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Religious Values Replaced?
00:07:22
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| So I have a real question, given the sanctity of this weekend in the Christian world. | |
| What has replaced Christianity, the Bible, Judeo-Christian values, and been morally better? | |
| Simple. | |
| You know, it's so interesting. | |
| I've spoken about this, as my dear friend and producer knows, all of my life. | |
| When you met me, that's what I was talking about. | |
| But I never asked it that way. | |
| It's a really good question. | |
| I mean, think about anything that you would do in life. | |
| If you get rid of X, you would assume that Y is better. | |
| Otherwise, why get rid of X? So what has worked out better? | |
| Not only in terms of morality, but in terms of personal happiness. | |
| Here's a piece that just came out this week. | |
| Are religious people happier? | |
| The science is pretty clear. | |
| This is from, it's all over the internet. | |
| I'm taking it from Deseret News. | |
| Didn't Deseret News knock PragerU? | |
| If I didn't use sources that attacked me or PragerU, I wouldn't use any sources. | |
| Well, it just goes to show you how unseriously I take their critiques. | |
| PragerU is such a noble enterprise. | |
| It's so wholesome and decent. | |
| And I just consider those who attack it fools. | |
| So it doesn't bother me. | |
| Are religious people happier? | |
| The science is pretty clear. | |
| According to many studies over the years and confirmed in any new data analysis, religious people are statistically speaking measurably more likely to be happy. | |
| This is written by a non-resident fellow at Baylor University's Institute for the Studies of Religion and teaches at the Catholic University of America. | |
| Now you say, well, okay, the guy's religious, so it's biased. | |
| But you know what is fascinating? | |
| The point I'm about to make may actually affect you deeply if you're open to reason. | |
| So if a religious person... | |
| Which I assume he is because he teaches at the Catholic University of America. | |
| But I don't even know how Catholic the Catholic University of America is because there are a lot of Jewish places that are not particularly committed to Judaism and a lot of Christian places not particularly committed to Christianity. | |
| But in any event, let's say he's religious. | |
| So why do the findings of religious people about religion disqualify them? | |
| But the findings about religion by secular people don't disqualify them. | |
| Good one, no? | |
| You'd never hear that, right? | |
| Oh, well, of course this professor says that. | |
| that he's secular. | |
| The absence of serious thought in society is really frightening. . | |
| Everybody's biased except the secular left. | |
| They're the non-biased. | |
| So I'm posing this question. | |
| Where since... | |
| When did the onslaught against religion in the West begin? | |
| I guess with the French Revolution. | |
| 1789. And tell me where or what... | |
| Where... | |
| First of all, has the Bible and Christianity been destroyed, or at least weakened tremendously, and something better has taken place? | |
| You look at the, look, and believe me, I know the mixed bag that Christianity's record is. | |
| It's definitely mixed, there's no question. | |
| And I'll tell you why it's mixed. | |
| Because it's composed of human beings. | |
| And human nature stinks. | |
| That's why. | |
| It's also good. | |
| It's got both. | |
| To be perfectly fair. | |
| It's got both. | |
| As I learned in first grade in yeshiva. | |
| Religious Jewish school. | |
| We have a Yetzir Tov and Yetzirah. | |
| The will to do good and a will to do bad. | |
| And they're in battle. | |
| Watch my video, which is how I met Alan Estrin, my producer. | |
| We met writing the script. | |
| Well, he wrote the original and then we worked on it for a tremendously good movie about goodness. | |
| And it's a video and it's on... | |
| The internet, it's free. | |
| Where is it up? | |
| Just people go to For Goodness Sake. | |
| That's it. | |
| Simple. | |
| Do a search. | |
| You will thank me. | |
| It's funny. | |
| And it makes the case for goodness very powerful. | |
| For Goodness Sake is the name of the video. | |
| You know how the world has changed since the 1990s? | |
| We had some of the biggest names in Hollywood volunteer to act in that movie. | |
| I mean, really big. | |
| Household names. | |
| Jason Alexander was an example. | |
| He was in Seinfeld, right? | |
| I mean, everybody knew him. | |
| And he had a prominent role in, for goodness sake. | |
| And other people who have passed on who were household names. | |
| Steve Allen. | |
| Just, you know, names that come to my mind. | |
| I couldn't make a movie with these people today. | |
| Oh, Dennis Prager? | |
| Oh, Dennis Prager. | |
| The movie I made with Adam Carolla, Netflix refused to stream because Dennis Prager was in it. | |
| That's the way of the world. | |
| That question, I'd like you to pose this to your college-age nephew and, for that matter, your college-age niece. | |
| Who is a nun? | |
| Not nun. | |
| Nun. | |
| N-O-N-E. That's the category of people who have no religious identity. | |
| Ask them, where has religion in the West been replaced with something better? | |
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The Real Deal Bloodbath
00:01:41
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| Did the French Revolution replace it with something better? | |
| It was a bloodbath. | |
| A real bloodbath. | |
| Not the metaphoric bloodbath of today's game. | |
| It's going to be a bloodbath between these two teams. | |
| No, that was the real deal bloodbath. | |
| If you read about the French Revolution, I mean, the torturous way priests were murdered, probably a thousand. | |
| I mean, that's just in France. | |
| They were put in slave ships and left to rot. | |
| The French Revolution was despicable. | |
| Got rid of religion. | |
| Oh, and of course the Russian Revolution, the number of Russian Orthodox priests slaughtered was similar to the French Revolution. | |
| And of course, that was really better. | |
| And listen, I'm no fan of pre-1917 Russia. | |
| Certainly not as a Jew. | |
| The pogroms against Jews, the just spontaneous eruptions of murder and rape. | |
| Nevertheless, Russia was moving bit by bit in a better direction. | |
| It produced a Dostoevsky. | |
| What did communism produce? | |
| Where's the communist Dostoevsky? | |