#304 – Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church
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Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2022
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Robert Barron is a bishop and founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Robert’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/bishopbarron
Robert’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/BishopBarron
Word on Fire’s Instagram: https://instagram.com/wordonfire_catholicministries
Word on Fire’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/WordOnFire
Word on Fire’s Website: https://wordonfire.org
Robert’s Books:
Redeeming the Time: https://amzn.to/3PwNQf0
Catholicism: https://amzn.to/3RyDMEh
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:50) – Who is God?
(20:30) – Christianity
(25:18) – Sin
(42:48) – The Trinity
(44:32) – Catholicism
(54:29) – Sexual abuse scandal
(1:01:16) – Evil
(1:12:59) – Atheism
(1:24:21) – Jordan Peterson
(1:26:56) – Jesus
(1:29:42) – The Bible
(1:32:17) – America
(1:35:08) – Nietzsche
(1:39:12) – Word on Fire
(1:42:31) – Gay marriage
(1:44:48) – Abortion
(1:51:38) – Advice for young people
(1:54:12) – Mortality
(1:58:30) – Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Ward on Fire and |
| 0:05.7 | one of the greatest educators in the world on the beauty and wisdom within Catholicism, |
| 0:11.6 | Christianity and religious faith in general. |
| 0:15.1 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
| 0:18.4 | Check them out in the description, it's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | We got Miz and the Maine for style, better help for mental health, notion for startups, |
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| 0:31.4 | Choose wisely my friends. |
| 0:33.1 | And now onto the full ad reads, as always no ads in the middle. |
| 0:36.4 | I try to make this interesting but if you skip them please still check out the sponsors |
| 0:40.9 | I enjoyed their stuff. |
| 0:42.5 | Maybe you will too. |
| 0:45.1 | This show is brought to you by Miz and the Maine, the make of comfortable stylish dress shirts |
| 0:49.8 | and other menswear. |
| 0:51.6 | I wear, in fact I'm currently wearing, as I speak these words, they're a black dress |
| 0:57.2 | shirt and I'm doing so while looking out the window into historic part of Kiev. |
| 1:08.4 | I'm traveling all over Ukraine but now I'm just looking at the beautiful hills of Kiev. |
| 1:14.8 | So much history in these buildings, so much history in these streets, so much history |
| 1:19.8 | in the people, the culture, the food, the music of the language. |
| 1:26.8 | And speaking a lot, a lot, a lot and learning a lot and listening a lot and it's just beautiful |
| 1:32.1 | people. |
| 1:34.6 | And of course throughout all of it, wearing the very basics, Miz and the Maine black shirt, |
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