July 22, 2020 - Dennis Prager Show
05:36
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| Maybe what's going on in the world, in America in particular, has validated, for those of you who are skeptical, the importance of the Ultimate Issues Hour. | |
| Because if you don't get the big issues right, then you're not going to get the little issues right. | |
| Then your life is confused. | |
| The problem in America is that we got the big issues wrong. | |
| We didn't teach them the big stuff. | |
| What is America? | |
| What is religion? | |
| What is liberty? | |
| So this is the reason for the Ultimate Issues Hour. | |
| Every family should have an Ultimate Issues day, week, month, year. | |
| Otherwise, your kids will end up at best confused and at worst mean. | |
| Today's Ultimate Issues Issue is parents and the fifth of the Ten Commandments. | |
| I have taught the Ten Commandments my entire life. | |
| It's a big part, obviously, of my commentary on Exodus. | |
| I'm now two-thirds of the way through. | |
| Finishing the third volume of my commentary. | |
| Also contains the fifth book of the Bible. | |
| Contains the Ten Commandments. | |
| And I have gone through a lot of incarnations with regard to the question of what's the most important of the Ten Commandments. | |
| Because a case could be made for almost any of them. | |
| But right now, and I would say for the last couple of years, I have been for the first time tending toward honor your father and mother. | |
| And I have an interesting basis for it within the Ten Commandments. | |
| I know the Ten Commandments by heart in Hebrew and in English. | |
| I know them pretty well. | |
| And it says, honor your father and mother so that your days will be lengthened on the land that I give you. | |
| Isn't that interesting? | |
| It is the only commandment of the Ten Commandments that promises a reward in this world. | |
| That's a biggie. | |
| Just like there's only one commandment that God says he will not forgive, which is doing evil in his name. | |
| That's the third commandment. | |
| That's not for now. | |
| There's only one that promises a reward. | |
| In other words, if you want a civilization to endure, children must honor their parents. | |
| There you go. | |
| So I, that's not the reason I am in the, this is the most important commandment mode, but I have basis within the Ten Commandments that if you believe God gave them, which I do believe, or if you just believe Moses gave them, or if you believe a committee gave them, I don't care. | |
| But whoever gave them, It's only said your civilization will endure about one of the commandments, and that is to honor your father and mother. | |
| And when I hear from all these parents and read about all these parents, kids go to college and then have contempt or even cut off relations with their parents because their parents have different political views, social views, In 99% of the cases, these are not religious people. | |
| Because religious people know that honor your father and mother doesn't come with an asterisk that says, but not if they voted for Donald Trump. | |
| Then the commandment is abrogated. | |
| Right? | |
| Doesn't come with that, does it? | |
| It's not an asterisk, not a footnote, not a parenthetical statement. | |
| It's just honor your father and mother. | |
| The audacity, the sick, evil notion that I will not talk to my parent who loves me and raised me and sent me to college because they voted for Trump. | |
| You are truly an SOB. You are. | |
| You are a lowlife. |
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