Dennis Prager argues that religious schools should teach personal responsibility as a core principle: that individuals, not society or circumstances, are the primary source of their own problems. He says people must wrestle with both a universal human nature and their own particular nature.
Why don't they teach, you know what, in our religious Christian school and our religious Jewish school, we're gonna teach you something you're not gonna get in any regular school in this society. The belief that you have to fight you. You are the problem in your life, not society, not your parents, not racism, not misogyny, not patriarchy. You. That would be great. Because everybody has to wrestle with two natures: human nature, which is universal, and their own nature, which is particular to themselves.
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