Friends, welcome to Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an apostolate dedicated

to the mission of evangelization, using media both old and new to share the faith on every

continent and to facilitate and encounter with Christ and His Church. The efforts of

Word on Fire engage the culture and bring the transformative power of God's Word where

it is most needed. Today we invite you to join Bishop Robert Baron as he preaches

the gospel and shares the warmth and light of Christ with each of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, every day I hear from people on my YouTube forums who are

atheists, agnostics, secularists. Again and again they tell me that religion is just a

childish fantasy that science has undermined all of its claims, that it's violent and dangerous.

And I try as best I can to engage these arguments. Go on my YouTube forums if you doubt me here

and see some of these extended conversations I've had with secularists and atheists.

But occasionally I hear some of these folks say some version of this. I don't need religion.

I'm perfectly happy as I am. This world gives me all that I require.

Now I got to tell you what I hear that I just smile because I don't believe them.

And I usually respond with some version of this. If you don't believe in God and have

absolutely no need of the spiritual life, why are you spending so much time on my forum?

Of course it's true that a lot of them come back again and again telling me they just

don't have any need for religion. Well why are they spending so much time on a religion forum?

See the bottom line is saying Augustine was dead right when he said, Lord you have made

us for yourself. Therefore our hearts are restless until they rest in the. Everybody,

believer and non-believer alike knows in his bones that this is true and I've wagered my life on it.

The proof of it by the way is that nothing in this world success, money, power,

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