June 30, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
02:34
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| You talk about the Western approach, and you call it Judeo-Christian. | |
| However, what establishes the authority of the culture there? | |
| There's other religions. | |
| What makes you think that it arises from that source? | |
| I mean, it may be perfectly true that the Bible, as you refer to it, is an authority in terms of wisdom, but how do you establish the authority that it does constitute? | |
| Well, to the extent that I understand your question, I would answer that it has earned my belief in its authority. | |
| Yeah, but that's your belief. | |
| You use the term belief. | |
| Yes, so then you asked me why I believe. | |
| Well, you have to derive it from a natural setting to begin with. | |
| No, it's not true. | |
| Look, you ask me how I, Dennis, derive it. | |
| I derive it from its track record. | |
| Well, that's you. | |
| Are you the authority? | |
| No, I am simply the conveyor of logic. | |
| If I am unpersuasive to you, if you believe that the non-Western world has produced as moral a universe as the Western, then my argument is pointless. | |
| Well, you got Nazi Germany, that's considered to be a part of the Western world. | |
| No, only geographically, not culturally. | |
| Well, that's your decision. | |
| No, no, okay, okay. | |
| If you think that Nazi Germany is based on the Bible... | |
| I can only wish you a good day. | |
| I think that you're called up to argue and not to dialogue. | |
| Dwight Eisenhower, excuse me, Franklin Roosevelt, a deep liberal, spoke regularly about protecting Christian civilization against the Nazis. | |
| Nobody in the West thought that Nazism was the product of the West. | |
| It loathed the West. | |
| They said so. | |
| Okay? | |
| But if we're going to argue that Nazism is Western, then other than geography, then I guess Celebi? | |
| All right. | |
| I appreciate your calling. | |
| And Aaron and Rancho. |
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