Dennis Prager is on installment TEN now, in his series. Let me explain for those who are new to this:
Dennis Prager is a well-known columnist (not for us, but wish he was) and a radio show host. He made it his new year’s resolution to explain Judeo-Christian values this year, in a way that normal people—religious or non-religious—could understand. And it’s not to “evangelize”, it’s just for smart people or people who want to be smart to learn about this stuff.
I’ve taken it upon myself to highlight Prager’s series as it comes out (weekly) because it’s fantastic. I believe that as a matter of intellectual pursuit, it’s important reading particularly for those among us who aren’t religious. It’s not about turning you into a religious person—it’s about learning and being intelligent.
Each column is short—takes about 3 minutes to read. When you go to read installment TEN, you’ll find an archive of all the previous installments too.
Here’s a snippet from installment ten, which is entitled “The Left’s battle to restore chaos: Judeo-Christian values: Part X”:
Good and evil: Central to the Judeo-Christian value system is that good and evil are polar opposites and “Woe unto those who call evil good, and good evil” (Isaiah). Opponents of Judeo-Christian values have made war on moral absolutes, on God-based moral values.
This has been attempted through moral relativism (“What I think is good is good for me, what you think is good is good for you”); opposition to moral judgments (“Who are you to call the Soviet Union ‘evil’?”); multiculturalism (“No culture’s values are any better than any other’s”); substituting psychological categories for moral ones (such as routinely labeling violent murderers “sick” rather than evil); dividing the world into the powerful and the weak rather than the good and bad; and through Marxism and all its leftist and liberal materialism-based offshoots that have substituted economic criteria for moral ones (“Poverty causes crime”; or as constantly heard since 9-11, poverty breeds terrorists, the point made by George McGovern recently at a symposium on world poverty at Princeton University).
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