FROM THE ARCHIVES: The Happiness Hour -- Happiness and Religion

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🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Originally aired April 19, 2019.

Easter and Passover fall on the same weekend this year. Dennis contemplates the positives to happiness of leading a religious life.

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0:00.0	This is Sean McConnell, better known as the Gentle Gentile Giant on the Dennis Prager Show.
0:05.4	We have all missed Dennis these many months after his tragic accident.
0:09.0	We've pulled out some great older shows from Dennis in the archives and have one ready for you now.
0:13.8	Hope you enjoy hearing a blast from the past and you're ready for Dennis to return to the radio with a live show on June 3rd here on the
0:20.9	Salem Radio Network.
0:22.3	And now, more of Dennis Prater.
0:32.5	It's the happy, happy, happy, happy, oh, yes, it is.
0:36.6	Hey, everybody, it's Friday,. Yes, it is. Hey, everybody.
0:44.9	It's Friday, ergo, which is Latin for therefore, it's the happiness hour.
1:02.3	Because, because, because, because it's the happy, happy, happy, happy, happy.
1:06.5	Why? Because the happy make the world better and the unhappy make it worse.
1:10.5	Happiness is a virtue, not just an emotion. That's the key, everybody. It is a virtue, not just an emotion.
1:12.8	That's the key, everybody.
1:13.9	It is a virtue.
1:24.7	Ego, therefore, we have in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
1:28.8	The pursuit of happiness is noble.
1:30.7	That's why it's there.
1:39.2	The wisdom of the founders versus the wisdom of most politicians today is a ratio of about a 10,000 to one.
1:45.6	For every unit of wisdom for the average person today in public life versus the average person then in public life is one unit per 10,000.
1:52.8	Pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of pleasure is not noble.
1:55.9	The pursuit of money is not noble.
1:58.7	The pursuit of, that doesn't mean you shouldn't want to make more money, that's fine.
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