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On today's episode of Timeless Wisdom, this one is going to bother people right, left, and center, and religious and secular equally.

And the subject is the phrase Well, that's the way God made me.

I have 2 points. Um, I'm a former atheist, now Christian. I have a niece that was born with Down syndrome, and we were told, you know, oh, this was God's special angel, he made her this way. And, uh, the reason that was given to me, or the justification, was found in Psalms where it talks about God knitting us together in our mother's womb. But I really think from studying that just simply is describing the human Yes, of course it is.

Exactly, exactly. I so admire you, Cindy. That this may be a special angel is very true, but it doesn't mean that God made the child that way.

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That's right. Thank you, Charles Krauthammer. He said it in a different context, but we decided to appropriate it. Dennis Prager here, and the subject is the phrase Well, that's the way God made me. And this notion of what is, is what God has made, is used by people all over the spectrum. Let me tell you one immediate example. You may have heard it on my show. I interviewed the author of a book on the Columbine murderers. Harris and Klebold. And it turns out that in his 10 years of study of those 2 young murderers, Harris, I asked him, and we, it's too bad I didn't think about replaying this very one question.

It was very dramatic.

I didn't know what he would answer. I had no idea.

Those are the most dramatic when I have no clue which way the author the expert in this case will, uh, will— in which direction he will go.

And I asked him, do you believe that Harris, who was by far in everybody's understanding the ringleader—

the other one was a more pathetic boy who just followed the stronger Harris, Eric Harris—

uh, do you— I asked him, do you believe that Harris was a bad seed Or by and large, it was nature that formed him. And he said, bad seed. And a man called me, and this is what provoked this, although I've been thinking about this for many years in so many contexts, and I'll give you example after example, because I love generalizations, but without examples, they're useless. A man called and he was disappointed in me. That I accepted the notion that there are, so to speak, bad seeds. Some people just born and they're with deep proclivities to evil. Everybody is born with proclivities to sin and to bad, but not, not to shoot up a school, a bunch of schoolchildren. And so he was distressed because he said that would— that suggests that God made Eric Harris that way. And of course, I don't believe that for a nanosecond. I don't believe that God made this boy into a bad seed, but I do believe that there are bad seeds, uh, or whatever term you wish to use for those whose wiring or whatever it is in them is malfunctioning.

And, uh, or I assume we would say malfunctioning and, and just has this terrible tendency to do evil.

But I don't believe that God made him that way. But this argument, God made that, that, that way, is used by conservatives and liberals and religious and non-religious. I'll give you examples on all over the spectrum because I want to deal with this notion of God made a person that way. Which I don't buy for a minute. I don't buy it, and I'm a deep believer in God. But I— it's not logical, and it is almost a useless, often a dangerous phrase. For example, for example, there are people who have opposed women— usually it's women— getting cosmetic surgery. God made you that way. And why are you undoing it? You don't like your nose? God made your nose that way. I have gotten— I've heard that argument on my own show. And do you believe that, folk? God made your nose that way? If you like a better nose, get a better nose. What is it God's business? God made it that way? When I have argued on behalf of bottle feeding, I have no problem with breastfeeding. I think it's lovely. I think it's beautiful. Those who wish to do it should be well and healthy. But I get the argument, well, Dennis, why do you think God created the breast? And that's the end of the argument. Dennis, you're talking against God if you talk bottle feeding. Of course, there are a lot of answers to why God created the breast, and especially with the human species, apparently God created the breast for things other than milk production for babies. Because even when women are not feeding babies, they still have their breasts, unlike other primates. So there must be other reasons for breasts, because women have breasts if they never get pregnant. But doesn't matter, doesn't matter. The argument with gays is always, you read it all the time, people who never invoke God all of a sudden invoke God all the time. God made me gay, or God made gays gay. I don't believe that God made gays gay. I don't believe that God made anybody anything that way. I don't believe that. God made you incapable of making love to the opposite sex? Why would he do that? God made us so that we have compassion for the gay. That's a separate issue because God wants us to be compassionate.

But, but, but it—

the deaf use this. The deaf culture says it. God made children deaf. That's why they're against the cochlear implant. God made children that way.

Here's a woman—

this is perfect, I'm going to take this call in fact— a woman whose child has Down syndrome.

People tell her God made her child that way.

Now I understand what animates people wanting to say God made you that way, but But how do you know everything that is, God made? Then if God made us in such a way, why should we change anything? Did God make children who are born with spina bifida? Did he make spina bifida? What about the— what is that? The cleft with the—

Cleft palate.

Cleft palate. Did God make it? Why go to surgery then? Why undo it if God made it that way? The invoking of God in these matters make make you feel well, but my or feel good. But my my my task is not to feel good; it's to try to think clearly. That that that I do think God wants is that we use our brain that God gave God that did that was given by God.

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God made me that way.

So no matter what you do, what— then why improve anything? God made you moody. God made you what? God made you fat. God made you skinny.

I'm not fat.

God made you short. God made you tall.

I don't know.

And by the way, on what grounds do people even say this? It's just an excuse to stifle any argument. Well, then you're arguing with God's will. If you argue that bottle feeding is okay, you're against God's will. If you're arguing for marriage between man and woman, then you're against God's will because God made gays. I mean, it's just endless. That's it. No argument. God made it.

I love the cosmetics.

That was the first time I heard it when I argued this many— my beginning years on radio, because the producer I had at that time had had a nose job and she said it publicly on the air.

And people called up and said, oh, you know, God gave her the nose the way she had it.

Who was she to change it? And I, I sat there and I remember I, I, I was dumbfounded for a response. God made her nose that way? Then why go to any doctor? Why take any child to a, to a doctor? The way, the way they're born is it. Might as well say God made bad breath. Why brush your teeth?

It's far more natural.

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You're listening to the Dennis Prager Show. This is the Ultimate Issues Hour, and the subject on this Ultimate Issues Hour is one that, as I said at the opening, would affect people of all sorts of political and religious persuasions. This is not left-right, religious, non-religious. It's the phrase, God made me that way, or God made him or her that way. And I find it 99% of the time Just illogical. And all it is is a defense of the way the person is, or the act that the person wants to do.

You can't be for bottle feeding because God made the breast. You can't be for opposite-sex marriage because God made people gay. You can't be for the cochlear implant because God made kids deaf. You can't be for cosmetic surgery because God made your nose that way.

It's just endless.

I've heard it over and over, and it's meaningless.

It's a way of avoiding having to confront an issue. That's all it is. Because how am I going to argue? Well, oh, okay, you've invoked God. It's the end of the debate, isn't it?

Okay, let's go to line 3.

That doesn't matter to you folks. Rarely do that. Cindy in Stephenville, Texas, I already made reference to you. Hi.

I'm happy to be on line 3.

Yes, exactly right.

I have 2 points. I'm a former atheist, now Christian. I have a niece that was born with Down syndrome, and we were told, you know, oh, this was God's special angel, he made her this way. And the reason that was given to me, or the justification, was found in Psalms where it talks about God knitting us together in our mother's womb. But I I really think from studying that just simply is describing the human species.

Yes, of course it is! Exactly, exactly. I so admire you, Cindy. That this may be a special angel is very true, but it doesn't mean that God made the child that way.

No, and we found there were several possible environmental reasons. And the second point I want to make to Christians is that Jesus— as a Christian, I believe and know that Jesus was sinless. He went around, he said, doing his Father's will and work. He healed people. Yeah, God made them that way in the first place, then he's doing—

He's undoing his Father's work.

Right, exactly.

Yes, bless you. That's exactly right. You know, the blind man—

well, I'd really love to cure you, but God made you blind.

You don't know, folks. You don't know. I've covered this often. The deaf community— that's what they call themselves— the deaf culture Argue, uh, very, very much that you're born deaf, and either they'll invoke God or not invoke God depending on their rhetoric. And you, you know, it's not for us to change it, even when it can be changed, when they can be in many cases with a cochlear implant. But no, that implies that there was something better about hearing than not hearing, that hearing culture is, is a better thing. We get this all the time now, all the time. All right. Bless you.

It's very rare to have a rational person, even with regard to one's child.

Let's go to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Nathan.

Hello, Nathan.

Dennis Prager.

Hey, Dennis. Thanks for taking my call.

Thank you. What line do you think you're on?

Um, 4. Wrong.

Go ahead.

You know, I can— I think my point's kind of a touchy subject. But in the time of Moses, God specifically, without room for discussion, says that he hardened Pharaoh's heart against his own people.

Well, not again—

well, I wouldn't say against his own people, but it doesn't matter.

It says God strengthened or hardened—

Yeah, hardened his heart.

Right.

Okay, go ahead. So what's your point?

So my point is, I think, where's the difference between Hardening the heart, and I mean, because that's specifically changing a person, making a person. I mean, do you know if it's hardened from birth? I mean, if he was just made—

Well, if it was hardened from birth, God wouldn't have to have hardened it.

Okay, well, I guess what I'm saying is, where's that difference between—

All right, well, there are 2 differences.

Let me address this very, very quickly, because I believe that I can, and And I think you'll find it persuasive. Number one, it has to do with a specific individual. And that's, that's, that's the number one answer. God hardens or strengthens— the Hebrew uses both terms— Pharaoh's heart.

Okay, that's right.

One person in one occasion, God intervenes. I mean, God intervenes in other occasions, but those are, those are miraculous moments.

That's that. That's so— that has nothing to do with how every other one of the billions of humans who have been born are born.

Didn't say everybody is born with a hard heart.

It means that God hardened his heart.

Secondly, God did it in order to give him free choice, free will, because otherwise he was making his decision on whether to let the Israelites leave based on coercion, namely the 10 plagues. Rather than free will. So God strengthened his heart to have free will. That's what that's about.

Okay, I appreciate your call, Nathan.

And let's go to Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Donald. Hello, Donald. Dennis Prager.

Hello.

I have to say, I don't quite buy the argument that nothing about the way that Harris and Klebold were raised had anything to do with how they acted.

I didn't say— look, that's a separate issue.

I, I I don't think that they were made the way they were by the way they were raised.

All right? They were given anti—

they were given—

they were brought to psychiatrists. They were brought to a special program. They— I'm talking at least about Harris. He had been taken in by the police. He had been in the diversions program. He had psychiatric antidepressant.

I don't know what else the parents could have done.

Well, the whole point of this coming Good Friday is that we're all bad seeds and that we have to admit that we're sinners to God and ask for him to change us.

Right.

Okay. I don't believe— look, Donald, I'm a big believer, but I—

and I believe that we are not basically good. I don't believe we're basically bad, but we're not basically good. I accept that tremendously. It's one of the insights that secular life is undoing to its, uh, to its great, uh, The dishonor and tragedy as a result.

But I don't believe— I'm sorry, I don't believe because God gave me reason.

And when I use my faculty of reason, it is as clear as day is long that some people have a better nature to begin with than others.

Any parent knows that who has kids, and anybody who lives with human beings knows it. I was born with a good nature.

It's why I take very little credit for my daily behavior towards people. It just naturally comes. I take very little credit for it. There are things I have to battle. That's not one of them.

Okay? So there you are, just to speak personally.

There are people who have far greater, greater difficulties in being kind on a daily basis because they have a much rougher nature to deal with.

That's the way it is.

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You're listening to The Dennis Prager Show, The Ultimate Issues Hour. I am making war against the phrase, God made me that way, or God made him or her that way. And as I said, it's used all the time for people not to engage in debate. It's used endlessly. My colleague Larry Marino reminds me, it's like people saying, yeah, hey, if God wanted me to fly, he'd give me wings. So why go on an airplane? We have no wings. I've never seen things that way. God made me that way. It's used by the deaf who don't want their children to get hearing. I know you think that I made that up, but folks, I would never make something that awful up. There's a whole deaf culture out there that doesn't want kids to get implants to enable them to hear because God made them that way. The argument is used again, as I said earlier, I give all these examples, for breastfeeding. Oh, that's what God wanted. God wanted the breast used for breastfeeding. And God made me gay, so why would you ever argue that the ideal is male-female marriage? God made me gay, so you're going against God. It's left, right, center, religious, secular. God made me. God made me this way. Why have, why have, uh, uh, plastic surgery? God, God made my body that way, or God made my face that way. All right, let's go to Newport Beach, California, and Joe. Hello, Joe. Dennis Prager.

Hey, Dennis. Um, I just read recently about sociopaths and that in cases of sociopathy, that 50% of it has a genetic component to it. Now, I agree with you that they know right from wrong as well as you and I do. They just don't have the ability to dismiss it out of hand because of a lack of conscience. So, but I— it's still profoundly disturbing to me, and it's not a test of my faith so much, but it is— there is an issue there that needs further reflection.

Joe, Joe, you're a kindred spirit. It has always disturbed me.

It is one of the questions I will ask God.

Why didn't he give everybody an equal chance at being good or bad? It is clear that that is not the case.

And I don't have an answer. And, but I, unlike many who don't have answers, I don't dismiss God's existence or my faith in God. It means I just don't have an answer. And God knows better than I do.

But it is a great question. And I don't— there's no doubt in my mind.

None.

that, uh, that there is not equal opportunity for goodness among all human beings. I say this with regret.

I have no agenda except truth-telling here, because I, I wish that they did.

I don't excuse people.

I still believe in capital punishment for murder, uh, but, uh, it is a very big problem, Joe.

Yeah, and I, you know, I know the issue when you, uh, kind of dismiss the bad seed issue with Harris. I know what the author was driving at, and obviously—

Wait, wait, nobody dismissed it.

Right, well, not dismissed it. When I say, um, the topic of the show more or less is, you know, Harris had a choice and he—

I blame Harris, but on the other hand, most of us have no desire to murder fellow students.

Well, exactly.

So there's nothing to battle. Harris could have overcome it. I hold him responsible, But, but still, it's— he had a tendency that you and I don't have.

Yeah, and it's, uh, it's still disturbing, and it's just—

Yes, yes, it is.

It's still disturbing.

I agree.

That's, that's exactly what I, uh, what I was arguing. That's correct. Okay, Gilbert, Arizona, and Mitch. Hello, Mitch. Dennis Prager.

Hi, Dennis.

Hi.

Hey, you actually just used a phrase that fits perfectly what I was saying, or my point. You're talking about the tendencies that some people have and others don't. Just because God— if God did make somebody gay, if they are homosexual because of some predisposition God put in them and they have that tendency, it doesn't automatically make it okay for them to act upon that tendency. I have a tendency to, you know, I'm a guy, I, you know, I have these very amorous feelings. It doesn't make it okay for me to go sleep around and cheat on my wife. But just because God made me this way doesn't mean I go and live along those tendencies. Just because God has made somebody have homosexual tendencies doesn't mean they go off and fight for homosexual marriage.

I understand.

That's a separate issue entirely, because of course they would answer, and it would be a legitimate answer. They'd say, yeah, you can't sleep with all these women, but at least you can sleep with one woman you want. They can't sleep with one person they want.

And that's their answer to that. So the issue, though, is not that.

It's the God made me issue. Back in a moment.

Hi, everybody. This is the Ultimate Issues Hour on the Dennis Prager Show.

And I am knocking this notion used by people in the deaf community, in the gay community, in the breastfeeding community, in the anti-cosmetic surgery community, in the religious community, in the secular community, in the right-wing community, in the left-wing community: God made me this way.

And I find that to be a misuse of God.

And Period.

End of issue.

I don't know when it is an appropriate term to— expression to even be used.

All right, let's go to your calls.

Dallas, Texas, Lyle.

Hello, Lyle. Dennis Prager.

Hello, Dennis. What an honor it is to talk to you.

Thank you for that.

You know, I'm able to listen to you every day through Pragertopia, although the reason that I subscribed was because, you know, a worker is worthy of his wages, and I feel like that's the least that I can do to support you in return for all that you've given and continue to give to me daily.

Well, Lyle, God bless you. I happen to agree with you.

Well, thank you, Dennis. Now, what I have to say sort of dovetails from the last caller. I don't want to look like I'm trying to play both sides of this, but in effect, I kind of am. What it is, is that Uh, God does make some vessels for common use and some for noble purposes, but that doesn't, that doesn't give the excuse to just simply, uh, to say, I have no responsibility in this.

Uh, it—

in, in the book of Romans, they— people were using it as an excuse. They said, well, you know, how can we resist God's will? Because he'll harden who he wants to harden, he'll bless who he wants to bless, but clearly we all have a responsibility. What if you took Troy Aikman, and the talent that he was given by God, if he had instead just decided to sit and watch TV all day?

Right, I agree, but you see, here's the thing. I don't know if God gives out a football of abilities. I just don't know that. I think— I don't know that God did. I don't know if it matters to God whether one plays football or not. It's what Troy Aikman did with what he was given, period. I'm not sure it's even worth invoking with a blessing like that, Lyle. That's— I don't know. Maybe God did give him that ability. But, you know, what about all the people who had Troy Aikman's abilities before the advent of football? What a waste. What did they use it for? You know, throwing cups and saucers at a restaurant? I mean, what, you know, it's— so I don't know. And isn't he lucky that he was born with that ability in the only country that— well, it's not the only, but one of the few that plays American-type football? What if he were born with that ability in a country that played soccer? You know, he'd have ended up a car salesman. So, not that there's anything wrong with being a car salesman, folks. I could have used it. I could have happily said endocrinologist.

I don't care what— just something else.

I think that—

look, I think that we invoke God as a metaphor, and as a metaphor, I can live with it. But if we really mean it literally, I usually have a problem with it.

Because if God gave X this ability, then God gave Y a disability. You know, that's the other thing. I don't like getting God off the hook. My God is very sophisticated, very sophisticated. And he wants me to think in a sophisticated way. So God gives this guy this, this incredible ability to make tens of millions of dollars and be, and be a spectacular hero to people, uh, playing, playing a sport. But this guy, he gave one leg longer than the other leg. Then why have an operation? And how do you know when it's God? Does only God give abilities but not disabilities?

Okay. Alrighty. Good man, Lyle. You're a good soul. I thank you for that.

And let's go to— out to Los Angeles, California.

Brent.

Hello, Brent.

Dennis Prager.

Hello, Dennis.

Hi, Dennis. It's a pleasure talking to you.

Thank you.

I just wanted to bring up this whole notion of morality and naturalness. Just because something's natural doesn't make it good. We're trying to always eradicate diseases— polio, sickle cell anemia— and in the realm of moral behavior, just because a person's angry or frustrated doesn't give them the right to murder somebody, even though it's a perfectly natural impulse.

That's right. Well, that's my argument here.

It's a different way of stating why it's a dangerous thing to say God—

you know, God made me have a bad temper. Why not? You were born with it. You've always had it. You know, God gave it to me. Our task is to undo the bad we're born with and to cultivate the good we're born with. That's what God wants. You see, I— it's interesting.

This is worthy of an Ultimate Issues hour.

My view of God is far more what does God want than what does God do.

That's where I differ from, I would say, most of my fellow believers, Jewish or Christian.

They're much more interested, or at least as interested, in what God does I'm not.

I have no clue as to what God does beyond that he created the world and made— and in my opinion, revealed himself at Sinai with the 10 Commandments. I mean, I mean, I believe in other things, you know, where there's a miracle here and a miracle there. That's fine.

But overwhelmingly, I do not ask, what does God do? It's going to get you in big trouble.

What does God do? Because you can't know the answer.

And you get in big trouble because if God did X, why didn't he do Y? If God saved A on the airplane, why didn't he save B through Z on that same airplane?

What I do want to know and spend my life is wanting— I want to know what God wants me to do in the handful of years I'm given on this earth.

That's what I wish religious people asked all the time. What does God want me to— what does God want from me? What does God do makes him a butler, celestial butler as I call him.

So let's do that as another, another time.

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Dennis Prager here. Let me, let me cite 2 calls that are up that touch me to my core. Dale in Sarasota says that he was born with a disability and was told that God made him that way. His parents told him he was just like everyone else. He believed God didn't make him this way but doesn't use it as a crutch. He's 30 years old. Ronnie, 43, Santa Clarita, says his born— his son was born with dwarfism. And he tells other kids that God made him that way, and he doesn't know if this is a good answer, but he doesn't have a better answer. I think it's wonderful for kids to reach an acceptance with, this is, this is God's will. I have no problem with that on an emotional and psychological level. I'm talking to you folks as fellow adults. And of course Dale is one, obviously.

And if you believe that God made you that way and don't use it as a crutch, then God bless you.

I, I, I, I—

it is when it is used as an excuse or a crutch. Look, I mean, he— it pains me because I don't want to undermine anybody's comfort and solace who suffers from some disability, but I mean, if Ronnie's son could take a pill that would end his dwarfism and give him normal height, I'm sure he would. He would— well, so is he undermining God's will then? And Dale in Sarasota, if you could take a pill and undo whatever disability it is you have— Now, what is God's will is how we react to what we have. Man's Search for Meaning. Our freedom doesn't lie in what is dealt to us. Our only freedom in life, in the final analysis, is to react— is the freedom to how to react to what is dealt to us. And God tells us how to react. That's where God comes in. How do I handle my disability? How do I, the non-disabled, handle people with a disability? Am I kind to them? Do I reach out?

That's where God comes in, not as the source of the disability, in my opinion.

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Tomorrow on Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.

This topic today is bound to annoy, and not meant to annoy.

I will try to do it in a way that is as little Uh, in the realm of offensive as possible, but it's a tough subject for especially a lot of women to hear, and I understand that. But I'm tough on men too.

I'm tough on both sexes because life is tough and we have to be honest.

And you have heard me say this, but I don't think we've devoted an hour on the male-female hour to this issue.

The battle that women have And versus the battles that men have with their nature.

I want to just first off say that I appreciate my wife. She's a wonderful woman.

Wonderful.

And we've been married 13 years. And sometimes, you know, like the emotions— we were young and all of a sudden all these emotions come out after marriage. And I was kind of like, I didn't know what to do. So for 13 years, you know, we've been trying to figure it out. I appreciate her because she acknowledges it and she tries to get control of it, but it's hard for her.

I think a lot of times women start having, um, I, I say problem in a liberal way, a problem with their emotions because they start to learn that nobody acknowledges the feelings that those emotions are creating. You know, if a woman feels angry and is never acknowledged, she becomes to show anger in an inappropriate way.

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