WOF 203: Joe Rogan, Richard Dawkins, and God (Part 1 of 2)

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Joe Rogan, host of the one of the world’s most popular podcasts, recently interviewed Richard Dawkins about Dawkins’ new book, Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide. It’s a follow-up book to Dawkins’ bestselling The God Delusion, although this one is aimed at younger readers. The Rogan/Dawkins interview went immediately viral, drawing over a million views within 48 hours.

Today, Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt talk through the first half of the interview, responding to arguments raised against God and religion.
(Check back next week for our discussion of the second half!)

A listener asks whether Bishop Barron has considered making Word on Fire into a religious order.

Links

Joe Rogan interviews Richard Dawkins (full video)
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide by Richard Dawkins
“Debunking the One God Further Objection” (Strange Notions)
Word on Fire Institute

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vott. I'm the host and the content director
0:12.6	here at Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Joining us as he does almost every single episode
0:18.6	is Bishop Robert Barron. Good to talk with you. Hey Brandon, good to talk to you. Good to
0:23.5	you. Now your back state side, you just spent several days over in Rome and in England. Why were
0:30.0	you there? How did it go? Yeah, it was fantastic. I was in Rome for the canonization mass for John
0:35.2	Henry Newman, who's been a hero of mine for a long time. I've been looking forward to the day when
0:39.7	Newman would be canonized. So I was able to go to that and as a Bishop, I got up there in the
0:44.8	front near the altar and it was just a thrill, beautiful day in Rome. Liturgy was wonderful. Right
0:51.3	afterwards there was a reception at the Urbani Anum, which is a college really right next to the
0:56.0	Vatican, right next to the North American College. And all kinds of people were there, including the
1:00.9	Prince of Wales. So Prince Charles was there. And he was making his way around the room. So I
1:05.7	talked to him for about a minute. And I told him the truth. I said I was very pleased as a Catholic
1:12.0	that he was present there, meant a lot to us. And the PC wrote for the Serbiter Romano about Newman.
1:17.8	So I just thanked him for that. Then I told them that I was going up to England the next day to give
1:23.0	this paper on John Henry Newman. And he listened to me and he said, well done. I got a check out of that.
1:31.2	I saw some jokes floating around online about Bishop meets King, checkmate and a lot of chestful
1:36.3	leave. Oh, I didn't see that. I didn't see. Well, when you went to England after that and you
1:42.7	delivered this paper at University Church, which is where Newman previously served as Vicar before
1:47.8	his conversion to Catholicism, I'm sure that was an amazing experience. You also got to visit
1:52.7	the graves of C.S. Lewis and J.R. Tolkien. Tell us about some of that. Wonderful. Wonderful.
1:58.5	We went to a Blenheim Palace the very first day where in England where Churchill was born and where
2:03.1	Churchill was buried. So that was fun. But then I thought of you a lot, Brandon, when I went to
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