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The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Thoughtful Scientific Skeptics Should Reject the Religion of Secular Fundamentalism - 9/23/17

The RDL Podcast with Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Blaze Podcast Network

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

4.8842 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The 3 characteristics that define a religion and why Scientology isn’t one but Islam is.  Why progressive politics and leftist ideologies are not a political creed but are, in fact, a religion.  Can you name the “High Priests” of the Left?  Why so-called “climate-change” has far less to do with science than it does with religious belief.  Meet a Berkeley-trained feminist skeptic (Judy) who met a rabbi (me).  You’ll enjoy hearing about her initial encounter with faith and how she ultimately fell in love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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