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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most important conservative voices of the last century takes on the dangers of secularism, perhaps the most important issue in our lives. Your beloved dog and a stranger are drowning. Who do you try to save first? Every time famed radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and Co-founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager, has asked this question, one-third of the audience voted for the dog, one-third for the stranger, and one-third was not sure. We live in an era when people increasingly make moral judgments based on their emotions. But if feelings determine what is right and wrong, then whether murder, rape, and theft are wrong is no more than an opinion. Why are those who riot and destroy property wrong, especially if they feel their behavior is justified? Prager explains that without objective morality, the world will descend into chaos, with every individual engaging in any behavior they feel is right. For fifty years, Dennis Prager, one of the best-known public intellectuals in the Western world, has explored the vital role Judeo-Christian values play in shaping individual lives and entire societies. In If There Is No God, he engages in provocative and sometimes heated exchanges with questioners who offer some of the greatest challenges he has faced concerning how one determines good and evil and why one’s feelings can be life-enhancing yet morally unimportant. If God exists, why doesn’t He punish the unjust? Why does He allow the innocent to suffer? How can religion better the human condition when so many of the religious are often immoral? These timeless questions are in urgent need of answers. The reader need not be religious or even believe in God to find the arguments and debates in this book compelling and meaningful. All one needs is reason to appreciate the ideas Prager presents. Thought-provoking, important, and accessible for the devout and the skeptic, If There Is No God is a guide for anyone seeking clarity in a morally troubled age.

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This book is a treasure to me. Dennis was more than a mentor to my husband, Charlie; he was a dear friend and one of the few voices who played a role in encouraging Charlie’s moral courage. The two of them shared a rare bond blessed by countless conversations about faith, morality, and what it means to live with conviction in a world that has lost its compass. Reading If There Is No God feels like sitting at the table with both of them again. It carries forward the very message that both Dennis and Charlie lived (and Charlie died believing): that without God, there can be no good, and without truth, there can be no freedom. — ERIKA KIRK Dennis Prager is one of the most important moral voices of this time or any other. If There Is No God is bracing, vital, and necessary. — BEN SHAPIRO Dennis Prager is a Socrates for our time. Nothing less. And If There Is No God is vintage Dennis Prager, which means that it’s loaded with wisdom while being extremely readable and entertaining. — ERIC METAXAS More than a century after Dostoevsky prophetically declared, ‘Where there is no God, all is permitted,’ Dennis Prager has revisited the most important questions humans face—those in the realm of God and morality. Indeed, without God, all is permitted. I can think of no more important book on God to appear in the last century. — RABBI JOSEPH TELUSHKIN Whose life is more valuable: your dog’s or a stranger’s? Can science help us answer that question? Who determines what is good and what is evil? If the title of this book is reality, how do we figure out the answers to these questions? Dennis Prager challenges us to think carefully about the wellspring of our values. If their source is not the God of the Bible, what does the world look like? Is it a world you want to live in? If you, like me, have enjoyed decades of hearing Dennis Prager answer some of life’s hardest questions, you’re going to love this book. — JACK HIBBS

This book is a treasure to me. Dennis was more than a mentor to my husband, Charlie; he was a dear friend and one of the few voices who played a role in encouraging Charlie's moral courage. The two of them shared a rare bond blessed by countless conversations about faith, morality, and what it means to live with conviction in a world that has lost its compass. Reading If There Is No God feels like sitting at the table with both of them again. It carries forward the very message that both Dennis and Charlie lived (and Charlie died believing): that without God, there can be no good, and without truth, there can be no freedom. - ERIKA KIRK Dennis Prager is one of the most important moral voices of this time or any other. If There Is No God is bracing, vital, and necessary. - BEN SHAPIRO Dennis Prager is a Socrates for our time. Nothing less. And If There Is No God is vintage Dennis Prager, which means that it's loaded with wisdom while being extremely readable and entertaining. - ERIC METAXAS More than a century after Dostoevsky prophetically declared, 'Where there is no God, all is permitted, ' Dennis Prager has revisited the most important questions humans face--those in the realm of God and morality. Indeed, without God, all is permitted. I can think of no more important book on God to appear in the last century. - RABBI JOSEPH TELUSHKIN Whose life is more valuable: your dog's or a stranger's? Can science help us answer that question? Who determines what is good and what is evil? If the title of this book is reality, how do we figure out the answers to these questions? Dennis Prager challenges us to think carefully about the wellspring of our values. If their source is not the God of the Bible, what does the world look like? Is it a world you want to live in? If you, like me, have enjoyed decades of hearing Dennis Prager answer some of life's hardest questions, you're going to love this book. - JACK HIBBS

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Dennis Prager is one of the most respected and influential thinkers, writers, and speakers in America. He is a nationally syndicated talk show host heard across the country on nearly 400 affiliates. He is the founder of Prager University (PragerU) and is a New York Times bestselling author of nine books. He has traveled to more than 130 countries and has lectured on all the world’s continents. An expert on communism, the Middle East, and the left, he did his graduate work at the Russian and Middle East Institutes of the Columbia University School of International Affairs. He taught Russian and Jewish history at Brooklyn College.

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