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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Timeless Wisdom : Why Lead a Religious Life?

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Salem Podcast Network

Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics, News

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On Today's Show: We are often told that leading a religious life is a richer, fuller way to live. But is this just a cliche? And if it's not, why is the religious life better than the alternative? Audio pulled from Rosh Hashanah Day - 2017

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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. Amen, amen to

0:22.6

Amen

0:24.6

Amen I was trying to drop hard to speak after that which I touches me to my core,

0:45.0

that then classical music gets very deeply.

0:49.0

Okay, I want to talk to you about the ultimate subject God and specifically why are so many Jews

0:59.0

secular why are so many Jews irreligious like to give you a list of reasons and

1:08.0

answer some of them.

1:13.6

Whenever there is a survey done about who is the most secular group in America, Jews win that contest.

1:21.6

There's no close second.

1:24.6

Secular Jew is almost redundant. There's a small, I'm growing percentage

1:33.3

of religious Jews, and I don't mean Orthodox. I mean religious in the sense of God-centered

1:37.3

practicing Jews. There are non-Orthodox. It's mostly Orthodox, but there are.

1:42.3

And I might add that you really could, in non-Orthodox, It's mostly Orthodox, but there are.

1:44.8

And I might add that you really could, in nine-tenths of the reasons I'll give, you could

1:50.5

give this talk about non-Jews as well.

1:53.8

Why are non-Jews secular?

1:57.4

It's only a few of them pertain specifically to Jews.

2:01.6

They're overwhelmingly universal problems and reasons,

2:05.6

so much so that, as you know, more and more millennials identify as nuns,

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