Prager pontificates…again
Dennis Prager writes at TownHall that “The Culture War Is About the Authority of a Book.” He claims that those who “believe in the divinity and authority of the Five Books of Moses […] line up together on virtually every major social/moral issue.”
This observation is correct, and exactly illustrates the primary problem in America today: masses of people familiar with only a single book—and that one read uncritically—feel themselves qualified on the basis of their near-unsurpassable ignorance to dictate the manner and minutiae of everyone’s lives. Sociology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, history, archaeology, physics, biology, geology, astronomy, cosmology…the collected knowledge of humanity counts as nothing for those people who believe that ancient myths and monstrosities are should rule the modern era as they did in the era of royalty, slavery, and tribal hatred.
I wouldn’t want to be on Prager’s side of that “dividing line.”
(Incidentally, Prager manages to overlook—whether though ignorance or for rhetorical convenience, I will not speculate—the fact that Muslims also “believe in the divinity of the Torah.” Would including Islam in the group of Western monotheistic religions have undermined Prager’s argument?)