Dennis Prager Show - Why Leftism is Incompatible with the Bible
Aired: 2021-03-09
Duration: 08:34


=== Chasing Hearts: A Biblical Rebuke (06:33) ===

[00:00:00]  And detested Christianity, Judaism, Marx loathed.
[00:00:05]  Marx, grandson of two rabbis, was actually an anti-Semite.
[00:00:11]  There's a loathing of the Bible and the Judeo-Christian worldview for good reason, because they're antithetical.
[00:00:20]  So I'm going to show you some verses that are inimical to the left.
[00:00:29]  But, of course, your kids will not have studied them because Bible study has been dropped from American life for now almost, let's see, I would say almost 100 years.
[00:00:41]  Maybe 80 years.
[00:00:45]  It was the norm to teach your children Bible stories and the Bible and aphorisms from the Bible and now nothing.
[00:00:59]  The average Harvard junior, or even rising junior, I like that, it's a new term.
[00:01:09]  I've mastered it.
[00:01:12]  Or rising senior, I should say, knows who Cain and Abel were.
[00:01:19]  I've got to tell you something, if you don't know who Cain and Abel were, you don't know a damn thing about the Bible.
[00:01:25]  That's pretty basic.
[00:01:29]  I don't even know what they would know.
[00:01:32]  They could name the four Gospels.
[00:01:37]  There would be a blank on virtually anything.
[00:01:45]  I wonder if they could name, identify Noah, because Noah's Ark is so famous.
[00:01:51]  Be that as it may, I'm going to bring you some Bible quotes.
[00:01:56]  That are antithetical to leftism.
[00:02:00]  And so you will have a choice.
[00:02:03]  You can follow the left or you can follow the Bible, but you can't do both.
[00:02:07]  I know that there are some Jews and Christians who claim that they get their leftism from the Bible.
[00:02:12]  My friends, people have made claims that are absurd throughout history.
[00:02:18]  Okay, so I think the number one...
[00:02:26]  The number one example of a biblical verse that is the antithesis of leftism is about the heart.
[00:02:39]  Everything left is feelings-based.
[00:02:46]  The Bible doesn't buy that.
[00:02:49]  It completely mistrusts the heart.
[00:02:54]  The left is based on the heart.
[00:02:58]  The compassion is a beautiful trait.
[00:03:01]  But everything is based on the heart.
[00:03:03]  So here are two verses.
[00:03:05]  Numbers 1539. Remember all the commands of the Lord that you may obey them.
[00:03:12]  This is one of the few correct translations of the verse, the NIV version, New International Version.
[00:03:21]  Remember all the commands of the Lord.
[00:03:24]  That you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by chasing after the lusts of your own hearts and I. Now, they added the lusts from the Hebrew.
[00:03:40]  I know the Hebrew well, so that's one of the reasons I've written a Bible commentary.
[00:03:45]  Which reminds me to remind you...
[00:03:48]  That this is the magnum opus, the big work of my life, is the Bible commentary.
[00:03:53]  The third of my five-volume commentary on the first five books will be coming out later this year.
[00:04:01]  It is Deuteronomy, the fifth of the books.
[00:04:05]  I'm not going in order.
[00:04:07]  Genesis and Exodus are already out.
[00:04:10]  It's called The Rational Bible.
[00:04:14]  If you read the 2,500 reviews that are there, you will see how deeply it has touched people's lives.
[00:04:23]  The rational Bible.
[00:04:26]  So, Numbers 1539 is a rebuke of the idea that you should follow your heart.
[00:04:38]  You prostitute yourself when you follow your heart.
[00:04:42]  That's what the Hebrew actually says.
[00:04:44]  That's correct.
[00:04:46]  And Jeremiah 17, 9. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick.
[00:04:53]  Who can understand it?
[00:04:58]  That's pretty intense.
[00:05:03]  The left is feelings-based.
[00:05:08]  How you feel is what matters, and it is applied now to everything.
[00:05:12]  It's not just morality, how I feel.
[00:05:14]  I define good and evil.
[00:05:17]  It's everything.
[00:05:18]  I define my gender.
[00:05:20]  If I feel male, I'm male.
[00:05:22]  If I feel female, I'm female.
[00:05:25]  This is part of the interesting and very powerful issue in American life today.
[00:05:33]  So if you feel female and you're a male, You can now compete against females in track.
[00:05:45]  You are what you feel.
[00:05:48]  There is no objective sex.
[00:05:50]  There is no objective answer to 2 plus 2. As I've reported to you, the Oregon Education Department has now announced that the idea that there is one right answer in math is white supremacy.
[00:06:08]  Okay, it's a white supremacist notion.
[00:06:12]  So even math answers are felt.

=== Do Not Show Partiality (02:16) ===

[00:06:19]  Growing up and not trusting your heart is one of the greatest gifts that I was given to try to be a good man when I got older.
[00:06:29]  And that's the purpose of life.
[00:06:30]  Try to be a good man or a good woman as you get older.
[00:06:35]  Alright, so that's example number one.
[00:06:40]  Example number two of Bible verses that are the opposite of progressivism or the left.
[00:06:52]  Leviticus 19.15 Do not pervert justice.
[00:07:00]  Do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
[00:07:10]  Do not show partiality to the poor?
[00:07:15]  Woo!
[00:07:20]  That's a disqualifier from the world of the left.
[00:07:26]  That's right.
[00:07:28]  That's the whole point.
[00:07:29]  That is social justice.
[00:07:32]  Why don't they use the word justice on the left?
[00:07:35]  Because justice and social justice have nothing to do with one another.
[00:07:41]  Social justice is to justice what people's democracy is to democracy.
[00:07:49]  It's the opposite.
[00:07:50]  Social justice is the opposite of justice.
[00:07:53]  People's democracy is the opposite of democracy.
[00:07:58]  Otherwise, they'd say justice.
[00:08:01]  So yes, you are supposed to change justice for the poor man, or now the black man, or the person of color.
[00:08:11]  The opposite of the biblical admonition.
[00:08:15]  You cannot change justice for the poor man.
[00:08:22]  Poor man and rich man come into court.
[00:08:25]  You do not favor the poor or the rich.
[00:08:30]  1-8 Prager 776. If you've got verses, I've got more.