Thoughtful Scientific Skeptics Should Reject the Religion of Secular Fundamentalism - 9/23/17
The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin
Blaze Podcast Network
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2017
⏱️ 61 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Blaze Radio Network |
| 0:02.5 | On Demand |
| 0:06.4 | The more the world changes, the more we find comfort in things that never change. |
| 0:12.1 | This is Rabbi Daniel Lapin on demand on the Blaze Radio Network. |
| 0:17.6 | Welcome everybody to the Rabbi Daniel Lappin show, |
| 0:20.4 | where your rabbi reveals how the world really works. |
| 0:30.3 | And one of the ways the world really works is that people find themselves a religion. |
| 0:39.1 | Very few people are truly atheistic. |
| 0:44.2 | There are some, I even know one or two, |
| 0:47.2 | but the overwhelming majority of people, |
| 0:49.3 | when they abandon one religion, they usually adopt another, even though the religion they adopt |
| 0:58.7 | is frequently camouflaged, seldom recognized for the religion that it really is. |
| 1:08.6 | Now, what is it that defines a religion? Well, I've always had considerable |
| 1:15.9 | difficulty understanding how Scientology is classified as a religion, because the means by which |
| 1:26.8 | Scientology obtained the classification for legal and tax purposes |
| 1:32.3 | was by arguing that they help people get in touch with their true non-material natures. |
| 1:41.3 | They help people become aware of spiritual realities. Well, if that's what it takes, |
| 1:49.0 | then welcome to the religion of the Rabbi Daniel Lapin show, because a frequent topic |
| 1:56.8 | under discussion right here is that very one. |
| 2:01.8 | In other words, I don't really think you need a religion to be aware that human beings are largely spiritual. |
| 2:13.4 | It's something I've spoken of before. |
| 2:15.8 | The very fact that we make decisions that have no economic sense. |
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