Prager University: Does Science Argue For or Against the Existence of God?

It is likely that my generation and the one before it, the Hitlerian et alia one, have created, harbored, and advanced the greatest number of religious atheists in human history. Even when I attended grad school at the University of Minnesota in the 1960s the nests in its College of Education had no room for the primative, the antedeluvian, the moronic American Christian and its serfish farmers. The modern did not include any religion beyond atheism to the alleged learned of that day.

I wanted to be learned. I was told to become learned by the most wonderful collection of old maid school teachers anyone could gather……the ones in my 1940-1951 PUBLIC elementary and high schools who told me that accumulating knowledge would help me to know Truth better and therefore, make me closer to God, for God is Truth and knows all things.

They all had the Christian God in mind in those days.

The seal which finally stamped this God principal in my mind and into my soul occured during the Summer of 1973 at the University of Minnesota, . Fate required me to switch my life’s interests and career from history, geography, teaching social studies, and things Russian, to the plant sciences and its outdoor world I had loved so much as a kid. In these social teachings I had discovered the adage, “There is neither good, nor bad. Only thinking makes it so.”……which till this very day, this simple literary beauty, has been the basic foundation of my profound belief that the basic battle of the thinking living is an everlasting war between God and Evil. As long as the thinking human animal exists, God exists and perhaps even then something beyond thinking-knowledge.

I had been programmed to accept what that science community then was beginning to sell since that War had come to an end…..”That”, they said, “there is ever-increasing scientific proof that God never has and never will exist”…..with an attitude on the increase that ‘at last we among the knowledged are free to roam without any Christian restraints’.

My wife and I married in an agnostic church which bore a Christian name to it.

I was required to take beginning and intermediate Biochemistry classes that summer of 1973. I was deeply worried. Of the couple dozen of instructors in my high school education experience, four or five didn’t measure up on the education part. One was Robert Malkenbur, general chemistry teacher…..great guy, new his Chemistry well, but spent most of his class time, and therefore mine, inquiring who was dating whom amongst the student body. I couldn’t remember anything class-worthy to help me pass these two sessions of beginning Biochemistry.

It’s then I met a professor, Irving Lerner, as I remember his name….a lecturer of clear voice and well-organized notes from which he read loudly and confidently….almost as if he were speaking from some place way beyond a university lecture hall. Over 400 were in the classes, sessions required for third year students interested in fields including medicine.

Those three months of study were the most religiously illuminating I had ever experienced in my life. The harmony of all of these living pieces and wholes causing and being caused by this and that in such order and certainty, yet with error from time to time, all dominating rules for the living versus the dead. Moreover, one could tell Professor Lerner was obviously pleased by the power of the topic he was required to pass on to those who listened. At the end of both sessions following his last words of lecture, his audiences stood and applauded with an enthusiasm apparently felt by all. (To emphasize my devotion to Mr. Lerner’s class only, I add that in both sessions I got the highest grades on all four exams, both midterms and finals).

Dennis Prager is a man devoted to spread understanding of today’s battles between good and evil, particularly from the JudeoChristian view of God as the foundation of our human search to discover and embrace Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness….and the defense of this nation’s product, the American Law of the Land, its Federal Constitution.

DOES SCIENCE ARGUE FOR OR AGAINST GOD? http://prageruniversity.com/Religion-Philosophy/Does-Science-Argue-for-or-against-God.html#.VN04i_nF9C8

Dennis Prager: The Obama Mind Comparing Islam to Christianity

President Compares Islam to Christianity by Dennis Prager at realclearpolitics:

In his National Prayer Breakfast speech last week, President Barack Obama said:

“And lest we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ. … So this is not unique to one group or one religion.”

It is important to analyze these words — because the president of the United States spoke them in a major forum, and because what he said is said by all those who defend Islam against any criticism.

Referring to Islamic violence, the president accuses anyone who implies that such religious violence “is unique to some other place” — meaning outside the Christian West — as getting on a “high horse.”

Please read more of Dennis’ comments:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/10/president_compares_islam_to_christianity_125542.html

Obama’s War on Marriage Designed to Destroy the Family

The War on Marriage

February 10, 2015 from the National Center for Policy Analysis:

President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program launched the infamous “War on Poverty,” but in a new report from the NCPA, Senior Fellow Devon Herrick says Great Society legislation ignored and thwarted the most effective antipoverty program: marriage.

Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the Johnson era — while 84 percent of adults aged 30 to 44 were married in 1970, the figure had dropped to 60 percent by 2007. For some demographics, the drop was even more dramatic: while 62 percent of black women in that age group were married in 1970, just one-third were married in 2007.

There are a number of reasons for the drop in marriage rates, but the government’s role cannot be ignored. The U.S. tax code penalizes marriage, especially for low-income earners who are better off forgoing wedding vows in exchange for living together — at least when it comes to receiving federal subsidies:

The poverty level is $11,490 for individuals and $15,510 for married couples. Two individuals living together, therefore, qualify for larger subsidies than a married couple would.
Consider a couple, each of whom earns twice the federal poverty level ($23,340 annually). Were they to marry, their household income would rise to 300 percent of the poverty level, limiting their eligibility for government benefits such as food stamps, health insurance subsidies and more.
Obamacare also penalizes marriage — again, health insurance subsidies for exchange coverage are more generous for individuals than for couples. The couple mentioned above earning twice the poverty level would qualify for a subsidy of $1,151 each. If they marry, they would qualify for a subsidy of just $845.
If the cohabitating couple has a child and were to marry, they would owe $2,857 in higher taxes each year. On the other hand, were the couple to remain unmarried and the mother apply for food stamps for herself and her child, she would qualify for an additional $1,800 that would be unavailable to her were she to marry.
As a result, many couples may decide that they’re better off living together than getting married. Unfortunately, unmarried households are far more likely to be in poverty than their married peers — Herrick notes that single mothers with children are six times as likely to be in poverty as married parents with children.

For more on the unintended consequences of government policies, see the NCPA’s new report, “Reflections During Black History Month: What Public Policies Are Hurting African-Americans?”

Source: Devon Herrick, “The Great Society Declared War on Marriage: Obamacare Made it Worse,” National Center for Policy Analysis, February 10, 2015.

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