If There Is No God: The Battle Over Who Defines Good and Evil

If your beloved dog and a stranger were both drowning, which would you try to save first? When Dennis Prager poses this question to audiences, roughly a third choose the dog, a third choose the stranger, and a third are genuinely uncertain. For Prager, this is not a curiosity, it is a symptom of a civilization that has lost its moral compass and replaced it with feeling. In this New York Times bestseller, Prager argues that the collapse of Judeo-Christian moral foundations has not produced a more enlightened society but a more chaotic and ultimately more dangerous one. If morality is nothing more than what people feel is right, then there is no rational basis for condemning any act that someone sincerely believes is justified, and the consequences of that logic, played out at scale, are catastrophic. Drawing on fifty years of public engagement as a radio host, author, and co-founder of PragerU, Prager works through the hardest challenges to his position: Why doesn't God punish the unjust? Why does the innocent suffer? How can religion produce moral good when so many religious people behave immorally? He addresses these questions through candid exchanges with real interlocutors, making the case that without an objective moral standard rooted in the existence of God, the very concepts of good and evil become incoherent. Thought-provoking and accessible to believer and skeptic alike, this is one of Prager's most important books.