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Catholic Answers Live

#11969 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Live

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 02:22 – I heard this as an argument against the body and soul being distinct and advocating strict materialism, i.e. it’s all in the brain: If we consider that memories, emotions, reasoning, consciousness, personality, etc. are distinct from the body in the senses of sight, sound, smell, touch, taste then what accounts for the changes that occur when drinking alcohol or taking drugs for a temporary effect, or the habitual use of psychedelic drugs which cause a permanent effect? A spiritual soul should be unaffected by the chemical changes in the brain, but since behavior is changed passively from ingestion in this and not by an active decision, doesn’t that prove materialism and disprove a spiritual soul? 13:26 – I have asked multiple priest and exorcists about “perfect possession “and have yet to have anyone give me an answer. I have read about this characterization of complete possession of a person by Fr. Malachi, Martin, as well as a few other exorcists, but no thorough definition or had any current exorcist or priest confirm that perfect possession is true and possible. Could you please expand on this? It seems in these crazy times perfect possession would explain a lot of what we see in the church at large and the world. Example, people openly and flagrantly in the state of mortal sin able to go to mass, receive the sacraments, come into contact with holy objects, receive communion etc., without any adverse reaction or manifestations towards these holy things. I am hopeful and humbly asking that you will answer with clarity about perfect possession 22:25 – If aliens made of anti-matter showed up and wanted to become Catholic, how would we accomplish this when the sacraments like baptism, ordination, and the Eucharist involve contact with matter? 31:30 – Which, if any, pagan gods are real? 34:46 – Did Neanderthals have immortal souls? 44:02 – Why does time seem to go by faster as we get older? 47:26 – How tiny can the Blessed Sacrament be? Many years ago I once asked a priest to clean the paten better because I noticed some particles of the consecrated bread remained on it. He answered that my problem was that I believe that Jesus is present on each of those tiny crumbs. I was very indignant. I like a verse in a Corpus Christi hymn that mentions that Jesus is really present on each of the small pieces of the consecrated bread broken. Now, recently I was reflecting on that indignant moment, saying to myself well, Jesus is present as tiny as a molecule, atoms, fundamental particles or strings, if they exists… until I said wait a minute… at some point on those levels one cannot distinguish bread. There is even a theory that says that all the electrons of the universe are the same thing. So I think the limit is not scientific but philosophical: Jesus is present up to the point when one can still perceive the attributes of bread. But then… maybe that priest was not that wrong at all… Mr. Akin, is Jesus present in the crumbs and if so to which level of smallness? …

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It's time for some weird questions with Jimmy Aiken.

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Jimmy Aiken, our guest for both hours today.

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And one of the fun things we get to do with Jimmy from time to time is the weird questions segment.

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Jimmy, of course, is the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world and is well known

0:56.2

to accept whatever the question is on its merits and apply reason and reason and revelation to the

1:03.4

question and come up with the best answer he can. And so because of that willingness, I think

1:08.2

more and more people have approached Jimmy with weirder and weirder questions. Well, I don't know if have approached Jimmy with weirder and weirder questions.

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Well, I don't know if they're weirder and weirder, but there's more and more of them.

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So we have a couple hours devoted to that.

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Jimmy Aiken, of course, in addition to being the proprietor of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious

1:20.9

World, also has the podcast, the Jimmy Aiken podcast and is the longest, I believe, the longest serving member of the Catholic

1:30.4

Answers family here and an apologist author, Jimmy. Is that correct? Longest serving

1:35.1

member? Oh, yeah. Longer than Jen. Oh, yeah. I'm not only the senior

1:40.0

apologists to Catholic Answers, I'm the senior employee. Yeah, right. Which, by the way,

1:45.8

that's no mean feat, because people stay once they come here to Catholic Answers. So I don't

1:52.4

know what that is, but more than 30 years, I think. Oh, yeah, more than 31 years at this point.

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Yeah. All right.

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We got a bunch of weird questions for you, Jimmy.

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So no need to call today because all the questions are in.

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