On Tuesday, a black officer shot and killed a 43-year-old black man named Keith Lamont Scott in a parking lot in Charlotte, North Carolina. On Monday, protests broke out across the U.S. over the shooting of Terrence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, who had his hands up before he approached his vehicle with a gun. On Friday, a man shot two cops in Philadelphia, including a black female officer, and left behind a note expressing his hatred for police and probation officers. The Black Lives Matter movement has been a disaster for the country, and in doing so, undermine any effort toward racial unity. Americans are willing to mourn the death of innocents, but we're not willing to pillory cops in situations in which they use justified force on suspects who aren't victims at all. They assume that cops are always wrong, and so do leftist politicians like Hillary Clinton who continue to pander to leftist black voters by lying about the cops. And the mentality that the cops are the bad guys has predictable consequences, which leads to predictable consequences: more people who are anti-cop, including 25-year old Nicholas Glenn, who shot two officers in Philadelphia on Friday, and a note written by a man who called for hatred for cops, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Ben Shapiro's show on Yale, where he's going to be talking about Yale, and we'll be talking all things Yale! and we're going to talk about snowflakes, too. All righty, that's exciting, yay! -Ben Shapiro's Show, The Ben Shapiro and his guests: Yale, Yale, Harvard, and Yale - Yale, the Ivy League, and much more. - Ben Shapiro, Ben Shapiro - The Daily Mail, The New York Times, and The Daily Beast - Subscribe to his new show on all things NYPD related to the latest news, including his new book, The Devil Next Door and much, much more! Subscribe to Ben Shapiro s newest podcast, The Dark Side Of on Podchaser, Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, wherever you get your favorite podcasting platform, Subscribe and review Ben Shapiro is listening to his latest episodes on the show, Subscribe on iTunes and other places he listens to his podcast on the airwaves, wherever else he gets the best listening to the best bit of good podcasting on the internet? Subscribe and share it on social media?
00:00:00.000On Monday, protests broke out across the nation over the shooting of Terrence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
00:00:05.000Crutcher was shot by a white officer after 911 calls identified him as a man who had abandoned his car in the middle of the road and appeared to be on drugs.
00:00:13.000He also had a history of drug crimes and gun crimes.
00:00:15.000Crutcher did disobey police orders, but he had his hands up before he approached his vehicle.
00:00:19.000Then he sort of lowered his hands and was shot.
00:00:21.000The police are undertaking a full investigation, of course.
00:00:24.000The officer will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law if the tape is representative of the events that occurred.
00:00:29.000Then, on Tuesday, a black officer from Charlotte, North Carolina, shot and killed a 43-year-old black guy named Keith Lamont Scott in a University City apartment parking lot.
00:00:39.000The police had been looking for somebody with an outstanding warrant when they saw Scott leave his car with a gun.
00:00:44.000After Scott got back in the car, the police approached him, at which point he emerged with the gun and, quote, posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers, who subsequently fired their weapon, striking the subject and killing him.
00:00:54.000The cops called a medic who began performing CPR.
00:00:57.000Despite the apparent fact that Scott was armed and tried to do something to the officers, his daughter released a video online saying that he was unarmed, that he was reading a book while waiting for his son to be let off the school bus, and that he was disabled.
00:01:08.000Which is a great story, except none of it is actually supported by any of the facts that we've seen.
00:01:14.000Scott's death prompted a race riot in Charlotte.
00:01:16.000Twelve officers injured, including seven hospitalized, one struck in the face by a rock.
00:01:22.000They were throwing rocks and bottles from freeway overpasses onto drivers below.
00:01:26.000They also looted a Walmart as a protest, for some reason.
00:01:29.000And they injured three reporters, including one who had to be hospitalized.
00:01:33.000The Black Lives Matter movement has been an utter disaster for the country.
00:01:36.000It's based on a provable lie that unarmed black people are disproportionately shot by the cops.
00:01:41.000It assumes Americans also don't care if unarmed black people are shot by the cops.
00:01:45.000But it actually does a disservice to innocent black people who do die at the hands of cops by lumping them in with purported victims who aren't victims at all.
00:01:53.000It's utterly unfair to lump in Walter Scott, shot in the back in South Carolina, with Michael Brown, a thug who attempted to murder a police officer.
00:02:00.000But that's what Black Lives Matter does every single day, driving riots from Ferguson to Baltimore.
00:02:04.000And in doing so, they undermine any effort toward racial unity.
00:02:07.000Americans are willing to mourn the death of innocents.
00:02:09.000In fact, we do mourn the death of innocents.
00:02:11.000But we're not willing to pillory cops in situations in which they use justified force on suspects.
00:02:17.000BLM, Black Lives Matter, they assume that cops are always wrong, invariably.
00:02:20.000So do leftist politicians like Hillary Clinton, who continue to pander to leftist black voters by lying about the cops.
00:02:26.000And the mentality that cops are the bad guys has predictable consequences.
00:02:30.000More people who are anti-cop, including 25-year-old Nicholas Glenn, a black man who shot two officers in Philadelphia on Friday, including a black female police officer, and left behind a note speaking of his, quote, hatred for police and probation officers, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
00:02:45.000I just can't understand the reckless disregard or disrespect for law enforcement, said John McNesby, who's the president for the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No.
00:02:53.000I've never seen it at such a level as it is today.
00:02:56.000Hatred and slander of the police are horrifying and disgusting,
00:02:58.000But they're common in leftist politics today, and they prevent the country from coming together to protect both innocent people and the cops who defend them.
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00:05:56.000And by my people out to vote, she really means the Obama coalition, which specifically means lots of minorities out to vote, lots of minority leftists out to vote.
00:06:04.000That's what she's really interested in pushing.
00:06:20.000But as we see more information, we'll find out apparently Terence Crutcher had PCP in his car, which may explain why he didn't respond to a taser.
00:06:26.000But he was tased and shot at the same time.
00:06:28.000So it's possible that it's a bad shoot, even if he was not obeying officer commands.
00:06:32.000You don't get shot for disobeying officer commands.
00:06:49.000Seven of them wounded, enough to go to the hospital.
00:06:51.000One was really wounded, hit in the face by a rock.
00:06:54.000These so-called protesters, these pieces of crap, they were throwing bricks and rocks off freeway overpasses, trying to kill people.
00:07:03.000And then they were breaking into Walmart.
00:07:05.000So here's some of the protesters and what they were doing last night.
00:07:08.000Let me give you the details of the case, then we'll play the tapes.
00:07:11.000The details of the case, as I mentioned in the intro here, the details of the case are that the supposed victim in this case
00:07:18.000The police went to an apartment complex to try and search down a guy who had an outstanding warrant.
00:07:25.000This was not that guy, but the guy decided to pop out of his car anyway with a gun, and they shot him dead.
00:07:30.000The guy's, I think it's his daughter, she then posted online something about how he was unarmed, and he was just sitting there reading a book.
00:07:37.000He was probably reading something deep like Aristotle or Plato, and he was just waiting for his son to get off the school bus, and they shot him dead for no reason.
00:10:37.000Maybe one of the reasons that the cops are having a hard time in black communities is because there are people like this guy who thinks that all black people are wonderful, presumably, and all white people are devils.
00:10:46.000I still don't know what he's talking about, considering the guy who shot his brother was actually a black guy, but I guess he becomes white the minute he puts on a police uniform.
00:11:26.000Suggests equivalence between Terrence Crutcher between Terrence Crutcher and and this and this other shooting victim in in North Carolina who really isn't the victim.
00:11:40.000The Hillary tweet is is is exactly what it looks like right is it's just a way for her to lump together all shooting all shootings.
00:11:49.000Under the banner of they're racist and wrongful, even though, again, there's no evidence that any of this was racist and wrongful, because that's what Hillary Clinton has to do.
00:11:56.000She's now going to do the full lefty routine.
00:12:00.000She's now going to suggest that all shootings by cops are bad, right?
00:12:03.000She wrote Keith Lamont, Scott, Terrence Crutcher, too many others.
00:12:06.000This has got to end dash H when she has the dash H. That means that she personally wrote it, right?
00:12:18.000I mean, first of all, there's no evidence that either shooting was racially based.
00:12:21.000Even the one in Tulsa, no evidence that this is a race-based shooting.
00:12:24.000Second, the Scott shooting may well have been justified, given all of the facts that we currently know.
00:12:28.000That's not the only thing that Hillary had to say about this.
00:12:31.000Here was Hillary on the Steve Harvey show.
00:12:33.000When Steve Harvey isn't laughing at the word penis over and over on his ridiculous Family Feud show, he does a radio show that isn't very good.
00:12:40.000And here's Steve Harvey talking with Hillary Clinton about race.
00:12:46.000We've got to tackle systemic racism, this horrible shooting again.
00:12:51.000How many times do we have to see this in our country?
00:12:55.000In Tulsa, an unarmed man with his hands in the air?
00:12:59.000I mean, this is just unbearable and it needs to be intolerable.
00:13:06.000And so, you know, maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, look,
00:13:38.000Who out there, anybody cheering when an unarmed black man gets shot?
00:13:42.000Who are the people who just say that they want to go to the black community and then shoot everybody?
00:13:47.000Just shoot all the unarmed people that they can possibly find?
00:13:49.000Nobody is saying that, but Hillary claims that's what's being said.
00:13:52.000Hillary claims that the way this is supposed to go is that the white people like when unarmed black people are shot, and the black people are just the innocent victims every time there's a cop shooting.
00:14:02.000Again, the idea that she's going to lecture all of us is just insane.
00:14:05.000She continued, by the way, she said, maybe I can, by speaking directly to white people, say, look, this is not who we are.
00:14:11.000We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.
00:14:15.000Let me say something about implicit bias.
00:14:16.000So the left likes to talk a lot about what they call implicit bias training.
00:14:20.000It's talking about implicit bias training.
00:14:23.000The idea of implicit bias, the idea that we all have this bias in the back of our mind, and that's why cops are shooting black people, there's no evidence.
00:14:31.000That implicit bias affects behavior is the dirty little secret about implicit bias studies.
00:14:35.000There's also no evidence that any sort of police training program gets rid of the implicit bias.
00:14:40.000There's no evidence of that whatsoever.
00:14:42.000So it's just all of this is just crap that Hillary spouts out there.
00:14:46.000She just spouts out there so that she can pander to black people and hope that they all show up in mass numbers.
00:14:50.000She's trying to play the Obama card, the Cambridge police acted stupidly card, the Ferguson police have to be investigated card.
00:14:56.000She's trying to play Obama, and she's failing.
00:14:58.000And for her to say that she's gonna lecture the white community about how to treat black people, I mean, again, the Clintons are not exactly famous for being perfectly wonderful about black folks.
00:15:07.000They have a long history of antipathy toward the Obama family, for example.
00:15:11.000And there are a lot of people in the black community who aren't particularly happy with Hillary's verbiage about black criminals back in the 1990s.
00:15:17.000But Hillary's gonna lecture the rest of us about how we're supposed to treat black people because she is the great moral arbiter of our time.
00:15:25.000And we know that she's a great moral arbiter.
00:15:27.000We know that she's a great moral arbiter because we know that she is the one who is going to tell all the white people to start caring about dead black people.
00:15:35.000She's the great moral arbiter because she believes that all police shootings are equivalent, whether the person is innocent or whether they're not innocent.
00:15:41.000It's all just evidence of the systemic white racism.
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00:16:53.000So Donald Trump reacts to all of this and Donald Trump, you know, he reacts by, by, first of all, he came out today and he said that the Tulsa tape disturbed him.
00:17:02.000I think the Tulsa state disturbed everybody.
00:17:09.000He went a little bit too far in my opinion, without waiting for all of the facts, but Trump continued by saying,
00:17:14.000The black communities are in the worst shape they've ever been to.
00:17:16.000Here's Trump's response to all of the all the race baiting Hillary Clinton is doing.
00:17:21.000We're going to make our country safe again.
00:17:23.000We're going to rebuild our inner cities because our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they've ever been in before.
00:18:22.000And I just returned back to that clip of this, this North Carolina guy's brother, the guy got shot, his brother saying that all white people are devils.
00:18:29.000And I would suggest the problem is not the white people.
00:18:31.000The problem might be a pathology within certain segments of the black community that says that we are allowed to be lawless
00:18:38.000If we so choose, and that the white community is to blame for that.
00:20:04.000And this poll shows you, and this poll shows you what a lot of people think with regard to, by race, what a lot of people think by race, with regard to, are shootings of black people by individual officers isolated incidents, or are they rather something systemic?
00:20:22.000Or are they rather something systemic?
00:21:09.000If you're an officer, there's an 18.5 times as likely a chance you will be shot by a black person than that an unarmed black person will be shot by a cop.
00:21:17.000So the idea that black people are being systematically targeted by the police,
00:21:21.000I told Michael Jackson, I said if you're poor, you are a poor Negro.
00:21:25.000But if you're rich, you are a rich Negro.
00:21:52.000If you are intelligent, intellectual, you're intellectual, negro.
00:21:58.000If you are dancing and sliding and gliding, I mean negro, you are dancing and sliding and gliding, negro.
00:22:10.000Okay, how this is great outreach to black people, I don't know.
00:22:13.000Donald Trump is kind of sitting there.
00:22:14.000Apparently, Don King dropped the n-word at one point.
00:22:18.000I have to say, it is pretty amazing that he's trotting out a convicted murderer to do all of this.
00:22:22.000Again, Don King has met with Democrats, too, so Trump isn't out of the world here.
00:22:26.000But it just seems like if you're going to present the story of a successful black person in America, you don't present the convicted murderer who built Mike Tyson out of hundreds of millions of dollars, allegedly.
00:22:34.000That just doesn't seem like the smartest move to me.
00:22:36.000I was speaking last night at Grand Valley State University.
00:22:40.000That's the name of the university, which I screwed up yesterday.
00:22:42.000But it's Grand Valley State University.
00:22:51.000And he got up and he asked a question.
00:22:52.000He said, you know, why is it that I made it and so many of my compatriots didn't?
00:22:56.000And I said, because you didn't have a mentality that you couldn't make it.
00:23:00.000Those are the kinds of people that Donald Trump should be trotting out.
00:23:02.000He should be trotting out students like that black kid.
00:23:04.000They shouldn't be trotting out people like Don King, who actually is kind of a nasty fellow by all available accounts.
00:23:10.000OK, so all of this racial stuff is just a way for Hillary to pander.
00:23:14.000It's just a way for Hillary to drive out the black vote to historic highs that she can presumably
00:23:19.000Draw a higher percentage of black voters because these elections are so close.
00:23:22.000Right now, if you look in North Carolina, for example, Trump's up like a point or two in North Carolina, but he's only winning 2% of the black vote.
00:23:28.000So that means that if Hillary can drive black turnout up in North Carolina, she has a much better shot of winning.
00:23:33.000So no wonder she's going to pretend that Charlotte and North Carolina are a deeply racist place where black people are being routinely targeted.
00:23:39.000She's doing that in order to generate fire against the right so that she can get black people to the polls.
00:23:44.000And Obama has been doing this for years.
00:23:46.000It's one of the reasons the racial polarization numbers
00:23:48.000Was she disappointed that the president didn't act when the line was crossed?
00:24:17.000I think you'd have to ask her about that question, how she would characterize her feelings.
00:24:21.000Well, you're here to speak for her, Robbie.
00:25:20.000You wonder why Hillary's losing her own surrogates can't explain her Syrian policy because it's a disaster and it's exactly the same as Obama's Syrian policy.
00:25:27.000And there he is saying that it's a policy question he can't answer.
00:26:15.000So you're admitting that there are going to be people who get through, who probably are nefarious and ought not be here, but we got to let them in anyways.
00:26:23.000Is it any wonder that Hillary Clinton has a problem here?
00:26:26.000Well, Hillary is just in the line of President Obama's foreign policy.
00:26:29.000President Obama was at the United Nations yesterday.
00:26:32.000And at the United Nations, President Obama kind of trotted out his normal litany of stupidity and idiocy.
00:26:38.000Here is some of President Obama at the UN, and then you wonder why people want to change, why people are looking at Donald Trump, why Donald Trump seems to be gaining in the polls.
00:26:46.000Again, it's really less him gaining than Hillary collapsing, and that's because people are tired of the Obama policy, and here's the reason why.
00:26:52.000Around the world, refugees flow across borders in flight from brutal conflict.
00:26:59.000Financial disruptions continue to weigh upon our workers and entire communities.
00:27:06.000Across vast swaths of the Middle East, basic security, basic order has broken down.
00:27:16.000We see too many governments muzzling journalists and quashing dissent and censoring the flow of information.
00:27:23.000Terrorist networks use social media to prey upon the minds of our youth, endangering open societies and spurring anger against innocent immigrants and Muslims.
00:27:38.000Powerful nations contest the constraints placed on them by international law.
00:28:10.000This was supposed to be his valedictory, where he talks about all of his great successes, and he really had nothing to name.
00:28:15.000So instead, he just said, we have all these continuing problems, and if you all had just listened to me, if you all had just made me king of the world, all of this would have been fine.
00:28:23.000He continues saying this kind of nonsense.
00:28:25.000In America, there is too much money in politics, too much entrenched partisanship, too little participation by citizens.
00:28:33.000In part because of a patchwork of laws that makes it harder to vote.
00:28:39.000And you feel the necessity there from President Obama.
00:28:41.000He has to slap down the United States here.
00:28:43.000So yeah, things are crappy all over the world.
00:28:45.000But here in the United States, we got our own problems.
00:28:48.000He wouldn't want to cram down our values on anybody else.
00:28:51.000He did spend some of the speech talking about American values, but then he said, we don't want to cram our values down on you people.
00:28:56.000I mean, we think that there's a broad variety of values that are probably okay, and we don't want to be culturally imperialist.
00:29:02.000And then finally, Obama, I mean, again, the reason Obama can't extend into Hillary's popularity is because in the end, Obama is just about Obama.
00:29:10.000He finishes by talking about his favorite topic, Barack Obama.
00:29:14.000My own family is made up of the flesh and blood and traditions and cultures and faiths from a lot of different parts of the world, just as America has been built by immigrants from every shore.
00:29:35.000And in my own life, in this country, and as President,
00:29:43.000I have learned that our identities do not have to be defined by putting someone else down, but can be enhanced by lifting somebody else up.
00:31:01.000It's just a bunch of individuals who don't like Trump enough to vote for him.
00:31:04.000But Trump is ripping on the Never Trumpers again.
00:31:06.000And I think this is his kind of last gasp attempt
00:31:09.000To get more Republicans on board by co-opting Ted Cruz.
00:31:12.000Here's Trump talking about Never Trump.
00:31:14.000You'll hear about these Never Trumpers who are dying faster.
00:31:18.000Right now they're on respirator, okay?
00:31:20.000Because the unity is becoming incredible.
00:31:21.000Just today in the Wall Street Journal, they have an amazing story about, an amazing Wall Street Journal story today about all of the support that we're getting from lots of rich people even.
00:32:35.000Classic throwback comedy, The Apartment from 1960, this is with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine, is actually not even as much a comedy as it is really a great movie.
00:32:44.000It's kind of, it's almost a dramedy, and it's by Billy Wilder, and the entire premise is that Jack Lemmon is sort of a loser who has an apartment near the office, and in order to make way at the company where he works, he starts handing out the key to his apartment to all of the higher-level executives so that they can have affairs with the secretaries without their wives knowing about it.
00:34:15.000Ingredient number three, Billy Wilder.
00:34:18.000There's nothing quite like that Billy Wilder, some like it hot, kind of laugh- It's a great movie, so we don't have to play the whole trailer.
00:34:24.000But this won Best Picture in 1960, and it deserves it.
00:34:29.000It has a line in it that I've actually used in speeches before, because it's a great line.
00:34:36.000I use it in speeches, actually, because there's one point where one of the, this Martin Balsam character, he actually turns to Jack Lem and he said, just be a mensch, just be a mensch.
00:34:45.000And this is, you know, as a Jew, mensch is Yiddish for just be a man, be a gentleman, be a decent person.
00:36:55.000He's not even gonna be as damaging as President Obama has been to the country, although I think he will be more damaging to the cause of conservatism.
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00:37:40.000So Trevor Noah, who's just a massive irritant.
00:37:43.000I thought Ross Dude had a great column in the New York Times today talking about
00:37:47.000The continued sort of radicalism of late night talk show hosts and how they've moved from the non overtly political like Letterman and Leno.
00:37:55.000We knew Letterman was more lefty than Leno, but neither of them were quite as overtly political to the overt politics of people like Trevor Noah.
00:38:02.000Here's Trevor Noah going off on the Skittles analogy.
00:39:04.000But let's take a look at this real quick.
00:39:05.000Like, if you were comparing taking in refugees to taking a handful of skittles,
00:39:11.000then you've got to get your scale right, all right?
00:39:13.000Because the Cato Institute, a typically conservative think tank, calculated the chances of an American being killed by a refugee in a terror attack, and those chances are one in three and a half billion, all right?
00:39:27.000In fact, Vox did the numbers, and this picture they created shows you what size bowl those three poison Skittles would have to be in for this analogy to be accurate.
00:39:38.000It's probably more likely that you'll die from choking on actual Skittles than a refugee.
00:39:43.000In fact, in fact, it seems, it seems even the candy company itself understands international relations better than Trump.
00:39:49.000The parent company of Skittles responded in a statement to NBC News saying, Skittles are candy, refugees are people.
00:39:56.000We don't feel it's an appropriate analogy.
00:40:07.000The reason this is intensely stupid, number one, Cato Institute is libertarian, so they're a pro-open borders organization.
00:40:14.000They're not in favor of restrictive immigration.
00:40:16.000But beyond that, the idea that you're going to calculate the odds of being killed by a Syrian refugee, okay, this is the argument, and that argument holds true for all terrorism.
00:40:24.000Your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are significantly lower in the United States than your chances of being killed in a car accident.
00:40:30.000Does that mean that we should let everyone in?
00:40:32.000We should just let members of Al Qaeda in.
00:40:58.000He didn't say that refugees were Skittles because that's stupid.
00:41:02.000He said that refugees, just like any group of objects or people, if some are dangerous, you're going to want to assess whether you can distinguish the dangerous from the not dangerous.
00:41:13.000You could have used apples, you could have used Skittles, you could have used marbles, you could have used anything.
00:41:17.000But again, the point here is not truth.
00:41:19.000The point here is just to mock, and mock badly, by the way, being really bad at it.
00:41:24.000Okay, time for a quick round of Bible study.
00:41:34.000Okay, so this is part of this week's portion.
00:41:38.000As I mentioned, every week in the Jewish community, we read a portion of the Old Testament every single week, the five books of Moses, and we read one Parsha.
00:41:46.000So by the end of the year, we've gone through the entire Torah.
00:41:48.000This week's portion includes segments from Deuteronomy.
00:42:24.000That they get to decide what God is ordering them to do as opposed to, you know, the document that God gave to people or the morality that was passed down generation to generation.
00:42:33.000And so what you get is an arbitrary morality masquerading as godliness.
00:43:16.000If you believe that we're co-workers with God, as opposed to employees of God, if you believe that your job involves carrying out God's mandate, that's not your job.
00:43:27.000Your job is instead to just assume what God wants of you, and normally that sort of reflects what you as an individual want in life, and then you tailor what you think God wants of you to fit what you want for yourself.
00:43:56.000Your relationship is with a parent and a child.
00:43:58.000It also suggests that the truth... It's interesting.
00:44:03.000The Founding Fathers say in the Declaration of Independence that we hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:44:07.000We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:44:10.000I don't think that the truths in the Declaration of Independence are self-evident.
00:44:12.000I don't think that people all over the world can gradually come to the conclusion that there's such a thing as equal human rights and that slavery is bad.
00:44:19.000If that were true, then for millions and thousands of years, there would have been no slavery if it were self-evident that slavery was immoral and bad and counterproductive and wrong.
00:44:27.000Instead, the idea here is that there is a morality that's out there, but it springs from this Judeo-Christian wellspring.
00:44:34.000Even the people who are atheists, and I understand why you're atheist.
00:44:37.000I think that there are compelling arguments for atheism.
00:44:39.000As a religious person, I think there are compelling arguments for atheism.
00:44:42.000That said, if you are a Western atheist who believes in human rights, you need to understand that the commandments that were brought down from Sinai by Moses, it was those that were the root of the secular humanist atheism that you now engage in.
00:44:55.000Because without those roots, you are a product of a culture.
00:44:58.000That culture was produced by Christianity and before it by Judaism.
00:45:01.000And that culture has produced the secular humanism that you now believe in.
00:45:08.000Then you're failing to recognize something true about human nature, which is actually dangerous, which is that human nature is not ultimately good.
00:45:13.000Human nature does not suggest that we will all ultimately come to the same conclusions about freedom and liberty and decency.
00:45:18.000That's just not how it works, unfortunately.
00:45:21.000There's certain things that I think we can come to basic conclusions about, like don't kill people.
00:45:25.000But the idea that women should be in the workplace is a uniquely Western phenomenon springing from a history of Judeo-Christian religion as it evolves over time.
00:45:33.000And that's why it's important to recognize that the commandments that God gives
00:45:36.000Those are the root of the tree, and even if you're a leaf on the tree that doesn't believe in the root, understand that the root is what allows you to be the leaf on the tree.
00:45:45.000Okay, so that brings us to the end of today's show.
00:45:47.000Tomorrow is the mailbag, so get in your submissions now by subscribing at dailywire.com if you haven't already, and I'll be speaking at Yale tonight.
00:45:54.000I'll let you know how that goes, and we'll see you tomorrow.