Dennis Prager Show - "The West Needs Christianity" Richard Dawkins
Aired: 2024-04-05
Duration: 03:34


=== Well-Meaning Fools (02:54) ===

[00:00:00]  One of the most famous atheists in the world, Richard Dawkins.
[00:00:06]  This is as it puts it in the Daily Caller.
[00:00:09]  Richard Dawkins admits the West needs Christianity.
[00:00:14]  It's to his credit.
[00:00:16]  He has been such a debater against people who argue for God's existence.
[00:00:22]  And he's come to realize what I have devoted my life to.
[00:00:27]  That secularism is the death of Western civilization and therefore the death of the best civilization ever made.
[00:00:37]  Everyone who has clamored for secular West was a fool.
[00:00:43]  And I've known it all of my life.
[00:00:49]  These were well-meaning fools.
[00:00:52]  And you know what?
[00:00:53]  There's no difference between a well-meaning fool...
[00:00:57]  And an ill meaning fool.
[00:01:00]  There is absolutely no difference in terms of the destruction that they wreak upon a society.
[00:01:07]  Your intentions may matter to God, but as far as humanity is concerned, the damage is identical.
[00:01:22]  So, So, all this belief since the Enlightenment, we don't need religion.
[00:01:33]  In this case, specifically, Judeo-Christian values.
[00:01:37]  And by the way, I adamantly use the term Judeo-Christian because they are, first of all, the only two religions on earth that share a Bible, the Old Testament.
[00:01:51]  That's pretty important, by the way.
[00:01:55]  Secondly, an authentic Christian is a Judeo-Christian.
[00:01:59]  If you don't celebrate, honor, and know you're the Jewish roots of Christianity, you're an ignorant Christian.
[00:02:11]  And if Jews do not understand that it's the Christians who brought the Torah to the world, you're an ignorant Jew.
[00:02:22]  So, thought I'd get that in.
[00:02:25]  UK's top atheist biologist Richard Dawkins defended the idea that a robust Western civilization was dependent on Christian theology to thrive after being the main reason that Britons lost their faith in God.

=== Only Secular People Say That (00:55) ===

[00:02:40]  Dawkins upheld Christianity's cultural impact during a Sunday interview reflecting on Easter with talk radio host Rachel Johnson on...
[00:02:50]  Leading Britain's conversation.
[00:02:53]  That's right.
[00:02:58]  It brings me no particular joy to be vindicated after a lifetime of fairly lonely screaming about the utter farcical consequences of secularism, the unhappiness, the moral confusion.
[00:03:19]  Just to name two.
[00:03:21]  Only secular people say men give birth.
[00:03:24]  Not all secular people say it, but only secular people say it.
[00:03:28]  A point I make every week.
[00:03:31]  A few times a week.
[00:03:32]  And it's worth memorizing.