Dennis Prager Show - Making a More Perfect Union
Aired: 2021-02-03
Duration: 02:09


=== Biblical Insights on Incremental Progress (02:09) ===

[00:00:00]  I dream to continue the incremental approach to making a better society that is part of the human condition and part of America, understanding that you incrementally make a better society.
[00:00:20]  Where did I learn that from?
[00:00:22]  I learned that from the Bible.
[00:00:27]  People who are steeped in the Bible know two things.
[00:00:31]  They know many things, but two of the things they know are the inherent tragic nature of life, and that the only approach to making a better world is incremental.
[00:00:42]  That's why the Bible did not fully ban slavery.
[00:00:46]  It just had a series of laws like you cannot return an escaped slave to his owner.
[00:00:53]  Imagine that?
[00:00:55]  That's really, that was promulgated 3,000 years ago.
[00:01:03]  You cannot return a slave to his owner.
[00:01:08]  Ten Commandments do not steal.
[00:01:10]  Most people don't know, so I suggest that you pick up the Rational Bible, the Exodus book, which explains the Ten Commandments, and the original understanding of do not steal is do not steal, People.
[00:01:28]  You cannot steal people.
[00:01:31]  That would have ended the transatlantic slave trade before it began, had people listened to that.
[00:01:42]  Not to understand the inherent tragedy of life is to enter the world of destruction.
[00:01:54]  So that you actually believe that Abraham Lincoln was not a good man.
[00:01:59]  Do you understand how bad the left is?
[00:02:01]  That in San Francisco, they have taken down the name Lincoln from schools in San Francisco?