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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Imam Of Ground Zero Mosque

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager talks about Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam of the proposed mosque: This phony imam. The more I know about him, the less I trust him. He is the cause of this whole problem. He should’ve said at the outset is that the last thing I want to do is to cause a rift between Muslims and other Americans. Forget it. I made a mistake. Let’s move it.

He’s an egocentric maniac. I don’t want tension between Muslim-Americans and non-Muslim-Americans.

If you want to do something as a Muslim to show how you feel about Islam in America, build a hospital. The day that Saudis fund a hospital for non-Muslims will be a great day for the world.

Liberals are impressed by soft talk.

God: A Biography

Luke Ford writes:

I loved this book by Jack Miles and read it twice.

Dennis Prager, however, was not a fan.

Numbers 14: 11-12 says: “The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them? 12 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”

In his 2001 lecture on Numbers 14:17 – 15:31, Dennis Prager says: I differ with those who say this is typical Old Testament primitive understanding of God. It is the sophisticate’s notion that God matures as you go through the Old Testament. I don’t buy that.

God Is Good

Luke Ford writes:

In his 2000 lecture on Exodus 33, Dennis Prager says: I’ve always been intoxicated, not with love, but with goodness.

God tells Moses that his goodness will pass before his eyes, not his love.

What is the difference between goodness and love?

Love is more emotion. Goodness is more action.

If you say Joe loves a lot of people, you mostly think that Joe loves a lot of people, but if you say Joe is a good person, you immediately assume Joe does a lot of good.

There are spouses who beat their spouse and who love the person they beat. You might say, he loves her! He’s sick and he beats her.

That’s easily said. You would never say he’s a good spouse. It’s possible to love and to not do what is good. It is possible to do what is good and to not love.

How Do You Keep God In Your Life?

Luke Ford writes:

In his 1999 lecture on Exodus 34, Dennis Prager says: The Torah says you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. This is how you keep faith in God, by observing regular rituals. If you don’t observe regular rituals, you won’t keep God alive in your life.

No generation of Jews that has not remained God-oriented has stayed Jewish. Many Jews say I don’t need the rituals, I’ll keep Jewish values alive. It is a well-intentioned erroneous sentiment. Without rituals, nothing is kept alive.

The average Jew observes no Judaic rituals.

How do Christians stay God-oriented without these rituals? They have God made flesh. If they didn’t have God in human form, they too would need rituals to stay God-oriented. Islam has as many rituals as Judaism.

Torah Ritual Of Red Heifer

Luke Ford writes:

In his 2001 lecture on Numbers 19, Dennis Prager says that he believes all the Torah’s laws are understandable, including the inscrutable ritual of the Red Heifer.

Every ritual conveys a value. A salt covenant represents an unbreakable covenant.

Your status is elevated by having obligations, not just rights. The poor person who receives and receives charity is demeaned. If you give, you are ennobled.

If you are in an impure state, you have to go through a ritual to get back to a pure state. This is the ritual with the red cow.

The red heifer ritual makes the impure pure and the pure impure.

Can you think of examples from real life that render society pure but the doers impure?