April 1, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
07:11
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| I've always wondered which is the most powerful emotion, hatred or love? | |
| If you've been in love, then your love is the most powerful, I think. | |
| But that's a... | |
| Also, if you love... | |
| When you know how much you love your kids, let's say, you can't imagine an emotion that is more powerful than that. | |
| Maybe sadness or grief if they die. | |
| Anyway, these are things I think about. | |
| What is ultimately more powerful? | |
| It depends on the person. | |
| I think that there are people who are much more adept at hatred than at love. | |
| It fills your life. | |
| The trick in life is to be filled with meaning. | |
| And I have never seen this in the United States. | |
| It took me really till recently to even believe that it was so. | |
| That the hatred of Trump can consume a human being. | |
| I had as much disdain for Barack Obama as they do for President Trump. | |
| I thought he was a terrible president. | |
| I thought he damaged our society. | |
| I thought he was a glib man with nothing behind the glibness. | |
| But I was nothing close to being consumed with hate. | |
| I didn't go to bed thinking about him. | |
| I didn't talk to my wife about him, except, you know, discuss any specific issue. | |
| But it's quite remarkable. | |
| I mean, it's a consumption. | |
| It's like consumption. | |
| What was consumption, the early word for tuberculosis? | |
| Well, is that what it was? | |
| People died of consumption? | |
| Yeah. | |
| The country is going to die of its consumption. | |
| Trump's muddled message. | |
| Like you're going to have a completely consistent message. | |
| Anyways, did the LA Times feature on front page, Biden calls Trump's closing of flights from China xenophobic? | |
| Was that on the front page of the LA Times? | |
| I'll buy you a Rolls-Royce, Living Martyr. | |
| Would you like a Rolls-Royce? | |
| I don't think... | |
| I have to say this. | |
| You showing up somewhere in a Rolls-Royce... | |
| First of all, it undoes Living Martyr. | |
| Right? | |
| You could have your license LM64432, but nevertheless, it wouldn't really work. | |
| Let me see. | |
| What did I get? | |
| I got a PragerU license. | |
| Picture of a PragerU license in Minnesota. | |
| We should really encourage that. | |
| It'd be fun to have all the states, somebody in each state, have a PragerU license. | |
| California's taken. | |
| Anyway, this consumption is beyond belief. | |
| It is more important to defeat him than anything else. | |
| It fills their lives with meaning. | |
| What an empty life. | |
| Opposing the President, President Obama did not fill my life with meaning. | |
| What to say? | |
| I am getting a lot of work done on the third volume of the Rational Bible. | |
| I'm on schedule to finish Deuteronomy, the fifth book. | |
| There are five books in the five books of Moses, oddly enough, or the Torah or the Pentateuch. | |
| And they are the basis of Judaism and Christianity, those five books. | |
| Love God is in Deuteronomy. | |
| A lot to say on that one. | |
| You know what is amazing to me? | |
| I'm going to take your calls, but I, you know, I talk about everything here, and this is part of the appeal, I hope. | |
| Every time something awful happens, There will be a piece in some mainstream newspaper or magazine by some clergyman, no less. | |
| Where is God? | |
| And I wonder, if you are a Christian or a Jewish clergyman, you haven't asked that question before? | |
| It took... | |
| It took this particular crisis. | |
| You remember when the ferry went over, the Finnish, was it a Finnish ferry between Finland and Sweden? | |
| It capsized and hundreds drowned. | |
| So I remember a Swedish clergyman, which I was shocked that there was a Swedish clergyman to begin with, just, you know, stood there and into the microphone and, you know, I just don't understand, where was God? | |
| That's a fair statement, but it's like, did you not grapple with this before you were ordained? | |
| The answer is that God allows these things to happen. | |
| I have a lot of questions to God. | |
| But the existence of natural suffering, which is the question, I agree, but then what do you do with it? | |
| What do you do with it? | |
| Oh, okay, then God is not necessary in my life. | |
| Okay, I can't answer why there are, I mean, what about the Black Plague? | |
| Or, for that matter, the Spanish flu. | |
| That was a pandemic, correct? | |
| That was not just the United States. | |
| It was all over. | |
| It killed millions. | |
| Listen. | |
| So I have an answer. | |
| This is my answer. | |
| I know I've broadcast this before. | |
| It's probably worthwhile. | |
| And it's not from me. | |
| It's from a rabbi named Milton Steinberg, who I think said it in the 1950s. | |
| A believer in God has to account for the existence of natural suffering. | |
| Or unjust suffering. | |
| I'll say it again. | |
| The believer in God... | |
| Has to account for the existence of unjust suffering. | |
| The atheist has to account for the existence of everything else. | |
| I have found that, since I heard it, I don't know, 40 years ago, to be the most persuasive answer, the most logical answer. | |
| If you're intellectually honest, the believer in God has intellectual issues, The atheist has intellectual issues. | |
| The atheist has far greater intellectual issues. | |
| That's the point of the Steinberg quote. | |
| And I chose to live a life wherein God is important. | |
| It's a good choice. | |
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| The Dennis Prager Show. |
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