Timeless Wisdom - Why Are People Alienated From Religion?

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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🗓️ 25 September 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

To get the ad-free version of this podcast, and to access the full library of lectures, talks, and shows, visit dennisprager.com.

On Today’s Show:

The fastest growing segment of the religious population in the United States are nones, those who believe in nothing. Why, even in the most religious Judeo Christian country in the world, are people drifting away from organized religion. Dennis has answers in this compelling and, ultimately optimistic, talk.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager.
0:04.2	Hear thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs,
0:08.7	and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles.
0:11.4	Go to Dennis Prager.com.
0:15.6	Thank you.
0:15.6	Whenever. Whenever I hear somebody say I threw away the introduction, I want you to know it doesn't fill me with confidence.
0:33.4	There was a girl who didn't throw away the introduction where it said, in the official one,
0:39.8	Los Angeles Times said that Dennis Prager was preoccupied with good and evil, and she said,
0:45.8	Dennis Prager was preoccupied with doing evil, and it was in front of like 500 people at the University of Colorado and Boulder.
0:54.2	How do you speak after that?
0:56.3	Aside from which, you know, I thought, how does she know that?
0:58.9	But this was really, I recorded it.
1:03.2	Where I, Rabbi House, I recorded this.
1:05.4	That's how much it meant to me.
1:07.3	I'm going to keep that.
1:08.1	That's very touching.
1:09.9	But it is astonishing a fellow Jew from New York City.
1:13.9	We were the only two Jews in Simi Valley.
1:16.5	I mean, you know, that's amazing.
1:19.9	By the way, those days had a very, very deep impact on me for another reason.
1:26.0	And that was, I'm writing my autobiography, and I have the subtitle, but no title.
1:33.5	And that is a man, a Jew, an American, how I have worked through those three identities.
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