Dennis Prager Show - San Antonio Spurs Coach is a Vile Human Being
Aired: 2021-10-12
Duration: 08:00


=== Celebrating Hitler? (08:00) ===

[00:00:00]  Yep, it's like celebrating Hitler.
[00:00:02]  Celebrating Columbus is like celebrating Hitler.
[00:00:06]  You can get away with that because the amount of ignorance in our world and in our country is so spectacular.
[00:00:14]  The man is a vile human being.
[00:00:16]  I don't know what motivates him, and I don't really care.
[00:00:21]  But I do feel that I owe it to this country.
[00:00:26]  And to decency, to tell you what kind of human being this Popovich is.
[00:00:32]  So here's another story for you about the world in which we live today.
[00:00:37]  Los Angeles, to remove Father Junipero Serra's name from downtown park, then was declared a saint, if I'm not mistaken.
[00:00:47]  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.
[00:01:02]  It's really quite something.
[00:01:06]  So what is the statement of Los Angeles?
[00:01:09]  That it was a bad thing that Native Americans were converted to Catholicism?
[00:01:17]  I mean, let us be very clear here.
[00:01:20]  Am I watching?
[00:01:22]  Is that Garcetti?
[00:01:23]  Oh, it's painful.
[00:01:24]  It's painful to see this man who's a nothing.
[00:01:29]  We're governed by nothings.
[00:01:33]  He's an example of that.
[00:01:36]  And so that's the question.
[00:01:38]  I'd like people to be asked, is it a net loss to society if a person...
[00:01:48]  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?
[00:02:03]  This is not an anti-anybody, it is a values question.
[00:02:09]  It's not anti-indigenous Americans, of course not.
[00:02:13]  In fact, the odds are that he cared for them so much, he wanted them to become Catholic, become Christian.
[00:02:22]  The issue is not antipathy.
[00:02:25]  The question is a value system.
[00:02:29]  If you compare what Catholicism created, and Christianity in general...
[00:02:40]  Versus what indigenous cultures created, do you think it's a tie?
[00:02:46]  Do you think it's a moral tie?
[00:02:49]  Now, you can't ask these questions because truth is not a value any longer in our media or academic world.
[00:02:57]  People attack people who raised the question I did.
[00:03:00]  But if you care about people, you have to ask that question.
[00:03:03]  Because the only important question is, what will elevate people?
[00:03:06]  What will make people better?
[00:03:09]  What will make civilizations better?
[00:03:12]  Those are moral questions.
[00:03:15]  They're the important moral questions.
[00:03:17]  It's not anti-anyhuman.
[00:03:19]  It is pro the belief that there are better and more elevated ways of living.
[00:03:30]  I'm not Catholic.
[00:03:31]  I'm not even Christian.
[00:03:32]  I'm Jewish.
[00:03:36]  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.
[00:04:05]  These are enormous achievements.
[00:04:08]  They haven't been made basically anywhere else.
[00:04:13]  Other than Judeo-Christian culture, what produced these things?
[00:04:19]  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.
[00:04:31]  It's not anti-Japanese to say that.
[00:04:34]  The Japanese would agree with that.
[00:04:36]  Same with Korea, with South Korea.
[00:04:43]  These are the fruit of what are called Judeo-Christian civilization.
[00:04:50]  Condemning this priest for converting indigenous Americans, indigenous peoples, is to state that there is no moral benefit.
[00:05:02]  To becoming a Christian versus a person who believes in indigenous beliefs.
[00:05:14]  Now, I suspect that a lot of kids who go to college would actually say, that's right, there is nothing better whatsoever.
[00:05:20]  On the contrary, it was evil to convert these people.
[00:05:25]  Why was it evil to convert these people?
[00:05:27]  Well, they converted...
[00:05:28]  As so many people were to Islam, at the threat of death?
[00:05:34]  No, they weren't.
[00:05:37]  People preached the gospel to these people and hoped that they would choose this way of life.
[00:05:46]  Los Angeles plans to remove Father Junipero Serra's name from a downtown park across the street from Union Station.
[00:05:53]  This is from NBC News.
[00:05:57]  In LA, as part of the Los Angeles work to reckon with mistakes and wrongdoings in the city's history, officials made the announcement.
[00:06:06]  I don't understand what that means.
[00:06:09]  What does that mean?
[00:06:11]  They don't explain.
[00:06:13]  Officials made the announcement on Monday, Indigenous People's Day in the city of Los Angeles.
[00:06:19]  The park will be called La Plaza Park until a new name is officially adopted.
[00:06:25]  Sarah was a Catholic priest from Spain who established California's mission system and sought to baptize Native Americans.
[00:06:32]  His sainthood in 2015 was protected by Native Americans, citing that indigenous people were brutalized, beaten, and forced into labor for the missions.
[00:06:47]  Los Angeles is a city of belonging that takes responsibility for the mistakes we've made in the past.
[00:06:54]  A city of belonging.
[00:06:56]  Ah, I love that.
[00:06:58]  I live in a city of belonging.
[00:07:01]  Am I lucky or what?
[00:07:03]  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.
[00:07:19]  A statue of Father Sarah was toppled At the park during protests in June 2020. You know, it's fascinating.
[00:07:29]  There are so many Catholics as compared to people of indigenous culture in Los Angeles.
[00:07:37]  And the man is a saint of the Catholic Church, and nothing will happen.
[00:07:43]  Because too many spokesmen in the Catholic Church are afraid.
[00:07:50]  They're just afraid of speaking out.
[00:07:53]  As I say often in religious life, people are more afraid of CNN than they are of God.