Ep. 50 | Never Say “Happy Holidays” | No! Save Civilization by Saying “Merry Christmas”

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

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

4.8 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Culture is not the same as civilization. There are thousands of cultures but only one civilization. Banks & bathrooms in Beijing, Bombay, and Bangkok grew to resemble such institutions in Boston, Birmingham, and Berlin; not the other way around. Along with millions of others who voted with their feet, you and I also prefer civilization to any of the countless cultures we could have lived in. The problem is that civilization is a frighteningly fragile flower. What happens when we clip that flower off its roots? Why does it take so much more work and time to build a house than to demolish it? What does that have to do with the advantages that liberalism, progressivism, and socialism seem to possess among young voters in many countries? And why politicians and bureaucrats exempt themselves from the laws and regulations they religiously impose upon others. 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	This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network.
0:14.3	Welcome to the Rabbi Daniel Lapin Show, all you happy warriors.
0:28.1	Welcome to the show that does not wish you the compliments of the season.
0:46.2	No, this is not the show that wishes you, oh, have a happy holidays. No, this is the show that joyfully and exuberantly insists that you have a Merry Christmas, a show that insists that you experience a joyful and uplifting Christmas.
1:00.2	If you're Christian, well, if you're Jewish, like me, you'd still want to make sure that you're wishing your Christian friends.
1:09.3	Not a happy holidays, no.
1:12.6	A joyful Christmas.
1:15.3	Because it's very simple.
1:18.1	Many of you will wonder, well, why would a Jew care whether people say,
1:22.9	happy holidays or Merry Christmas?
1:25.5	Look, one thing is for sure, and that is that the leftist lie that the phrase Christmas makes me feel excluded,
1:37.3	or makes me feel as if I am not being included, or makes me feel unhappy.
1:46.8	Nothing could be further from the truth.
1:48.9	That's all part of a deliberate strategy to secularize America.
1:55.5	That's really what is happening.
1:57.9	So as our team prepares today's show, it's only a short time before Christmas,
2:06.5	and I'll give you the years, well, 2018, because these shows, I know, they stay around on the
2:13.1	internet for a long time, and even now I get emails and questions about shows that I recorded three or four
2:23.3	or even five years ago. And so that's just how it goes. So here we are Christmas at 2018, and yes,
2:30.3	as a Jew, I wish you a joyful and uplifting Christmas with your family. And I do everything I can
2:39.2	to encourage people to do that. I got off an airplane recently and somebody said to me, one of the
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