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Pints With Aquinas

9.5: Was the bombing of Hiroshima immoral?

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pines with a Quinness episode.

0:03.5

Well, 9.5, I guess you could say, I'm Matt Frad.

0:07.9

This is an odd episode.

0:09.4

It doesn't fall within our weekly schedule,

0:12.0

but it's something that I thought I'd like to address today.

0:15.6

Tomorrow's podcast will be releasing as usual.

0:18.9

But I wanted to address the issue of the bombings

0:22.5

at Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

0:25.4

Recently, President Obama was in Japan,

0:29.3

and though he didn't officially apologize,

0:31.8

he did show remorse for the innocent lives that were killed.

0:36.6

On my Facebook wall, I said that I thought

0:38.8

that this was a good thing, and that created quite a firestorm.

0:42.8

Lots of people were very upset.

0:45.8

Well, just last week, you'll remember I addressed

0:49.0

the issue of moral acts and how we know whether an act is moral

0:54.8

or immoral.

0:55.5

That's episode 9.

0:56.6

If you haven't listened to that, be sure that you do.

1:00.0

But my friend, Father Chris Pachasco,

1:02.5

who you'll actually be listening to,

1:04.4

tomorrow, in the 10th episode of Pines with a Quinness,

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