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🗓️ 6 March 2024
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0:00.0 | We've covered awful atheist memes before and we're going to do it again here on the Council of Trent, so why wait, let's jump right into it. |
0:08.0 | Here's the first meme. On the fourth day, God created the sun. |
0:12.0 | If God created the sun on the fourth day, how the |
0:15.0 | how the hell had four days passed? |
0:17.8 | What's hilarious about this meme |
0:19.5 | is that there's a variant of it that's at least |
0:21.8 | 1600 years old. |
0:23.6 | St. Augustine argued with Gnostics who made this same objection |
0:27.8 | to the Bible, which is why Augustine said |
0:30.1 | that the account of creation in the Book of Genesis is not a literal description. |
0:35.0 | Instead, Genesis is a thematic description showing God creating all the realms and |
0:40.4 | populating them with different creatures. |
0:42.8 | That's why Augustine said God made everything in a single instant and that quote, |
0:47.8 | the sacred writer of Genesis was able to separate in the time of his narrative what God did not separate in time in his creative act. |
0:56.2 | Next, we tried a Christian society run by the rich, it was called the Dark Ages for a reason. |
1:03.0 | So in this meme we have an image of an execution |
1:06.0 | that shows someone being killed |
1:08.0 | by having their limbs tied to horses who run off in different directions. |
1:12.0 | What's funny about this meme is that this is a |
1:15.7 | medieval painting but it's depicting a killing of Saint Hippolytus in the third |
1:21.6 | century which was of course during the Roman Empire and 200 years before |
1:26.2 | the so-called Dark Ages, which weren't really that dark because it was the church that kept |
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