WOF 095: How to Have a Religious Argument
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Listen to Bishop Barron's talk at the Facebook HQ, which has already been heard over 275,000 times. 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 few people really know how to have a good religious argument. Lots of energy, lots of sharp words, and lots of strong feelings are 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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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot the host and the content director |
| 0:09.4 | at Word on Fire. Listen, today we're just going to share the audio from Bishop Aaron's |
| 0:14.7 | recent talk at the headquarters of Facebook. We just returned back home after visiting their |
| 0:20.4 | campus and it was an incredible experience. I can't wait for you to hear Bishop Aaron |
| 0:25.0 | tell you all about it. He's going to join us probably next week and next week's episode |
| 0:29.7 | and we'll be sure to share all the details of visiting this extraordinary place. Bishop |
| 0:34.3 | Aaron described it as a millennial heaven. It was kind of a mix between a college campus |
| 0:40.7 | and a theme park. It was a little overwhelming, but I'll make sure Bishop Aaron gives you |
| 0:45.9 | all the details from his trip. Today though, we wanted to share his talk. He was there to |
| 0:50.9 | give a talk on how to have a religious argument. There was about a hundred people there in |
| 0:57.1 | the room from Facebook, but the talk was live streamed to thousands of people. I think |
| 1:02.9 | right now the view count is above 275,000 people who have now seen this talk and heard it |
| 1:09.6 | on Facebook. So we wanted to share it with all of you. We're on Fire Faithful. Before |
| 1:15.7 | I do though, I wanted to mention one more time that you can pre-order Bishop Aaron's exciting |
| 1:20.8 | new book. We talked about it in the last episode. The book is titled To Light a Fire |
| 1:25.7 | on the Earth, Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age. It's a book length conversation |
| 1:31.0 | between Bishop Aaron and John Allen, Jr. that ranges over all sorts of issues from Bishop |
| 1:37.4 | Aaron's personal life to evangelization and atheism and social media, beauty, and so |
| 1:43.3 | much more. So pre-order your copy of the book today by visiting wordonfireshow.com slash |
| 1:50.0 | book. Again, it's wordonfireshow.com slash book. When you go there, you'll find a special |
| 1:55.6 | deal for wordonfireshow listeners. You'll get the lowest price anywhere. So you won't |
| 2:00.1 | find the book at a lower price anywhere else and you get free shipping and you get a few |
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