Dr. Dennis Prager

Yes, I would. But I'm thrilled that he's not acting it out. Agreed. Of course. Well, that's big. We're both thrilled that he might have a poor substitute, but it is a substitute if that were the case. No child is being used. It's all animated. And he...

Because I certainly would. No, I would use evil only with behavior. That's where we might differ, forgetting the sex issue. You can't be evil. You didn't do evil if you thought evil.

And there's also the animator. Okay, wait a minute. We both are aching for him not to have those fantasies. I agree with you. But you won't call it evil. I won't call a fantasy evil. There's too much real evil on earth for me to start being preoccupied with people's thinking.

Okay, so the real question about the whole pornography issue is not pornography. It's masturbation. There is a Catholic tradition. I disagree.

Looking with lust is not a sin in Judaism.

When I'm asked this question... Just to put you on the spot, by the way. You did indeed. Okay, so my answer, when it's raised on my radio show, I have a male-female hour, and I'm very open about sexual subjects. I always ask, if a wife calls me and says, my husband looks at pornography, like I found on his computer, I have one question. How is your life of intimacy with your husband? Is it good?

In other words, is the pornography in lieu of you or in addition to you? And I know this is not a religious answer, and I'm not even giving a religious answer. I'm giving what I think is a moral and realistic answer. Men want variety. And if pornography is a substitute for one's wife, it's awful. If it's a substitute for adultery, it's not awful. That is my unpredictable answer.

But nevertheless, this Jew, this Westerner is very frightened of a post-Christian society.

Can somebody explain to me, because I admit I've wrestled with this as long as I've studied Christianity, In the beginning was the Word. I've never fully understood that, especially if it harkens back to Genesis. I don't have an issue with it. Please understand, this is truly a question from ignorance. Is the Word, when God said, let there be light, is that the Word that's being referred to?

To some extent, yes.

It's a willingness to die. So it's the death of the old tyranny. Why was that forgiveness of sin? I didn't follow that.

No, no, but the people who pass through are. Well, forgiven. So you have Egyptians inside. They're saved, but they're not forgiven. I never understood the Jews on the other side of the sea being forgiven for anything. because that's not what's said. They were just saved from the death of the Egyptian army.

That's what women do after they're raped. It's a very powerful imagery.

All the Christians at the table correctly are making clear the references to the Old Testament, specifically the Pentateuch, the Torah. So I have a question which is sort of outside of the province of the Bible study. But it's always puzzled me, and maybe you in particular, Maida, because you expressed the fact that you were an evangelist for the faith.

I never understood why so many Christian groups will only hand out the New Testament to would-be converts. Big mistake, yeah.

Huge problem. No, I'm glad this is on record. Yes, yes.

In your read of this, this is typical when we read something and then all of a sudden, after so many times of reading it, something pops up. Yeah. So, I'm sure, I may be wrong, but the angel describing to Mary whom she will give birth to does not describe him as God, correct? No. as a divine being.

He will be great and he'll be called the descendant of David, he's the new... Right, but that's not a divine being. Yeah. So, is that not interesting or worthy of note that that Jesus, if indeed is God incarnate, that that would not be stated in the description of him by the angel to Mary?

I agree with you.

If everybody gets the exact same story.

I'd like to answer my own question, which is classic Jewish way of learning. So, it occurs to me, it's actually very real. He's speaking to a Jewish woman, and the whole context is Jewish. The Lord God shall give him unto the throne of his father David. He shall reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be no end." It is all Jewish references.

If he'd have said, if the angel had said to Mary, I want you to know you're giving birth to God, she would have thought it was a hallucination or she had gone mad. This made perfect sense to her. And again, the Jewish context is so central. And that's why I raised my point about only giving out the New Testament.

The Hebrew is army. Pardon me? The Hebrew is army.

So Bishop, I have a question. which I know a lot of people watching this will have, but I have it too. I agree 100% if we all acknowledge the God of the Bible, it would be a much better world, even a peaceful world. So how do you explain, because it's a very real question for all of us, not just people who think

claimed to believe in God who did horrible things, but horrible things to other people who believed in God. The Christian wars in Europe probably precipitated the rejection of religion, ultimately. Yeah, I agree with that, yeah. So I'm just curious, and I really am curious, it's not a provocative question, it's in fact The first book I wrote is called The Nine Questions People Ask About Judaism.

And one of the nine questions is, if religion, specifically Judaism, is supposed to make people good, how do you account for unethical religious Jews? It's one of the nine questions I asked in my first book. The question of people who believe in God who do bad, I mean, the God of the Bible, that's all I'm talking about, is a very real one.

Okay, I'm not sure they're the best example of bad guys.

Thank you. It's wonderful to be here with all of you. I'm Dennis Prager, and it's a joy to be back with you. So, I have a slightly different background. I'm a religious Jew. I went to yeshiva until I was 18, 19 years of age, taught Jewish religion at City University of New York, written books on it. I have a five-volume commentary on the Torah, four volumes of which are completed.

I'm now working on Leviticus. Wish me luck. It's not the easiest of the five books, but I'm falling in love with it for other reasons. So I'm here for a number of reasons, one of which is to learn. And I've always found that I learn best from those who believe in the text that we're studying. I had a Buddhist teacher in England when I studied in England, and it was the best way to learn Buddhism.

I'm also here because though I'm not a Christian, the death of Christianity frightens me. It is my nightmare. And I ask people all the time, name me one ideology that has supplanted Christianity that has done good for humanity. And nobody can come up with an answer. There is a quote attributed to G.K. Chesterton, though it's not verifiable that he actually said it, but it's brilliant.

When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing. They believe in anything. And as I point out on my radio show each day, I probably say this once a week, only secular people say men give birth. Not all secular people say that. but only secular people say that. We have entered a post-Christian or really post-Judeo-Christian world of the absurd. One final word.

I see Christianity as a divinely ordained vehicle to bring the world to the Torah. So I have a very pro-Christian Jewish-based view It hasn't always been done right. But Christians are human, and human nature is awful, or at least not particularly good. So people can screw up anything.

But when done properly, and I think America and Britain have been particularly good, it was Christians who abolished slavery. It's also Christians who made the Inquisition. I'm well aware. I wrote a book on anti-Semitism, and I pray that Christians come forth now and speak out against a raging anti-Semitism that I did not think I would see in my lifetime.

So, Shannon, the mission of DOT and FAA is safety. That has been the historic mission of this agency. And over the last four years, when they're having a conversation in the last administration about changing names from cockpit to flight deck, or notice to air men to notice to air mission because it's too gender specific.

They're focused on social justice and in the environment, racist roads and EVs. They've lost sight of the mission of this department. And so we have no place for anything other than the best and the brightest. When you look at what went wrong, you've got to look at the people that you have in place at the DOT and the FAA and the leadership and the direction that leadership gives them.

And it's been misplaced over the last four years. We're back on mission. We're focused on safety and having the best people delivering that safety. And I don't care your race, your religion, your sex, your sexual preference. That doesn't matter. Just the best and the brightest.