Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Disqualified Because of Religion

5 Dec 2025 · 2 min

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In this monologue, the speaker cites research—specifically a study by a Baylor University affiliate who teaches at the Catholic University of America—showing that religious individuals tend to report higher levels of happiness. He then questions why such findings, when produced by religious scholars, are dismissed as biased, while similar conclusions drawn by secular scholars are accepted without question. The speaker frames this as a broader cultural critique, accusing the secular left of claiming objectivity while actually being biased, and laments the lack of serious, unbiased thought in society.

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The science is pretty clear. According to many studies over the years and confirmed in any new data analysis, religious people are statistically speaking measurably more likely to be happy. This is written by a non-resident fellow at Baylor University's Institute for the Studies of Religion and teaches at the Catholic University of America. Now you say, well, okay, the guy, the guy's religious, so it's biased. But you know what is fascinating? This, what the point I'm about to make, may actually affect you deeply if you're open to reason. So if a religious person, which I assume he is because he teaches at the Catholic University of America, but I don't even know how Catholic the Catholic University of America is because There are a lot of Jewish places that are not particularly committed to Judaism and a lot of Christian places not particularly committed to Christianity. But in any event, let's say he's religious. So why do the findings of religious people about religion disqualify them, but the findings about religion by secular people don't disqualify them? Good one, no? You'd never hear that, right? Oh, well, of course this professor says that, he's secular. The absence of serious thought in society is really frightening. Everybody's biased except the secular left. They're the non-biased.