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The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Ep 24 | Perhaps I Am No Cuddlier Than a Cactus But I Do Tell You The Truth!

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

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

4.8842 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Responding to a thoughtful listener’s letter attacking my views on marriage as “ridiculous”.  Would we stand for a system that forces young people to undergo at least four years of religious indoctrination before getting on with their lives?  Would we cruelly withhold jobs and employment from anyone brave enough to try and evade this brutal system of compulsory madrassas? Would we allow imams, clerics, and priests to impose their destructive dogmas on young minds?  Of course not, right?  But we do just that!   Secular Fundamentalism is a religion; it’s a militant faith, a community of shared values, heresies and sacraments. Today’s modern secular fundamentalism has its fanatics and its saints and we force millions of tomorrow’s leaders into bowing down to its idols.  The power of numbers over stories.  Making important life decisions with our heads and never with our hearts.  How to decide just who among us gets the rare and desirable resources we all covet. 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, never change.

0:06.8

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

0:11.7

Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show.

0:16.5

Thank you for tuning in to the show where your rabbi reveals how the world really works.

0:27.9

Thanks so much for being part of the show.

0:30.0

Thanks for listening.

0:31.3

Thank you to those who write in.

0:33.8

And I think the place to start today's show is exactly there with one or two of the letters I've recently received.

0:44.6

Here is one that just came in from Rebecca.

0:49.1

Her last name is provided.

0:50.7

I will not disclose that.

0:53.5

Dear Rabbi Lapin, I enjoy your podcast, but your

0:58.0

discussion of Jill Dillard's blog post and similar comments you frequently make on your podcast

1:05.9

suggests that you don't actually have a solid grasp on the way things really work when it comes

1:13.4

to modern marriage. Okay, an interesting start, would you not agree? I certainly found it

1:24.0

very interesting because any time you put the word modern in front of certain things

1:31.2

that don't change. You know, modern earthquakes are destructs. No, you don't need modern.

1:38.6

Earthquakes are earthquakes. Money. You know, modern money. No, our relationship to money is as true and as valid and as

1:48.4

predictable today as it was a thousand years ago.

1:54.3

There are, you know, Bitcoin and you have PayPal and electronic transfers.

2:00.4

Of course you have all those things.

2:02.6

But in general, okay, so she says,

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