Oct. 12, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
08:00
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| Yep, it's like celebrating Hitler. | |
| Celebrating Columbus is like celebrating Hitler. | |
| You can get away with that because the amount of ignorance in our world and in our country is so spectacular. | |
| The man is a vile human being. | |
| I don't know what motivates him, and I don't really care. | |
| But I do feel that I owe it to this country. | |
| And to decency, to tell you what kind of human being this Popovich is. | |
| So here's another story for you about the world in which we live today. | |
| Los Angeles, to remove Father Junipero Serra's name from downtown park, then was declared a saint, if I'm not mistaken. | |
| The park named after the Catholic priest from Spain who established California's mission system and sought to baptize Native Americans will be called La Plaza Park until a new name is officially adopted. | |
| It's really quite something. | |
| So what is the statement of Los Angeles? | |
| That it was a bad thing that Native Americans were converted to Catholicism? | |
| I mean, let us be very clear here. | |
| Am I watching? | |
| Is that Garcetti? | |
| Oh, it's painful. | |
| It's painful to see this man who's a nothing. | |
| We're governed by nothings. | |
| He's an example of that. | |
| And so that's the question. | |
| I'd like people to be asked, is it a net loss to society if a person... | |
| Who is Native American and has Native American tribal beliefs, if that person converts to Christianity, is that a moral step up or is it a moral step down? | |
| This is not an anti-anybody, it is a values question. | |
| It's not anti-indigenous Americans, of course not. | |
| In fact, the odds are that he cared for them so much, he wanted them to become Catholic, become Christian. | |
| The issue is not antipathy. | |
| The question is a value system. | |
| If you compare what Catholicism created, and Christianity in general... | |
| Versus what indigenous cultures created, do you think it's a tie? | |
| Do you think it's a moral tie? | |
| Now, you can't ask these questions because truth is not a value any longer in our media or academic world. | |
| People attack people who raised the question I did. | |
| But if you care about people, you have to ask that question. | |
| Because the only important question is, what will elevate people? | |
| What will make people better? | |
| What will make civilizations better? | |
| Those are moral questions. | |
| They're the important moral questions. | |
| It's not anti-anyhuman. | |
| It is pro the belief that there are better and more elevated ways of living. | |
| I'm not Catholic. | |
| I'm not even Christian. | |
| I'm Jewish. | |
| There's no question in my mind that what the Christianity has created, and it did a lot of bad things too, because human beings can ruin everything, but it created a world of women's rights, of human rights, of international human rights, of a gigantic democratic republic in the United States and elsewhere. | |
| These are enormous achievements. | |
| They haven't been made basically anywhere else. | |
| Other than Judeo-Christian culture, what produced these things? | |
| The Japanese have a flourishing democracy because it was imposed on them by the United States of America after World War II, imposed by a Christian civilization. | |
| It's not anti-Japanese to say that. | |
| The Japanese would agree with that. | |
| Same with Korea, with South Korea. | |
| These are the fruit of what are called Judeo-Christian civilization. | |
| Condemning this priest for converting indigenous Americans, indigenous peoples, is to state that there is no moral benefit. | |
| To becoming a Christian versus a person who believes in indigenous beliefs. | |
| Now, I suspect that a lot of kids who go to college would actually say, that's right, there is nothing better whatsoever. | |
| On the contrary, it was evil to convert these people. | |
| Why was it evil to convert these people? | |
| Well, they converted... | |
| As so many people were to Islam, at the threat of death? | |
| No, they weren't. | |
| People preached the gospel to these people and hoped that they would choose this way of life. | |
| Los Angeles plans to remove Father Junipero Serra's name from a downtown park across the street from Union Station. | |
| This is from NBC News. | |
| In LA, as part of the Los Angeles work to reckon with mistakes and wrongdoings in the city's history, officials made the announcement. | |
| I don't understand what that means. | |
| What does that mean? | |
| They don't explain. | |
| Officials made the announcement on Monday, Indigenous People's Day in the city of Los Angeles. | |
| The park will be called La Plaza Park until a new name is officially adopted. | |
| Sarah was a Catholic priest from Spain who established California's mission system and sought to baptize Native Americans. | |
| His sainthood in 2015 was protected by Native Americans, citing that indigenous people were brutalized, beaten, and forced into labor for the missions. | |
| Los Angeles is a city of belonging that takes responsibility for the mistakes we've made in the past. | |
| A city of belonging. | |
| Ah, I love that. | |
| I live in a city of belonging. | |
| Am I lucky or what? | |
| Our indigenous brothers and sisters deserve justice and today we take a step toward delivering both greater cultural sensitivity and spaces for Angelenos to gather and perform their traditional ceremonies. | |
| A statue of Father Sarah was toppled At the park during protests in June 2020. You know, it's fascinating. | |
| There are so many Catholics as compared to people of indigenous culture in Los Angeles. | |
| And the man is a saint of the Catholic Church, and nothing will happen. | |
| Because too many spokesmen in the Catholic Church are afraid. | |
| They're just afraid of speaking out. | |
| As I say often in religious life, people are more afraid of CNN than they are of God. |
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