1035: Is Catholicism a Death Cult? [Podcast]
Dr Taylor Marshall Podcast
Dr. Taylor Marshall
4.7 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | You tell me, is Catholicism a death cult? Yesterday was Halloween. Today's All Saints |
| 0:11.7 | Day. Tomorrow is All Souls, also known as the Day of the Dead, where you see things |
| 0:17.0 | like this in Latin American cultures, a lot of evangelicals, Protestants, non-Catholics. |
| 0:24.4 | We look at the Catholic Church and say, man, that is a death cult. Let's think about it. |
| 0:30.4 | Catholics, relics in the altars, relics in the church and go to Europe and you can see |
| 0:37.3 | a hand, an arm-bone, a skull. I like to go to the Church of St. Agnes on the Piazza |
| 0:42.8 | Nivona in Rome, one of my favorite places to visit in Rome. There's a little chapel in |
| 0:46.8 | there you can go in. You can see St. Agnes' skull right there on the altar. There's prayers |
| 0:53.3 | for the dead, prayers to saints who have passed from this life. I've been juggled and say, |
| 0:57.6 | they're just dead people. You're committing necromancy. And then, of course, front center in |
| 1:03.9 | every Catholic Church is the crucifix. See if I've got a crucifix shot here. Here we go. |
| 1:11.6 | We got the crucifix. Honoring the death of Jesus Christ for the salvation of sinners |
| 1:20.9 | from all time, from Adam and even to the very last baby born. A lot of death going on in the |
| 1:27.2 | Catholic Church, a lot of honoring of death, dead bodies. There's even a church, a cabbage in |
| 1:32.9 | church in Rome. The complete interior is decorated with bones, human bones. I was once in the church |
| 1:41.0 | of Santamaria, so per manurvo with my son. He was a teenager and we were passing by and there's |
| 1:47.0 | this marble tomb. It was a bishop or a saint. And it had skeletons on it. And my son said, |
| 1:53.6 | that was like a like a metal album. I said, that's a memento mori that bishop wants everyone to |
| 1:59.2 | remember death. So I just gave y'all a litany of things in the Catholic Church that are hyper focused |
| 2:09.9 | on death. Today's the feast of all saints in the Catholic Church. We honor all the saints, |
| 2:15.9 | not just the ones who are canonized like St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Mary Magdalene and St. |
| 2:20.7 | Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. But everyone who has been faithful to Jesus Christ has persevered |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dr. Taylor Marshall, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dr. Taylor Marshall and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

