Why the Future of Civilization Depends on True Religion with Scott Hahn
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The Christian Research Institute
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🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Topics discussed include: Salvation and deification—too often we focus on what we are saved FROM and overlook what we are saved FOR (5:20); the context of the famous quote by Karl Marx that “religion is the opium of the people” and why religion is the roadblock to revolution (9:20); contrasting Marxism and materialism with true religion—Christianity and what the social duty of Christians is (18:30); the cross is a mystery and metaphor that defines our reality (27:50); how should we keep the Sabbath? (38:00); the importance of liturgy and recognizing forms of secular liturgy in our lives (44:10); the two wings of faith and reason (49:25); is there any such thing are religious neutrality? (56:20); the Eucharistic encounter of St. Thomas Aquinas that changed his life—and how the Eucharist can empower us to change the world (1:03:00); the real presence of Christ should be a uniting reality for all Christians (1:12:45); the relationship between justice and love (1:18:50); where have we gotten marriage wrong? (1:26:05); why the future of civilization depends on true religion (1:33:10).
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| 0:00.0 | Well, welcome to another edition of the Hank Unplugged podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | It is our mission statement to bring the most interesting, informative, and inspirational |
| 0:31.7 | people directly to your earbuds. |
| 0:34.4 | And today I have a guest that I have admired for a long period of time. Having gotten |
| 0:41.7 | to know him personally, but I have admired him not only through listening to him speak, but also |
| 0:50.1 | reading what he has written. He's a thoughtful person who has engaged our minds in the big |
| 0:58.8 | issues of our time. He wrote a book titled, It Is Right and Just. And I want to talk about |
| 1:08.4 | that book today because it is a book that deals with the macro issue, |
| 1:14.6 | why the future of civilization depends on true religion. |
| 1:20.8 | My guest for today's podcast is Dr. Scott Hahn. |
| 1:25.1 | He is a professor of biblical theology at Franciscan University in |
| 1:29.5 | Steubenville, Ohio, where he's taught since 1990s. So he's been there just about the same |
| 1:37.4 | time that I've been at the Christian Research Institute. He is the author or editor of more |
| 1:44.1 | than 40 popular and academic books, which include |
| 1:47.4 | The First Society, Hope to Die, and a book that I want to focus on today, as I mentioned, |
| 1:53.2 | by the title of It Is Right and Just, subtitled Why the Future of Civilization Depends on true religion. Again, we're talking about |
| 2:04.0 | a macro issue. One of the things I want to say about this book is that it captivated me from |
| 2:12.4 | its very first page. I remember opening the book and reading the quote by Karl Marx that religion |
| 2:22.1 | is the opium of the people. And I have been familiar with that quote. In fact, I've used |
| 2:31.8 | that quote various times, but I've never taken the time to actually memorize the backdrop to the quote. |
| 2:39.2 | And that's precisely what Dr. Scott Hahn does in this book. |
| 2:44.3 | In fact, I immediately memorized the context of this quote, |
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