WOF 249: Creating Atheists

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In his wildly popular book, A Manual for Creating Atheists, Peter Boghossian, a philosophy professor at Portland State University, outlines his process of “street epistemology,” which is intended to be a process of anti-evangelization, or talking people out of their religious faith. Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt discuss this method of “street epistemology” and whether it's a good approach for religious dialogue.

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0:00.0	How do you explain a contingent universe? So maybe plant that little aporia in the mind of an atheist.
0:05.5	Why do you believe in objective moral values? Explain that to me now in detail. Why you think objective,
0:10.7	or moral values are objective? There's all kinds of ways that the Christian can plant should plant
0:16.0	aporia in the mind of the atheist to get him or her out of that sort of cocky stance of,
0:23.0	I got the answers and I want to put you back in your heels. No, if it's a real dialogue,
0:28.6	you know, let's go right back to Plato. You want to have a real dialogue? Well, then,
0:32.7	you know, both parties have to be open to being put back on their heels.
0:43.6	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vott, the host and the content director here at
0:49.1	Word on Fire. At a great episode for you, we're going to learn about a new book that a lot of
0:53.6	atheists are raving about because it includes a new method for creating atheists. We're going to
0:59.8	hear what Bishop Barron thinks about this method. We're going to talk through some of the ideas in
1:03.4	the book. So look forward to that. Before I begin though, I'd like to welcome Bishop Barron,
1:07.7	Bishop Barron. Good to see you. Hey, Brandon, always good to see you.
1:11.4	Hey, you just returned a day or two ago from a big trip to Franciscan University.
1:16.0	Oh, yeah. I'm still in Ville. Why were you there? How did it go?
1:18.9	I was there for their baccalaureate mass and their graduation and they were nice enough to give
1:22.5	me an honorary doctorate. So I was delighted to receive that. It was the vigil of the feast of
1:27.7	the assumption. So I was able to celebrate mass and to preach on that wonderful feast. So I
1:32.9	enjoyed it immensely. In the morning, I taped a show with Dr. Scott Hahn and with Regis Martin
1:38.9	who's taught there for many years. Father Dave, a Pavanca who's the president. And we discuss my book
1:45.3	now from over a year ago, the letter to a suffering church, the whole clergy, sex abuse scandal,
1:50.4	the macarac situation, all that. But it was a wonderful, I thought, conversation.
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