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The next time you hear someone cite, 'Do not kill' when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, 'Do not murder".
- Dennis Prager
Unless there is a God, all morality is just opinion and belief. And virtually every atheist philosopher has acknowledged this.
- Dennis Prager
As Abba Eban, Israel's Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1974, expressed it: "Israel is the only nation whose citizens live on the same land, speak the same language and practice the same religion as their ancestors did 3,000 years ago.
- Dennis Prager
There are those who mock Jews and Christians who believe God promised the Land of Israel to the Jewish people. But, as noted, even an atheist would have to acknowledge no other people ever established a state there—as Jews have three times—or have claimed it as their own dating back three thousand years.
- Dennis Prager
The happiness that the psychologically impaired achieve through religion alone is often the shallow happiness of the unexamined life.
- Dennis Prager
People have too often valued "proper" religious beliefs more than proper moral behavior, and even slaughtered others for not having the right religious beliefs. This is a common occurrence even in our time.
- Dennis Prager
Therefore, there is no issue here of a holy text depicting people being ordered by their God to kill infidels or innocents.
- Dennis Prager
Nothing inspires people to believe in God as much as God-centered people doing good, just as nothing alienates people from belief in God as much as people doing evil in God's name.
- Dennis Prager
Only people can relate to JHWH, the animals, the stars they are with Elohim. We are with JHWH and Elohim. We are also with that God who creates the world., not just the personal God. Adonai (i.e., JHWH) is the God of the characteristic of mercy and compassion, and Elohim is the God whose characteristic is justice. And you need BOTH for the world to function.
- Dennis Prager
Monotheism was not a specifically Jewish revolution because it predated Abraham by several generations. The Jewish revolution was ethical monotheism
- Dennis Prager
Many people avoid some of the very things that would bring them the deepest happiness such as marriage, children, intellectually challenging pursuits, religious commitment, and volunteer work. They fear the pain that inevitably accompanies such things and therefore devote more time to 'fun' things that bring little happiness, such as watching television.
- Dennis Prager
The believer has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for the existence of everything else.
- Dennis Prager