WOF 285: Recapping Bishop Barron vs. The Cosmic Skeptic

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Brandon Vogt and I discuss my recent conversation with Alex O'Connor (aka @CosmicSkeptic), one of the most popular atheists in the world. We replay and unpack some of the most important clips from the dialogue. (Watch the full dialogue here.)

A listener who was raised Christian, but became atheist for many years, asks advice on re-engaging with Christianity.

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0:00.0	What you get from some of the New Atheists is the sense that, well, it's all just silly nonsense.
0:05.1	It's all just pre-scientific fufu, and when the poor human race was in its infancy,
0:11.0	it dreamed up these crazy stories.
0:13.6	But just that intuition that if it's true, it'd be the most important thing.
0:17.6	I think it reflects some, call it profound intuition of the existence of God.
0:33.6	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:35.8	I'm Brandon Vot, the Senior Content Director.
0:38.4	It's great to be with you guys.
0:39.5	I'm here, of course, with Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop.
0:42.5	Good to see you.
0:43.7	Hey, Brandon.
0:44.3	How was good to see you?
0:45.4	I understand it's as we taped this.
0:47.5	It was just Augustine's birthday, number nine.
0:49.8	That's right.
0:50.8	You were birthdays coming up, and you were as old as my priesthood, because you were born
0:54.8	the day before I was ordained in the priesthood.
0:57.8	That's right.
0:58.8	I remember we figured that fact out, and you said, I remember exactly where I was the moment
1:03.0	you were born.
1:04.0	You said you were trying to figure out how to get to the cathedral where you were going
1:07.1	to be ordained, because you had never been there before.
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