The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in things that never change.

This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.

Hello everybody, I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin, and I want to welcome you to this show, Rabbi Daniel

Lappin on the Blaze, and this is actually episode two.

And I very much hope you've had an opportunity to hear episode one. And if not, you'll still

have an opportunity to do so, because I think that what we're going to be discussing now

stands on its own, but nonetheless, the first one does fill in some important areas.

What we spoke about then was the idea that there's one really gigantic, fundamental, existential

question that if you knew how anybody feels about this question, you would be

able to pretty much predict where they stand on almost every hot-button topic of the day.

And that question was, and it's disturbingly simple, how did human beings

arrive on this planet? And there are a number of people who are absolutely sure that they

know the answer. Some of those people, me included, believe and beyond believe,

that the good Lord created us in his image and put us here. And by virtue of the fact that we're

touched by the finger of God, that makes us entirely different from every other life form on the

planet. And so, for instance, if I was trying

to understand why human beings tell jokes, I would immediately say to myself, well, we tell jokes about certain things. Maybe the things we tell jokes about

could help us understand why this characteristic is found in the human species. We tell jokes about

God, right? And those are the jokes like, you know, Mr. Jones arrived in heaven and he went up

to the pearly gates and you know how that one continues in its millions of variations. Or how about

the one about the rabbi, the priest and the pastor who walked up to the bar and you know that one. But

these always hinge on the fact that there's a religious dimension,

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