Dennis Prager Show - Does God Exist?
Aired: 2025-04-17
Duration: 01:52


=== Challenging Irreligion (01:52) ===

[00:00:00]  I turn the tables on the atheist and on the agnostic.
[00:00:03]  I say, wait a minute.
[00:00:05]  You ask me if when I look at human suffering, I ever doubt God's existence.
[00:00:11]  Fair question, answer, yes.
[00:00:14]  But I ask you, you the agnostic or you the atheist, you the irreligious, do you ever see human beauty?
[00:00:24]  Do you ever see the birth of a child and doubt your atheism?
[00:00:29]  Doubt your irreligiosity?
[00:00:31]  It's a very interesting thing in our world today.
[00:00:34]  The only people who are supposed to question themselves are religious people.
[00:00:38]  Irreligious people are never asked to challenge themselves.
[00:00:40]  Isn't that interesting?
[00:00:41]  You never hear that, do you?
[00:00:43]  You ever challenge your secularism?
[00:00:45]  Never! Never!
[00:00:47]  It's a non-issue.
[00:00:48]  If you believe in God, you're supposed to challenge yourself all the time.
[00:00:52]  Religious people, gee, they're brainwashed.
[00:00:54]  As if secular people aren't brainwashed.
[00:00:57]  I assure you that I had more openness to secularism in my yeshiva-closed world than there was openness to religion at your child's university.
[00:01:09]  The secular world is far more closed in America today and in much of the Western world today than is the religious world.
[00:01:18]  At least there are arguments given in both directions at most religious institutions.
[00:01:24]  Because they have to grapple with the secular challenge.
[00:01:27]  You never hear the secular challenge grappled with at Harvard or at Stanford or, for that matter, at UNLV.
[00:01:35]  It's just not an issue.
[00:01:36]  It's so taken for granted that God is a non-issue, religion is a non-issue, that people don't even bother making up intellectual arguments for it.
[00:01:46]  I think the intellectual arguments, the rational case for God, is stronger.