Dennis Prager Show - The American "Trinity" is at Stake
Aired: 2024-11-05
Duration: 03:34


=== Diminution Of God, Diminution Of Liberty (03:34) ===

[00:00:00]  America has a trinity.
[00:00:01]  I call it the American Trinity.
[00:00:04]  I didn't come up with the contents, but I came up with the name.
[00:00:09]  I took it from every coin in America.
[00:00:12]  In God we trust liberty, e pluribus unum.
[00:00:17]  From many one, in God we trust in liberty.
[00:00:22]  The diminution of God in America is the diminution of liberty in America.
[00:00:28]  Now, you could say they're not related, but you cannot deny that they coincide with one another.
[00:00:34]  As America has become more secular, it has become less free.
[00:00:37]  How's that?
[00:00:39]  In Iran, it's the opposite.
[00:00:41]  The more religious, the less free.
[00:00:44]  Depends on the country, depends on its values.
[00:00:48]  Liberty has not been an Islamic value.
[00:00:53]  This is not a knock on Islam, it's not a compliment, I acknowledge that, but it's just, it's not part of the Islamic nature, which is to impose.
[00:01:07]  Islam really does mean, it means submit.
[00:01:10]  It wants people to submit.
[00:01:13]  The ideal in Islam is a Sharia-based society.
[00:01:19]  And certainly Protestant Christianity, liberty has been a very big part of it.
[00:01:26]  You can't deny it.
[00:01:28]  It was Protestants who founded the United States, Protestants who led the crusade against slavery.
[00:01:38]  And liberty has been part of the Protestant message.
[00:01:43]  You're free.
[00:01:49]  If one is intellectually honest, that is at the heart of the Protestant message.
[00:01:54]  You read the Bible, you understand it without an intermediary, in that case meaning the church.
[00:02:04]  I'm not taking a stance, Catholic versus Protestant.
[00:02:07]  I'm a Jew.
[00:02:09]  I'm not involved in that dispute.
[00:02:14]  But one has to be honest that...
[00:02:18]  The United States was founded by Protestant Christians for whom liberty was an essential integral part.
[00:02:29]  And as that has declined in America, as Americans, most Americans of any given religion were Protestant.
[00:02:40]  But that has been in decline because everything the left touches.
[00:02:44]  It destroys the left's rot, the termite.
[00:02:48]  That leftism has eaten away at the foundations of Protestant Christianity.
[00:02:54]  It's eaten away at Catholicism.
[00:02:56]  It's eaten away to Judaism.
[00:02:57]  Non-Orthodox Judaism has largely become a joke.
[00:03:01]  It's a tragedy.
[00:03:03]  There was once greatness to reform and conservative Judaism.
[00:03:07]  They're intellectual and religious wastelands now.
[00:03:11]  They're leftism with Hebrew.
[00:03:15]  Mainstream Protestant churches.
[00:03:18]  Our leftism with Jesus.
[00:03:21]  And same with the Pope as a leftist.
[00:03:27]  So there's a lot at stake here.
[00:03:30]  The American Trinity is at stake.