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Catholic Answers Live

#11688 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 02:02 – Why does Italy have a “witch” character in their Christmas holiday tradition? 05:10 – Could clairvoyance be a natural ability we don’t yet understand? 13:00 – I have a student that is convinced Maine does not exist. The entire State of Maine! How do we prove its existence aside from taking a trip up north? 17:35 – A podcast on the couple featured in the movie, “The Conjuring”. Are they really Church approved exorcists? Is the movie based real events? It’s right up there with “The Exorcist” as far as scary movies go for me. Love your work Jimmy Akin, on Catholic Answers and Mysterious World. Your knowledge and intelligence amaze me. 21:28 – Elon Musk just unveiled his neurolink program. The idea is to allow human beings to reach the next stage in their evolution, be able to keep up with the singularity, and more importantly keep up with artificial intelligence. Many people are afraid this is ushering in the end times, or is an attack on the authentic Dignity of the human person. Other people think it’s just the next logical step in human evolution or technological evolution. How do we understand this technology and its implications for humanity? Some people have even noted that the language they use is Messianic in its couching, the blind will see, and the lane will walk, etc. 28:46 – Where did the story of the little drummer boy visiting baby Jesus come from? Were drummer boys really a thing back then? Did shepherds use drums to herd sheep? 34:24 – Did they really find Goliath’s body on Golgotha??? 36:10 – After the FINAL JUDGMENT, what purpose does Hell serve? 39:34 – Is it true that the game “Twister” was invented to help Masons practice their handshakes? 41:53 – Would the “just war” doctrine apply for humanity if aliens attacked? Or would we treat them like parasites? 43:50 – Jimmy Akin what about this one? If a UFO piloted by time-traveling aliens with psychic abilities appeared over Vatican City, claiming to have influenced biblical events, how would the Catholic Church verify or contest their claims? 48:07 – God uses the physical, so will God used technology to bring about His kingdom? Such as the resurrection… Will there be technology in heaven? 50:51 – Is it possible to give the Pope a different diocese than that of Rome? What if in the future, the Vatican had to be moved off-world (nuclear war, alien invasion, genocide against Catholics, etc)? 52:41 – When someone passes away, does their guardian angel get transferred to someone else? 53:45 – If you marry a changeling, at what point does her appearance change become adultery. …

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live. That's not the usual music, is it? No, that's the

0:19.3

weird questions with Jimmy Aiken music. Got Jimmy with us this hour and lots of weird questions

0:25.1

collected up for him and we are live. We are not pre-recorded I think people might

0:29.8

be tempted to think oh this is some kind of pre-recorded show but it's not we're live we just

0:34.1

don't have a call screener today so Jimmy was kind enough to get out a whole bunch of

0:38.2

his collection of weird questions and share them with us today so that we could have a show and Jimmy

0:44.7

Aiken of course senior apologist here at Catholic Answers the author of a daily

0:48.3

defense 365 days plus one to becoming a better apologist. The book to get if you're maybe

0:55.6

starting out thinking I'd like to do a little bit of this apologetic stuff. Get

0:58.7

that book and you get all these hundreds and hundreds of answers to just all the basic questions and far

1:08.6

beyond the basic questions you'll get if you want to explain and defend the Catholic faith.

1:13.8

Also, Jimmy, it's a mysterious world, but you can find it mysterious

1:17.8

FM.

1:19.5

And tomorrow has a show about an extraordinary miracle involving the re-growing of a limb.

1:27.8

I don't think you're going to want to miss this.

1:28.8

Or the reappearance of a limb anyway.

1:31.8

Oh, reappearance. Oh Oh yeah that's right you

1:33.0

you got to be careful how you say that. Yeah the reappearance of a limb that had

1:36.2

been amputated so check it out at mysterious.fm. weird questions. I'll tell you what here's the rules Jimmy gets a whole bunch of weird questions and he takes them all seriously.

1:46.6

He treats every single one of them with respect and we have a lot of fun learning new and interesting things.

1:52.3

I am still gobsmacked by the last

1:56.0

answer of the last hour. 1.2% amazing. Here's a question for you Jimmy. Tamra asked this. Why does Italy have a witch character

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