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So Dennis Prager needs no introduction to anyone who has a radio or television, and you see he's multifaceted throughout his entire career, always making an impact, as with his next book. And the name of the book for the Dennis has out now is called If There Is No God, The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil. And of course, this is a case that there is a God. He's a multi-best-selling author. He's also the founder of Prager University.
One by one, little by little, he's educating a whole generation or has been in the right way of American history, especially. Dennis Prager, congratulations on the book. Welcome back. Thank you. It's great to be back, Brian.
Always thinking big picture, but can I keep you small picture for a second? The President Trump has done something that six of previous presidents didn't want to do or chose not to do, maybe wanted to, and that is take on Iran, who I think is the personification of evil. It is a risky mission, of course, but is the mission worth it in your mind? It is worth it. And I think of his bombing of the The nuclear facilities about six months ago.
That was an incredibly risky endeavor. And I'm not sure any other president would have done it Republican. Or a Democrat, and one of his arch foes. Tucker Carlson. Actually, he said, and it's amazing that he's not held accountable for this.
He said that this would lead. to World War III.
Well, of course, it didn't lead to World War III or any war. Uh our pilots came back. Thank God. Perfectly healthy.
So I trust this man. But aside from trusting this man, If it works. If somehow The greatest sponsor of terrorism on on planet Earth. Is reduced in its capacity or even hopefully eliminated, it would be a tremendous. boosts to peace on earth.
Yeah, I mean, he's well underway to doing that. Certainly, it's a political risk. And the Grant Ayatollah, basically, not only does he act evil, he dressed the part in all black.
So I appreciate that.
So it wouldn't be confusing to anyone at home.
So we're going to see. I just am shocked that people are pretending as if Democrats are pretending as if this is a sudden problem that Donald Trump decided to create on his own when they know it's bedeviled six other presidents. Democrats and Republicans to this day. And I was just speaking to a CIA officer who said when he was trying to settle things down with the insurgency in Iraq, we kept telling leadership: we can't make any progress if we don't take care of Iran. They're the ones causing all this unrest, and we never did.
That's exactly right. This if there is such a thing as evil, which goes to my new book, If There Is No God, The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil. If there is no such thing as evil, In other words. If it's just opinion. That's the problem.
If If there is no Divine source. as our founders said, That We are endowed by our Creator. not by our government. not by human beings. by our Creator.
with certain inalienable rights.
Well The same thing holds for good and evil. If there is a creator. was the source of Standards then there is good and evil. If there is no Creator. Then Yeah.
Concepts of good and evil. are simply personal opinion. or societal opinion. Iran qualifies. The uh the quintessence of evil They you know It's amazing the that people oppose the president's decision Iran regularly, I mean.
Weekly, maybe daily. would have demonstrations. saying Marg Bar America. Death to America. And of course, death to Israel.
America was the big Satan. And Israel was the little Satan. That is what they were devoted to. destroying Israel. and destroying America.
He doesn't want to let them. have that opportunity. Dennis Prager, our guest, obviously. And Dennis, you said you grew up like a few years after the end of World War II, and you became fascinated with the fact that there was evil in the world, and you thought about the Holocaust. Why would people just want to kill people about a religion or a belief or an ethnicity?
And that became your focus. How did that lead you to thinking there was a higher power as opposed to leading you from that thought? Because I that's a great question, by the way. I I don't have a perfect answer. Because you're right.
It could have led me either way. But I was convinced That The Holocaust. Mao's extermination. of 60 million Chinese. Stalin's of twenty to forty million Russians.
and six million Ukrainians. And so on. I was convinced. that it wasn't my opinion. The that uh rendered these things evil.
that they really were evil. Evil exists.
So that led me. to believing that there is a moral creator. Yes, understood. And then you spend the whole the the most of your career and I guess life in free time proving that. What proof did you get that you think there is?
And how did that lead to the values that you have?
Well, yeah. The proof. is the real life experience. of people who suffer from evil. Uh it's It's very difficult.
For any anyone. to assume that there is no evil. That there is just opinion. Very few people believe that. My favorite color, that's opinion.
That's not absolute. But the Holocaust and the Chinese famine and so on. Induced by Mao. That's real. That's not favorite color.
Understood. I got it. And they go out there and prove it. How does that change your life? When you go out and you go look on these circumstances, you come to your conclusions.
Were you somebody that went through a transformation as you came to these conclusions and your thoughts and started writing these books? Were you someone that. needed to change or just just make you better? I think it made me better. I wrote in my diary in high school.
And to junior and high school. I still have that diary. I wrote. I know my mission in life. My task in life.
is to influence people. Do the good. I assumed there was good and evil. already in high school. what I've devoted my life to doing.
is identifying evil. And trying to persuade people. to combat it. And the Association of the United States of America. with combating evil that so many people will use the American flag like they did in Hong Kong when they revolted against the Chinese Communist Party.
Rubbing Hong Kong. Unfortunately, it didn't work. but they use the American flag. For most people. Seeing the American flag.
over the hill as it were. coming in with the cavalry. meant, wow, we will now have freedom. in our country. It's always great to talk to Dennis.
Not many people would be coming back this strong after what happened to him, and without any bitterness when we come back. What Dennis thinks about his fall, his accident, and how he's responded, and how it fits into his view of America and life and religion. Brian Kilmucho.
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So you gotta go grab it.
So, Dennis, maybe people at home don't understand like you understand how unbelievably circum how unbelievably fortunate All these founding fathers were to be educated by the right people and have a certain amount of some of these philosophers around at the same time. Can you explain how the great thinkers of their time influenced our founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?
Well, let me put it to you this way. I cannot explain. in normal terms. How so many great men were in one place. at one time.
As the founders of the United States of America. And I'll give you an example. I I conduct orchestras. as an avocation. And I know a lot about classical music.
There is no explanation. For why Germans and a certain era. Germans and Austrians in a certain era utterly dominated. Great music. Beethoven.
Bah. Schubert. Schumann. Mozart. Haidm.
It's unbelievable. It seems that. Either God or nature gives a certain group of people a unique ability. At a certain place at a certain time. That's why America was founded.
And as Benjamin Franklin, I think it was, said. It's a republic. He was asked by a woman. What is it? It's a republic.
If you can keep it. And that's a big question. Can we keep it? And you had David Hume, you have Rousseau, you had Montesquieu, you had John Locke. These are people that our founding fathers interacted with and almost took the best of their philosophies, let alone the classics of Aristotle and Plato.
And they're in their 30s outside Benjamin Franklin, all coming together and say, okay, if we're going to do this, we're going to need fighters, but we're also going to need a philosophy and a governing principle.
So they went to school on all these governments, and then we come up with one pretty effective, eventually a constitution, pretty awesome. And that's how we got here.
So I've always been in awe of it. The Prager U reflects that. You can see it on a daily basis. Why does this generation, more than any others, not understand how special this country is? Uh-huh.
Another great question. They have No. Knowledge of history. That's a big factor. If it happened before they were born, it almost didn't happen.
I know. It's it's Yeah. I'm sure you know. And it's reflected. in social media.
It's Only what's happening now. Matters.
So th they don't have a A sense. Of what is important and what happened before. The, what was it? There was a. I think it was Pew Research, but or Gallup, noted that almost 50% of young Americans.
Did not know what the Holocaust was. Wow. And you don't know what percentage denied it happened. And that's also what Iran brought to the world, too. They tried to expound on that.
That's right. Yeah. You know your stuff. Hey, Dennis, what do you say to people that say religion is a way to control the population? It's a way to give people values and feel of afterlife retribution to keep the house in order, to keep a country in order, to keep a town in order.
What do you say to people who say that leaders use religion as an instrument? It's true? I have no problem with that, and I believe in that instrument. I believe it exists. I wish, in fact, that every country.
would say to its citizens, that if you do evil, You will pay for it in the afterlife. Clearly, very few people pay for it. in this life.
So I have no problem it should be used. But it isn't used. That's one of the points of my book. that it's just rendered Subjective opinion.
So it's not used. Yeah, whether it's a cynical way to keep the population in order or a legitimate way.
So, if Dennis Prager was president, it would be a legitimate way. Other people might do it as cynically to keep the house in order, to say, listen, you don't listen to me, but what about an afterlife? That should get your attention. And that's maybe how it's been used in the past.
So when you go to prove Uh that uh there is a God. If you would have summed that up. in a way in which The non-PhD student would understand how fundamentally do you get that point across? quickly and efficiently.
Well, there are two separate questions. The necessity of God. And the existence of God. I have spent much of my life. speaking about the necessity.
But if you're asking about the existence Yeah. I cannot rationally, and I emphasize rationally. Explain. The existence of anything, let alone consciousness. the human being.
the idea that The universe came from nothing. Yeah. The the notion that Something came from nothing. I mean, if we found a computer. on Jupiter.
Wouldn't we assume that an intelligence put it there.
Well, that's us. We human beings on Earth. We are the computer on Jupiter. And Yeah. Intelligence doesn't come from non-intelligence.
Just as existence. doesn't come from non-existence.
So that's in a nutshell, the argument for God's existence. But my emphasis, as I have said, has been on God's necessity. Yeah. No God, no good and evil. No ultimate justice.
Understood. So, Dennis, for you personally, and by the way, his book is now out, as you know. Uh And the book is now out. And If There Is No God, the battle over who defines God, good and evil, is out. And you can always order it at Dennis Prager.
So Dennis, you did you went away for a while. I heard you had an accident. Could you tell everyone what happened?
Well, I advise everybody to read. My Wall Street Journal op-ed. Of uh of Yeah. I don't remember what theirs about a week ago. And I explained there.
on November 12th. I fell. Uh in my house. And I was rendered immediately. paralyzed from the shoulders down.
So my life. radically changed. But I have not become depressed. let alone suicidal. And I explain why.
And it's It's gotten It's gone viral for good reason, by the way. And I'm not bragging. And the re the good reason. is it gives people Hopefully. and reason.
Yeah. who have suffered. Obviously, I'm not talking as well. as I did uh prior to the uh to the accident, but I am speaking. And Nope.
I I I put out videos. at Prager U every other week. And I've been on a number of shows like yours, for which I'm. Very grateful, Brian. But it it is look uh It's been life-changing.
But you know what? Everything that I did except travel, I can do now. I can give talks. via the internet and I do. I write articles.
just in in my paralyzed I have finished the book. If there is no God. And I wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal. And I am giving these talks. This is a blessing that I can do all of this.
And do you ever ask yourself, why do you think this happened to you? Oh, this will depress. a lot of people. It doesn't depress me at all. And a lot of religious people.
Don't agree with me. But I said before and I've written it up. Not just said it. I do believe that there is. Good luck and bad luck in life.
If the family is hit by a drunk driver. It's bad luck. I do not believe. That God designed it that way. God allows people to do bad things.
That that is the n the the way The world works. I fell. Because There was no friction. on the bathroom floor. when i was wet I'm and ran towards My sync.
Instead of going carefully. or putting down towels. and because of gravity.
So when there's no friction. And there is gravity. You will fall. I don't believe God designed my fall. I believe God knows my fall.
I believe God. I'll try to choose the word. That God is sad about the fall, but he obviously. has allowed tens of millions of people to be hurt. That is the nature of the world.
One day we'll we'll find out why.
Well, they say God doesn't give you anything you can't handle. He obviously thinks you're extremely tough, and he's 100% right. Dennis Prager, congratulations on the book and the inspiration. Nothing stops you, and you're proof of that. And I look forward to your next PragerU video and your next book.
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