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The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Ep 28 | There Really Are No Poor People In America! Really!

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

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

4.8842 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2019

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

So, there was your Rabbi struggling with what to name this episode. At first, I thought of calling it “Even Poor People Deserve Compassion”. Then, I thought we’ll call it “Especially, Poor People Deserve Compassion”. Then, I thought about “We Love Poor People”. As you can see, the ideas were flowing fast and furious, but I was worried about appearing to lack compassion—one of the very worst sins in today’s secular theology. So, then I came up with “Poor People Means Virtuous People”. If you want to know why, in the end, I chose the title I did use, listen on. Now, for those of you who plan to write to me in righteous indignation, howling in protest at this podcast; I will save you time and trouble. Just cut and paste from what follows: “Doesn’t your faith command you to care for the poor? How dare you deny their existence! You’re such an ignoramus, you don’t you even know that over 30 million Americans live below the poverty line. I suppose you think it’s their fault. That’s called blaming the victim, you heartless human being.” There, see how helpful I can be? Now, if you invest the time to listen, you’ll hear the answers to all of those questions and many others you may not have yet thought of. 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 into things that never change.

0:06.8

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

0:14.7

Hi, everybody.

0:17.1

And thank you for joining me. I'm Rabbi Daniel Lapin, and you're listening to the Blaze

0:24.7

Radio Network. And my job is to reveal how the world really works. And before we dive into the topic of today's show, which is poverty, I want to move to the other

0:44.7

end of the economic spectrum.

0:47.4

You've worked hard, you've built up just a little wealth, you've created for yourself a life,

0:57.3

and every now and then you want to take the opportunity of experiencing things that your hard work has made possible for you to

1:04.4

experience. And one of the things that I hope you will consider experiencing is joining

1:10.5

Glenn Beck and me, along with the great

1:14.4

American historian David Barton and personality Bill O'Reilly as we cruise the Mediterranean

1:24.1

exploring the origins of civilization, Greece, Croatia, but also a few days in the land of Israel.

1:35.1

The website to explore this is come sailaway.com. Go to come sail away.com and find out more

1:42.6

about a cruise where I would have the opportunity, which I would cherish,

1:48.5

of having days and evenings to interact with you, our listeners, and I really would enjoy that

1:55.9

very, very much indeed. And I think that's part of what appealed to me when Glenn suggested

2:00.4

we did a cruise

2:01.8

together and invited all our friends to come along and spend a few days thinking about the

2:08.7

origins of civilization and perhaps even discussing where it is all headed. So check out the

2:16.2

cruise website, come sailaway.com, and look into this idea of

2:22.3

spending a little of the money you have so carefully collected, saved, invested on doing

2:30.1

something that I think would be a lot of fun for all of us. And we can now, with a rather

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