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Dennis Prager Divorcing
Dennis Prager.com ^ | December 30, 2005

Posted on 12/30/2005 10:21:26 AM PST by onedoug

Deenis Prager on now discussing his own impending divorce....


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: dennisprager; divorce; morality; prager; talkradio
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To: HitmanNY
I don't think that divorce is necessarily immoral

Then you picked the right moralizer to listen to.

Personally, I don't want to her his sh@t any more on why God says we shouldn't be homosexual or practice polygyny or why we should never try to get the microwave repairman fix our machine on warranty when we broke it through our own negligence, etc. After all, he picks and chooses whats right and wrong, why shouldnt the rest of us?

121 posted on 12/30/2005 1:03:46 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Nonstatist

His brand of thoughtful analysis works for me. Divorce is bad and often unseemly, but not necessarily immoral.

Those who can cope with that appreciate his insights. I can.


122 posted on 12/30/2005 1:05:52 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: Nonstatist
Do you really expect any of us to believe you actually appreciated his moralizing before this happened? This is just your convenient excuse. Seems your real problem is with the moral code he is advocating.
123 posted on 12/30/2005 1:06:49 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: HitmanNY

"A cheater is easy to deride - they break one of the big promises they made in their lives. That being said, the simple fact that someone was alienated by their spouse and took up with someone else doesn't necessarily mean that the cheated-upon spouse is entirely innocent, or even deserving of undue sympathy."

Not true, imho.

There comes a point where wrong is wrong, regardless of circumstance, reason or justification. There is simply never any excuse for cheating, period.



124 posted on 12/30/2005 1:06:57 PM PST by RedStateRocker
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To: RedStateRocker

Excuse - no. Reasons? Yes.

I can think of a lot worse somenone can do than cheat on a dreadful spouse and leave them. A lot worse.


125 posted on 12/30/2005 1:08:09 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: mcg1969
Because if that is the standard, than nobody can moralize.

LOL! Really? Its that hard to stay married, even after you failed once??

Hard to believe maybe, but ministers,rabbis, et al are mostly not divorced. In fact, if 50% of marriages stay solvent, wouldnt you think much more than 50 % of professional moralizers would do the same?

Haha, its funny. One of the most prominent moralizers in the country wants to dumb us down to the relaxed standards he finds himself in, now (but not before)! Beyond absurd.

126 posted on 12/30/2005 1:10:18 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Yaelle

Life is not predictable. Responsible people try their best and fail. Prager's wife knew he had to run around a lot. He'll be back. Their teen will learn to run around the world early and then settle down. Join the AF and learn a tech skill faster than in college with 12 hours a day mandatory study and visit 8 or 9 countries in the process while meeting a bunch of different people in 6 years. That's what I did. It pays.


127 posted on 12/30/2005 1:10:57 PM PST by BobS
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To: RedStateRocker
Absolutely. When you make a vow of marriage---particularly a Christian vow---you are vowing to honor your spouse even if they sin. So when someone commits adultery, they do not have the excuse that their spouse drove them to do it.

The way I put it to my fiancee (now my wife), I shouldn't marry her unless I felt that I could trust her---AND that I could forgive her if she betrayed that trust. It sounds paradoxical but I think it's critical.

My lovely wife has, thankfully, never betrayed that trust. May I never be tested on that second point.

128 posted on 12/30/2005 1:11:51 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: mcg1969

I listen(ed) to him a lot. I might still listen to him, but maybe not so much.


129 posted on 12/30/2005 1:13:28 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: mcg1969
This is just your convenient excuse. Seems your real problem is with the moral code he is advocating.

Seems right out of the Sal Alinksy "Rules for Radicals" play book

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

130 posted on 12/30/2005 1:13:45 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Rules for Radicals on FR)
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To: Nonstatist
LOL! Really? Its that hard to stay married, even after you failed once??

Actually, I believe that statistics suggest that those who divorce are less successful at staying together the second time.

Haha, its funny. One of the most prominent moralizers in the country wants to dumb us down to the relaxed standards he finds himself in, now (but not before)! Beyond absurd.

What evidence do you have that his standards have relaxed as a result of this incident?

This is like everyone pouncing on Bill Bennett for gambling. It was funny, because he never said he was against it in the first place.

131 posted on 12/30/2005 1:13:50 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: dubyaismypresident
Yes, that's interesting. And I just don't get it. I don't WANT a moral code that is so easy that I follow it to the letter, because it would be so weak as to be useless. And thankfully, Christianity has built into its "rules" the case for when you don't live up to them. Indeed it's fundamental to Christianity that "no one is righteous; no not one."
132 posted on 12/30/2005 1:18:31 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: mcg1969

Look, marriage is sacrosanct, but people screw up. He's now screwed up twice. I really like the guy, but his credibility takes a hit here. You ever listen to him drone on about whether this or that white lie is ok or not , according to God,s wishes, etcetera ? I think this weakens his authority, but what the hey. Maybe nobody else cares; they like the way he talks the talk.


133 posted on 12/30/2005 1:20:29 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: IRememberElian

I agree. He acted like he was perfect and he is far from it.


134 posted on 12/30/2005 1:38:59 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: mcg1969
And then he proceeded to reveal his deity to the Samaritans through a multiply divorced woman who was living "in sin" with her fifth relationship

That is the way He approaches everyone, thru their sin.

135 posted on 12/30/2005 1:39:37 PM PST by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: HitmanNY

I guess not when your used to it...You know we speak of abortion and how we have too many in the World, but I think we are worse off with all the divorces. I think the motto for divorce should be rare to hardly ever. It amazes me all these folks that get tired of their spouse and move on like life is a game or something. Does anybody ever understand that life is not all fun and games? Especially when you (Prager) are constantly speaking about the ills of the World and then to come out and be part of the ills is just hypocritical. He should have kept quiet after his first divorce much less his second.


136 posted on 12/30/2005 1:46:03 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Nonstatist
Look, marriage is sacrosanct, but people screw up. He's now screwed up twice. I really like the guy, but his credibility takes a hit here.

Well sure, if he's talking about how to hold a marriage together, fine. And yet, even so, one can effectively speak out of one's own failures and provide valuable contribution to the discussion. And why does it necessarily impact his discussion on a whole host of issues that have nothing to do with marriage?

You ever listen to him drone on about whether this or that white lie is ok or not , according to God,s wishes, etcetera ?

Sure. So what does that have to do with marriage?

I think this weakens his authority, but what the hey. Maybe nobody else cares; they like the way he talks the talk.

I'm really not sure when he ever had authority, at least not in the sense of the word I understand it. He is an advocate, but I don't buy his words as Gospel immediately just because he says it.

137 posted on 12/30/2005 1:48:59 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: taxesareforever
Yes indeed! Now, thank goodness at least some Samaritans didn't write off that woman's "moralizing" because she couldn't keep her marriage together, because they would have missed out on some rather important truth.
138 posted on 12/30/2005 1:50:37 PM PST by mcg1969
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To: HitmanNY

No way. I am sorry that cannot be true. The church excommunicates people for this the first time.


139 posted on 12/30/2005 1:53:52 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Nonstatist
Expanding on my last point---it's rather important to me that I don't take him as an authority, because, well, as much as he respects Christianity and its moral teaching, he is not a Christian, and as such his moral code differs in some important aspects from mine.

But that's me.

140 posted on 12/30/2005 1:54:28 PM PST by mcg1969
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