Dennis Prager discusses how the political left and secular ideologies like communism and Nazism have strengthened his religious conviction. He traces how religion's role shifted after the French Enlightenment, arguing that opposition to leftist movements has kept him committed to faith.
The left keeps me religious. If the left were decent people and supported decent causes, I don't know if I would be as religious as I am.
Well, look at communism and Nazism. That's right. Two secular evils in the 20th century. The problem is, I think for most of civilization, there were religious people, you know, maybe I'm wrong on this. Right, you're right. So secularism in numbers is kind of new because people were, there was paganism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism.
So all good and all evil done prior to the modern age, let's say the French Enlightenment, was done by religious people. They were the good and they were the bad because everybody, almost everybody was religious, right?
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