Dennis Prager Show - Replacing Christianity
Aired: 2026-04-03
Duration: 03:37


=== Replacing Christianity in America (02:40) ===

[00:00:00]  Heading into Easter weekend, and it's a big and important, most important, it's more important, I believe, theologically than Christmas.
[00:00:18]  While I'm not Christian, I am a deep respecter and worrier.
[00:00:25]  I worry about the replacement of Christianity in America and its Judeo Christian values with garbage.
[00:00:36]  Do you know, I cannot think.
[00:00:41]  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 Christianity and the Bible as the basic value systems of a country in the West.
[00:01:07]  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.
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[00:01:25]  I say this as a Jew because truth is what matters.
[00:01:30]  So, for all those who are leaving religion, I think it's a, if you're a serious person, it's a serious challenge.
[00:01:40]  What do you have that's better?
[00:01:45]  As I tell religious Jews and religious Christians all the time, I have brought, I believe this, 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.
[00:02:15]  Rather than the existence of God.
[00:02:18]  In other words, I have not stressed faith.
[00:02:21]  I have stressed values.
[00:02:23]  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?

=== Stressing Values Over Faith (00:55) ===

[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.
[00:02:55]  Theoretically, if you leave religion, you are going to something better, right?
[00:03:03]  But as I put it, look at the wastelands of the universities.
[00:03:08]  I've said this all of my life since I was in graduate school.
[00:03:13]  What?
[00:03:15]  Garbage, moral nonsense, intellectual lies.
[00:03:19]  Permeate, permeate the university and now the high school and the elementary school.
[00:03:28]  If you get rid of something, you better have something better.
[00:03:36]  Is that fair?