#12256 Resurrection Facts, Reality Shifting Morality, and the Church’s View on Firearms - Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 26 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Is it a sin to change your surname? Can Mary hear our silent prayers? In this episode, we explore unique and thought-provoking questions about Catholic belief and morality. Learn the difference between the minimal and maximal facts approaches to defending the Resurrection of Jesus, and discover the Church’s perspective on “reality shifting”—a concept involving altered states of consciousness. We also address whether it’s morally acceptable to own and use firearms, especially in cases of self-defense. Finally, we examine Genesis 1:30 and whether it truly suggests that all animals were originally vegetarian.
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Questions Covered:
- 11:42 – Which is more effective in defending the Resurrection of Jesus: the minimal facts approach or the maximal facts approach?
- 19:14 – What is the Catholic perspective on the morality of “reality shifting,” or shifting consciousness to an alternate version of reality?
- 29:00 – How should someone discern whether changing their surname dishonors their father, and whether they should change it back out of respect?
- 40:35 – Is it morally acceptable to own and use guns, particularly for self-defense and situations involving lethal force?
- 46:12 – Can Mary hear our silent prayers and thoughts, such as when praying the Rosary silently rather than aloud?
- 50:20 – Does Genesis 1:30 support the claim that all animals were originally vegetarian, as some fundamentalists suggest?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. I am Cy Kelly, your host. Very happy to be here with you, because Jimmy Aiken's here here and we're having fun doing Ask Me Anything. |
| 0:38.9 | Also, just because of some conversation that happened in the first hour, |
| 0:42.6 | reminiscing about what it was like to be a child in the 70s. |
| 0:45.3 | Man, it was crazy. |
| 0:47.0 | I had forgotten about click-clacks, Jimmy. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, we should explain just before we came back on. |
| 0:52.6 | We were talking about wild stuff from the 70s, and Cy mentioned avocado-colored household appliances, yeah. |
| 1:01.8 | And I mentioned all the dangerous games that we had that were then pulled off the market. |
| 1:06.3 | And we both at the same time said lawn dollars, which were these, they were about a foot long, as I recall, and they had a metal core with plastic fins and you'd throw them and aim at targets on the lawn. |
| 1:22.0 | They were knives for children to throw at each other. |
| 1:24.0 | It was, that's what it was. |
| 1:25.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.9 | And I think adults played lawn darts too. |
| 1:29.7 | But when you get kids running around and you're throwing pointed metal objects, you know, |
| 1:34.2 | it's like, this is like a little game of javelins with children running around. |
| 1:39.5 | But also click clacks. |
| 1:41.2 | What a click clack was, it was kind of like a bolo. |
| 1:44.6 | But there were two plastic spheres, hard plastic, |
| 1:50.1 | that were connected by a cord. |
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