#12520 The Best Argument Against Utilitarianism And More Patron Questions - Trent Horn
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this wide-ranging Catholic Answers Live episode, Trent Horn tackles everything from pop-culture mysteries like whether Jar-Jar Binks could secretly be a Sith Lord and how the Home Alone dad could afford his lavish lifestyle, to serious moral and theological questions including embryo adoption, the strongest arguments against utilitarianism, and the best defenses of natural law ethics. Listeners also hear practical advice on helping friends who are drifting into charismatic churches, evangelizing atheist family members, and keeping college-bound Catholics rooted in the faith, along with a thoughtful explanation of Pope Leo’s comments on Marian titles such as Co-Redemptrix and Mater Populi Fidelis.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:35 – Was Jar-Jar a Sith lord?
- 05:55 – How did the Home Alone dad afford that house and trip?
- 12:35 – What are your thoughts on embryo adoption?
- 15:40 – What do you think is the best argument against utilitarianism and what are some good resources to refute this normative theory? What book or resource do you think provides the best defense of natural law ethics?
- 22:07 – Hi Trent. How do I approach a friend who believes many of our dogmas, but feels like he’s growing spiritually in his charismatic church, so he feels no need to change?
- 29:08 – Do you have any recommendations on trying to evangelize family members who are atheists?
- 32:52 – Hi Trent! What does Pope Leo’s statement on not using the title of Mary as co-redemptrix mean for the direction of the Church? Why was that statement important? As a new convert, I am unsure of the importance of the “Mater Populi Fidelis,” and I wondered if you could help me understand.
- 39:53 – How’s Laura?
- 46:03 – Hi, Trent. What do you think a pastor of a parish can do to keep his college-bound parishioners from straying from the Catholic faith?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Buying or selling your home, real estate for life can connect you with a pro-life real estate agent. |
| 0:05.2 | When Real Estate for Life receives a referral fee, they donate 65% to Catholic Answers. |
| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back and happy boxing day to you and Merry Christmas. |
| 0:35.0 | And let's have a little more fun this hour. |
| 0:37.2 | Lighten things up a little bit. |
| 0:38.2 | It's the season. People maybe are off today. I hope you're off today. Or maybe you're on. |
| 0:43.6 | And you joined us while you're working. Thank you very much for that. We appreciate that you |
| 0:48.4 | join us. But let's have a little fun with Trent Horn for the Christmas season. Is that |
| 0:53.6 | all right with you, Trent, if we have fun at your expense? No, it won't be at your expense. It will just be with my expense. You'll have, you know, say, we're not laughing at you. We're laughing with you. I'm not laughing. Well, you should be. Yes, that was actually our plan. you've ruined it now, but that's what we were, that's what we were about to do. All right, let's do it. We're going to take questions from your patrons, but first, Edgar has this thing he likes to do where he plays a clip that he finds on the internet. And I'm probably, I'm probably supposed to know more about it, like YouTube or where on the, is it YouTube? Do you care if I know? It is YouTube? All right. And then he plays it and then he gets our reaction to it. And he's been doing this on this thing we call The Super Show, which is a show we do before the show on the internet. But we're going to do it live now with you on Catholic Answers Live. |
| 1:44.5 | Do it live. |
| 1:45.4 | We'll do it live. |
| 1:46.5 | You will just do it live. |
| 1:47.9 | I can't do it. |
| 1:48.8 | Just we'll do it live. |
| 1:50.2 | Things sucks. |
| 1:51.3 | Do it live. |
| 1:52.2 | At least I got that reference. |
| 1:54.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:55.1 | Okay. |
| 1:55.5 | So what are you going to do right now? |
| 1:57.6 | You're going to play a clip for us? |
| 1:58.6 | And then Trent reacts to it or I react to it or what? |
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