Leftist political intolerance driving families apart for the holidays: Dennis Prager

Not even families are immune from a left-wing political intolerance that has become so overpowering that at times it cannot be overcome even by the holiday spirit of reconciliation, says radio host and PragerU cofounder Dennis Prager. 

"It's probably a million strong the number of adult leftists who will not let their parents see them or their grandchildren because they they voted for Donald Trump," Prager said on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

Prager makes a distinction between liberals and leftists. "You become naive when you become a liberal, but you become vicious when you become a leftist, he clarified. "And I know if there's a good God, they will suffer in the afterlife for their treatment of their parents over this issue. It's not like the parents — the parents probably love them" despite their differences.

"These people call my show and cry," said Prager, who hosts a daily radio show that airs Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon. "Adults cry on my radio show that they haven't seen their grandchildren in five years." 

Ultimately, he believes, these eroding family ties come down to a breakdown in religious piety that even secular conservatives have a hard time recognizing.

"When you don't believe God said to you, 'Honor your father and mother,' one of the Ten Commandments, you can crap on your father and mother, if you feel like it," he said. "It's as simple as that."

Prager traces the moral decline undermining family cohesion to the historical triumph of secularism in American higher education.

"Every great university, certainly the Ivy League, they were founded to teach science and theology — the study of God — and they were founded very often by clergy even," Prager recounted. "And now religion — at least Christianity and Judaism — are considered bad and farcical at a typical university campus.

"I challenge — because to me the issue is secularism, the ultimate issue — and I just challenge people — I don't care if they're an atheist — I challenge them with this: Number one, who says men give birth, religious people or secular people? Answer: Only secular people (and not all secular people say it, but it's secular people who do). Second, what is the most destructive institution in America and the stupidest? The university. And what is the most secular institution in America? The university. So for the arrogant and foolish who think that we can survive the death of Judeo Christian values, here are two proofs that we cannot."