G.K. Chesterton - Defending the Faith 1

[eskimospy77]

As much as I admire the mind of Chesterton, lose the British accent.

[lovellespice]

hillaire belloc, cs lewis, chesterton.. ahhh the trifecta of Catholic intelligentsia

[Youlube32]

@lovellespice Lewis was an Anglican though lol. Still three great minds all the same.

[lovellespice]

@Youlube32 oh yeah! much to the disappointment of tolkien, he did convert to anglicanism! oh well..

[gmcclelland1992]

@lovellespice Yeah, but he (like myself) was a layman, sort of neither high or low church. But technically all Anglicans are both catholic and reformed. But all love his books.

[GenghisKhan44]

I've been reading "What is Wrong with the World". I'm only up to page eleven, but I've found I share a lot of common intellectual ground with him.

We have GOT to make him a saint.

[TenderTrap86]

When people try to historically establish how evil and cruel the Catholic Church has been through the centuries, even if all the claims were factual, they're actually confirming the Catholic Church's belief in Original Sin; that human nature is gravely disordered and utterly depraved. To a depth like no other Christian church or religious body, the Catholic Church believes in the need for redemption.

[GenghisKhan44]

I was just thinking to myself this morning at Mass: We Catholics oppose secular humanism. However, secular humanists oppose it, too! Many state one of the reasons Christianity is a failure is because of the evil it has spread to the world. They cite things like Crusades, Inquisitions, and "bad Christians". And I agree, all of those things are bad, but they are not part of the Church. Humanism is this: following one's own human opinions of what is moral. This is also often the definition of sin.

[TenderTrap86]

@GenghisKhan44 Yes, and all the self-proclaimed individualists out there ceased to be individualists when then they declared themselves to be an individualist. For if even more than one person embraces individualism, individualism, itself, actually ceases to exist.

I do believe in thinking for yourself. But, personally, I chose for myself that I'd rather have the Church do most of my thinking for me.

(I'm kind of a Chesterton wannbe) lolz

[GenghisKhan44]

@TenderTrap86 Individualist seems to be a misnomer for someone who will not accept advice from anyone. The true indiviualist is, I think, like you and I. We think for ourselves, and we choose to invest our thoughts in good thoughts. It's like the difference between a man who will only invest money in his own business, whether it be sound or not, because he wants to be right; and a man who may invest in himself, but chooses to invest in one that has been proven sound, because he wants to be rich.

[GenghisKhan44]

@TenderTrap86 I'm a wannabe Chesterton, too. :P

It's a pity more people don't know about him.

[Jim1905]

The skeptics position is alright to have when confronting some new idea or claim; but it is an absurd position to maintain always. St. Augustine dealt quite nicely with skepticism as a philosophy.

[RINGMASTER1118]

GK Chesterton was a genius. I'm going to read The Everlasting Man. I can't wait. If you like intelligent videos, quotes, etc. from cs lewis, jrr tolkein, gk chesterton, and others, please visit my channel. There is a whole playlist titled "Videos for Viewers seeking intelligent programming on youtube".

[MegaFloyd66]

Gracias por colaborar con ese gigante de la fe que es Chesterton. ¿Existe una versión traducida de este material?

[tatripp]

I love G.K. Chesterton!!! Also does anyone know the name of the song from this show. Every time i hear it, it always gets stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

[thallassocracy]

Chesterton was immensely fat, seriously racist, and almost certainly died a virgin (even though he had been married for over thirty years).

You couldn't ask for a better poster boy for Roman Catholicism - or for faith in general.

[lovellespice]

@thallassocracy you are grasping at straws in the face of irrefutable truth.. run tail between legs.. run farrrrr!!!

[boleggs49]

@thallassocracy He may have been those things, but he was also a Protestant who discovered the Truth of the Catholic Church, the ONLY Church that Jesus established, and He established it upon Peter and the other Apostles, and gave it the Holy Spirit to lead it in all Truth. No Protestant church can claim that with any truth.

[tristramshandy3]

All human beings are agnostic, and that doesn't deny the existence of an absolute truth. What agnosticism has concluded, in the year 2010, is that human beings will never answer the fundamental questions regarding creation or the afterlife; and that certainly seems reasonable to me. It's not something I pride myself in- again, this video really mischaracterizes non-theists.

[sorenkierkegaard2008]

I'm (I guess what you would call) a Protestant; however, G.K. Chesterton is my favorite Roman Catholic. Jesus was with him.

[singapore7773]

@sorenkierkegaard2008 y r u protestant.? just curious

[sorenkierkegaard2008]

@singapore7773 Yeah

[singapore7773]

@sorenkierkegaard2008 ok cool. i read chesterton all day today.. he is off the chart. very smart but understandable..... i cant understand aquinas.

[LoneWolf343]

I see what you did at 5:26

[skifarterufa]

It is said that today everyone knows who Richard Dawkins is and no one knows Chesterton and Lewis...

[PorkIsHalal]

...because man prefers to rebel against the truth.

[TheWizzooo]

@PorkIsHalal

Bang-a-rang!

[lovellespice]

@skifarterufa question is.. who will know who dawkins is tomorrow? he doesn't possess any fundamental truth or revelation.. just a lot of misdirected anger

[TheAtheistAntidote]

Chesterton was the greatest of minds!

[AspiringScoundrel]

The importance of being Chesterton...

[Lion117]

lol

[homer30]

G.K Chesterton, such a significant intellectual person but today in secular world is very unpopular.

[cha5]

IMHO Chesterton is sadly more unknown than unpopular these days.

[Atreus21]

He's certainly known to me.

[VintageAnarchist]

And me :)

[higgolini]

And with Michael Jackson's death you'd think Jesus Christ himself had died. It says alot about our society that these are the people we deify, while great men like Chesterton aren't even known.

[RockyBalboa211]

With Michael Jackson I was disgusted to see people who insulted him and said awful things about him in the past, now were trying to make him out as a god. His supposed friends and family that said they loved him, yet they never visited him. It made me sick..

[sorenkierkegaard2008]

"But, of course. What would anyone know, if only availed of the gramaphone and the written word?" says the modern philosopher who thinks that old arguments are wrong because they're old.

[higgolini]

I love Chesterton. I think Fr. John Corapi is the closest thing we have to him today. He is great too.

[joeusaf1]

Don't forget Scott Hahn. :)

[exenrontexas]

I want to thank you for posting this video. However, is there a version that does not have that annoying sixty cycle hum in the background?

[MiketheCarsalesman]

chesterton, along with c s lewis and george macdonald are amazing!

[homer30]

Yes, they are, intellectual giants but unpopular in secular societies like USA, UK, and Canada

[qbzzt]

It's not secularism, but empiricism, that makes intellectual giants unpopular.

We lose Chestersons this way. But we also lose Karl Marxes,

[chukmaty]

Karl Marx was not empirical, he was just a piggy backer off of Engels and the Engels estate who left only despair in his wake. Five of his six children either committed suicide or starved to death. Now that does not mean people are absolved of arguing with reason against communism, not my point at all, after all my great great grandfather did worse to his children and he was a Romanian Capitalist and property owner. My only point is that Marx was not an empiricist, he was vile as an individual.

[qbzzt]

@chukmaty I didn't make myself clear. Marx wasn't an empiricist. Neither was Chesterson. WE are empiricists. We tend to ignore people's thoughts unless there are experiments to validate them.

Marx was tried, and found bad. For Chesterson, I'd like to quote his own words. "The Christian idea was not tried about found impossible. It was found difficult, and not tried".

[parakeethands]

summa theologica by st. thomas aquinas is good too

[Jitpring]

Yes, and the sun is kind of hot.

[parakeethands]

sun is kind of hot?.....??

[Jitpring]

To call St. Thomas's Summa merely good is to radically understate the case.

[parakeethands]

Yes, that is what I thought you probably meant. I would agree that the works of Aquinas as well as Augustine have had a profound effect on the life of the mind of the Church.

[FIDESetRATIOihtys]

Great stuff! I love G.K. :)

Thanx so much!

[readchesterton]

The mirth of Christ embodied...in G.K.

[joness105639]

indeed. There is such wit and joy in his writings.

[bookstar77]

Gilbert kicks face!!! Hail Gilbert, Servant of Christ!

[csungerrie]

WOW THANKS FOR PUTTING THESE UP!

I listen to these recordings every night

[parascon]

They are in ewtn free to download i only put the images, because i thought youtube would reach more people.

These are great to hear I like to read Chesterton's literature especially The Everlasting Man. Everytime I read that book it seems like he's alive fighting nowadays arguments.

[csungerrie]

I just bought Everlasting man. I just finished reading orthodoxy.. it was amazing

[parascon]

After reading that book your way of thought totally changes. I would also recomend miracles by CS Lewis...i haven't finished it, but the writing is kindda similar.

[parakeethands]

i just bought it too! i hear the program reading on the radio sometimes...interesting to listen to!