As long ago
as the 1970s, I came to a major realization. While watching fellow students at
Columbia University demonstrate not just against the war in Vietnam but against
America — “Amerika,” as many spelled it, the “imperialist,” “colonialist,”
“mass-murdering” country — I kept wondering what made these people so hostile
to the freest country in human history.
Then, one
day, as a result of my having attended a yeshiva (an Orthodox Jewish day school)
through high school, the reason became clear. Half of each school day was
devoted to religious studies in Hebrew, and the other half was devoted to
secular studies in English. This meant that I had been immersed in a religious
worldview until college.
Though it
was Jewish, this worldview could also be called “Judeo-Christian.” Students at
traditionally Christian schools were immersed in essentially the same
worldview. We were all taught that the most important battle we need to wage in
life was with our own nature. Jews and Christians learned from the same
Scripture that “the will of man’s heart is evil from his youth” (Genesis 8:21).
Read the entire article here by Dennis Prager.
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