"But I'm Not Hurting Anyone!"

All Things Catholic with Dr. Edward Sri

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🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Many say, "What I do in my private life doesn't matter - as long as I'm not hurting anyone." But there are many ways we hurt people simply by failing to be the best we can be. In this week's episode, Edward Sri helps us respond to this objection and talk about moral truth, underscoring how what we do in our 'private lives' greatly impacts other people - for better or for worse.

Episode Notes:

The Objection: "What Could be Wrong With This? I'm Not Hurting Anyone!"
First Response: C.S. Lewis Fleet of Ships Analogy
- Don't Collide (Social Laws - Don't Hurt Others)
- Each Individual Ship is Seaworthy (Individual Moral Character)
- Why Both Are Necessary
Second Response: Two Ways to Fail In Life
- "In What I Have Done"
- "And In What I Have Failed to Do"
The Myth of "Private" Life
How What We Do In Our Personal Lives Impacts Others
Three Examples
- Studies
- Prayer
- Fatherhood

References:

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Edward Sri, Who Am I to Judge?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Edward Sree, and welcome to all things Catholic Catholic where real faith meets real life.
0:19.1	Hi and welcome back and I'm just back from Chicago where I was at the Focus Conference with 8,000 people.
0:25.7	It was amazing.
0:26.7	Picture thousands and thousands of university students from all over the country and
0:31.5	even overseas gather together to worship Jesus to go deeper in their Catholic faith, deeper in prayer, and be prepared for mission and evangelization back on their college campuses.
0:42.6	So I just want to give a big shout out to all my friends in the focus program,
0:46.6	whether your students or missionaries, may God bless you and your mission on campus
0:50.8	and thank you for your zeal and your witness.
0:52.8	Please pray, my friends, please pray for all the focused missionaries and students.
0:56.9	And I also ask this week if you could please pray for me and class I'm teaching,
1:01.6	I'm co-teaching with one of my colleagues at the
1:03.2	Augustine Institute here in Denver. We're co-teaching a class on the
1:06.8	challenge of secularism, a very timely topic for our day and age. It's also a
1:12.1	timely topic for this week's podcast because as I mentioned
1:15.5	last week I'm starting 2018 with a deeper look at the topic of moral relativism, the idea
1:21.7	that there's no moral truth.
1:23.2	Everyone decides for themselves what's morally right or wrong.
1:26.3	And I've been giving a lot of talks on this topic
1:29.0	and speaking on my book on this topic.
1:30.7	Who am I to judge?
1:31.4	In fact, it was one of the big talks I just gave at the
1:34.2	focus conference but I'm going to go a little bit deeper than what I do in my
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