Dennis Prager Show - Easily Offended? - Sunday Fireside Chat
Aired: 2026-04-26
Duration: 31:26


=== Why We Are Taught to Be Offended (13:28) ===

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[00:00:45]  Hi, everybody.
[00:00:45]  Dennis Prager here.
[00:00:46]  Welcome to the Fireside Chat.
[00:00:48]  Otto, the great American dog, is hyperventilating today because he was taken to the vet.
[00:00:57]  He had actually a scheduled surgery, nothing terribly serious, happily, but needed one.
[00:01:04]  But for whatever reason, they couldn't find a vein.
[00:01:08]  And so he got a little worked up.
[00:01:11]  He's very rarely worked up.
[00:01:13]  As you well know, folks, some of you actually have thought he's a stuffed animal in the past.
[00:01:19]  So, Otto and worked up don't usually go in the same sentence.
[00:01:27]  But that's the reason for a little hyperventilating.
[00:01:29]  But nevertheless, good chap that he is, he went into position in any event for the fireside chat.
[00:01:38]  So I'm Dennis Prager.
[00:01:39]  I welcome you to number 189.
[00:01:47]  We are 11 away from the 200th.
[00:01:50]  We should do something special on the 200th.
[00:01:54]  Yeah.
[00:01:55]  Don't know what.
[00:01:57]  Well, this is an opportunity for me to simply talk to you about what's on my mind.
[00:02:02]  Very unrehearsed, spontaneous, not reading off any prompter or anything else.
[00:02:10]  And you have a chance to ask me things that are on your mind.
[00:02:14]  So I will begin with a couple of comments.
[00:02:19]  Today, I want to specialize in taking your questions because it's been a few weeks since I've gotten to take a lot of questions.
[00:02:27]  But there is something I do want to share with you, and that is the increased number of Americans who feel hurt.
[00:02:41]  Feel better offended.
[00:02:48]  We have gone from a very strong people.
[00:02:51]  Oh, look at that.
[00:02:52]  This is rare, but now you understand why.
[00:02:57]  We're going to let him out.
[00:02:58]  He wants to go out, and who knows why.
[00:03:02]  I don't think he's ever gotten out of his bed.
[00:03:07]  Pretty rarely.
[00:03:08]  Yeah.
[00:03:09]  All right.
[00:03:09]  I know that there's sort of a hole in all of our lives right now, but we will endure.
[00:03:17]  People have gone from being a strong people, Americans, pretty hardy people, land of the free and home of the brave.
[00:03:27]  That's in the national anthem of the United States.
[00:03:31]  It isn't so much is it true as it is that's the self-perception that Americans have had of themselves.
[00:03:40]  Free was certainly true, and brave was often true.
[00:03:44]  If you're easily offended, you're probably not going to be terribly brave.
[00:03:50]  This notion of easily offended can bring down a society, and it obviously brings down the individual.
[00:03:59]  And I will be very candid with you.
[00:04:03]  I am attacked, as many of you may know, and if you don't know, you can easily find it on the internet.
[00:04:09]  Put in any expletive with my name, tens of thousands of hits will come up.
[00:04:16]  The worst expletive you can imagine.
[00:04:21]  Or any, you know, moron, fool, idiot, fascist, you know, none of them offend me.
[00:04:28]  They have no impact on me.
[00:04:31]  But I have a better example of how early in my life I struggled with so many of the issues that I've worked through.
[00:04:39]  I worked through a lot of issues when I was young.
[00:04:42]  That's a big advantage that I have, and I don't take credit for it.
[00:04:45]  That's my nature.
[00:04:47]  And so at a very, very early age, I had to work through or force myself to work through big issues.
[00:04:54]  Here's an example.
[00:04:55]  This I remember very well.
[00:04:56]  I was in my early 20s.
[00:04:59]  I've always had an interest in photography.
[00:05:01]  To this day, I love cameras, I love taking good pictures.
[00:05:07]  And I went with a friend, a fairly new friend in my life, to a camera store in New York City.
[00:05:15]  I lived in New York City till I was 25 years old.
[00:05:20]  And we went to a camera store.
[00:05:22]  And when we left the camera store, he said to me, Wow, I really Jewed him down.
[00:05:29]  That's a saying used, not obviously often.
[00:05:37]  Many of you probably never heard it, but it's used.
[00:05:41]  And it's obviously an offensive term with regard to some stereotype about Jews being cheap or whatever it might be.
[00:05:49]  I had never heard the phrase before.
[00:05:53]  And I knew it wasn't a complimentary phrase.
[00:05:58]  And my mind did a real fast debate.
[00:06:03]  How should I react to his saying that?
[00:06:08]  And in effect, how offended should I be as a Jew?
[00:06:13]  And the second one was much simpler.
[00:06:17]  I wasn't offended in the least.
[00:06:19]  In the least.
[00:06:21]  Because he.
[00:06:23]  He wasn't directing it to hurt me.
[00:06:27]  When taking offense has to have something to do with somebody's intention if they want to offend you, correct?
[00:06:36]  Whether you're offended should depend on a whole host of things.
[00:06:41]  What did the person intend to do?
[00:06:45]  And was it really offensive, et cetera?
[00:06:48]  I'll get to that.
[00:06:49]  But anyway, I immediately assumed this guy, if I'm his friend, He's not an anti Semite, okay?
[00:06:57]  I mean, that was the very first thing that was in my mind.
[00:07:01]  The guy's not an, he came from rural Canada.
[00:07:05]  Probably never met a Jew before me in his life, or if he did, it was pretty rare.
[00:07:11]  And certainly in rural Canada, you're not going to find many Jews, if any at all, in some places in Canada.
[00:07:17]  So I wasn't offended in the least.
[00:07:20]  I was struck by the phrase, which I had never heard, and then later learned it was not an uncommon phrase.
[00:07:29]  As to how I reacted, in retrospect, I could have said, you know, it's really, its origins are anti-Jewish.
[00:07:46]  It's probably best not to use the phrase, but I didn't say anything.
[00:07:50]  I just let it pass because I didn't want to be his moral instructor at the time.
[00:07:58]  And I'm not saying I was right.
[00:08:00]  You know, as 21 years old, you don't always make the best choices, but I did make a good choice in not being offended.
[00:08:09]  I'll give you another example.
[00:08:11]  A guy called my show once.
[00:08:13]  It was also about my being a Jew.
[00:08:16]  And he said, you know, Dennis or Mr. Prager, I don't know what he said, or maybe neither, said, You know, Jews control Hollywood.
[00:08:27]  So I knew he wanted to get a rise out of me.
[00:08:30]  I mean, why else would he say it?
[00:08:32]  And I remember I said something to the effect, You know, to tell you the truth, Jews are disproportionately represented in Hollywood.
[00:08:42]  What's your point?
[00:08:45]  And he had no point.
[00:08:48]  His point was to rile me up, was in fact to probably get me offended.
[00:08:54]  And then I said, can you name one example of all these Jews in Hollywood doing anything to benefit Jews?
[00:09:02]  What was the last pro Jewish film you saw?
[00:09:04]  What was the last pro Israel film you saw?
[00:09:07]  It was probably Exodus, which was released in the 1960s.
[00:09:13]  So the guy was dumbfounded, but he had no point.
[00:09:17]  It meant nothing.
[00:09:19]  So you have to.
[00:09:24]  Ask yourself, and this is the thing people don't understand.
[00:09:29]  You choose, this is my point, you choose whether or not to be offended.
[00:09:36]  It is a choice, it is not a given.
[00:09:43]  A guy makes a comment on how you look.
[00:09:46]  You're a woman, and he makes a comment on how you look.
[00:09:50]  Why would you be offended?
[00:09:51]  I mean, if he says you look ugly, then I understand that, but very few guys. say to women, boy, you really look ugly today.
[00:10:00]  It's usually some compliment, but you have been taught, if you're female, to be offended at any comment made about your looks, even if it's positive.
[00:10:12]  That's bizarre.
[00:10:13]  That is totally bizarre.
[00:10:14]  Did he say it to offend you?
[00:10:17]  And what's offensive?
[00:10:19]  Maybe you would say, you know, the office is not the place to make such a comment, which is probably true, but it's not offensive.
[00:10:28]  Why are you offended?
[00:10:29]  Because you were taught to be offended.
[00:10:31]  That's the reason.
[00:10:33]  So, this is very important that, and you know, are Indians, American Indians, Native Americans, are they offended by the name until now of the Washington Redskins?
[00:10:48]  The Washington Post, which had been for a year constantly editorializing against the name Washington Redskins, did a massive survey of American Indians, found 90% didn't give a hoot about the name Redskins.
[00:11:06]  The white lefties at the Washington Post were offended.
[00:11:11]  American Indians were not.
[00:11:13]  Why is it offensive?
[00:11:15]  They didn't think it's racist.
[00:11:16]  It wasn't meant to be racist.
[00:11:17]  It wasn't racist.
[00:11:19]  Somebody once called my show and he said, When I defended the Washington Redskins' name and the Cleveland Indians' name, by the way, the Cleveland Indians dropping their name or just their logo?
[00:11:29]  I don't remember which.
[00:11:31]  In any event, the guy calls up and he said, Oh, really?
[00:11:36]  You don't think it's a problem to have the Cleveland Indians or the Washington Redskins?
[00:11:40]  What would you think if there were a team named the Jews?
[00:11:44]  And I'll never forget my response.
[00:11:47]  I'm very proud of it.
[00:11:49]  I said to the guy, sir, for 3,000 years, Jews have been looking for fans.
[00:11:55]  It would be one of the great moments in Jewish history.
[00:11:58]  Let's go, Jews.
[00:12:00]  Yay, Jews.
[00:12:01]  Buy Jew paraphernalia.
[00:12:03]  Get a Jewish hat.
[00:12:08]  People are.
[00:12:09]  America is so easy to live in.
[00:12:13]  That people are looking for problems.
[00:12:15]  They are looking to be offended because maybe life is boring to them.
[00:12:21]  The left is an offense-giving industry.
[00:12:25]  That's it.
[00:12:26]  Oh, you should be offended.
[00:12:27]  Oh, Eddie, if you're not a white heterosexual Christian male, you should be offended by breathing.
[00:12:36]  Life here is a living offense to you.
[00:12:39]  All it does is make unhappy people and make relations between people worse.
[00:12:44]  It just creates tension.
[00:12:49]  Again, my message is you choose whether to be offended.
[00:12:54]  You're a female, you're a Native American, you're a Black American, you're a Jew.
[00:13:00]  You've chosen.
[00:13:04]  And it's a very bad choice.
[00:13:07]  God, to go through life constantly thinking you're offended, I pity you and I pity the society.
[00:13:16]  Okie dokie.
[00:13:17]  Let's take the questions and we begin with a video question.
[00:13:22]  And here we go.
[00:13:23]  Take it away.
[00:13:26]  Hello, Dennis.

=== A Crusade for Fountain Pens (03:58) ===

[00:13:28]  My name is Connor.
[00:13:29]  I'm 20.
[00:13:30]  I live in Los Angeles.
[00:13:31]  And you kind of inspired me to start collecting fountain pens.
[00:13:35]  So, my question for you is can you show some of your fountain pens and give us a little information about them?
[00:13:42]  Thanks.
[00:13:43]  Wow.
[00:13:47]  I have lived.
[00:13:50]  A full life.
[00:13:52]  A 20 year old has been inspired into fountain pens.
[00:13:58]  I have a crusade on behalf of fountain pens.
[00:14:02]  They are so much fun to write with.
[00:14:04]  They're so beautiful.
[00:14:06]  The richness of the ink flow from it, most of you have never even seen one, let alone written with one.
[00:14:11]  In fact, a lot of people don't even write with anything anymore.
[00:14:18]  But by the way, it's a very good thing to write.
[00:14:22]  You actually remember better.
[00:14:23]  I always, when I give a speech, I write very few notes.
[00:14:29]  Most people are unaware that I even have any notes because it's usually on the back of a business card.
[00:14:34]  But I never type them out and then print them out.
[00:14:38]  I always write them out because I remember better what I've written than what I have printed.
[00:14:45]  This is, tests have been done that when you hand write something, you are much more likely to remember it.
[00:14:52]  But knowing that this was the question, I chose a few of my.
[00:14:55]  Favorite pens very quickly, and they're all from different countries nearly.
[00:14:59]  So, this is my current beauty.
[00:15:02]  Can we zoom in?
[00:15:03]  Because these are you see it?
[00:15:04]  Yeah, this is a stunningly gorgeous pen from France, and it writes like a dream.
[00:15:11]  This is one of the richest blue.
[00:15:14]  This is a beautiful American pen, also writes like a dream, and that one is black.
[00:15:22]  And perhaps my all time favorite is from Switzerland.
[00:15:26]  This is a very, I probably guess I would say masculine pen.
[00:15:31]  It's sort of like armored steel.
[00:15:34]  And it's this pen.
[00:15:40]  I have the same pen about 20 years ago, and I left it in a New York taxi, and it's expensive.
[00:15:51]  And I could have bought a replacement.
[00:15:58]  I'm revealing something about myself which may or may not elevate me in your eyes.
[00:16:04]  But I'm not telling it to you as a good or bad thing.
[00:16:08]  I'm just telling you what I did.
[00:16:09]  I did not buy the replacement for another five to ten years.
[00:16:15]  I don't remember how long.
[00:16:16]  Because I wanted to sort of pay the price of losing it.
[00:16:21]  Isn't that interesting?
[00:16:23]  But anyway, now I have it.
[00:16:24]  It's a magnificent pen.
[00:16:25]  It's from Switzerland.
[00:16:27]  This one is from Italy.
[00:16:28]  The Italians have a natural ability to make beautiful things.
[00:16:33]  I guess I have some partiality to blue in many of these.
[00:16:37]  Three more to show you.
[00:16:38]  This one is a lavender purple, I guess.
[00:16:43]  Yes, a purplish.
[00:16:45]  Japan make the nib.
[00:16:46]  The nib is what the ink comes out of on top here.
[00:16:53]  They're usually gold on the best pens and they're steel on less expensive pens.
[00:16:59]  The Japanese letters, have you ever seen them?
[00:17:03]  They're very, very complex.
[00:17:05]  They're characters, they're not letters.
[00:17:09]  So, a.
[00:17:10]  A Japanese pen has to be very precise and fine pointed to be able to write Japanese characters.
[00:17:18]  So, in a certain sense, the Japanese probably make the best nibs because of the Japanese language.

=== Evil Done in the Name of Anti-Racism (08:32) ===

[00:17:27]  Two more.
[00:17:29]  Another stunning blue one from Germany.
[00:17:34]  And finally, where is my final one from?
[00:17:39]  This also is from Germany.
[00:17:41]  This is Porsche Design.
[00:17:42]  Isn't that interesting?
[00:17:45]  Porsche designed a fountain pen.
[00:17:46]  Can I give you these to hold for me?
[00:17:49]  So, anyway, enjoy yourself.
[00:17:51]  They go from $20 to $2,000.
[00:17:56]  And go on the internet or go to the ideal as a pen store.
[00:18:00]  Okay, that was.
[00:18:04]  By the way, on my happiness hour on my radio show, and I've written a book on happiness, I point out the more things that bring you joy, the happier a human being you will be.
[00:18:14]  And I am blessed that a lot of things bring me joy.
[00:18:17]  Okay.
[00:18:18]  Do I double click here?
[00:18:19]  Yeah, I do.
[00:18:20]  Next, Christina, right?
[00:18:22]  Is that the first one?
[00:18:23]  Yeah.
[00:18:24]  30 years old, Lynchburg, Virginia.
[00:18:26]  Hi, Dennis.
[00:18:26]  Hi, Christina.
[00:18:27]  I've been listening to the fireside chat for about six months, but I've been working through them mostly chronologically.
[00:18:35]  How do you weigh the importance of a person's motiveslash intention behind an action against the goodnessslash evilness of it?
[00:18:44]  How do you weigh their intention against the net result of it?
[00:18:47]  Aside from knowing we're human and inherently fallible, How do you reconcile well intended efforts that have had bad consequences?
[00:18:56]  Well, I could spend obviously the whole opening comments on this particular matter.
[00:19:03]  So there's a difference.
[00:19:07]  For example, let us say I bought you a Christmas gift and I had only good intentions and it was not something you wanted at all.
[00:19:21]  What matters then is. that I intended to give you a nice gift.
[00:19:27]  So their intention is 90%.
[00:19:32]  That's a non issue.
[00:19:33]  But the result, remember, is not evil.
[00:19:35]  It's disappointment on your part, but no evil was done.
[00:19:39]  But when people have good intentions and evil is the result, I have contempt for those people.
[00:19:47]  It does not in any way excuse the evil of the result that they intended well.
[00:19:53]  The 20th century is filled with people with good intentions who did massive evil.
[00:19:58]  The biggest example is communism.
[00:20:02]  Communism killed 100 million people.
[00:20:06]  Not combatants.
[00:20:07]  This is innocent civilians.
[00:20:10]  Oh, because people were intoxicated by equality or equity, as they now put it.
[00:20:18]  In the name of equity, in the name of progress, more people have been slaughtered than in the name of anything else.
[00:20:25]  Isn't that something?
[00:20:29]  Oh, and they all meant well.
[00:20:30]  You know how many people gave secrets to Stalin, one of the The second greatest mass murder in history?
[00:20:36]  They gave him nuclear secrets.
[00:20:38]  They gave him the atom bomb.
[00:20:40]  That's how the Soviet Union developed the atom bomb because of spies in Britain and the United States who thought, oh, what a beautiful thing that they're making in the Soviet Union a world of equality.
[00:20:53]  No freedom, no liberty, no rights.
[00:20:56]  Gulag, 20 to 40 million people murdered by Stalin.
[00:21:00]  But hey, what the hell?
[00:21:02]  Equality.
[00:21:04]  That is why wisdom is more important than intentions.
[00:21:08]  Intentions are nothing compared to wisdom.
[00:21:10]  Wisdom is the knowledge of the consequences of your actions.
[00:21:15]  That's what matters.
[00:21:17]  It's what matters in America today.
[00:21:19]  All these, oh, anti racism, anti racism.
[00:21:22]  The amount of evil being done in the name of anti racism is incalculable.
[00:21:28]  Plus, just the gigantic lie of it.
[00:21:33]  The deprivation of real education from children.
[00:21:36]  All it is is a.
[00:21:39]  Facade to teach America hatred and to bring down the system of liberty that has made this the freest country in the history of the world.
[00:21:49]  So, intentions are on especially macro, in other words, social issues are largely irrelevant.
[00:21:58]  Who intends badly?
[00:22:00]  Very few people intend to have bad intentions.
[00:22:04]  So, think about it.
[00:22:05]  Who wakes up in the morning and goes, Oh, another day to do evil?
[00:22:09]  Very few people.
[00:22:11]  The vast majority of bad things have been done with good intentions.
[00:22:17]  Okay, very important question, obviously.
[00:22:22]  Next, Nick37, Springfield, Virginia.
[00:22:26]  Wasn't the other one Virginia?
[00:22:27]  Two of Virginia in a row.
[00:22:30]  Dear Dennis, thanks for your fireside chat and your calming voice of reason from the words you say and in the tone.
[00:22:36]  I can see why Otto sleeps so soundly during your discourse.
[00:22:40]  That's hilarious.
[00:22:43]  Otto, I must say, Otto sleeps.
[00:22:46]  Is he coming back in?
[00:22:48]  Yeah, let's see what happens.
[00:22:50]  This is funny.
[00:22:51]  You saw him walk out.
[00:22:52]  Maybe this will be the first time both Otto leaving and Otto coming.
[00:22:59]  And the answer is oh my God, he's staying at the okay, here he comes.
[00:23:04]  Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Otto Prager.
[00:23:17]  This is all because he was at the vet today.
[00:23:19]  This is, as you all know, he would be sleepy right now and probably snoring.
[00:23:26]  All right, it is what it is.
[00:23:29]  Megan, that's the famous Megan arm.
[00:23:31]  No, he's gone.
[00:23:33]  This is atypical behavior, but he was traumatized at the vet.
[00:23:36]  Okay.
[00:23:39]  Anyway, I see why Otto sleeps so soundly during your discourse.
[00:23:43]  He sleeps soundly during everybody's discourse.
[00:23:46]  I don't take any credit with my calming tone.
[00:23:49]  You keep fighting for America, but you also seem to notice that we're at a point of no return.
[00:23:54]  When is that point official?
[00:23:55]  Would that call for secession and how would secession look in your point of view?
[00:24:00]  Thanks in advance and God bless.
[00:24:02]  I didn't say we're at a point of no return.
[00:24:03]  I just want to make that clear.
[00:24:05]  We're not at a point of no return, but we are at a tipping point.
[00:24:09]  There's no question about that.
[00:24:11]  This is the darkest period in American history since the Civil War.
[00:24:15]  That's 150 years ago, more than 150 years ago.
[00:24:22]  It's almost unbelievable for me to say, but the forces undoing the American Revolution of liberty, of individualism, of limited government, they are in retreat.
[00:24:39]  And it always begins with freedom of speech, because the left suppresses freedom of speech wherever it gets into power, from the Russian Revolution to your local university.
[00:24:51]  There is no instance in history of the left being in power and free speech being allowed.
[00:24:57]  There is no instance.
[00:24:59]  And America is no different.
[00:25:00]  Liberals love free speech.
[00:25:02]  Conservatives love free speech.
[00:25:04]  The left has never allowed for it.
[00:25:07]  At what point could you see secession?
[00:25:09]  Well, there already is something akin to that taking place with a great many conservatives, people who do believe in freedom, leaving blue states and going to red states.
[00:25:23]  That's one example of this happening.
[00:25:26]  Many Californians where I live are moving to Texas, for example, or Florida, and they just want freedom.
[00:25:35]  So this shift is already somewhat taking place.
[00:25:40]  The problem is the people, let's say, from New York and New Jersey, Connecticut, going to Florida.
[00:25:48]  So they flee the consequences of the left, and then they reelect the left where they go.
[00:25:57]  It's not intelligent.

=== The Problem with People Fleeing Consequences (04:28) ===

[00:25:59]  Right?
[00:26:01]  That's exactly what happens.
[00:26:03]  People bring the values that they fled from with them.
[00:26:08]  Some Latin Americans do that.
[00:26:13]  The human being is a problem.
[00:26:17]  All right, Molly30, Kansas City, Kansas.
[00:26:19]  Hey, Dennis and Otto, even though I'm an avid podcast listener, I've never actually seen Otto, but he sounds pretty great.
[00:26:26]  He's not here now, right?
[00:26:28]  Does God have a gender?
[00:26:30]  If so, what is God's gender?
[00:26:31]  Does the gender of God matter?
[00:26:33]  Why or why not?
[00:26:34]  I ask because I work at a small private Christian university.
[00:26:38]  Like many, our university struggles to navigate our world and social pressures.
[00:26:43]  This year, our choir performed a rendition of the 23rd Psalm, but switched God's gender to female, he to she, and so on.
[00:26:53]  Wow, she maketh me lie in Pastor's Green.
[00:26:58]  I have my own thoughts, but I'm curious about yours.
[00:27:01]  Thank you for your time, and God bless you and yours.
[00:27:04]  Anyone who says she instead of he with a biblical phrase is doing something unethical, having nothing to do with religion, nothing.
[00:27:17]  You can't change what was written.
[00:27:20]  You want to make up a new psalm using she, that is perfectly in your right.
[00:27:27]  But to take something that says he and change it, it would be like. painting over a Michelangelo painting because you don't like that there's a male there and making it into a female.
[00:27:44]  There's no difference.
[00:27:46]  Changing a painting is the same as changing literature.
[00:27:51]  That's what they're doing.
[00:27:52]  It is immoral what they've done.
[00:27:55]  Forget religion.
[00:27:57]  It has nothing to do with religion.
[00:27:59]  You can't bastardize a text.
[00:28:05]  But the arrogance of these people, it's so arrogant.
[00:28:09]  Gee, I don't like what the original says, so I will change it.
[00:28:13]  Write your own.
[00:28:14]  But you can't change what the original says.
[00:28:19]  But that your church in, where would it be then?
[00:28:24]  I guess presuming Kansas?
[00:28:27]  That a small church in Kansas would do this shows you how much leftism has infected normative Christian life as it has Jewish life and Catholic life.
[00:28:40]  Does God have a gender?
[00:28:41]  No, God does not have a gender.
[00:28:43]  However, God is depicted in male form.
[00:28:45]  There's no neuter in Hebrew.
[00:28:47]  So you either depict God as male or female.
[00:28:50]  If you read my rational Bible, and I have a lot of dignity, but I beg you to read it.
[00:28:59]  Not for my sake, but because that's the wisest books ever written with the Bible.
[00:29:05]  And in Genesis.
[00:29:06]  It's called The Rational Bible, my commentary on the first five books.
[00:29:11]  Third book is coming out, Deuteronomy.
[00:29:14]  But Genesis has been published, and I have a very long essay on why God is depicted as male and not female.
[00:29:25]  And I'll give you one hint.
[00:29:30]  Because God is a moral authority, and when God says, be good and be compassionate, Men are more likely to listen to a male saying, be good and compassionate, than to a female.
[00:29:47]  It's just, it's more effective.
[00:29:51]  Ask single mothers, or ask married mothers for that matter.
[00:29:58]  Anyway, I have an essay on why God is depicted as male in my Genesis commentary, The Rational Bible.
[00:30:05]  But God Himself does not have a gender as such.
[00:30:10]  God does not.
[00:30:11]  God does not have male organs.
[00:30:14]  Well, God is not physical, so it's sort of irrelevant.
[00:30:18]  But changing the words of the text is profoundly wrong.

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[00:30:27]  How's our timing?
[00:30:30]  About 30.
[00:30:31]  Wow, the inner clock is still working.
[00:30:32]  It goes fast.
[00:30:35]  I hope you think that.
[00:30:37]  It's good that I think that, but I hope you think that too.
[00:30:41]  So, my friends.
[00:30:44]  I was going to say on behalf of Otto, but it's because that's instinctive.
[00:30:49]  Otto, who is a little hyper from his visit to the vet, is not present for me to say in his name.
[00:30:57]  Anyway, it's great to be with you.
[00:30:59]  I'm Dennis Prager, and I'll see you next week.
[00:31:01]  Tomorrow, Untimeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
[00:31:04]  I realized in high school at Yeshiva that I wasn't getting the answer to the biggest single question I had.
[00:31:13]  And I thought the biggest single question every Jew had, but they didn't acknowledge it.
[00:31:19]  And that is why be Jewish?
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