PragerU Dismantled by an Evolutionary Psychologist

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PragerU posted a video called "Why God is a He," hosted by Dennis Prager himself. He argues that the biblical god is considered male for practical reasons. Prager asks, "Is God a man, a woman, or a genderless force that cannot be identified by masculine or feminine traits?" Dr. Hector Garcia, a clinical and evolutionary psychologist, author of Alpha God, joins me here to debunk Prager's claims, and show how evolutionary psychology explains the biblical god's gender. That god is a typical alpha male primate, which in the old and new testaments, acts with jealousy and aggression, like any male ape would. Thanks for working with me on this PragerU response, Doc!
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[@GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic]

Let me know here if you want Prager to come on and debate Dr. Garcia! Share this out so he’ll see it! Also, you guys should definitely pick up Alpha God here: www.amazon.com/Alpha-God-Psychology-Religious-Oppression/dp/1633880206

[@cornlips7247]

Dr. Garcia was awesome! Such a good video. Prager is so agrivating I can't stand his bullshit. I wish he would have the balls to do a debate and get destroyed while jumping topics like an Olympic hurdler.

[@fingerless-glovez]

Go Garcia! **clap, clap, clap clap, clap**

[@ivanl.6797]

Yes.

[@ErikFord-cg4em]

Majority of Hindus worship Mother Goddess in the form of Kali or Parvati or Durga and they are more afraid of her wrath than that of male gods in the Hindu Pantheon. Celtic pagans used to fear Morrigan- goddess of war and death more than anyone and anything else. The Greek goddesses Athena and Hera inspired as much fright as their Thunder God Zeus. In Mesopotamian culture, Ishtar/Inanna enjoyed more power than her counterparts. His claims that a woman in the clouds couldn't possibly inspire fear and reverence are as baseless as his claims about the divinity of The Bible.

[@damianthefreak666]

I'd say a debate would be cool to see, but pointless. People with bibles for brains are virtually impossible to have even smalltalk with.

[@rappbarak]

by his logic, lesbians cant raise boys, and gay men are the ultimate parents. also, i do kind of regret watching this, dennis prager is so condescending and using so many cheap conversation tricks it's really giving me a headache.

[@dashripkin]

Right? It's gotten to the point where just the sound of his voice gives me a sinking feeling--like I'm about to hear so much crap that I might need an antibiotic afterward.

[@bmblbyfanfix5930]

Dark Matter 2525 has a video making fun of him, "Frager U".

[@Acidfrog475]

His voice is also annoying as shit

[@wamae755]

Ikr

[@magicdolphin3090]

Having sane people in the comments help

[@snaggiz]

I love how they use the “fatherless” trope to draw all kinds of wacky conclusions instead of drawing the simplest and most logical conclusion which is this: Having two parents (even regardless of gender) is more likely to provide better outcomes for the children rather than only having one parent.

[@undeniablySomeGuy]

Yeah, it's so obvious. It's the conclusion that you come to when you can't understand the intersectionality of those situations.

[@JohanKylander]

That was remedied by introducing a child (Jesus and Christians) and a mother (Holy Spirit)

[@hudson6419]

You raise a good point, but actually as the psychologist states, it’s possibly more related to the difficult women have with how society treats them, making it harder for a single mom to provide on her own. That’s relevant because the statistics explicitly show that it is the lack of a father (not lack of a mother) that’s correlated to those negative outcomes. It’s also worth mentioning that a child being fatherless is way more likely than being motherless, statistically. So you may still be correct if that’s what’s causing that correlation. (Unfortunately, correlation cannot prove causaron, so we can’t say either way - but neither Can Dennis Praeger!)

[@beccangavin]

The real enemy is poverty. Children have better outcomes with two incomes.

[@khazmodan77]

Cause it's false. Rich fatherless children are still more likely to commit suicide, to have depression, eating disorders, drug addictions...

[@Chaylubb]

"There are no neuter words in Hebrew" Oh man, I forgot how human grammar limits god's way of communicating with us.

[@timhallas4275]

Actually, that was a lie. The bible references eunuchs quite a bit.

[@dcmonster3891]

@@timhallas4275 there were a lot of eunuchs back in those times

[@timhallas4275]

@@dcmonster3891 I don't know if it was a lot, but they are talked about in history.

[@sixela6]

@@timhallas4275 they actually had 6 genders in hebrew

[@bennywolfe4357]

@@sixela6 that’s a big misrepresentation of Judaism which lefties love to say but not understand.

[@suzbone]

Dennis Prager: We cannot love an "it" Holy Spirit: 😡

[@charisday3846]

@suzbone this is a super late reply but this made me audibly laugh

[@watcherwlc53]

Right, but Dennis Prager is Jewish and they don't believe in the Trinity so he wouldn't see the Holy Spirit as a person. Also, really die hard believers in the trinity (Christian) tend to see the Holy Spirit as "he" or at least the theologians say they should...

[@nanochad2979]

there's no I in holy spirit, oh wait

[@snooganslestat2030]

@@nanochad2979 Does vodka count?!

[@Mauricekaip]

“You cannot love an it.” Tell that to the people who love money.

[@mattjones7226]

Or a eunuch. I loved Varys. He was one of my favorite characters.

[@henriquepacheco7473]

@@mattjones7226 Him not having his manly bits does not make him an it. Eunuchs are still men.

[@shirosaieko6626]

I love money to a whole nother level

[@fuckedupfuckedup1191]

can confirm

[@granta3044]

Those people who make love to cars would say differently

[@LilithNobody]

"God transcends gender" God is transcendgender 😲

[@Justanotherconsumer]

There’s an argument to be made that humans are as well, that gender is just an arbitrary social construct with no real value.

[@LilithNobody]

@@Justanotherconsumer Sure but, biological sex isn't a construct, and for a grand majority of people it directly informs their actions. Being trans is a medical condition where the person's brain literally is opposite to their biological sex. Gender ROLES are, however, very socially influenced.

[@jossypoo]

Lol "trans is literally about being the opposite" is almost as poor a rationale as Prager.

[@jackie-sh5of]

Gods not man

[@LilithNobody]

@@aa3302 You're certainly right. I should have said that more clearly. I was speaking very, um, broadly about a very nuanced subject. Even the term "medical" was a poor choice of word. Perhaps I should have said that being trans is biological, not some arbitrary choice made because of a person's preference in clothing. But, yes, studies into trans people with GD have demonstrated that there is a neurological cause behind at least that portion of the trans community. This is important to acknowledge, because it refutes the whole "y'all just wanna sin" thing. Also, it's a shame that there hasn't been more research done into non-binary identities. So often people fail to accept non-binary people because, without research being done, no one feels compelled to take them seriously. I really hope more can be done to bridge the gap between the binary trans and non-binary trans communities. So often they is friction between them do to very different experiences. My point more largely was that saying "gender is a construct" is actually a harmful sentiment towards the trans community. As you pointed out about my blunder, I think it also an important to make the distinction between gender and gender roles. Gender roles are a social construct, but gender is an immutable characteristic of a person's identity. To tell a trans person that "gender is a constuct" is like saying they're not real. It's like saying to a person of color, "race doesn't really exist, evolutionarily speaking". It de-legitimizes the experience of a person's identity in an attempt to seem forward-thinking.

[@AliothAncalagon]

"We cannot love, obey or relate to an "it"." People starting to worship a damn statue within 5 minutes of Moses turning his back has somehow gone unnoticed I guess xD

[@monkeytime3169]

"The bible is preoccupied with making a kinder, more just, less violent world" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@bluedragonfly8139]

Right!?

[@sagichdirdochnicht4653]

I just don't get how you can say that out loud wihtout laughing tears. You kinda have to be dement about worlds history. The abrahametic religions were pretty buisy in the past with killing people that didn't have the same believe.

[@atocanboi409]

Aztecs, Incas and other native Americans: *are we a joke to you?*

[@UltimateCheetah-zs2iw]

Besides the canonical gospels (where Jesus was a good person), God of the bible is a raging lunatic who should be on an entire alphabet's list of medications. (And, if we consider the power balance between God and Mary, as well as the fact that god was over 3,000,000, to Mary's 14 years, and that God was Mary's father....God committed incestuous rape.)

[@UltimateCheetah-zs2iw]

@Joel Coupe I once went through Genesis and counted 3-4 counts of incest (Jacob, Leah, and Rachel, Lot, Abraham, and it depends if you count Cain's wife), 2 counts of rape (Dinah and Lot), one count of attempted rape (the men from sodom), 5+ counts of mass slaughter (a bunch of tribes slaughtering each other) and one count of mega genocide (Noah).

[@user-is1lo9dx2i]

Their god makes Zeus looks like a loving father

[@robertrizer4708]

Yeah, same, because if you look it up, Zeus in traditional mythology was actually a good father when he could, he even broke his own rules about non interference on occasion to help his kids. It was Hera, and the Zeus in God of War that was a dick.

[@sapientbirb7350]

@Daniel De saint malo Zeus was the kind of God that would constantly cheat on Hera for other women, mostly mortal women, most of the time in a different form like an animal or a shower of gold. Furthermore, he doesn't fall along good nor evil due to being a literal God, that has a fairly good reason to be arrogant, that typically only needs to worry about other Gods, and many mistakes he makes can be reversed or subverted in some way. Despite those flaws, he still shows at least some kindness to the women he slept with, his descendants, and other beings he has respect for. And has certain rules that are pretty reasonable such as not killing family members and rules that can benefit mortals like showing hospitality to beggars. If the beggar is a mortal, then the host has shown kindness to someone that needs it. If the beggar is a disguised God, then the host will be rewarded by said God.

[@dafamousrh]

Zeus is a demon

[@sapientbirb7350]

@@dafamousrh Sure, and the animals in the Ark were stored in cryopods. Seriously though, that's completely false. The only sources you can find that from are religious morons that never read the bible, a popular book that acts as self insert fanfiction for the author, and drafts of bibles that were oh so conveniently published after people started to figure out that there were tons of religions that came before Christianity, which contains scenes that really show that the bible isn't original like a main God, a global flood, a snake like antagonist, lives after death, rules and punishments, etc.

[@sapientbirb7350]

@@dafamousrh You do realize that this is the kind of website that isn't verified, cuts corners, and is completely biased right?

[@Honeybreee]

God transcends gender? So you're saying that god is nonbinary, eh Dennis ;)

[@c0ntextm4tters]

Nah, he's agender.

[@pablojp3498]

@@c0ntextm4tters that's still non-binary

[@anitamihholap5926]

Also Dennis: *proceeds to argue that God is a he*

[@anarchomando7707]

@@anitamihholap5926 and most men would call their boat a she It's kind of how language works at times even if it's really dumb

[@reese9705]

God is agender spread the news

[@guyg.5013]

in Hebrew, when depicting a character with unknown gender, the word "he" is being used. that is a basic rule of the language

[@itsROMPERS...]

This has also been true in english, but in this usage it doesn't actually mean the person is MALE, so just because the Bible refers to God as "he" DOES NOT necessarily mean he is male, therefore the whole "male role model/authority figure" nonsense is merely self-serving, misogynistic bullshit.

[@sierrasouthwell9237]

@@itsROMPERS... This is 100% not true in English. The use of singular "they" dates back to Shakespeare's time. While there is usually an assumption of male gender in Anglophonic culture (male as the norm), that does not mean that things or people of indeterminate or multiple genders are given masculine pronouns. I think a closer example would be Spanish, where a group of men and women are ellos and siblings of both genders are hermanos.

[@oremfrien]

@Guy G. -- Sure. This is how someone in Hebrew might address a neuter-person situation, but if language is a creation of God's imparted to man or God created man and man created language, then presumably, such a language would be able to account for God's otherness, not box Him into pre-existing pronouns.

[@SMT-ks8yp]

@@sierrasouthwell9237 you reminded me how Russian derps out in this case. There is a neuter, but almost all pronouns for it are similar to male ones, except nominative. So it's like "it", but "him" and "his".

[@scambammer6102]

the fact your language is sexist doesn't make your religion non-sexist. Also, you are falsely asserting that god's gender is unknown, but you know he is a male. Are you suggesting he is a female? I didn't think so. Try another one.

[@Griffolion0]

It's staggering Prager makes this argument in a world where the main reason why we're living in the least violent time in human history is because we're slowly stopping listening to the religious voices in society.

[@onnol917]

"We have too many absent fathers on earth." kind of ironic since god has never been there for us.

[@greg77389]

That's the equivalent of running away from home and then complaining that your dad was never there for you. Fool's logic. Plenty of people experience God in their lives, and obviously those who reject him aren't going to be experiencing him.

[@onnol917]

@@greg77389 no it is not in any way, shape or form equivalent. Plenty of suffering and pain is manmade and more than plenty is completely out of our control (child cancer etc). If god is real he/she is a sadistic asshole

[@greg77389]

@@onnol917 "If god is real he/she is a sadistic asshole" That would imply that God is pleased when people suffer and there is no evidence of this. Try again.

[@onnol917]

@@greg77389 the same logic can be applies the other way around. Expect for children with cancer. Please bend over backwards trying to argue why children with cancer is alright because god

[@greg77389]

@@onnol917 Why do you think God is obligated to make everything "alright" for us on earth? He isn't. Earth isn't heaven, we are meant to have periods of suffering because through suffering we may come to know God in a way that is far deeper than we could otherwise. A mother may experience that pain of loss of her child dying of cancer, and though this is bad, that's not to say there aren't morally sufficient reasons God has for allowing such things. After all, we have no idea how this may affect events in the future. If we were not meant to suffer on earth, then what would even be the point in living here? Why not just live in Heaven from the start? At least in Christianity, suffering has a purpose and a silver lining. In atheism, there is no purpose for suffering and no silver lining. It just exists to make you miserable and nothing more. You wouldn't dare tell a child dying of cancer that they just cease to exist when they die, would you? If you would, you're a despicable person. A good person would say God is with him and soon he will be in God's Kingdom, where there is no more pain and suffering. Even if you're an atheist, you should still tell them this. There is no risk of giving them false hope, because if atheism IS true, the child won't know it, as he'd simply cease to exist when he dies.

[@MyassesDragon]

It's simple. Man made god in his own image.

[@evadd2]

How do explain that women are the higher %? And that there are more people of darker pigmentation than light? If we are made in his/her image, god is likely a small brown woman.

[@valeriavagapova]

@@evadd2 Well, probably because Christian god wasn't made by some woman in Africa, but by men in Israel/Palestine. Also scholars are speculating that Jesus would have had darker skin than what is depicted in typical Western art (more olive-coloured than white)

[@qzh00k]

Men made God's to scare folks and blame shit on anyone but the person that made a decision.

[@alexisrivera200xable]

@@qzh00k Exactly, the stuff on the bible is made to co opt older traditions from other religions in order to draw new followers. Its a political/religious control tool designed to put its clergy in a powerful privileged position the more followers adscribe to its teachings. (Read: exactly like almost every other religion out there in the world)

[@evadd2]

Totally. The will of god is the ultimate copout.

[@philiphintze]

To quote a great german comedian: "Of course, God is male! If he was female, he would talk to us!" ;-)

[@TheRobdarling]

jeeze, we wouldn't be able to shut her up.

[@vivvygipe9605]

@@TheRobdarling Those broads always yappin away, amirite fellas?

[@Rainyman63]

I loved it when Alanis Morissette played God in the movie Dogma.

[@NoodleKeeper]

@@Rainyman63 Hell yeah. That movie had some of the best cameos, and jokes ever. Like George Carlin as a priest.

[@DymondLoves]

Lolol

[@gelipterzg]

i grew up without a male father figure, and i'm a lifetime atheist and humanist. you were saying, prager? oh yes, and i also graduated with honors :P

[@naira.carissa]

Congratulation. I know it's an old comment

[@timhallas4275]

But you have to admit, you probably let women push you around, while harboring resentment toward your missing father.

[@gelipterzg]

@@timhallas4275 not really, can't say i've ever been harassed by any woman, and atm i'm happily married for 7 years xD and as for my father, can't say i've ever even spared a thought on him

[@timhallas4275]

@@gelipterzg How old are you?

[@gelipterzg]

@@timhallas4275 34

[@lugialover09]

"Hebrew didn't have neuter pronouns" ...why is God's depiction limited by that language? Presumably, they could have invented a pronoun that referred only to God. If anything, that makes more sense because using a common word that a person uses for people demeans that god to the same level as humanity.

[@nromk]

Except the Hebrew Bible was written in Greek and both Greek and Hebrew had nuter pronouns, hell ancient Hebrew has at least six gender noune cases.

[@KonradZielinski]

So he is saying God could not alter a human language to better reflect reality?

[@adrianblake8876]

@@nromk Proof, as in point to where one can find the ever-elusive neuter pronoun in Hebrew!?

[@liranpiade4499]

I'm a native in Hebrew, and I'm capable of using neuter pronouns (which do not exist in Hebrew). I'm not an omnipotent god, if I can do it, surely, so could an omnipotent being.

[@liranpiade4499]

@@nromk All of Hebrew's cases are gendered male/female. That includes ancient Hebrew - while I'm native in modern Hebrew, I am capable of understanding ancient Hebrew as well. It's silly to suggest that an omnipotent being would be limited by the Hebrew language, but they are unfortunately correct about the Hebrew language not containing neuter pronouns. I generally disagree with pragerU, but they're correct about the Hebrew language.

[@TheTrueMorningStar]

If you need the fear of a sky daddy to act in a moral way, you may just be a bad person.

[@kloggmonkey]

which is why i find religious people claiming ownership of morality to be so weird. doing good from fear of punishment isn't moral at all.

[@ArsenicApplejuice]

kloggmonkey but it’s human. So discarding that while ignoring the truth of it is perilous.

[@LiftRunFight]

You're ignorant of human nature. In general, children need to be taught how to behave. Humans require a moral law and fear of discipline to teach them how to conduct themselves socially. You make a statement standing on a lifetime of fear of punishment (to some greater or lesser extent) and assume you got there in the absence of it. Fear of God is beginning of wisdom, but even moreso, the motivator of love.

[@dukevalentinois]

Everybody is a bad person you are a hypocrite if you think you are not

[@kekservative3218]

while true, the unfortunate reality is that most people who think that way are complete pieces of shit, precisely because they can't act in moral way without a divine big brother.

[@mossa216]

Why can't we love a "it"? PragerU gives me more questions than answers.

[@feywildheart2878]

No love for country, a country is an it

[@user-3w9jf4r5qz]

@@feywildheart2878 don't we treat a country as motherland?

[@LineOfThy]

@@user-3w9jf4r5qz except for the ones that treat it as a fatherland of course

[@JamesRichardWiley]

Dennis is the only person I know who believes he is a university. He also believes he has answers to tough questions that no one else has. Most remarkable.

[@MsPoliteRants]

Oh my Odin I can’t stand listening to Prager. I love how he kept mentioning all the fatherless people in prison but failed to mention that 98% of those prisoners follow some kind of deity.

[@anon_goose4787]

Do you happen to have any links to back that up? Could come I handy for future arguments ;)

[@neo_tsz]

@@anon_goose4787 You could look it up (they aren't really hard to find). Most of the ones I've seen indicate that an overwhelming majority of prisoners with various sentences are religious people. Also, it can also be seen in many of these sources that atheists make up a smaller percentage in prison than they do in society, so it shows how religion doesn't really stop crime.

[@anon_goose4787]

Earl James Williams Alingasa alright thank you I will!

[@PopCultureFan_]

Almost half in prison are born agains LOL, ewww..

[@TBOTSS]

@@neo_tsz "overwhelming majority of prisoners with various sentences are religious people" I think you mean Black.

[@yargnad]

To be fair, prageru is usually dismantled by their own weak arguments.

[@superpacemaker444]

No because I know plenty of people that have shared Prager U videos to "destroy my libtard position" 🙃🙃 alot more people are alot dumber than you think.

[@bytelabs2406]

@@superpacemaker444 the curse of humanity

[@arsenygenadev6888]

yeah i remember stumpling upon his vids back in 2017 and seeing lenghty discussions in comments that were dismantling his video from all sides

[@larapalma3744]

Thanks for this, misogyny is still so prevalent

[@pineapplepenumbra]

15:04 "on occasion even a warrior..." This makes no sense; how could an omnipotent* god that created the Universe be a warrior? A slaughterer, yes, but being a warrior suggests that one would have to _battle_ ones' opponents; a god could just eliminate them in the blink of an eye, with no effort whatsoever (although, to be fair, the biblical god did have a problem with iron chariots, so a modern tank would really freak him out, as would the Burj Khalifa). *Leaving aside the logical problems that claims of omnipotence throw up.

[@aralornwolf3140]

That's because the original jews were Canaanites who were polytheists. Around the fourth time the Torah was rewritten did they take their War God, Yahweh, and make him into their _only_ god. kzbin.info/www/bejne/g53Rn4qYoLKfmMk

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@aralornwolf3140 True, but when you try and tell modern Jews and christians that, they get all funny about it.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@aralornwolf3140 It even mentions other gods in the bible and torah, such as Chemosh, who they recognised as more powerful than their god, when they were in his territory. There was Asherah, who the ancient Egyptians observed was worshipped by the Hebrews, alongside Yahweh. El, the head of the Council of (70, not mentioned in the bible) of gods, etc.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

@@aralornwolf3140 Thanks for the link; I shall watch it when I get back from shopping.

[@shetheyandkindagay]

Prager could win the olympics with those mental gymnastics

[@larryscott3982]

PragerU is sure PragerU would win. So PragerU wouldn’t show up to the competition and tell everyone that they won. So sayeth the Lord.

[@shetheyandkindagay]

Larry Scott Amenallujah!!

[@MrJaaaaake]

A lot of what he says makes sense within the context of the bible.

[@tylerb9877]

Evolution is a lie. There is abundant evidence that disproves the absurd theory of evolution. First of all, there are zero transitional species. There is not a single species which is a transition between two kinds of living things. For example, Tiktaalik is said to be a transition between fish and land animals simply because it is a walking fish. But Tiktaalik is not a transition. It is simply a fish. See, Tiktaalik couldn't be a transition. Tiktaalik supposedly went extinct 380 million years ago. And yet there are still species of walking fish today, such as mudskippers. So how come Tiktaalik (a walking fish) evolved into land animals 380 million years ago, and yet mudskippers living today still haven't evolved into land animals? For another example, Archaeopteryx is said to be a transition between reptiles and birds. But Archaeopteryx is not a transition. Archaeopteryx is simply a bird. See, Archaeopteryx couldn't be a transition. Archaeopteryx was found between layers of other bird fossils. So how can Archaeopteryx be a transition if the organisms preceding and succeeding it were undeniably birds? Secondly, there are zero transitional organs. There is not a single organ which is a transitional form between two different organs. For example, lungs supposedly evolved from swim bladders. And yet there is not a single organ that is a transition between the swim bladder and the lung. For another example, the heart supposedly evolved from smooth muscles. And yet there is not a single organ that is a transition between smooth muscles and the heart. Third, there are zero transitional organ systems. There is not a single organ system that is a transitional form between two different organ systems. For example, there is no organ system that is a transition between the circulatory system of an animal with a heart and the circulatory system of an animal without a heart. For another example, there is no organ system that is a transition between the nervous system of an animal with a brain and the nervous system of an animal without a brain.

[@AD-pp2vn]

@@tylerb9877 What kind of bird has teeth?

[@davidmurphy7332]

Got heavily drunk one night, woke up with KZbin still playing and it had somehow reached a PragerU video. I genuinely thought I'd joined a cult... again.

[@christopherparks4342]

That's the best comment i've read this week

[@Bruh-jr2ep]

Again? Damn, I now want to be drunk with you if you join every time you drink to a cult. Sounds fun😂

[@ANGH3LL1C420]

David Murphy hahahahahahaha this comment made my whole year

[@maya1mae]

lmao

[@williambjorge5909]

Honestly I think PragerU has some good videos some of them you might agree with like the “Every American Should Hear This Speech” video.

[@sapphirestarblazer6805]

"You cannot love an it." Me, who loves people regardless of what pronouns they use, including "it": excuse me

[@serpentinewolf7085]

Dude I’ve even started loving spiders and they unnerve me.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@serpentinewolf7085 same, after I watched "lucas the spider" and played "webbed"

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Same, pronouns are basically nicknames(is something that you prefer to be called in a social setting, like asking to be called elisa instead of Elizabeth or asking to be referred to by your surname) so I don't understand what the fuzz is all about

[@hankboog462]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real some people are just scared of people that make the world more interesting I guess. Seriously why do these people *want* gender to be a binary, outside of being wrong that just sounds boring

[@Divinemakyr]

@@hankboog462 Doesn't sound boring at all. Man and woman are gender expressions and thus can be infinitely flexible, or at least according to some people. So there is no bounds, even with 1 gender, let alone 2.

[@xavier1964]

When I was in middle school I was as liberal as they come. Watching PragerU turned me into an angry conservative. Watching GM skeptic taught me that both sides are filled with both good and bad ideas, and I don't have to accept the bad just because I see the good.

[@FranFerioli]

“I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God he has to be a man. No woman could or would ever f**k things up like this” - George Carlin

[@mrmcawesome9746]

"If there is a god, may he STRIKE THIS AUDIENCE DOWN!"

[@Raz.C]

@@mrmcawesome9746 I'm convinced that George Carlin WAS god! edit - If it wasn't him, then Lake Bell is god. If not her, then Astrid Berges Frisbey has to be God!! She just HAS to be! Humans aren't that perfect!!

[@thebrutusmars]

Jacob Stewart Men can be toxic *and* women can be toxic? Really? Bro I’m fucking blown away.

[@PeterSchmuttermaier]

@@Raz.C Pfff. Alpha God. I'm the Omega Cyber Mecha God. I kick Alpha God's ass and have a nice picknick afterwards with my spouse, Ultra Alpha Metal Trans-Goddess.

[@kalstonii]

And then there were feminists

[@amandaduncan360]

"We cannot love an 'it'." "God is neither male nor female. " So I can't love god? Cool, will do.

[@LetruneInedil]

....I will be snarky... So, McDonalss lies us in their tagline? :3

[@willowneedles4061]

Hey, nonbinary people deserve love too

[@LetruneInedil]

@@willowneedles4061 Seems like Mr. Prager denies the existence of them, only men or women can be...

[@koriclaypool9548]

You cant love God because you choose to love a lie.

[@MrAsh1100]

@@koriclaypool9548 And most of us will embrace it. We do not want it to control us. We control our destinies, our future, and our civilization! WE DO NOT NEED A GOD!

[@Ivytheherbert]

I liked how he claimed that a male god ensured that traits like compassion and non-violence were seen as masculine, then immediately followed it up with a claim that women didn't need a role model because they already had those traits.

[@thoughtfuldevil6069]

"It is in both man and woman's best interest to depict God as a man" And the world's eight million Wiccans laughed.

[@swa_peeters]

Single-parent families have fewer cars than dual-income households. This proves that cars keep the children out of prison.

[@TheAlmightyJello]

I heard a similar example in a psych class once- "Kids in households with toasters do better in school that kids in households without them. Therefore, toasters make child geniuses."

[@Sam-fq3bt]

More cars = more chance to have a fast car = more chance to not get caught by the police

[@mattroberts86]

Yes, great example of Prager logic.

[@deesalmon9632]

Sound reasoning. Wonder if i can get a degree from Prager U?

[@dudeinoakland]

Parenting comes from parents, not automobiles.

[@ekzrated]

"God is Trans!" - Paraphrasing Dennis Prager. My take is just as valid as his.

[@guytheincognito4186]

You now have 69 likes thanks to me. Your welcome.

[@mirandalyneetestewart3083]

ekzrated and now it’s at 70, yay.

[@guytheincognito4186]

@@mirandalyneetestewart3083 You ruined it.. for a moment. Lol

[@arsenygenadev6888]

he said "god transcends gender" so it makes him more of a-gender or non-binary but problem is god has no physical body so he can't have a gender but in christianity god is attributed with traditional male quialities so he is male so prager is even wrong on that

[@muffininorbit]

I mean he's basically saying that God is non-binary but uses he/him pronouns.

[@charisday3846]

I love how the options were “He, she, or it” This just in, all y’all non-binary people are things

[@stickiedmin6508]

I was struck by his statement that we "cannot love . . . an 'It.'" There are six 'Its' in my house, right now, and I love them dearly. I've sacrificed a lot in order to keep them safe and healthy, I've put myself at significant risk in order to protect them and have literally shed my own blood in the cause of making sure that they're okay. I'm talking about my kitties - they all get neutered, pretty much on arrival, if they haven't been already. The current gang of murderous fur faces were all historically male, so they're referred to as boys, but technically, they're not. They're "Its," and I still adore them them, understand them, relate to them, and yes - even obey them (when they start nagging me about suppertime). Fuck Prager. Fuck him sideways. With a cactus.

[@thegameowl11]

It’s they damn it. Get It Right F*cker. Also (I am actually Non-binary, so please.)

[@chrisb.7787]

As I see it your born an inny or an outy, but that doesn't mean you gotta act like whatever your culter says an outy or inny should act. It's your body do with it as you please. However getting upset because someone said he/she is a bit much for me to go along with.

[@stickiedmin6508]

@Ismael barrera No, they're neuters now. They *_were_* males.

[@stickiedmin6508]

@Ismael barrera Scientists disagree.

[@Datamike]

"Are you regretting watching this yet?" Yep... PragerU's opening statement already gave me a nosebleed.

[@neelzen9975]

I'm a creationist, I believe man created god

[@BrokenCurtain]

**squints** ... **unsquints**

[@warioman91]

@@BrokenCurtain *giggles*

[@Iaminationman]

Do you mean like simulation theory?

[@tywanturner7305]

I'm confused

[@oliverworley5162]

@@tywanturner7305 before humans existed there would be no understanding of God, ie we created the idea of a divine being had we not existed the idea of God also wouldn't exist meaning that humans created god

[@leahheim1923]

It's so concerning that people literally think other people need to be frightened and brutalized into behaving kindly. My goodness.

[@serpentinewolf7085]

I learnt all my kindness from the animals I grew with. Specifically dogs. Most of my behavior reflects a dog. I am happy.

[@khazmodan77]

That's the definition of the law. Are you 12?

[@khazmodan77]

@overused palimpsest Yeah sacralizing life was definitely a huge mistake. If only we could behead people like the aztecs did or throw innocent people in a roman circus.

[@SkitariusNoKD]

​@@khazmodan77 Didn't Romans an Aztecs were also religious?, from their point of view what they were doing was holy, because they saw it like the wills of their gods. Humanity has been religious for most of its story up to the modern-day, almost all human atrocities have been done on the behalf of some divinity.

[@SkitariusNoKD]

@@khazmodan77 Also you're completely ignoring the political landscape of those cultures. Both Aztec and Romans had empires with laws that protected their citicens from thief, murder and violence in general, but they also had lower class populations that didn't count has citizens therefore weren't protected by the laws there for it was ok to kill them for religious rituals or entertainment. Also Aztecs didn't pick random citizens to sacrifice for religious reasons they generally sacrificed strong warriors of rival civilisations just as Romans gladiator usually were capture slaves. The use of slaves without regard for their well-being justify by religion is the exact same what european colonizators did during the colonization of america, only after secular forms of government human equality begin to spread. If your curious why Aztecs didn't sacrifice random citizen is because the human sacrifices were a gift for their gods and so they must only give them the best of the best.

[@thelt4255]

As a male who was raised almost exclusively by my mother, sister, and grandmother. I have never had a stable male figure, yet here i am as a good person

[@bennywolfe4357]

Says you

[@thelt4255]

@@bennywolfe4357 and says all my peers and says my employer and says my teachers and says my father even who said i grew up the best man i ever could and now im going into the military, my friend you know nothing of me and i of you.

[@kierangreywood4153]

A psychology professor in college once who impressed very aggressively on us that the absence of a mother has the same psychological impact as the absence of a father

[@mj68874]

University? This guy just makes stuff up, literally.

[@pdoylemi]

The initials are actually descriptive of the stench coming from everything they produce - PU.

[@pdoylemi]

@Annabelle It refers to the statement pee-ew! Sometimes exclaimed when one smells something bad.

[@joiscode3832]

Little know fact the u in prager u stands for uneducated

[@channingdeadnight]

Lol true but technically I believe that it is a shame for women to speak in church. Men too. It's a shame that we still have anyone in church.

[@channingdeadnight]

It's amazing how little respect this version of christianity has for women. They preach that even a man learning from women will lead to societies downfall. I don't understand how women who know these men and the way they speak about them can continue to have any respect for them. Let alone be friends or more with them. Except for the blood relationships and then I'm just sorry.

[@crumbum2]

Whew! According to Prager I don't need a god because I had/have a father. Won't my dad be happy, he also had a father!

[@JamesRichardWiley]

Dennis Prager has taught me that it's possible to speak flawlessly with absolute authority and make no sense whatsoever. Talking and saying nothing.

[@protoborg]

@@JamesRichardWiley IE, they talk but do not speak. They hear but do not listen.

[@KreeZafi]

As a Swedish person I want to add a note on the high rates of unwed mothers in Scandinavia. A lot of the time it's not single mothers, but rather unwed couples. Marriage is quickly becoming outdated but couples are still together, just without rings on their fingers. My own parents are unmarried (but have been together for 30+ years) so I guess my own mother would add to the "unwed mothers" statistic, but she's not a single mom. Also in divorces custody is normally split 50/50 unless either parent is problematic enough that they shouldn't be around their kids too much, so divorced mothers don't get the entire burden of their children either, the father does his part.

[@DraconicDuelist]

17:05 "We have too many absent fathers on Earth to begin to even entertain the thought of having no father in heaven." GOD IS A DEADBEAT DAD!

[@setojurai]

God is just out getting milk from the store. Im sure he'll be back aaaaaany day now. /s

[@IPODsify]

Classic Christian argument: no god means everyone is a morally bankrupt

[@JamesRichardWiley]

I am an atheist with a clean record. Is that a problem?

[@franktherealist481]

I'm not so innocent but I've never wanted to kill, rape, molest or cheat any one just because God was absent... just saying. Christian ideology claims so much moral compass and yet so many preachers, priests and other so called religious objective moralists keep finding them selves in a pickle... Look at that jerkoff who wanted to run for political office... what was his name... I think it was Moore. He was ousted for stalking young teens at a mall and also accused by some of his victims for molesting them when he first got into politics, or some thing like that. I forget the exact details, so don't hold me to that. I just know that when he was trying to run recently, he was accused of past deacrepancies with minors. My point in bringing that up is that many Christians backed him... even preachers... yeah, objective morals... comical, huh?

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Frank The Realist False prophets are specifically warned about in the Gospels, so just because they kneel and say “Lord, Lord” doesn’t mean much.

[@franktherealist481]

@@Justanotherconsumer I'm well aware of the false prophets claim in the bible but here's the thing, its irrelevant to the hate and sheer inconsistent messaging the rest of the bible has. I'm am an avid reader, studied the bible and came to the realization that it's no different than any other work of literary art and yet it is by far more inconsistent in messaging than any other literary work of art. You can take the temptation of Jesus by Lucifer. Almost every theist who knows that story says it's about humility. I dont see it and here's why. Why would Lucifer tempt Jesus with what is his father's? Isn't Jesus and God one in the trinity that is God? Did not God conceive the world and planned it all before he made it and then created it as he planned it? If so, as is claimed, that means that it all belongs to him and the idiousy of Lucifer, who knows God personally mind you, tempting any one with what's theirs is pure fiction. There's plenty more of that kind of nonsense and poor story telling if you just read the bible as it is. Story book literature. An all knowing, all powerful God wouldn't be so inept as to have such an idiotic event happen to Jesus and then have it explained away as he showing humility when it clearly isn't about that. So, false prophets, fictional temptations, slavery, genocide and the occasional "be subservient and obey God even if he's wrong so he can love you" lectures that seem to sway the ignorant who believe with out questioning why so much inconsistent garbage from a God who is supposed to be all about love... In the end, I lost my train of thought but why would I care about what the bible says when every single person on the planet will interpret that book, the alleged word of God ,their own way? To me, any words coming out of that book is irrelevant and unimportant. It doesn't demonstrate a good God nor his existence. That's where I am. Beyond that, I'll continue to be the best humanist I can be where every one will be treated with respect and dignity, assuming they show the same. I will go out of my way for anyone and it doesn't matter who they be. Gay, straight, black, white, latino, Asian whatever. Humanity is humanity and that's all that matters. Seek out the good people and discard the bad... simple.

[@Justanotherconsumer]

Frank The Realist it’s a collection of works by a variety of authors, often heavily warped by translation and cultural distance, so the inconsistency isn’t surprising. I don’t see a lot of “hate” in the book, but it really depends on how you interpret it and I don’t deny that hateful interpretations exist. It’s a question of metaphysics - does the truth (in this case moral truth) exist, and if so, can we know it? I am of the school that it does but human knowledge of it will always be imperfect. I view as hubris the stance that the Bible presents some final and perfect answer and that we have all the answers (there are some Christians that believe they do have all the answers). Only God has all the answers, and setting myself equal to God is... not justified given my knowledge of my frailties. I view as immorality the stance that there is no such thing as morality and that whatever gives us the most dopamine is correct. Tyrants and terrorists and mass murderers and slavers all thought what they were doing was good and righteous, so feeling good about my own morality is not something I’d take as a meaningful evaluation.

[@kenbee1957]

What I've learned today: Human beings created a God to fit perfectly with Prager's father issues

[@ckinggaming5bucketmadness766]

I feel like the main difference between a mother and a father, is the mother could be overprotective and the father is less likely to be overprotective, based on my parents

[@tonyrundstrom9574]

Always fun to hear that I'm immoral because I didn't have a father by default. Never mind my behavior, just assume I'm bad from the start. Sounds compassionate.

[@cthellis]

To be fair, PragerU could be dismantled by a particularly lazy iguana, but thanks regardless. 😘

[@robyndaniell434]

What about specifically snarky platypus? Perry, I'm looking at you!

[@cthellis]

Robyn Daniell Absolutely!

[@cthellis]

Sam Bacon Death: the most powerful form of laziness

[@russianbot4418]

@Sam Bacon Not really seeing any effort put into the actual dismantlement of any of their points here either. 'Pot, Black" sort of thing is what I see!

[@toneart1623]

@@russianbot4418 maybe because no one's trying to and that's not even the point of any of these comments?

[@kingking1997]

I never thought of the bible through the lense of a Warlord. That makes so much sense Thank you for the new perspective on this!

[@stevenhall1385]

I love how the so-called God is always totally mute on any issue and all of his followers seem to do his talking for him. they can tell us what God is thinking and What he wants from each of us, now Prager goes on to tell us gods gender assignment or lack thereof. It's just amazing how they pretend to know things that they can't possibly know.

[@Speederzzz]

"we cannot love an it" *looks at my plants and dolls I love lots* "yeah right'

[@Achiles5th]

looks at various mars rovers, looks up videos of us singing along happy birthday with one and mourning the loss of another, looks at bomb defusal robots in war zones whose only job is to prevent harm to soldiers unnecessarily as soldiers risk life and limb to save their friend, looks at anyone I know with a roomba.

[@RobynReanimates]

@An Evil Loser Poe's Law bb

[@adabsurdum5905]

Yeah he's clearly never done drugs lol

[@g.ferreira6745]

@@Achiles5th I still miss Curiosity

[@andreaskarlsson5251]

*looks at my fleshlight* "yeah right" xD

[@erenoz2910]

4:07 "We cannot relate to, let alone obey, a..." I expected Dennis to complete that sentence with "a she". Although after watching the video, I think that he actually did, just in a more roundabout way...

[@binnieb173]

You should do another series on these guys. They are back in full force and even now selling 'educational' courses for children and home schooling. Its terrifying.

[@Keira_Blackstone]

"Are you regretting watching this yet?" Why yes, yes I am. Only continued from there to help your algorithm.

[@corichin2156]

I absolutely love that you brought a qualified person into the conversation, it made it that much more insightful and deep! Though you are quite good at research yourself! ^_^

[@Diorden119]

You don't need a qualified person to debunk Dennis Prager.

[@Acidfrog475]

@Baphomet GodSlayer I am a rock. I am an island! Wonder what mr Simon's views on this would be? Sorry. I really like his lyrics and you mentioned 'rock', soooo...

[@NotQuiteGuru]

@Baphomet GodSlayer Uhh, then explain to me why they didn't debunk Prager? Their arguments were either Strawman arguments, or completely off topic, or simply dismissed Mr Prager's valid arguments without reasoning, and then made their own. Mr prager's argument was this: a masculine god is better at making men act civil than a female god. Can you debunk that? I mean, if a rock can, surely you can too...

[@henriquepacheco7473]

@@NotQuiteGuru How is a god being male something that improves anything? Dennis' arguments have no basis in reality or anything similar. He also fails to realize that the reason single-parent (usually single-mother, which he assumes to be all the cases) children tend to be less adjusted isn't the lack of a father figure per se, but rather the lack of income and/or absence of the parent which has to spend most of their time working in order to support their children's life. There's no way to prove a male god in a society dominated by a monotheistic religion is better at making men act civil then a female goddess would have been. The only way you could ever prove that is by finding a society that is exactly the same, except with a female divine figure, and proving said clone society has less civil men. That is, of course, completely impossible. Mr Prager's argument has no basis on reality or evidence, and is rather just his opinion - and thus, it is completely null, scientifically speaking, and should be dismissed.

[@NotQuiteGuru]

@Baphomet GodSlayer It doesn't matter whether or not an actual GOD exists. The CONCEPT of a god exists, THAT is real even if the deity itself is not real. All that matters is that someone believes the god is real and choose to follow it's teachings. So, given that the concept of a god is a real thing, then the gender of that god does in fact have real world effects on the followers of that god, and Prager's points are valid. This video didn't address any of these in a direct manner. Also what god tortures babies for fun? Please demonstrate this. Are you going to be wrong in two posts?

[@saybervoltz695]

“If God did exist, it would be necessary to abolish him.” Mikhail Bakunin-Russian Anarchist

[@yamnaya88]

@LittleGiantJ Why?

[@itsROMPERS...]

@LittleGiantJ Good! So you read the whole thing! Congrats! (PS: look up "anarchist", it doesn't simply mean "bad guy".)

[@itsROMPERS...]

It IS necessary to ABOLISH him, in fact, I don't we can EVER move on from this selfish, brutal and VIOLENT would as long as people are slaves of such horrific garbage.

[@jean-alexandre5594]

@@itsROMPERS... ok atheist. Jk

[@florendarivera7390]

Go ahead! Let me see you demolish God. I would love to see you battle it out against God. I know you would loose. Everybody looses at death.

[@jamiekelley4076]

I never laugh so hard as when I watch a PragerU video and then I cry because there are enough people who believe they logically make sense.

[@brookelyn4828]

Debunking PragerU is truly doing the * nonexistent * Lord's work! Thank you. As a woman who grew up in Mormonism I was truly so hurt and gaslit over the sexism that is bread and butter in patriarchal Christian religions. Learning about anthropology and how female goddesses have been subverted as societies moved from matrilineal to patriarchal and how that has deeply affected the standing of women in society has blown my mind and has caused me to go through a lot of healing as I've been able to confront the terribly sexist and hurtful biblical gender role ideas that I was brainwashed into having. Information like this has changed my life and thank you for providing it.

[@dolst]

Small brain: Calling God "SkyDaddy". Galaxy brain: *Calling God "SkyMonkey".* Surf Wisely.

[@jmccann6735]

"Skyy Monkey..that funky monkey"

[@setojurai]

SKY MONKE

[@JohanKylander]

Reject Divinity, return to Monke

[@granudisimo]

@@JohanKylander When fascist glorification of the past reached the bottom of the barrel of the human species, they stopped looking at monke, and turned the clock all the way back to the lobsta.

[@JohanKylander]

@@granudisimo Aquatic 🦞 Anthropod 🦞 Alphas 🦞

[@professorgrimm4602]

Well according to PragerU, homosexual parents would be the best type of parents. The children would have not only one but two fathers. So they have double the role models and male authority. Strangely though, they don't seem to encourage homosexual marriage and families.

[@sad-pt7xd]

ok, good point... *but how about 10 fathers???*

[@wamae755]

@@sad-pt7xd 😂😂lol

[@kristiandahl1310]

@@sad-pt7xd as they say it takes a village so why not

[@peteallen5312]

With each video I watch from you page my tightly held grip on belief in GOD loosens and slips. I (when I stumbled upon your videos) was firmly identified as a Christian (despite being gay), now I think I would say I would identify as agnostic maybe.

[@jacobmiller6289]

Let’s put it this way. If your religion falls apart when people apply scrutiny, maybe the question you ask shouldn’t be how to explain why they’re wrong, but rather why it is so easy to tear apart the faith to begin with.

[@hegyak]

"The Bible makes the world a better place." Slavery says, "Hello."

[@gillablecam]

I get that you mean "the Bible doesn't condemn slavery and it was used to justify slavery in the West in the last few hundred years" but like, slavery has existed across almost every culture, regardless of their exposure to Judaism/Christianity/Islam. It's just one of the many ways humans tend to be a bit shit

[@2strokesimulation68]

@@gillablecam Slavery as it was practiced in the Americas is completely incompatible with the slavery of the Bible. As a for instance, runaway slaves were to be housed at the expense of whomever they ran to, and left to go on their way when they wanted (Deuteronomy 23:15) Slavery was practiced in Africa, too; but it was a completely different beast; it was more a means of tribal/societal cross-pollination, and could actually be quite socially enlightened. Anyone who equivocates practices of slavery without distinction is ignorant or a liar.

[@gillablecam]

@@2strokesimulation68 are you sure "slavery was sometimes good for the slaves and the society they lived in" is the hill you want to die on, mate?

[@2strokesimulation68]

​@@gillablecam how does your attribution to me follow from what I actually said? Slavery in the Bible was given, not as a model, but a concession. The laws surrounding slavery are limiting and regulatory. Indentured servitude would be a better description for any not willing to read below the big print on a label. In any case, slavery in the Americas would be condemned by the ancient Israelite Law in every major point. Your argument seems to be "if it's been called slavery, it's evil, mmmmm'kay?"; Ok, but if specifics are irrelevant, then every career path available in modern society can be morally condemned on the basis of oft-repeated quips.

[@gillablecam]

@@2strokesimulation68 mostly your assertion about tribal cross-pollination and how it could be enlightening in the African slavery context. And yes, I do hold the position that all things referred to as slavery are bad. They fundamentally mean treating humans as objects to be traded, taken, and exploited without their consent. I won't deny that some forms of slavery are worse than others, they aren't all equally bad, but we're talking about a spectrum ranging from "abhorrent" to "awful"

[@TheMos03]

I love the visual for problematic young males is a cap worn to the side. LMAO!

[@soundone2139]

As well as blue...

[@TheAlmightyJello]

He's a raaaaaad teen who doesn't need god * kickflips into the distance *

[@Justanotherconsumer]

No racism there, no sir!

[@kaidiirty6100]

„God has to be a man because there is no way a woman could fuck things up this badly“ -George Carlin

[@Cyanlark]

This makes me think of that study where all the dominant males in a troop of monkeys died from some kind of tainted food(since they are the ones that ate first) and the female monkeys were the majority. The females chased out any aggressive males and only the most docile males were allowed to be a part of the group. It kinda proved the efficacy of strong female leaders to make a peaceful group since the aggression was not tolerated.

[@viracocha6093]

“Biblical Hebrew didn’t have a neuter gender” Grammatical Gender does not necessarily mean natural sex. Also, Koine Greek and Latin both had the neuter gender, soooo

[@vinceknox4425]

Joshua West Not to mention that languages have evolved and keep evolving as society progresses. They used “she” for a man or woman prior to 15th century, I believe.

[@misange137]

Also, doesn't Hebrew have like 5 named genders??

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@vinceknox4425 This isn't true. If she was ever used to describe something biologically male, it was because the animal or other noun utilized the grammatical female gender, like how all birds in German are referred to as male as a general rule, and cats as female as a general rule.

[@vinceknox4425]

George Exactly. Language varies and changes and doesn’t always make sense. We seem to be on the same page here.

[@Wasserkaktus]

@@vinceknox4425 I was pointing to you being wrong about how "She" was used in English: That is all. English is somewhat interesting because it's removed grammatical gender from nouns, but still uses gendered pronouns. (I speak German and Farsi, and I can tell you German is still pretty heavily gendered with gendered nouns and pronouns, and Farsi had completely eliminated gender and does not have any gendered nouns nor pronouns.... Ironic given Iran's society now, right?)

[@0Chujo0]

I'll never understand PragerU's followers.

[@Smitywerban]

Im a PragerU subscriber....for the lols.

[@munster355]

That's because they're incoherent babblers that have never went to high school, or went to a Christian fundamentallist school.

[@UlshaRS]

Think about the most reactionary emotionally fragile conservative pearl clutcher in your life. You know them, the ones who scream the libs are coming for their guns while blaming mass shootings on video games and lack of prayer in school. The entire PragerU catalog is about coddling them and giving them a binky of self satisfied righteousness. I mean they already have videos about that very topic that are NRA approved.

[@TheGoukaruma]

Well personal bias is one hell of a drug. I'm scared that there are things that I buy into without questioning it because it feels right.

[@ourladypeace3]

I’d say PragerU is better designed propaganda than Caleb & Sophia.

[@ezbody]

I wish I could remove myself from these "good" children of God. It's like almost every one of them has a some kind of an anti-social personality disorder. While preaching kindness, love, compassion, they do just the opposite in real life. It just makes me sick.

[@broakroze]

“Are you regretting watching this yet?” Yes, yes I am. But it’s the kind of regret that leaves you feeling disgustingly intrigued, like you cannot help but watch the argument go up in flames. So even though I am, I will continue to watch this video in full lying in wait for atrocities to occur.

[@imaginaryboy2000]

"Are you regretting watching this yet?" YES VERY MUCH SO

[@WWZenaDo]

No, more that I regret that Preggers U and others of that ilk were ever spawned.

[@MrGhaundan]

As a norwegian, I'd like to point out something. They say "unwed", not single. Marriage isn't as common in Norway as in the US (at least, it seems like it to me), so these unwed mothers might well have partners. I was 15 when my parents married, they did it due to tax benefits. I'm having a son in october, my girlfriend is unmarried. Most of my friends who are having or have had kids are unmarried. Also, maternity leave is a big pluss for the family, not just the mother.

[@Xentillus]

@Flekk Bone Gnawer That all you have to say to someone sharing their experience on a matter? You don't even say what point you're contending, if any points made could even be contended...

[@brennanherring9059]

@Flekk Bone Gnawer And by what credentials can you dispute MrGhaundans claim?

[@teamatfort444]

@Flekk Bone Gnawer nice counter argument

[@jakalair]

LOL, the cut to Drew asking if I was regretting this was perfectly timed. This a beat after I said out loud ,"Wait, what?" Thank you both for making this video. :)

[@Desimcd]

Wow this concept is so bang on. Dr Garcia's take with yours is how I felt my whole life without realizing it. Thank you! Sharing with my friends!!

[@phazecat446]

Less than 2 minutes in: "Do you regret watching this yet?" Uh, yeah...kinda!

[@dolnick7]

I've boiled down my many objections to theism to this perhaps overly-simplistic yet still-useful saying: "Whenever I hear the word God, something idiotic usually follows." I find I'm proven right too consistently to let it go.

[@MrSuperbeast92]

God... Doesn't exist, and if he did he'd be every evil despicable trait of humanity personified.

[@user-ei9ns9hq6b]

Well you just used that word and something stupid followed. Maybe you're on to something. 😂

[@imaginaryboy2000]

God Prager U

[@russianbot4418]

@@user-ei9ns9hq6b The pattern with those types is uncanny at times.

[@JohnDoe-jq4re]

Amen 🙏🏼

[@seangilmore3901]

I like that they don't just blatantly disagree with everything he says. They have a great nuanced approach.

[@charisday3846]

I just don’t understand why a male can’t emulate the actions of a good female role model?

[@matthewvandeventer3632]

I can't speculate on what Denis thinks, but I bet it has to do with how much respect he would give a woman.

[@Steef_Lee]

Omg you said “are you regretting watching this yet” at the exact moment I was about to stop the video! lol it’s unbearable for me to listen to Prager. He’s so gross. I get the feeling he has a woman chained up in a basement somewhere.

[@ycleptprof.5249]

Dennis Prager, no joke, would do something like this if he didn't believe in God. He's the kind of person who says the only reason they don't murder people is because God told them not to.

[@jeffc5974]

To me it seemed like he asked a question, then answered a completely different one.

[@wackooverlord2106]

Pretty sure the guy has defended marital rape before.

[@jeffc5974]

@@wackooverlord2106 That certainly seems right up his alley.

[@skepshark3843]

Okay, this is epic. Please invite more cool people like this

[@topranked5465]

I just realized that this video where God commands women with children be killed is the most anti pro life shit I've ever seen. Of course christians will ignore this shit

[@Lrripper]

Evolutionnary psychology is nonsense lol. It is mocked in the scientific community.

[@sunparker5264]

Except evolutionary psychologists XD

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

"Evolutionary psychologist" AKA social darwinist youtube intellectuals like gad saad and jordan peterson are some of the most disgusting people on the planet, and if even THEY are dunking on pragerU, what does that make prager u ?

[@henriquepacheco7473]

@@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965 People who are paid to lie? Also, mostly sure Doctor P has done at least one PragerU video. He does go that low.

[@late8641]

The only argument I accept for depicting God as a male is by George Carlin: "He - and if there is a God I'm convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly."

[@b4ttlemast0r]

he mentions the disadvantages of the absence of fathers, but never shows any statistics about the disadvantages of absence of mothers, thus this isn't even an argument for his point that fathers are more important than mothers

[@tikirowboat]

I appreciate those who can properly dismantle and examine the PragerPoo dis-logic. That's a stinky job but someone's gotta do it. Thumbs up!!!

[@JamesRichardWiley]

Dennis Prager, Ken Ham and Kent Hovind. Proof of intelligent design.

[@ruslanadayev589]

"God transcends gender" So does it mean... He is trans-gender? Badum-tss!

[@silverschmid4591]

He is gender-fluid

[@silverschmid4591]

He'd be gender-fluid

[@arsenygenadev6888]

he would be a-gender or non-binary but the question is meaningless because god has no physical body which means he can't have sex or gender but in scripture he has traditional male qualities so it's safe to say god is male

[@ruslanadayev589]

@@arsenygenadev6888 if he's male, that means his gender doesn't match his biological sex. Hence he is still transgender

[@arsenygenadev6888]

@@ruslanadayev589 ? but he has no biological sex?

[@zionfultz8495]

The commandment thou shall not murder refers to murder as being unjustified not that thou shall not kill in the amplified bible it is "You shall not commit murder(Unjustified, deliberate homicide)"

[@ursaminor9780]

What astonishes me is how much of PragerU’s fan base coincides with the crowd who write off any feminist rhetoric as man-hating. I don’t know about you, but being told I’m an impulsive animal with no inherent sense of empathy or kindness who must be dominated by an absolute and coercive figure (and one who looks somewhat like me because I am so prejudiced against women that I can’t take the slightest advice from them) is a hell of a lot more insulting than any unironic use of the term “mansplaining” I’ve heard.

[@angeltales748]

God: "Don't kill" Humans: *do human stuff* God: *kills them* God is good! ^summary of the bible^

[@s3ntin3l60]

What's more troubling....if God is a man made construct, as bad as He is. What does that say about the deparavity of mankind, the inventors of said God? 🤯. All hail evolution..as we dance to our DNA.

[@Argozification]

Arguing from a theological perspective I'd like to point out the rules that apply to mankind don't apply to God or else God wouldn't be God. Besides God created "life" and the "afterlife", so it really doesn't make any difference whether he is putting humans in life or afterlife. God is supposed to be a perfect being so aruging about the matter is kinda ridiculous as it can be rationnalised away.

[@s3ntin3l60]

@@Argozification And this escapes people.

[@Dalendrion]

@@Argozification "God is supposed to be a perfect being" Yes, _supposed_ to be. Yet he demonstrably isn't (as long as we're talking about the god of the bible). So arguing about it isn't ridiculous at all.

[@elgatofelix8917]

Humans: do human stuff... Like worshipping God.

[@hunterst.arnold6646]

I just got the PragerU "fight censorship" ad on this video, and KZbin gave me a warning message about alternative facts coming from the channel. A more perfect marriage of advertisement and video subject matter would be pretty hard to find!

[@fluffynator6222]

KZbin actually issues warning messages now?

[@greg77389]

Ah yes, KZbin, the supreme authority of FACTS. You dare question KZbin headquarters, infidel?! I'll have you know KZbin is omniscient! They know the REAL facts, which should not ever be questioned, lest you receive our mighty "Alternative Facts" label! The KZbin gods have spoken! REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gabrielegenota1480]

@@greg77389 im pretty sure KZbin itself aren't in charge of judging what's true or not- they outsource it to people who actually know what they're doing

[@markcollins5534]

@@gabrielegenota1480 did you read his message, clearly there is something wrong with him and he is not to be reasoned with

[@youtubeshadowbannedme]

@@gabrielegenota1480 they also outsource to Wikipedia, which should NEVER be consulted as a reliable source

[@faesommers]

Moses: *Anakin voice* Not just the men, but the women and children too.

[@nomduclavier]

There's a post somewhere that's like "God is the original male identifiying out of copping to male privilege"

[@rebeccagypsysol]

I’m only about four minutes in and I can already tell that PragerU’s Logic is shaky af

[@catracer4401]

I could tell the same when I saw the title

[@FitnessFactoryOutletQuakertown]

I'm shocked you made it that far...boils my blood these folks do!..such cherry picking hypocrites and in this country we are surrounded by them.

[@jenthedhulster1708]

'God is a man because we need him to be.' The entire video in one sentence.

[@cossaizy6309]

Yeah and the greek deity most similar to God, athena was a?

[@koichidignitythief7429]

@@cossaizy6309 Don't bring Athena down to Yahweh's level. Yahweh is more comparable to Ares

[@cossaizy6309]

@@koichidignitythief7429 well yes but actually no, athena was both the godess of reason, morality and war... but eh ill give it to you she was more reasonable than God

[@gunjfur8633]

*want

[@nita7703]

Way more reasonable

[@cinderbeserk]

Less than two minutes in and I already just wanna rip my ears out of my head listening to Dennis Prager if it weren’t for Dr. Garcia I’d probably stop right here. What is a kinder gentler world.? 🤔 I know, a world without prager u. That’s what it is.

[@mitchharsch4094]

This was wonderfully informative. Thank you so much for this, and all videos on your channel

[@MsDjessa]

Almost as if Dennis has never read the books he considers "holy". Huh, weird.

[@francescoghizzo]

There's actually some hint at a female deity worshipped in ancient Israel prior to Josiah's religious reformation who was called Asherah. She is believed by some scholars to have been regarded as the wife of Yahweh

[@Ugly_German_Truths]

She is in other canaanite/semitic religions like the Mesopotamian variants. Asherah = Ishtar. yahweh was only the natural disaster / war god, with El the upper "king of gods"... traces of this are found in the creation story and especiall in the tower of Babel with the gods directly communicating "let us do..."

[@Simon.the.Likeable]

All the houses of that era had two altars. This is more than just a hint. Dennis' people were the Hyksos.

[@francescoghizzo]

The "hint" I was referring to is a passage in the Bible where Josiah orders the destruction of a bunch of statues of Asherah which stood in the Temple

[@danielessex2162]

That's because of the pagan gods the biblical god was based off of.

[@GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic]

I saw evidence of that myself in Israel! Especially at Megiddo

[@mau48310]

Ty so much, this gives me hope people will wake up to the harm they submit to when they give authority to religions without question

[@mongoharry]

I was sitting in a park one day and a rainbow appeared 🌈. I said to an elderly gentleman as he walked by, "Look!". He said, "It's God's promise to never again destroy the world by flood." I said, Yes, or maybe an expression of Her homosexuality."