Dennis Prager argues Easter matters more than Christmas and challenges anyone to name a secular system that replaced Christianity and is morally superior. He claims universities and schools have become moral wastelands spreading intellectual lies, and questions whether a less religious America is actually better.
We're heading into Easter weekend and it's a big and important, most important, it's more important I believe theologically than Christmas. While I'm not Christian, I am a deep respecter and worrier I worry about the replacement of Christianity in America and Judeo-Christian values with garbage. Do you know, I cannot think— I never put it quite this way. I've talked about this all of my life, but I'm going to put it in a different way. Call me up if you can tell me of something that has replaced Christianity and the Bible as the basic value systems of, of a country in the West that has been better? It's a fair challenge, right? What has replaced Christianity in the West and been better than what preceded it. Morally better. 1-8-Prager-776. I say this as a Jew because truth is what matters. So for all those who are leaving religion, it's a— I think it's a— if you're a serious person, it's a serious challenge. What do you have that's better? As I tell religious Jews and religious Christians all the time, I have brought— I believe this. If I'm wrong, I apologize. I believe I have brought more people, Christian and Jew, to faith and to taking their religion seriously than any living person. And my entire approach has been the necessity of God in the Bible rather than the existence of God. In other words, I have not stressed faith. I have stressed values. I've stressed necessity. 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. What has replaced Christianity in the West? And been better morally? You look at the United States now. 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? Theoretically, if you leave religion, you are going to something better, right? But as I put it, look at the wastelands of the universities. I've said this all of my life since I was in graduate school. What garbage, moral nonsense, intellectual lies permeate, permeate the university, and now the high school and the elementary school. If you get rid of something, you better have something better. Is that fair?
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