Dennis Prager Show - Hatred or Love, What's the Most Powerful Emotion? Aired: 2020-04-01 Duration: 07:11 === Much More Adept at Hatred (03:02) === [00:00:00] I've always wondered which is the most powerful emotion, hatred or love? [00:00:05] If you've been in love, then your love is the most powerful, I think. [00:00:10] But that's a... [00:00:13] Also, if you love... [00:00:16] When you know how much you love your kids, let's say, you can't imagine an emotion that is more powerful than that. [00:00:27] Maybe sadness or grief if they die. [00:00:32] Anyway, these are things I think about. [00:00:35] What is ultimately more powerful? [00:00:37] It depends on the person. [00:00:39] I think that there are people who are much more adept at hatred than at love. [00:00:44] It fills your life. [00:00:46] The trick in life is to be filled with meaning. [00:00:50] And I have never seen this in the United States. [00:00:55] It took me really till recently to even believe that it was so. [00:01:00] That the hatred of Trump can consume a human being. [00:01:08] I had as much disdain for Barack Obama as they do for President Trump. [00:01:14] I thought he was a terrible president. [00:01:15] I thought he damaged our society. [00:01:17] I thought he was a glib man with nothing behind the glibness. [00:01:22] But I was nothing close to being consumed with hate. [00:01:27] I didn't go to bed thinking about him. [00:01:30] I didn't talk to my wife about him, except, you know, discuss any specific issue. [00:01:37] But it's quite remarkable. [00:01:40] I mean, it's a consumption. [00:01:42] It's like consumption. [00:01:44] What was consumption, the early word for tuberculosis? [00:01:46] Well, is that what it was? [00:01:48] People died of consumption? [00:01:51] Yeah. [00:01:52] The country is going to die of its consumption. [00:01:56] Trump's muddled message. [00:01:57] Like you're going to have a completely consistent message. [00:02:00] Anyways, did the LA Times feature on front page, Biden calls Trump's closing of flights from China xenophobic? [00:02:09] Was that on the front page of the LA Times? [00:02:13] I'll buy you a Rolls-Royce, Living Martyr. [00:02:16] Would you like a Rolls-Royce? [00:02:19] I don't think... [00:02:21] I have to say this. [00:02:22] You showing up somewhere in a Rolls-Royce... [00:02:25] First of all, it undoes Living Martyr. [00:02:28] Right? [00:02:29] You could have your license LM64432, but nevertheless, it wouldn't really work. [00:02:38] Let me see. [00:02:38] What did I get? [00:02:39] I got a PragerU license. [00:02:41] Picture of a PragerU license in Minnesota. [00:02:43] We should really encourage that. [00:02:45] It'd be fun to have all the states, somebody in each state, have a PragerU license. === A Clergyman's Answer (04:24) === [00:02:54] California's taken. [00:02:57] Anyway, this consumption is beyond belief. [00:03:02] It is more important to defeat him than anything else. [00:03:08] It fills their lives with meaning. [00:03:10] What an empty life. [00:03:12] Opposing the President, President Obama did not fill my life with meaning. [00:03:17] What to say? [00:03:20] I am getting a lot of work done on the third volume of the Rational Bible. [00:03:24] I'm on schedule to finish Deuteronomy, the fifth book. [00:03:27] There are five books in the five books of Moses, oddly enough, or the Torah or the Pentateuch. [00:03:36] And they are the basis of Judaism and Christianity, those five books. [00:03:40] Love God is in Deuteronomy. [00:03:44] A lot to say on that one. [00:03:46] You know what is amazing to me? [00:03:49] 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. [00:04:00] Every time something awful happens, There will be a piece in some mainstream newspaper or magazine by some clergyman, no less. [00:04:15] Where is God? [00:04:18] And I wonder, if you are a Christian or a Jewish clergyman, you haven't asked that question before? [00:04:28] It took... [00:04:29] It took this particular crisis. [00:04:31] You remember when the ferry went over, the Finnish, was it a Finnish ferry between Finland and Sweden? [00:04:40] It capsized and hundreds drowned. [00:04:43] 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? [00:04:57] That's a fair statement, but it's like, did you not grapple with this before you were ordained? [00:05:04] The answer is that God allows these things to happen. [00:05:09] I have a lot of questions to God. [00:05:13] But the existence of natural suffering, which is the question, I agree, but then what do you do with it? [00:05:24] What do you do with it? [00:05:26] Oh, okay, then God is not necessary in my life. [00:05:30] Okay, I can't answer why there are, I mean, what about the Black Plague? [00:05:36] Or, for that matter, the Spanish flu. [00:05:41] That was a pandemic, correct? [00:05:42] That was not just the United States. [00:05:44] It was all over. [00:05:45] It killed millions. [00:05:50] Listen. [00:05:51] So I have an answer. [00:05:52] This is my answer. [00:05:53] I know I've broadcast this before. [00:05:55] It's probably worthwhile. [00:05:58] And it's not from me. [00:05:59] It's from a rabbi named Milton Steinberg, who I think said it in the 1950s. [00:06:06] A believer in God has to account for the existence of natural suffering. [00:06:14] Or unjust suffering. [00:06:16] I'll say it again. [00:06:17] The believer in God... [00:06:19] Has to account for the existence of unjust suffering. [00:06:25] The atheist has to account for the existence of everything else. [00:06:33] 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. [00:06:44] If you're intellectually honest, the believer in God has intellectual issues, The atheist has intellectual issues. [00:06:51] The atheist has far greater intellectual issues. [00:06:54] That's the point of the Steinberg quote. [00:06:57] And I chose to live a life wherein God is important. [00:07:04] It's a good choice. [00:07:07] 1-8 Prager 776. Back in a moment. [00:07:10] The Dennis Prager Show.