The Resurrection of Jesus is Not a Myth

Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons - Catholic Preaching and Homilies

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

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🗓️ 12 April 2009

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

There are some debunkers of religion around today who want us to believe that the story of the resurrection is just another iteration of the myth of the dying and rising god that can be found in many ancient cultures. Nothing could be further from the truth. A careful reading of the Easter accounts shows that they have to do with a very particular, historical individual and with a very particular, unrepeatable event.

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2:03.0	Friends, I'm sure you've noticed that religion is under attack these days.
2:08.1	Bookstores are filled with tomes such as, God is not great by Christopher Hitchens, the God delusion by Richard Dawkins,
2:18.1	letter to a Christian nation by Sam Harris, which debunks all of religion.
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2:32.3	This past fall, I spoke about it earlier to you, the comedian Bill Maher came out with a movie called Religious.
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