#11077 Are We Required to Speak Out Against Blasphemy? - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 03:33 – Is it immoral to sell one’s blood plasma? 6:57 – Is it ok for a woman to be a surrogate for her sister? 13:55 – If God never says no to our prayers, and we pray for someone not to die but they do anyway. Does God fulfill those prayers by taking that person to heaven? 19:44 – I’m trying to return to the Catholic Church. I’m struggling to understand praying to Mary and statues. Can you help me comprehend it? 24:43 – Where in the bible does it say that one could drink poison and not be affected? Since we are not supposed to take it literally, What is the real meaning of the verse? 35:26 – Could Romeo and Juliet’s marriage actually have taken place? 41:14 – Is it necessary under the pain of sin, to call out blasphemy or people who use the Lord’s name in vain? 44:06 – I’ve had someone bring me communion for 6 weeks now. Recently she has been coming during lunch time. What’s the rule on taking communion with food in this circumstance? 47:01 – I have 3 protestant roommates that want a deeper connection with Christ. How do I best present the Catholic faith as the best option? 49:16 – What do Catholics believe that they need in order to have eternal life? …

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Catholic Cancer's Live. I'm Sy Kelly to your host. We've got two hours
0:20.3	of open form today, so you might want to start dialing now. If you've got a question
0:24.5	about the Catholic faith, 888-318-7884. Second hour Jim Blackburn will be with us. First hour
0:30.4	it's Jimmy Aiken, so you can call and ask whatever you like. 888-318-7884. Jimmy is
0:38.1	senior apologist here at Catholic Answers. He's also the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's
0:43.4	mysterious world and the author of a whole bunch of different books, including this one
0:47.9	I got in my hand right here. A daily defense, 365 days plus one to becoming a better
0:53.2	apologist. Hello Jimmy. Hello Sy Kelly. What do we got tomorrow? What's dropping on Jimmy Aiken's
0:59.3	mysterious world tomorrow? Oh, well just to confirm it, I'll make sure my memory is accurate,
1:05.6	but tomorrow we should be going, let's see. Yes, I'm right. We're going cryptid hunting and we're
1:15.4	going to be looking at a cryptid from Australia known as thylacines. Thylacines are known to have
1:23.8	existed at one time, but they were believed to have gone extinct in the 1930s, but there are
1:29.0	persistent rumors of thylacine sightings. They've been described as the healthiest extinct animal
1:37.6	you'll ever seen. We're going to be looking at the thylacines and also new attempts, even if they
1:45.3	are extinct at this point, there are new attempts to bring them back through genetic resuscitation as a
1:53.2	species. What do you know? I'm all in favor of, especially if it gets me to see a woolly mammoth
1:59.4	before I shuffle off this mortal coil. All right, the thylacine. This one seems likely to me. It's got
2:05.5	a lot of space. It's not a crazy big animal. And maybe there's just some sneaky ones left. There's
2:11.6	some sneaky thylacines out there. They were pretty sneaky when they were around. They look a lot
2:18.6	like dogs, although they have tiger stripes on their hindquarters or stripes, kind of like tigers
2:24.2	on their hindquarters, but they were never domesticated by humans. They were wild animals and are not
2:33.8	particularly friendly, though they can be curious and reportedly will come up and sniff people and
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