Dennis Prager Show - Easter Is Here—But Is Religion Disappearing?
Aired: 2024-03-31
Duration: 03:36


=== Replacement Of Christianity (03:07) ===

[00:00:00]  We're heading into Easter weekend and it's a big and important, most important, it's more important, I believe, theologically than Christmas.
[00:00:17]  While I'm not Christian, I am a deep respecter and worrier.
[00:00:25]  I worry about...
[00:00:27]  The replacement of Christianity in America and the Judeo-Christian values with garbage.
[00:00:36]  Do you know, I cannot think...
[00:00:39]  I never put it quite this way.
[00:00:42]  I've talked about this all of my life, but I'm going to put it in a different way.
[00:00:48]  Call me up if you can tell me of something that has replaced...
[00:00:57]  Christianity and the Bible as the basic value systems of a country in the West that has been better.
[00:01:10]  It's a fair challenge, right?
[00:01:12]  What has replaced Christianity in the West and been better than what preceded it?
[00:01:19]  Morally better.
[00:01:22]  1-8 Prager 776. I say this as a Jew because truth is what matters.
[00:01:30]  So for all those who are leaving religion, I think if you're a serious person, it's a serious challenge.
[00:01:39]  What do you have that's better?
[00:01:44]  As I tell religious Jews and religious Christians all the time, I have brought...
[00:01:51]  I believe this.
[00:01:52]  If I'm wrong, I apologize.
[00:01:55]  I believe I have brought more people, Christian and Jew, to faith and to taking their religion seriously than any living person.
[00:02:06]  And my entire approach has been the necessity of God and the Bible rather than the existence of God.
[00:02:18]  In other words, I have not stressed faith.
[00:02:20]  I have stressed values.
[00:02:22]  I've stressed necessity.
[00:02:26]  Like the question that I'm posing to you, appropriately, given the holiness of this weekend to the Christian world, it's a fair question.
[00:02:35]  What has replaced Christianity in the West and been better morally?
[00:02:41]  You look at the United States now.
[00:02:43]  Would you say that the United States is a better country with more Irreligious people in it as a percentage of the population than ever in American history.

=== Intellectual Lies Permeate Universities (00:44) ===

[00:02:55]  Theoretically, if you leave religion, you are going to something better.
[00:03:01]  Right?
[00:03:03]  But as I put it, look at the wastelands of the universities.
[00:03:07]  I've said this all of my life, since I was in graduate school.
[00:03:13]  What?
[00:03:14]  Garbage.
[00:03:15]  Moral nonsense, intellectual lies permeate, permeate the university.
[00:03:22]  And now the high school and the elementary school.
[00:03:27]  If you get rid of something, you better have something better.
[00:03:35]  Is that fair?