{"id":1913248,"date":"2023-04-11T22:10:29","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dont-trust-your-conscience\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T02:18:24","slug":"watch-dont-trust-your-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dont-trust-your-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Don\u2019t Trust Your Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-dont-trust-your-conscience%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1913248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, suggests that relying on the saying &#8220;let your conscience be your guide&#8221; can do more harm than good. Although this phrase is commonly used, throughout history, the conscience was not regarded as a sufficient guide for moral behavior, and instead, God and religious values were considered essential for people to act morally. Prager argues that the current belief that a conscience is all we need to act morally is a peculiarity of modern secular society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In his argument, Prager compares this belief to the idea that gender is a social construct or that all cultures are of equal value. He asserts that none of these beliefs is more irrational than the notion that the conscience can replace God and religion as a producer of moral behavior. Prager notes that people have a way of rationalizing their own actions and intuitions, which can lead them to justifying everything from murder to genocide on moral grounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Appeals to conscience are insufficient in public debates, especially on morally loaded topics such as abortion or transgender surgeries. This is because opponents from all perspectives are working on their own diametrically opposed moral intuitions, leading to opposing viewpoints.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how should one be morally guided? Prager argues that truth, courage, God, and reason are essential for building a conscience. He suggests that a person&#8217;s conscience must be developed and trained before it can be trusted. God without reason can lead to fanaticism, and reason without God can lead to the death of reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To watch the full video, click the link below.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone has heard the expression: let your conscience be your guide,\u201d Dennis Prager, founder of PragerU, noted. But Prager argues that accepting that aphorism does more harm than good. Prager argued that throughout most of Western history, the consensus view was that the conscience was not a sufficient guide and that God and instruction in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1597,"featured_media":1913249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11533,4894,6521,4516],"class_list":["post-1913248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-conscience","tag-dont","tag-trust","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1913249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}