In a 1996 lecture on Exodus 20, Dennis Prager says: There was a great hesitation to use art for anything but worshipping God [in the Jewish tradition]. The rabbis didn’t sit down, generally speaking, and paint. We didn’t have Hillel giving an exhibition of his works. The exhibition of Hillel’s works is in the Talmud and they are words. Jews painted with words.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
I've Never Seen Whites Mistreat Blacks
I was just watching ESPN and it advertised that on Friday night at 7pm PST, it will show this high school football game between the Grant Pacers and the Folsom Bulldogs.
I went to the redneck Placer High School (class of 1984). For my last two years there, we were in the same athletic league as Grant, a predominantly black school.
When we went to play at Grant, there was all sorts of racial taunting and animosity thrown our way by the black Grant students. They got up in our faces and tried to provoke fights.
There was no racial taunting or reciprocal behavior by our students.
I’m 44 years old. I have never seen a white person mistreat a black person for racial reasons. On the other hand, I’ve seen dozens of examples of blacks mistreating whites because of race.
How Do Libertarians Sleep At Night?
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: “I want to know how leftists and libertarians sleep at night knowing the slaughter that will take place in Afghanistan if we leave?”
I’m not a leftist nor a libertarian and I have no position on how the United States should conduct itself in Afghanistan or Iraq, but I think the question is easily answered with a question — how does Dennis Prager sleep at night knowing the massive genocide in the Congo could be halted with U.S. intervention?
We could intervene all over the world to stop genocide and cost ourselves thousands of dead Americans and spend ourselves into bankruptcy.
Should Christians Keep The Sabbath?
In his 1998 lecture on Exodus 30, Dennis Prager says: The Greeks thought the Jews were lazy because of their Sabbath observance.
The Sabbath was the most appealing part of Judaism in the Roman Empire.
The Jews weren’t the first people to say be nice. What distinguished the Jews was the Sabbath.
When a Jew keeps the Sabbath, it is an announcement that God created the world.
When I have raised the question why is there so little Sabbath observance in Christian life, one response I’ve got is that this commandment is the only one of the Ten not reiterated in the New Testament.
Dating Girls From Broken Homes
Pick-up artist and author Neil Strauss told me that he does not date women from broken homes. They don’t know how to love the opposite sex.
I found that a fascinating insight. At the grand old age of 44, I think Neil is generally right.
If you grow up with a messed up relationship with your opposite sex parent, particularly if you don’t have an opposite sex sibling, the opposite sex is not real for you. It quickly becomes an object of contempt.
I’ve found that women who grew up in solid homes are much more solid in their relationships. They’re much more solid in their love.
Now I love crazy chicks as much as the next guy. They tend to be crazy in bed and that’s a lot of fun, but it is a lousy basis for a relationship, let alone a marriage.
Overwhelmingly White Glenn Beck Rally
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager says: Glenn Beck deserves congratulations on pulling off what he did. It was a remarkable and loving and warm event for hundreds of thousands of people. What’s most interesting is the coverage by the American news media.
Every mainstream news report I saw spoke of the overwhelmingly white attenders.
Since when do media offer a racial analysis of crowds? As soon as they started debunking conservatives as racists. They call us sexist, racist, bigoted, homophobic, islamophobic, xenophobic. That way you never have to deal with our arguments. You dismiss us as human beings. You don’t bother arguing with a racist.
How you can be a traitor to a color? Saying someone is a traitor to his race is a racist statement.
State Department Attacks Ovadia Yosef
Who was Rabbi Ovadia Yosef inciting? He was only inciting God. Is the State Department afraid that Rabbi Yosef has pull with the Holy One?
This controversy over the rabbi’s latest sermon is silly. Rabbi Yosef is praying to God that He smite Israel’s enemies. Fine. If Muslim clerics prayed to God that He smite the Jews, fine.
Rabbi Yosef did not call on Jews to murder innocent Palestinians. Rabbi Yosef did not call on Jews to do anything bad to Palestinians.
I don’t think the rabbi’s remarks are a big deal. There is all the difference in the world between calling on God to do something harsh and calling on people to do something harsh.
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