Ep. 305 — How Can We Explain Bad Religious People?

Fireside Chat with Dennis Prager

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Self-improvement, Education, How To

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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If religion is supposed to produce good people, how can we explain religious people who are bad? Can we judge an entire religion based on its flawed and imperfect believers? After all, religion is not magic. It’s not a silver bullet and it doesn’t automatically make you happy, holy, or good. But, Dennis argues, religion does make you a better person if you want to be a better person.

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0:00.0	Hi, everybody. The fireside chat Dennis Prager here and
0:05.1	Snoopy is in position. I hate to say it, but he might be on some
0:11.2	relaxant
0:12.7	He's not
0:14.2	Wow
0:16.2	I'm impressed
0:18.2	One day Mr. Tubbs hopefully will take his seat, but it's happy good to have Snoopy
0:25.2	Well, my friends. This is an opportunity to do what I do every week with you
0:30.4	I'm very committed to the fireside chat and I and I have a sense that many of you are because so many people
0:38.2	Make reference to auto the late auto and to the fireside chat wherever I go
0:45.6	Very tough subject that I'm going to open up with before I take your questions very tough
0:50.6	But it's so important that
0:53.2	There are many many important subjects and so I won't say this is the most important, but I don't know of one that's more important
1:02.3	And people don't like to deal with it certainly religious people don't like to deal with it and
1:07.7	That is and it guess is a two-part question. It's the same
1:12.3	They're related. They're not identical
1:16.6	How do you explain
1:18.7	Bad religious people isn't religion supposed to make people good and if it doesn't make people good
1:25.8	I don't mean perfect. I mean good
1:29.1	then
1:31.1	What what's its primary use some people have different answers by the way to me the primary question is doesn't make good people
1:40.0	That's why to be honest, and I know not all of you will agree. That's just it's fine. It doesn't matter
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