Jack Kemp

At the end of the article, Prager talks about his new book (The Rational Bible: Exodus) commenting on The Book of Exodus ("Shmot" in Hebrew, meaning "Names" in English) and Prager's book's bestseller status on Amazon.com. He states people's hunger for religious values is the cause of its bestseller status. I was looking at the preview intro, online at Amazon.com, where there are three brief comments directed to Jewish, Christian and atheist readers. In the comment directed toward Christians, I learned that none less than the great Jewish philosopher Maimonides said 900 years ago, Christians have been primarily responsible for the dissemination of Torah knowledge in the world. That Prager mentions this 900 year old comment, he is implying that this is still true today.

The book is 600 plus pages long.


Conservatives, Too, Undergo Secular Indoctrination



Dennis Prager
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Posted: Apr 03, 2018

Many years ago, I attended a dinner at a wealthy man's New York City condo with, among others, one of the most prominent and influential conservatives in American life. I admired this man then and I admire him now (he has since passed on). He was a major force for good in America.
At one point, the subjects of God and religion came up, and I mentioned how essential God is to morality -- that without God, morality is subjective, a matter of personal or communal opinion. Having debated atheist scholars, all of whom agreed with this not-very-audacious observation, I was quite surprised when this prominent conservative took strong issue with me: God is morally unnecessary, he stated with some passion -- why would any educated person think otherwise?
This was my first confrontation -- I was a young man at the time -- with the unsettling realization that to be a conservative did not necessarily mean being religious. Until that time, I had naively assumed that it did.

I thought so for three reasons:

First, all the religious -- God-based, Bible-based, religiously active -- people I knew or studied were conservative. I grew up an Orthodox Jew in the yeshiva world, home to some liberals, many conservatives and no leftists.

Second, in American terms, the American conservative I most admired, William F. Buckley Jr., the founder and publisher of National Review, was a deeply religious Catholic.
Third, America was founded on religious -- specifically Judeo-Christian -- principles. Wouldn't a conservative seek to conserve all of America's basic principles?

It is a testament to the power of our secular education -- primary school through university -- that it has successfully secularized students from conservative homes almost as well as students from liberal and left-wing homes. Most well-educated conservatives have embraced secular values and made peace with a secular and godless America just as much as have well-educated leftists.

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