Dennis & Julie: Struggle with God

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🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Secularism is the norm… are you religious? Honoring Judeo-Christian values is disappearing. The repercussions of cut flower ethics are apparent. What has happened to the uniforms of religion? People are wearing crosses or the star of David… but is it religious or as a good luck talisman? Does wearing a cross provide protection? Does practicing religion protect you from calamity? Should experiencing tragedy in life cause you to lose faith? Dennis explains why reason is his vehicle to religion. Free will is a blessing… but it also has a downside. Everyone should strengthen their theology BEFORE tragedy happens. Dennis and Julie explore God watching versus God willing. Did God create evil? Dennis says, “it doesn’t matter if God knows what I will do… what matters is that God knows what I do and did.” For Dennis… sanity relies upon there being a hereafter that rewards good and punishes evil. "God does not want us to understand, because if we ever understood, we would be forced to accept that bad things happen to good people, and God does not want us to accept those bad things. He wants us not to understand, so that we will fight against the bad and the injustices of this world, and that is why there is no answer to that question. God has arranged that we shall never have an answer to it." – Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, Dennis Prager at Julie Hartman, or if you prefer Julie Hartman at Dennis Prager.
0:24.0	Who would prefer that actually? It is called Dennis and Julie, by the way.
0:29.0	We finally figured out, there's a tiny, insi, insi, insi part of you that presents that it's Dennis and Julie.
0:36.0	Really?
0:37.0	And I made that up out.
0:38.0	I completely 100% made that up.
0:41.0	There isn't even a TV museum.
0:43.0	There's really not, and I make jokes about it, but I actually prefer the name Dennis and Julie.
0:48.0	First of all, you should be first.
0:50.0	You're the more established dude, if you will.
0:55.0	And also, if you do it alphabetically, D comes before J. Yes.
1:02.0	Oh my god.
1:03.0	And it just sounds better.
1:04.0	That's a powerful argument.
1:06.0	Dennis and Julie sounds way better than Julie and Dennis.
1:09.0	Is that true?
1:10.0	I think so. Maybe it's because I'm used to it.
1:12.0	Yeah, I think so.
1:13.0	Anyway, that was just a joke. Hi everybody. It's great to be with you.
1:16.0	I have a super serious thing to start with.
1:21.0	So I'm going to preface what I'm about to start with with a statement that I've actually made on my show on my radio show.
1:31.0	Yeah.
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