Can You Ordain Yourself on a Desert Island? (And More Weird Questions)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Could a layperson on a desert island take on the role of a priest? It's time for more listener weird questions with Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett of Catholic Answers Live, including topics like aerial toll booths in the afterlife, whether Balaam's donkey had a rational soul, whether God could have become incarnate as multiple races in Middle Earth, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Jimmy Aiken's mysterious world is brought to you by the StarQuest Production Network |
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| 0:07.3 | If you'd like to support the podcast, please visit sqpn.com slash give. |
| 0:28.2 | You're listening to episode 379 of Jimmy Eakin's mysterious world. |
| 0:32.7 | We will link it mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. |
| 0:36.9 | In this episode, Jimmy will be answering listeners' weird questions. |
| 0:41.2 | I'm Dom Betanelli, and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. |
| 0:41.8 | Hey, Jimmy. |
| 0:43.0 | Howdy, Dom? |
| 0:46.6 | Folks, for sure to stick around to the end of the episode, as we'll have your feedback on our recent episode on The Drake Equation. |
| 0:50.3 | But first, Jimmy, what do we need to say to begin today's episode? |
| 0:54.3 | Well, today's episode is not a fifth Friday, so it was originally planned to be a topical |
| 1:00.0 | episode just like normal. |
| 1:01.6 | But I'm afraid that after I got back from our pilgrimage to Italy, I got sick. |
| 1:05.6 | I think it has something to do with sitting in a metal tube with coffin hacking sick people for 10 hours at a |
| 1:12.9 | stretch. So I got a chest cold. And even though I was able to get over the active symptoms |
| 1:18.3 | pretty quickly, it basically cost me a week of work through my loss of energy for a week. |
| 1:23.3 | We also needed to have episode 379 recorded very quickly, so even though it wasn't my preference, |
| 1:29.2 | I made a decision that we'd have to have a weird questions episode today, just so that we'd have some new content for the listeners, |
| 1:36.1 | even though it wasn't the full new episode that I originally planned to deliver. |
| 1:40.0 | So we're going to be having a few question-based episodes. |
| 1:43.9 | Today's episode number 379 is now a weird questions episode. So we're going to be having a few question-based episodes. |
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