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The Counsel of Trent

#866 - FFAF: Keeping a Cool Head on Hot Topics

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In this free-for-all-Friday Trent sits down with Cy Kellet and shares his tips for keeping a cool head when discussing tough issues with other people.

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0:00.0

It is free for all Friday here on the Council of Trent Podcast.

0:05.0

Monday, Wednesday we talk apologetics and theology. Friday we talk about whatever I want.

0:10.0

I'm on a bit of a role here. I'm on a bit of a role.

0:12.0

Last time I spoke about the need

0:14.7

for Gen Z Catholic apologist and today I want to share with you an interview that I had with

0:20.4

Saike Hallett talking about how to keep a cool head in a conversation, you know, not just a

0:26.4

professional debater or anything like that, but when you're going out and you're talking,

0:29.6

we do talk about that, how to just keep a cool head, how to have those good conversations with people. So I hope that's helpful for you all and you can check out the rest of the episode at the Catholic Answers Focus Podcast, but I hope you like it.

0:43.0

Here's the, because my question is serious in this regard,

0:46.0

because we get a lot of people who say,

0:48.0

well, you need to fight more, that you're not angry enough

0:52.0

about Pope Francis, you're not angry enough about Pope Francis you're not angry

0:53.7

enough about the people who are angry about Pope Francis you're not that that

0:58.2

this kind of I don't know that there's a kind of hatred of moderation of any sort as if any kind of

1:05.8

moderating of discussion is somehow copping out from the seriousness of these times.

1:14.0

Right.

1:15.0

There is a kernel of truth to the accusation that when people say, oh, you're not angry enough about X it is possible to not be

1:25.8

angry when you ought to be anger itself is not a bad thing righteous anger is a good

1:30.7

thing so it's interesting in Ephesians 426, Paul says, be angry, but do not sin.

1:38.0

Do not let the sun go down on your anger. And I love that advice. Be angry, but don't sim. Don't let the sun go down on your

1:45.8

anger. So when we come across something that is a clear injustice or evil, anger is the emotion we feel when injustice is present, when something is not right, when something needs

1:58.1

to be set right.

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