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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most important conservative voices of the last century takes on the dangers of secularism, perhaps the most important issue in our lives.Your beloved dog and a stranger are drowning. Who do you try to save first?Every time famed radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and Co-founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager, has asked this question, one-third of the audience voted for the dog, one-third for the stranger, and one-third was not sure. We live in an era when people increasingly make moral judgments based on their emotions. But if feelings determine what is right and wrong, then whether murder, rape, and theft are wrong is no more than an opinion. Why are those who riot and destroy property wrong, especially if they feel their behavior is justified? Prager explains that without objective morality, the world will descend into chaos, with every individual engaging in any behavior they feel is right.For fifty years, Dennis Prager, one of the best-known public intellectuals in the Western world, has explored the vital role Judeo-Christian values play in shaping individual lives and entire societies. In If There Is No God, he engages in provocative and sometimes heated exchanges with questioners who offer some of the greatest challenges he has faced concerning how one determines good and evil and why one’s feelings can be life-enhancing yet morally unimportant.If God exists, why doesn’t He punish the unjust? Why does He allow the innocent to suffer? How can religion better the human condition when so many of the religious are often immoral? These timeless questions are in urgent need of answers. The reader need not be religious or even believe in God to find the arguments and debates in this book compelling and meaningful. All one needs is reason to appreciate the ideas Prager presents.Thought-provoking, important, and accessible for the devout and the skeptic, If There Is No God is a guide for anyone seeking clarity in a morally troubled age.

Why have Jews been the object of the most enduring and universal hatred in history? Why is the Jewish state the most hated country in the world today? Drawing on extensive historical research, Prager and Telushkin reveal how Judaism's distinctive conceptions of God, Law, and Peoplehood, have rendered the Jews, and now the Jewish state as well, to other people's God, laws, or national allegiances. Anti-Semitism is not just another ethnic or racial prejudice, and it is not caused, as so many people falsely believe, by Jewish economic success or the need for scapegoats. Rather, anti-Semitism today, as in the past, is a reaction to Judaism and its distinctive values. Separate chapters document how anti-Semitism is a unique hatred (no other prejudice has been as universal, deep, or permanent), and how the Chosen People idea has spawned hatred. The role of non-Jewish Jews such as Marx and the M.I.T. professor, Noam Chomsky, in provoking anti-Jewish animosity as well is examined and explained. WHY THE JEWS? also provides an authoritative overview of the seven major forms of anti-Semitism the Jewish people have suffered: pagan, Christian, Muslim, Enlightenment, Leftist, Nazi and anti-Zionist anti-Semitism. Prager and Telushkin explain why anti-Semitism poses a mortal danger to moral non-Jews, and what kind of changes would have to happen to produce a world without hatred of the Jews.

Adquiere la sabiduría que necesitas para defender a tu familia y los valores tradicionales con total confianza. Entra en cualquier conversación preparado para expresar tu postura con valentía, convierte los debates confusos en momentos de claridad y defiende los principios que más te importan.No estás solo en esta lucha. El autor best seller del New York Times, DennisPrager, uno de los pensadores y educadores más respetados de Norteamérica, te proporciona las herramientas exactas que necesitas para proteger y defender los valores de tu familia.Millones de personas confían en su enfoque claro y lógico ante las grandes preguntas de la vida, como:Si Dios existe, ¿por qué no castiga a los injustos?¿Por qué permite que sufran los inocentes?¿Cómo puede la religión mejorar la condición humana cuando tantos creyentes son a menudo inmorales?Estas preguntas atemporales necesitan respuestas urgentes. En este libro, Prager aporta sus décadas de sabiduría para mostrarte por qué la creencia en Dios es la única forma de construir una sociedad justa, equitativa y compasiva. No te pide que te bases en una fe ciega. En cambio, te ofrece argumentos poderosos y racionales para defender la moralidad objetiva frente a las ideas seculares modernas.Lo que encontrarás en este libro:La verdadera fuente del bien y del mal: comprende por qué la verdadera moral debe provenir de Dios, y no de los sentimientos cambiantes de los seres humanos.Una defensa lógica de tus creencias: aprende a hablar de fe, familia y ética con absoluta confianza.Sabiduría para la próxima generación: adquiere conocimientos prácticos para criar a los hijos con un carácter firme en un mundo confuso.Provocador, importante y accesible tanto para los devotos como para los escépticos, Si Dios no existe es una guía para cualquiera que busque claridad en una época de confusión moral.If There Is No GodGain the wisdom you need to defend your family and traditional values with total confidence. Step into any conversation ready to articulate your stance boldly, turn confusing debates into moments of clarity, and champion the principles that matter most to you.New York Times bestselling author Dennis Prager, one of North America's most respected thinkers and educators, provides the tools you need to protect and defend your family’s values.Millions of people trust his clear, logical approach to life's biggest questions like:If God exists, why doesn’t He punish the unjust?Why does He allow the innocent to suffer?How can religion better the human condition when so many of the religious are often immoral?Prager brings his decades of wisdom to show you why a belief in God is the only way to build a fair, just, and compassionate society.What you will discover inside:The real source of right and wrongLogical defense for your beliefsWisdom for the next generationIf There Is No God is a guide for anyone seeking clarity in a morally troubled age.

If you think the Bible is irrelevant, irrational, or even, at times, immoral—and you have an open mind—The Rational Bible will change your mind and influence your outlook on life.You will come to understand why the Bible and especially its first five books, the Torah, are the most influential books ever written. Equally important, you will understand how they apply to your life.  The Rational Bible, Dennis Prager’s commentary and explanation of these five books—rooted in his expertise in biblical Hebrew and its grammar—is widely considered the most important modern Bible commentary. Read the thousands of reviews on Amazon—written by people of many faiths and of no faith—and you will appreciate why this is so.  The Book of Numbers—“In the Wilderness” in the original Hebrew—is the fourth book of the Bible. Among the many compelling issues addressed in this volume are the following: Doubting God. What produces faith—miracles or effort? And if effort, what efforts work? Arguing with God. Ingratitude as a source of evil. Why only men could be priests. Why the conscience is not morally reliable. Is fanaticism ever justified? Is there luck in life, or is everything determined by God’s will? The title of this five-volume commentary is The Rational Bible because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. In Dennis Prager’s words, “If something I write is not rational, I have not done my job.”  Few people alive today have influenced as many people as has Dennis Prager. In the words of the website, Powerline, “Dennis Prager is probably the foremost public intellectual of our time.” Read The Rational Bible and you will understand why.

The most important words ever written are the Ten Commandments. These words changed the world when they were first presented at Mt. Sinai to Israelites, and they are changing it now. They are the foundation stones of Western Civilization.Given their staggering importance, you would think that all societies, and certainly our educational and religious institutions, would be intent on studying them closely. Sadly, this is not the case. Our schools ignore them and our churches and synagogues take them for granted. But here's a simple test: Who among us can even name all of the Ten Commandments? And even among those who can name them, how many can explain them in a way that makes sense to the modern eye and ear?If you are a person of faith, this book will strengthen it; if you are agnostic it will force you to rethink your doubts; if you're atheist, it will test your convictions. For people who have thought little about the Ten Commandments, as well as for those who have a sophisticated understanding of them, it will be a revelation.That's a lot to ask of a little book, but the only thing that's little here is the length. The ideas are very big.

The continuation of Dennis Prager's bestselling five-part commentary,The Rational Bible. Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today’s issues, but completely consistent with rational thought.

Is the Bible, the most influential book in world history, still relevant?Why do people dismiss it as being irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things?This explanation of the Book of Deuteronomy, the fifth book of the Bible, will demonstrate how it remains profoundly relevant—both to the great issues of our day and to each individual life.Do you doubt the existence of God because you think believing in God is irrational? This book will cause you to reexamine your doubts.The title of this commentary is The Rational Bible because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. In Dennis Prager’s words, “If something I write is not rational, I have not done my job.”The Rational Bible is the fruit of Prager’s forty years of teaching to people of every faith and no faith at all. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world in general and to you on a personal level.His goal: to change your mind—and, as a result, to change your life.

Dennis Prager, author of the bestselling Rational Bible commentaries, turns to the Haggadah, the book used for the most widely celebrated Jewish ritual, the Passover Seder. (Like most Haggadahs, the Rational Passover Haggadah is printed in the Hebrew format, reading right to left.) Equally valuable for religious and non-religious Jews, as well as non-Jews, Prager’s rich commentary is filled with insights that the reader will ponder for a lifetime.The Rational Haggadah includes the Hebrew text for the Seder side by side with the English translation, making this a complete and fulfilling guide to the Passover ritual.