If you liked being a happy warrior, well, I’ve upped the ante. It’s now a little harder. It’s easy to laugh when I speak about your rabbi (that would be me) revealing how the world REALLY works, but the truth is that learning how the world REALLY works and adapting to it is immensely painful. Having our illusions shattered is always painful; the slogan is easier than the reality. How the world REALLY works is quite different from the ways in which many of us wish it worked. Many fondly labor under the delusion that we live in a secular age in a secular world. Nothing could be further from the truth. I explain why I feel nothing but compassion towards former secularists who are having their entire worldviews obliterated. Secularism is the tired expression of yesterday’s cultural dinosaurs whose perception of reality is being pulverized. Only anti-scientific secular dinosaurs would believe dogmatically that a man can become a woman. Only tired and aging secularists would believe that it costs nothing if the government pays for it. Why can the 1999 movie 'The Matrix' help explain the quandary of secularism today? People used to think that the more educated and wealthy a society became, the more secular it would be. The growth of Islam, Christianity and Judaism thoroughly refutes that lie. Also, hear about my trip to Ghana last week, a place where 70 percent of the population is Christian. Learn where over a billion Africans are headed. Further, why is it MUCH harder for women to find good men to marry than it is for men to find good women? There are only four conditions of womanhood. Here's a hint: girlfriend is not one of them. Wise women seek security and all wives thrive in its cocoon. Men have failed since 1962 to be able to project power - not brutality, not tyranny, not bullying - but calm, competent, benevolent, masculine power.

<p>If you liked being a happy warrior, well, I&rsquo;ve upped the ante. It&rsquo;s now a little harder. It&rsquo;s easy to laugh when I speak about your rabbi (that would be me) revealing how the world REALLY works, but the truth is that learning how the world REALLY works and adapting to it is immensely painful. Having our illusions shattered is always painful; the slogan is easier than the reality. How the world REALLY works is quite different from the ways in which many of us wish it worked. Many fondly labor under the delusion that we live in a secular age in a secular world. Nothing could be further from the truth. I explain why I feel nothing but compassion towards former secularists who are having their entire worldviews obliterated. Secularism is the tired expression of yesterday&rsquo;s cultural dinosaurs whose perception of reality is being pulverized. Only anti-scientific secular dinosaurs would believe dogmatically that a man can become a woman. Only tired and aging secularists would believe that it costs nothing if the government pays for it. Why can the 1999 movie <em>'The Matrix'</em> help explain the quandary of secularism today? People used to think that the more educated and wealthy a society became, the more secular it would be. The growth of Islam, Christianity and Judaism thoroughly refutes that lie. Also, hear about my trip to Ghana last week, a place where 70 percent of the population is Christian. Learn where over a billion Africans are headed. Further, why is it MUCH harder for women to find good men to marry than it is for men to find good women? There are only four conditions of womanhood. Here's a hint: girlfriend is not one of them. Wise women seek security and all wives thrive in its cocoon. Men have failed since 1962 to be able to project power - not brutality, not tyranny, not bullying - but calm, competent, benevolent, masculine power.</p>

Rabbi Daniel Lapin reveals how the world REALLY works and reminds us that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon those things that never change.