2017 Dennis Prager Video

I just revisited and took notes on a 2017 Prager U video, of 5 minutes. The video was brilliant, one of his best, and very important.

The worthy Prager is an epistemological optimist. He believes that truth exists, and that reasoning seasoned by faith can lead the believer, human and ethicist to moral clarity and objective and abosolute moral truths, that can be understood, communicated and laid out in plain English.

There exists objective morality and absolute truth, certain and accessible to the human intellect, and the individual believer.

Good and evil do exist, because God exists, and God is the author of moral concepts. This does not guarantee that believers cannot be or do evil, or that atheists cannot be or do good.

Prager confidently asserts that Judeo-Christian values are superior to secular values, because the former are moral facts, originating in God, while the latter are mere opinions, subjective and relative in nature, mere expressions of human belief.

Moral right and wrong are so because God told us so, and Western civilization is based upon this objective morality, divinely inspired. Good and evil exist because God exists. Out of such value systems came liberty, the end of slavery, the championing of universal human rights and women's emancipation.

The moderate in me is more believer and dogmatist than skeptic and agnostic, so that is my basis for supporting Prager's absolute truth of objective morality, even though I support objective morality as a probable certainty, not a necessary certainty.