#652 – What can we kill? (with Alex O’Connor)

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In this episode Trent sits down atheist Alex O’Connor (aka The Cosmic Skeptic) to discuss the ethics of killing animals and human beings. They discuss issues like factory farming, euthanasia, abortion, and whether only God explains human value.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:12.3	I'm your host, Cathergansus Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:15.5	Today I want to share with you a dialogue that I had with Alex O'Connor, the cosmic skeptic.
0:21.3	We had it several months ago down in Houston.
0:24.0	I was invited to do a dialogue with him on the question of why I'm Christian and why he's not Christian.
0:30.4	Hopefully that will be uploaded soon to the capturing Christianity YouTube channel.
0:34.5	But while I was down there, he and I recorded a private dialogue at his hotel, actually, on an ethical question.
0:42.2	What can we kill?
0:43.9	The ethics of killings.
0:45.0	We talk about animals, talk about euthanasia, we talk about abortion,
0:48.4	and we also talk about just why human life is valuable at all,
0:51.8	and does that require a theological explanation.
0:54.8	So, very good conversation, but before I get to it though, I want to ask a favor of you guys.
1:00.8	Can you pray for me?
1:01.8	You know, I just think I'm thinking of it.
1:03.4	I don't really ask you guys to pray for the podcast, and that's not good.
1:07.4	I should have, you know, the prayers of righteous people are powerful.
1:10.0	James 516, you guys are solid people.
1:12.6	If you could pray for me, I would appreciate it because I feel kind of attacked recently technologically.
1:17.4	Like, my debate with Jacob E. Mom, my camera completely malfunctioned right before the debate started.
1:23.4	And so I had to use a backup on my laptop and the microphone didn't work.
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