From Baptist Leftist to Conservative Catholic (Suan Sonna) | Ep. 299

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2021

⏱️ 157 minutes

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In this episode of "Pints with Aquinas," writer Suan Sonna drops by the studio to chat about his Baptist upbringing, his initial embrace of leftist politics, and what led him to become a conservative Catholic. We discuss: - Suan's experience growing up as the son of a Baptist minister. - How many arguments for abortion end up justifying infanticide. - Where we find support for the papacy in Scripture. - How William Lane Craig and Sir Roger Scruton helped Suan overcome his former liberal positions. Sign up for my free course on St. Augustine's "Confessions"! SPONSORS Hallow: http://hallow.app/mattfradd STRIVE: https://www.strive21.com/ Ethos Logos: https://www.elinvestments.net/pints GIVING Patreon or Directly: https://pintswithaquinas.com/support/ This show (and all the plans we have in store) wouldn't be possible without you. I can't thank those of you who support me enough. Seriously! Thanks for essentially being a co-producer co-producer of the show. LINKS Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/matt-fradd FREE 21 Day Detox From Porn Course: https://www.strive21.com/ SOCIAL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattfradd Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattfradd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattfradd Gab: https://gab.com/mattfradd Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/pintswithaquinas MY BOOKS Get my NEW book "How To Be Happy: Saint Thomas' Secret To A Good Life," out now! Does God Exist: https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Exist-Socratic-Dialogue-ebook/dp/B081ZGYJW3/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586377974&sr=8-9 Marian Consecration With Aquinas: https://www.amazon.com/Marian-Consecration-Aquinas-Growing-Closer-ebook/dp/B083XRQMTF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586379026&sr=8-4 The Porn Myth: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Porn-Myth-P1985.aspx CONTACT Book me to speak: https://www.mattfradd.com/speakerrequestform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Gooday and welcome to Pines with Aquinas.
0:02.0	My name is Matt Frad today on the show.
0:04.2	We have Swan Sona.
0:01.7	We're going to be talking about many things. His conversion from being a leftist Baptist, if that's even how he described himself. I did. He may not, but we're going to be talking about that. His conversion of Catholicism, we're going to do a deep dive in the papacy. Really brilliant young guy. You're going to love this interview. but the reason I'm looking at you right now is to let you know that we have some new merch
0:04.4	um really brilliant young guy you're gonna love this interview but the reason I'm looking at you right now
0:21.1	is to let you know that we have some new merch
0:23.9	which you can see on the screen right now and if you click the link
0:28.2	at the top of the description below you can go and buy it right now
0:31.3	and you too can be attractive
0:34.0	so yeah I thought it was kinda cool with we haven't really done much merch, but I thought we'd try our hand at it. So again, click that link. It's $13 a t-shirt, but you can also get that introverted but willing to discuss to mystic metaphysics on sweaters and all sorts of things. So help us out by doing that. Swan, lovely to have you, mate. Thanks for having me
0:54.9	on. Yeah, good to, good to have you. You just flew in last night, very late. Yeah, yeah. It wasn't too
0:59.4	bad. Yeah. And you're from Kansas? From Kansas. Studying philosophy at Kansas State. Right. And so
1:06.4	a 21-year-old undergrad, but also publishing in academic journals with like the best of them.
1:13.6	I guess, you know.
1:14.6	That's really impressive. Yeah, yeah.
1:16.6	Yeah, what are your specialties right now? What are you?
1:18.6	So right now I'm really focused, like in philosophy and ethics.
1:21.6	I really enjoy that topic and I enjoy how it intersects with metaphysics.
1:26.6	And so questions of, for instance, what is normativity?
1:30.6	And is there a fact value distinction?
1:32.8	So Thomas addresses this with his natural law theory.
1:36.1	But on my own time, I'm really interested in the papacy and scripture.
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