WOF 093: Bishop Barron at Facebook

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 18 September 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today (September 18), Bishop Barron will be speaking to Facebook employees at their headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, on "How to Have a Religious Argument." (The talk will be livestreamed on Bishop Barron's Facebook page from 6:00pm-7:00pm ET.)

Every day, millions of people argue about religion on social media. The comboxes of religious and atheist sites are among the most visited and the most heated in the virtual space. But what Bishop Robert Barron finds interesting is how few people really know how to have a good religious argument. There is a lot of energy, lots of sharp words, and lots of strong feelings expressed. But rarely do we come across productive, rational argument about religion. Bishop Barron paves a way forward, showing how we all, believer and nonbeliever alike, can share better religious discussions.

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Topics Discussed

0:05 - Introduction about the talk
1:15 - Bill Maher as an example of how NOT to have a religious argument
2:40 - How is learning to trust a person an example of coming to faith?
6:30 - What is the number one block to having a good religious argument?
9:58 - What is voluntarism, and how does it block good religious argument?
16:15 - How does understanding your opponent's position helpful in having a religious argument? How is Thomas Aquinas an expert in this?
23:50 - What is the significance of Bishop Barron speaking at Facebook?
26:00 - Question from listener: How can the Catholic Church claim the fullness of truth when other religions claim the same?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vott and I'm sitting right next to Bishop
0:10.2	Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, you're going to be here with you. Hey, Brandon, yeah,
0:13.9	it's usually we're an entire continent away when we talk to each other. Yeah. It's being
0:17.5	in the same room. It is. And the room we're in is just a few pieces away from the headquarters
0:22.6	of Facebook. That's why we're here in San Francisco, California because in just a few
0:27.9	hours, Bishop Barron is going to be giving a talk to employees at Facebook titled How to Have
0:33.9	a Religious Argument. I mentioned it during the last episode, but it'll take place today,
0:39.0	which is Monday, September 18th at 3 p.m. Pacific time out here where we are, that's 6 p.m. Eastern
0:45.6	time. And you can stream the whole talk through Bishop Barron's Facebook page. If you're listening
0:50.4	to this after the talk has already occurred, you can find the talk on his page or on the Word
0:54.8	on Fire website. But I thought during this episode, again, we're about a few hours away from
0:58.6	your talk. We just walk through the talk and cover some of the main themes you're going to be
1:03.2	discussing. Now, you start off by talking about an exchange between Bill Mar and Ralph Reed
1:11.1	that in many ways exhibits how not to have a religious argument. Talk about this exchange.
1:16.1	Yeah. I'll confess that watching Bill Mar is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, you know,
1:19.6	because he drives me crazy. He's one of the most ferocious atheists on the scene. Well,
1:24.7	one night he had Ralph Reed, who of course is a Christian, evangelical Christian, and very
1:29.1	involved in the political conversation. So they're talking about politics, but then finally, Bill
1:33.0	Mar said to him, now, you're a man of faith, which means that you accept a lot of things on the
1:37.7	basis of no evidence whatsoever. And Alfred said, yes. And I remember I was in my room. I wanted
1:45.3	to throw the remote at the TV screen, and I shouted out loud, no, that's not what it
1:51.6	means to be a person of faith. See, coming out of the Catholic tradition, we hold to faith
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