Dennis Prager Show - Compound Unhappiness
Aired: 2020-02-21
Duration: 03:13


=== People's Rationalization of Suffering (03:09) ===

[00:00:00]  But because I truly think it compounds unhappiness, this irrational belief that I'm actually addressing the topic, the happiness hour.
[00:00:14]  I mean, there is always the possibility that it brings people some comfort because people hate chaos.
[00:00:23]  People, I wonder, is it...
[00:00:26]  Do some people prefer to believe they're being punished by God to tragedy happens?
[00:00:36]  You ever think of that?
[00:00:39]  You think that that's possible?
[00:00:42]  Because I find it so incredible that somebody would think that way.
[00:00:49]  I mean, what is their view of God?
[00:00:50]  I mean, that can't make you happy.
[00:00:54]  God took my child's life because I'm so bad?
[00:00:58]  Did the worst thing possible?
[00:01:03]  You know, how does that portray God?
[00:01:06]  Look, I have enough difficulty with, which I believe is a parable, the Job story.
[00:01:11]  You know, Satan with his deal with God.
[00:01:15]  I have enough problems with that.
[00:01:17]  But that's a story to make a point about suffering in God's existence.
[00:01:24]  But this really doesn't...
[00:01:28]  I don't see how this can add to a person's happiness.
[00:01:35]  You've lost your child and then you think you are so awful as to have deserved it.
[00:01:43]  That's what we call compound unhappiness.
[00:01:50]  Good people...
[00:01:51]  I mean, good people suffer.
[00:01:54]  It's one of the most obvious lessons of the human condition.
[00:02:00]  And some bad people don't.
[00:02:07]  Yes, indeed.
[00:02:08]  Yes, indeed.
[00:02:09]  Thank you.
[00:02:17]  Not only does it depict God as cruel, Because of the punishment to the parent.
[00:02:23]  What does it say about the punishment to the person?
[00:02:26]  Did he or she deserve to die?
[00:02:31]  And does God use children to punish parents?
[00:02:36]  When there's a biblical phrase, children shall not die for the sins of the parents, nor parents for the sins of their children?
[00:02:46]  Alright, that's why I put it on the Happiness Hour.
[00:02:49]  It's bad enough to have such tragedy than to compound it with, gee, I deserved it.

=== Heart Goes Out (00:19) ===

[00:03:00]  I mean, you know, I admit if you smoke cigarettes for 30 years, two packs a day, and you get lung cancer, it's not a punishment.
[00:03:07]  It's a sad consequence.
[00:03:09]  And my heart goes out to you anyway.
[00:03:12]  We'll be back.