WOF 201: What Unbelievers Asked on Reddit
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 14 October 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Last month, Bishop Barron visited Reddit for another #AMA (ask me anything). Over 15,000 comments poured in from young skeptics around the world, making it the third most-commented on #AMA of the year, and the ninth most popular in Reddit history. Today, Bishop Barron reflects on the experience and four main patterns of questions he noticed.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director |
| 0:12.6 | here at Word on Fire Catholic Ministries joining us is Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop |
| 0:17.4 | Barron, good to see you. Hey Brandon, good to see you. I just saw you in person a couple |
| 0:22.3 | days ago. Now we're across the continent. I was just going to add. I made it back to Orlando |
| 0:26.4 | safely. I got to come out there and spend some time with you and Father Steve and Joe |
| 0:31.1 | Glor, our producer, Doug Cummins, who works with the production team. We spent a lot of |
| 0:34.9 | good time together. One of the highlights for me of all the years I've known you, it was |
| 0:38.7 | the first time I got to go see a movie with you, which I always wanted to do. And we of course |
| 0:43.5 | went to see Downton Abbey. What'd you think of that? I sort of like Downton Abbey. I watch |
| 0:50.3 | it only on airplanes. So, and these trips seem like to roam or across to Europe, when you have |
| 0:55.5 | a lot of time and these shows around the plane. That's when I'll watch episodes of Downton Abbey. |
| 1:00.8 | So, yeah, it was kind of fun. It was great. So, maybe a film commentary coming. We'll see. |
| 1:06.1 | I don't know. You won't see if I do want to. The major spiritual themes of Downton Abbey. |
| 1:10.8 | Yes, good to be rich. The major spiritual things. Well, the other exciting thing that happened |
| 1:16.2 | when I was with you was on Thursday, September 26th, we sat down in your little office there. |
| 1:21.4 | And for the second time, you did a AMA and asked me anything on the website Reddit. Now, |
| 1:28.5 | for those of you who don't know what Reddit is, it's one of the most popular websites on the internet. |
| 1:32.7 | It's basically a giant discussion forum where people come to share things, leave comments, |
| 1:38.9 | you can upvote or downvote comments. So, it's a place where the most popular interesting viral |
| 1:44.4 | things tend to float to the top. It's especially popular among young men. I think that's their |
| 1:50.1 | main demographic is 18 to 30 year old men. And these AMAs are among the most popular things on |
| 1:56.1 | Reddit. Usually they involve a politician, celebrity, a movie star, maybe someone who works |
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