Luke Ford

On his radio show Apr. 9, 2012, Dennis Prager said in
reaction to the murders of blacks in Tulsa by two white men: “My great grandfather, my mother’s mother’s father was murdered by a black man. I never recall anybody in my family thinking that it was then appropriate to kill a black. It’s preposterous.”

“A man’s father is killed by blacks so he goes and kills blacks. It’s despicable.”

No matter what you do, do you ever forfeit your right to live?

“This is a symptom of a society that has substituted feelings for morality.”

“This guy felt angry, therefore I can murder.”

“Uprisings are a euphemism for ‘I think I can murder innocent people because I’m angry.’ The left is big into rage. After all, why wouldn’t you have rage if there’s a war against women, a war against blacks, a war against hispanics, a war against the poor. Man, if somebody is making war on me, I’m enraged.”

Dennis Prager described Mark Levin’s new book Ameritopia as “important” and “terrific, brief clear synopsis of political philosophy.”

Conor Friedersdorf writes for The Atlantic: “Mark Levin has good taste in political philosophers. Locke? Montesquieu? The Framers? Tocqueville? All awesome. Summarizing them for chapters on end, often using cumbersome block quotes, it’s inevitable that he managed to squeeze in some great insights that they had. If Levin adds anything beyond that to justify buying his book, rather than a Locke CliffsNotes, its his brief discussion of spontaneous orders, but they’re much more adeptly described by Hayek. Is there any original insight in Ameritopia that would justify its purchase price? There is not. He manages to list a lot of problematic things about the United States, including the budget deficit, excessive regulations, and the gradual erosion of enumerated powers as a lodestar. But he is unpersuasive in pinning these problems on utopianism, which he cannot even adequately define.”

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “If all of your religiosity or spirituality is faith, then there is no room for the atheist or the agnostic in what you have. It’s all faith. But in the church and the synagogue, whatever your denomination, there is room for everybody. I want people to believe for their sake, for their religion’s sake, for society’s sake, but no one is walking around with beliefometers. Religion is a place for doubters. Faith has no place for doubters.”

Almost every scholar who has studied the evidence has concluded that the Israelites exodus from Egypt did not take place (at least not as the Bible describes it).

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “There are people who argue the whole slavery thing is a story. For 3,000 years Jews have been celebrating an event that did not take place. It sounds odd. I have no doubt it took place.”

Why would it be any odder than Christians believing in Jesus dying for three days and then going up to Heaven? No non-Christian believes this.

Also, no scholar who’s studied the evidence believes that the Jews have celebrated Passover for 3,000 years.

History.com says: For centuries, scholars have been debating the details and historical merit of the events commemorated during the Passover holiday. Despite numerous attempts, historians and archaeologists have failed to corroborate the tale of the Jews’ enslavement in and mass exodus from Egypt. Although the ancient Egyptians kept thorough records, no mention is made of an Israelite community within their midst or any calamities resembling the 10 biblical plagues. There is also no evidence of large encampments in the Sinai Peninsula, the fabled site of the Jews’ wandering, or any sudden fluctuation in Israel’s archaeological record that would indicate the departure and return of a large population.

A handful of scholars, including the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, have suggested a link between the Israelites and the Hyksos, a mysterious Semitic people—possibly from Canaan—who controlled lower Egypt for more than 100 years before their expulsion during the 16th century B.C. Most modern academics, however, have dismissed this theory due to chronological conflicts and a lack of similarity between the two cultures.