Okay, so why this topic?

I usually write on things and speak on things when I wasn't satisfied with somebody talking about it,

and then I wanted to make some kind of reasonable reply.

Having gone to a public university, very similar situation to yourselves,

I was trying to live a Christian Catholic faith there, also engaging reasons.

And how do you do that?

So one of the topics I noticed that the atheists were very concerned about, and understandably

so, was the so-called dark passages of the Old Testament.

And so I wanted to take that up.

And consequently, after I wrote that book, I've done them on the historical

Jesus. I'm doing one on evolution of the faith right now. Some people, my home institution,

might ask me, well, why do you always go into these controversies or ammage? And my answer is,

because, A, it's fun. And B, that's what we're called to do. The church said that we're called

to enter into the debates of our time.

And I'll just give you a couple of papal quotes to set the mood.

So John Paul II says that faith and reason are like two wings

on which the human spirit soars to contemplation of the truth.

And then Pope Benedict, the former Pope,

he says that we have to have the courage to use the whole breadth of reason. And ultimately says that's a task of the university,

to use the whole breadth of reason. And in fact, the word university itself comes from the Latin

to be ordered towards one thing, that one thing being God. And so no matter what you're studying, it should be ordered towards God.

And you recognize the corollary that is all truth, no matter what its source, is of the Holy Spirit,

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