If There Is No God: The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil by Dennis Prager - 4

by Glenn Beck

Dennis and I are friends. That is where I must begin. But friendship alone does not explain why I hold him in such high regard. Friendship can blind a man or soften his view of another. In my case, it has done the opposite. It has sharpened my admiration. Because when you stand next to Dennis—when you watch how he works, how he speaks, how he thinks—you realize you are in the company of someone who has built his life around one unshakable calling: to fight for truth.

That word— truth —has nearly become dangerous to say out loud. We live in an age where feelings outweigh facts, where “my truth” has replaced the truth. And yet Dennis has never wavered. For decades, he has declared, with clarity and conviction, that right and wrong are not social constructs. They are not up for negotiation. They are rooted in something higher than you and me, higher than the shifting moods of the culture.

I have seen Dennis bear this message with daily courage. He is not afraid of the hostile interview, the condescending academic, or the dismissive politician. He does not posture. He does not play the game of outrage for its own sake. He does something much harder: He reasons. He appeals to both the heart and the mind. And he does so knowing full well that in our age, reason itself is being discarded.

What makes Dennis unique is that his message is not tailored to win the news cycle or to score points on social media. His vision is not small, nor is it fashionable. It is timeless. He calls us back to the bedrock: to the idea that liberty cannot survive without virtue, and that virtue cannot survive without God. You cannot cheat that equation, though modern America is desperately trying.

That is why this book is so important right now. We are watching the foundations of Western civilization crack beneath our feet. We see it in our politics, which descend into chaos because we have no common definition of good and evil. We see it in our schools, which produce brilliant technicians who can code or calculate but cannot tell you whether stealing is wrong if no one sees it. We see it in our daily lives, in the epidemic of loneliness, despair, and aimlessness.

Dennis reminds us that none of this is an accident. When a society declares “there is no God,” it also declares—though often without realizing it—that morality itself has no anchor. Good and evil become preferences, like music or fashion. Freedom itself becomes fragile, because what restrains a free people if not an agreed-upon standard of right and wrong? The founders of this nation understood this. The collapse of our civic life shows how quickly we forget it.

History offers us endless warnings. The great secular revolutions—the French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Cultural Revolution—did not create freer or happier societies. They created guillotines, gulags, and killing fields. When God is declared dead, the state becomes god, and the individual becomes expendable. By contrast, the American Revolution, rooted in the conviction that rights come from God and not government, produced the freest and most prosperous nation the world has ever seen. Dennis has the courage to draw these comparisons in an age that calls such truths unfashionable, even dangerous.

That is why I believe Dennis Prager may be the most important voice of our time. He is asking the only questions that matter—and demanding that we face them honestly. Do good and evil exist? Does truth stand above preference? Can a civilization survive if its people decide that nothing is higher than the self? The world tells us these questions are abstract. Dennis knows they are the difference between order and chaos, between liberty and tyranny, between life and death.

This book does more than present arguments. It gives us a lifeline. It offers a way back—not to nostalgia, not to some imagined golden age—but to the eternal principles that have always undergirded human dignity and freedom. In these pages, Dennis does not argue for the existence of God; he shows that without God, goodness itself collapses. He gives us a vocabulary to defend what is too often left undefended, and the courage to believe what our civilization once knew instinctively.

For me, it is a privilege to call Dennis my friend. But more than that, it is a privilege to live in the time of his voice. To hear him speak, to read his words, is to be reminded that the battle of our age is not primarily political but moral. It is fought not in Washington but in the conscience of every man and woman who still believes in truth.

My prayer is that this book will be not only read but absorbed. That it will awaken in you, as it has in me, the realization that the decline of our culture is not inevitable, and that renewal begins not with governments or movements but with individuals willing to anchor their lives once again in God’s eternal truths.

Dennis has shown us the path. Now it is for us to walk it.

—Glenn Beck