"I am well aware that many secular conservatives are convinced that they cannot believe in or practice any religion.

To these people, I say: So what?

Once you realize that America’s future depends on Americans affirming “In God We Trust” just as much as they affirm “Liberty” and “E Pluribus Unum,” you have to work on taking God and some religious expression seriously. You should emulate parents who are tone deaf who nevertheless give their children piano lessons.

“Fake it till you make it” is one of the many great insights of 12-step programs. The rule applies to everything good that does not come naturally.

Find a clergyman who shares your values and regularly take your child (or grandchild) to religious services.

Study the Bible with your child or grandchild on a regular basis. Lincoln rarely attended church, but he read the Bible every day. If you need a rational approach to God and the Bible, I suggest beginning with any of my three volumes of Bible commentary, “The Rational Bible.”

Say a blessing before each meal. Even if you’re secular, that shouldn’t be too difficult.

I promise you that whatever discomfort you experience acting religious pales in comparison to the discomfort you will experience if your child or grandchild ends up woke."

:data-laughing:

  • VHS [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    He was a successful businessman and a pastor of a church. He told me that he had three sons, each of whom had doctorates — one from Yale, one from Princeton and one from Stanford. “And they are all leftists,” he sighed.

    lol. certainly no conflict in being a successful businessman and a minister :jesus-cleanse:

    It is true that religious Jews and Christians were a disappointment during lockdowns. That most rabbis, priests and ministers closed their synagogues and churches in obedience to irrational secular authority is reason for weeping.

    chuds are still seething about the half-ass lockdowns that (barely) happened two years ago. about the worst example of "irrational authority"

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      “And they are all leftists,” he sighed.

      All three had chosen the values of the university over religious and conservative values.

      Doesn't that prove Prager wrong? The three sons were raised correctly by a conservative Christian businessman and presumably inoculated against the wiles of cultural Marxism or whatever. If university style leftism is so powerful, why don't conservatives just make their own universities? Oh wait, they do, except they're either creationism institutes that are scams to fleece money out of rubes, or they're just Georgetown and produce CIA recruits.

      I will never forget a man who cruised with me years ago on one of my annual listener cruises.

      Oh, that's why his sons are leftists. This guy sounds like an absolute freak. If my dad went on a cruise ship with Denis Prager I'd probably also disregard anything he said.

    • FoolishFool [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      And you know by "leftists" he means Nancy Pelosi libs.

      • VHS [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        i think prager is one of the few chuds to make a distinction. you do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to him though

        • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          He makes a distinction but I don't think it's clear if he knows what he's talking about. He might just be playing to a specific audience and saying what they want to hear, because he says fascists are leftists.

          He might also make a distinction because a lot of his career has been about how he's a Zionist and he recognizes liberals generally like Israel and leftists don't. Prager is one of the weirdest types of conservatives, he's Jewish and desperately wants to be accepted as an honorary WASP.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      irrational secular authority

      As opposed to what, bucko? :up-yours-woke-moralists:

          • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago
            the deleted post that made me lol

            You really think you’re something huh? Strutting up and down the site like a cartoon dictator. Your insolence and sanctimonious self-righteousness knows no bounds. You’re a real fucking genius, huh? Glory be to UlyssesT, the holy moral authority of Hexbear Dot Net. You’re almost like the Confucius of Hexbear - trite bullshit disguised as sage wisdom and mindlessly quoted and repeated by the rest of the braindead tailist flock. Your “morality” is nothing more than a Nazi kangaroo court, you fascist fuck. You think you’re a philosopher? You’re nothing more than a Confucian-Hitlerian manchild.

            .

            you know, I thought I'd be the one having this line, or something similar, said to by some frothing dweeb but being in the observer seat for once and seeing this from the outside in is extremely entertaining. From now on, I declare you as my sworn hexbear brother.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              You made an alt account just to say that after getting dunked earlier today on your previous alt? SAD! :trump-anguish:

            • HornyOnMain
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              2 years ago

              :jesse-wtf: I have literally no context for whatever argument the two of you are having so this just reads like an utterly deranged bit

              Edit: it got removed :bawllin-sad:

              for anyone interested here’s the full message before it got deleted, it’s pretty funny

              You really think you’re something huh? Strutting up and down the site like a cartoon dictator. Your insolence and sanctimonious self-righteousness knows no bounds. You’re a real fucking genius, huh? Glory be to UlyssesT, the holy moral authority of Hexbear Dot Net. You’re almost like the Confucius of Hexbear - trite bullshit disguised as sage wisdom and mindlessly quoted and repeated by the rest of the braindead tailist flock. Your “morality” is nothing more than a Nazi kangaroo court, you fascist fuck. You think you’re a philosopher? You’re nothing more than a Confucian-Hitlerian manchild.

              • UlyssesT [he/him]
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                2 years ago

                You’re nothing more than a Confucian

                Some chud read my posts and somehow concluded I'm all about traditionalist patriarchal systems. :galaxy-brain:

              • YouGoodChief [any]
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                2 years ago

                Wow, it reads like a bit, but I think it's pretending to be one of my alts. You can tell because they're using the "kangaroo court" bit. It's a Jordan Peterson rant reference. This is why the CTH podcast hosts had to denounce the sub publicly - these people are kind of fucked up deep down.