June 29, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
04:32
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| Be safe. | |
| That's how I see it. | |
| The safe choice is not to have children. | |
| In fact, the safe choice is not to get married. | |
| The safe choice is to take few risks in life, live as much as possible for the moment, and that is what has become the dominant ethos of our time. | |
| Another example, please put it under the heading of consequences of secularism. | |
| Religious people have more kids. | |
| Everybody knows that. | |
| You don't even need a study for that. | |
| Every one of you knows that. | |
| You meet somebody with four or five children, let alone more. | |
| You have every reason to assume they are either a Mormon or LDS, as they prefer. | |
| An Orthodox Jew, a religious Catholic, or an evangelical Christian. | |
| Right? | |
| How many secular people do you know who have five or more children? | |
| The odds are zero. | |
| Certainly true for me. | |
| They exist, but they are so rare as to be unknown to the vast majority of us. | |
| So this is just another example of... | |
| The consequences of secularism. | |
| You know we are living in the age of the irrational. | |
| Never in American history has the irrational been so dominant as today. | |
| And that, too, is a consequence, ironically, for those who believe that secularism ushered in the age of reason of, in fact, of secularism. | |
| In other words... | |
| There's far more rational thinking among religious Americans than among irreligious Americans. | |
| I'm not talking about religious beliefs. | |
| Religious beliefs are not all fully in the realm of reason. | |
| That's true. | |
| That's why they're called faith. | |
| But when you apply it to society, there's no comparison that you will get far more rational responses to life from more religious people than non-religious people. | |
| and Why have children? | |
| Why is this couple wrong? | |
| They want to travel more. | |
| They want to dine out more. | |
| They don't want to have to take care of somebody all the time. | |
| Right? | |
| Why have a child? | |
| You have a secular answer? | |
| Well, there actually are a couple of secular answers. | |
| That would apply whether you're religious or secular. | |
| How about this to begin with? | |
| Purpose of life is not to avoid difficulty. | |
| The purpose of life is not to play it safe. | |
| The purpose of life is not to have as much fun at any given moment as possible, since fun and happiness are not the same thing. | |
| There are tremendous risks in having children, especially if you send them to an American school. | |
| They may end up an a-hole. | |
| That's just the way it is, unfortunately. | |
| There are actually more risks in having a child today than at any time in American history. | |
| Except the risks in the past were that they wouldn't live past childhood. | |
| That's true. | |
| Today, it's that they won't be a decent human being or think clearly because they went to school. | |
| It's a different risk today than in Abraham Lincoln's time. | |
| You want to grow up? | |
| That's the argument for marriage. | |
| I'd like to grow up. | |
| There is no human being that I know of, and probably that you don't know, who does not believe that they matured as a result of marriage, even if the marriage was awful. | |
| Same thing holds for having a child. | |
| Also, isn't the arrogance of these people who write the study, how do you measure happiness? | |
| What do you do? | |
| You ask people who decided to have no children, are you happy? | |
| And you ask people who have children, are you happy? | |
| And then you make the comparison? | |
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