Ep 22 | Your Rabbi Answers Life’s Most Perplexing Puzzles, Problems, Predicaments & Paradoxes

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

Religion, Philosophy, Judaism, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2019

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Why does liberalism and home shopping dominate television while conservatism mostly finds its home on radio? Why is liberalism the creed of emotionalism? Who had done more good for the world - Calcutta’s Mother Theresa or Amazon’s Jeff Bezos? Why is our balance mechanism found in our ears? Aggressiveness vs modesty - Why do men and women’s biological structures reflect these differences? Newspapers never used to show pictures of corpses - why do they now do so? Why was it okay for Planned Parenthood to sell the body parts of babies they killed, but a fully grown adult may not sell one of his kidneys? Why do doctors not simply vote cancer out of existence just as they did with other disorders? Why is political liberalism often equated with moral virtue but conservatism never is? Why are limits on political campaign finance immoral? Why does government want to force people out of their cars and into buses and trains? Why is the question of whether we evolved or were created not a scientific question but a life decision? Why is charity important even if you don’t have much money? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in the things that never change.
0:05.9	Never change.
0:06.8	This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:14.3	Welcome, everybody, and this is your rabbi.
0:19.0	I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin, with my solemn mission of revealing how the world really works.
0:28.3	Thanks so much for listening to the podcast, downloading it, making it a part of your life and your listening pleasure.
0:35.4	I really appreciate that, and I am obsessive about watching the download numbers
0:41.1	because, as I've already told you, they are precisely what fuel my passion.
0:46.5	They propel me forward as I record this podcast for you every week.
0:53.2	And I would like to start off today.
0:56.6	And we have a number of topics that I'm hoping to be able to get to.
1:01.3	One of them is I want to talk about why is it okay to sell body parts from unborn little humans, but not okay for fully sentient adults
1:16.6	to voluntarily sell their own organs. So in other words, if somebody is willing to sell a kidney,
1:25.1	why is that illegal? Why should that be prevented? Why is this not simply
1:30.3	out of the entire purview of government? Why is this not an utterly acceptable transaction between
1:38.3	two free and independent human beings? So that is prevented, but the dismembering and selling of body parts of tiny little
1:50.3	humans, that is okay. What's wrong with this picture? We're going to talk about that,
1:56.2	and also want to talk about Somalia having the worst famine they've ever had.
2:03.5	But wait a sec, in 1973, 1974, Somalia was having the worst famine they ever had.
2:10.8	And then back in 1960, 1961, Somalia was having, oh, the worst famine they ever had.
2:37.2	Doesn't this begin to remind you of Stalinist Russia, where inexplicably, every five years, every 10 years, there was a famine, every 10 years reliably. Something went wrong. And what, like, what was it? And it's regardless of of rainfall there's still a famine what's going on there these are are some of the thoughts and ideas that I've been working on
2:43.8	during the course of this week in the excited anticipation of being able to share them together with you. But to start with, wanted to explore
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