March 3, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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| Western civilization is based on the belief that the human being is different and inherently more valuable than an animal. | |
| That is correct. | |
| 1-8 Prager 776. 877-243-7776. | |
| Do you differ? | |
| Have you taught this to your children? | |
| Have your children ever learned this? | |
| I don't mean your six-year-olds. | |
| I mean your 16 and 26-year-olds. | |
| Have they ever learned this rule of life? | |
| The human being is different. | |
| There are those who say animals have souls. | |
| I think they might, but in a different way than we have a soul. | |
| It is we who have a soul. | |
| There is an independent me of my body. | |
| That is the belief. | |
| By the way, the whole belief that there is a hereafter is predicated on there being obviously a soul. | |
| If there's nothing other than your body, then clearly there is no hereafter. | |
| So there are a lot of ramifications to this belief. | |
| Quiet, everybody. | |
| 1-8 Prager 776. And let's go to Craig in Southfield, Michigan. | |
| Hello, Craig. | |
| Yeah, hi, Dennis. | |
| It's an interesting observation that every time one of these professors has an article in something like the New York Times, that they always depreciate the value of a human being. | |
| That's correct. | |
| And they're not honest at all. | |
| Or they're really stupid. | |
| Because even if we were just animals, the fact that we have language, like that we can have a future, which is a concept that occurs in language, right? | |
| It's like when they should be so blown away and so amazed at this world that just happens to have... | |
| All of the elements that we need to create, all the technology, a rubber tree that we can make rubber to make a tire, just everything. | |
| They should be blown away more than a believer in the creation because we take it for granted that we have a God that cares for us, but this amazing planet, right? | |
| Yeah, well, you're right. | |
| They would respond, oh, there is a great mystery. | |
| I mean, the best of the... | |
| Atheist philosophers would say, oh, this is a great mystery. | |
| By the way, I had a dialogue debate with an atheist in my fireside chat last week, an hour and 20 minutes. | |
| My fireside chats are always a half hour. | |
| This was an hour and 20 minutes with a major atheist. | |
| So you might want to go to PragerU and watch that. | |
| And have your kids watch that. | |
| See, at the root of all this... | |
| Is the religious question. | |
| And in one sentence, this atheist philosopher acknowledged it. | |
| That the distinction between human and animal is at the root of Western philosophy. | |
| The only thing I would differ there is he said, we've tried to prove. | |
| Nobody's tried to prove. | |
| You can't prove that human beings have a soul. | |
| Nothing non-material can be proven. | |
| I don't believe God's existence could be proven. | |
| I've never once said I could prove. | |
| I can argue persuasively that the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of a creator. | |
| That I could argue, but never a proof. | |
| None of us works on proofs. | |
| We all work on suppositions. | |
| The atheists... | |
| who believes that it is good to be kind and not cruel, that's a belief. | |
| Everybody works on beliefs. |
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