Posted on 05/07/2019 3:44:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
At PragerU, we have released about 400 videos on virtually every subject outside of the natural sciences and math. Along with two billion views, the videos have garnered tens of thousands of comments. So we have a pretty good handle on what people most love and most hate. For example, any video defending America or Israel inevitably receives many negative responses. But no videos elicit the amount of contempt and mockery that videos defending religion, explaining the Bible, or arguing for God do.
Why is that?
There is a good reason. The Bible and the left (not liberalism; leftism) are as opposed as any two worldviews can be. While there are people who claim to hold both a Bible-based worldview and left-wing views, these people are few in number. Moreover, what they do is take left-wing positions and wrap them in a few verses from the Bible. But on virtually every important value in life, the left and the Bible are diametrically opposed.
Here are a few examples:
The biblical view is that people are not basically good. Evil therefore comes from within human nature. For the left, human nature is not the source of evil. Capitalism, patriarchy, poverty, religion, nationalism, or some other external cause is the source of evil.
The biblical view is that nature was created for man. The left-wing view is that man is just another part of nature.
The biblical view is that man is created in the image of God, and therefore formed with a transcendent immaterial soul. The left-wing view – indeed, the view of all secular ideologies – is that man is purely material, another assemblage of stellar dust.
The biblical view is that the human being has free will. The left-wing view – and again, the view of all secular outlooks – is that human beings have no free will. Everything we do is determined by environment, genes, and the matter of which we are composed. Firing neurons, not free will, explain both murders and kindness.
The biblical view is that, while reason alone can lead a person to conclude murder is wrong, murder is ultimately and objectively wrong only because there is a transcendent source of right and wrong – God – who deems murder evil.
The biblical view is that God made order out of chaos. Order is defined by distinctions. One such example is male and female – the only inherent human distinction that matters to God. There are no racial or ethnic distinctions in God’s order, only the human sex distinction. The left loathes this concept of a divine order. That is the primary driver of its current attempt to obliterate the male-female distinction.
The biblical view is that the nuclear family is the basic unit of society – a married father and mother and their children. This is the biblical ideal. All good people of faith recognize that the reality of this world is such that many people do not or cannot live that ideal. And such people often merit our support. But that does not change the fact that the nuclear family is the one best-suited to create thriving individuals and a healthy society, and we who take the Bible seriously must continue to advocate the ideal family structure as the Bible defines it.
And for that, perhaps more than anything, we are mocked.
The biblical view holds that wisdom begins with acknowledging God. The secular view is that is that God is unnecessary for wisdom, and the left-wing view is that God is destructive to wisdom. But if you want to know which view is more accurate, look at the most godless and Bible-less institution in our society: the universities.
They are, without competition, the most foolish institutions in our society.
For nearly all of American history, the Bible was the most important book in America. It is no longer. This is a moral and intellectual catastrophe. If you want to understand why, consider reading The Rational Bible, my commentary on the first five books of the Bible. The second volume of The Rational Bible, Genesis, is published today.
They mock the Bible because it conflicts with their g0d, The “All Powerful Gubmint”.
Because the left see themselves as God
A lot of content at prageru is good. A lot of it is questionable tripe.
Sorry, PragerU. You’re not perfect. None of us are
This is an excellent article.
“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.”
The biblical view is that people are not basically good.
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Man is created in the image of God and indeed is good. Sin, which has infected all men is bad and separates us from God. That’s why we need a savior. His name is Jesus Christ.
It's popped up throughout history, but every culture that embraced it has failed. Liberals are too obtuse to learn that fact, however.
I saw it with the 60s generation. An example was a song, "It's your thing. Do what you want to do."
That was the beginning of our end.
If America will survive, we must put ourselves back under God through Jesus Christ, with His holy word as our sole guide. If not, we're staring into the abyss.
“Because the left see themselves as God.”
“Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.”
The Leftoids have a 180 opposite demand from Exodus 20:2 and Deuteronomy 5:6!
We are to worship the almighty “collective”... and no other!
The left believes it can create its own reality through the passage of manmade laws. The Bible teaches that we are limited by natural law.
Thus upsets the left.
The attempt is to remove all boundaries. That is the definition of lawlessness. I heard a parable of a thief that came into the night and invaded a house. He was caught and driven out. He came back later with seven of his friends to defile the house because if he made it much worse, then his crimes would be acceptable and he would never be driven out. The boundaries that are being erased are borders of countries, borders of sexual identity, borders of morality, etc. In other words, Black is white and white is black - indistinguishable. Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
“The left-wing view is that man is just another part of nature.”
There is a significant faction on the left that regards man as a parasite upon “nature”.
When Dennis Prager talks about the worldview of the Bible, I assume he only talking about the Old Testament, since the worldview of the New Testament is that he is going to Hell for eternity.
What is your point?
The crucufy crowd did the same. Nothing new. It is the same people.
We are still alive because the majority of churches have compromised The Bible... embraced the authority of government and man instead.
This will not last, as they require complete submission to their ideology.
Seventy five years ago this poster showed who “THE ENEMY” was, the arm with the swastika stabbing a Bible with a bayonet.
Today the Bible is the enemy to be destroyed. Sad times indeed.
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I like Prager. I was up at 3 am listening to his radio show. Of course I’ll be tired all day, but I enjoyed his show.
Anything specific is this article that you disagree with?
OK why do you say Prager is going to hell?
“Man is created in the image of God and indeed is good.”
Man fell. People are not basically good. That is one reason to limit power in government.
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