Feb. 8, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
04:08
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| The issue is the definition of murder in the Ten Commandments. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| Okay, so I'll try to be concise. | |
| So, we're instructed in different places in the Bible to allow our government to govern and follow the government, and California definition of murder is the taking of a human life with malice aforethought. | |
| But most places I'm aware of have a similar definition, the unlawful taking of the human life, rather, with malice and forethought. | |
| It's the unlawful part that causes me confusion, because laws, man-made laws can change, and abortion, euthanasia, stand-your-ground laws can cloud the morality of murder. | |
| And I was looking so that when we have a conflict like that, I believe we go to God's law. | |
| Well, yeah, but you could say that about any law. | |
| The Ten Commandments gives you the guideline. | |
| Do not murder. | |
| And the truth is, that is exactly the definition. | |
| Murder is illegal, or more precisely, immoral killing, because there is moral killing and immoral killing. | |
| And you cannot, and by the way, malice aforethought is the biblical definition. | |
| If that's California, unknown to them, they are using the biblical definition. | |
| The Torah, which is where all these laws are located, says if he lies in wait, that's malice aforethought. | |
| So that was, I hope that bails you out. | |
| Anyway, thank you, and I'm honored that you're using my commentary. | |
| Orange County, California. | |
| Bill. | |
| Hello, Bill. | |
| Hi, Dennis. | |
| Happy Friday. | |
| That's correct. | |
| Happy Friday to you. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Thank you. | |
| So, I've been listening to you for years, and consider it a blessing. | |
| Thank you. | |
| And welcome. | |
| So, I have one question. | |
| In the past, when you used to speak about political issues, you often referred to your position as moderate, as if it was virtuous, right? | |
| It was important to you. | |
| Right. | |
| I said I was a passionate moderate. | |
| Yeah, and at some point you stopped that. | |
| That's correct. | |
| I was wondering, what changed in your thinking? | |
| Because nothing changed in my thinking. | |
| What changed is the use of the term. | |
| Very, very little of my thinking has changed since I was a liberal and a Democrat. | |
| But today, to be a liberal Democrat in the way I was is to be a conservative. | |
| If liberals understood... | |
| That's exactly what I thought. | |
| I thought, you know, what does it mean to be a moderate? | |
| That has changed. | |
| That's right. | |
| So, therefore, I can't use the term. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| Good for you. | |
| Yes, well, thank you for that. | |
| I've given that a lot of thought. | |
| Of course I stopped using it because it doesn't mean what it meant. | |
| I'm tall, right? | |
| Okay, so I'm 6'4". | |
| Let's say everybody became 6'5". | |
| I would no longer be tall. | |
| That's just, that's, it's, it's, all adjectives are dependent upon the context. | |
| Okay. | |
| I ask friends who knew me from the past, name one issue in which I differ from my liberal past. | |
| And I can't... | |
| You guys have become radicals or pro-radical. | |
| I haven't changed. | |
| To be a conservative today is to be what liberalism... | |
| Oh, one exception. | |
| I take it back. | |
| There is one exception. | |
| Big government. | |
| That's correct. | |
| One sentence from Ronald Reagan changed my life. | |
| Government is not the solution, it's the problem. | |
| And that awakened me. |
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