criminals that go to church? | |
| Do you believe that? | |
| 40% of the rapists in prison went to church that week, the week they raped? | |
| I don't know, Dennis. | |
| You don't know. | |
| If you had to bet, if you had to bet... | |
| It's a very semantic thing. | |
| It's not semantic. | |
| What does that mean, semantic? | |
| It's the only statistic that matters. | |
| So let's listen to that. | |
| So let's change it from Anderson. | |
| Let's go to Philadelphia, right? | |
| No! | |
| I don't care about... | |
| Okay, all right. | |
| Okay, look. | |
| I don't know what to do. | |
| I'm very glad you called, but I don't know... | |
| I told you geography doesn't matter to me. | |
| Church attendance versus non-church attendance is my criterion. | |
| Not where they live. | |
| Where they live is irrelevant. | |
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