Father Barron on "The Dark Knight" (Spoilers)

Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture.

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• violence
• Catholicism

[Strefanasha]

i am supposed to take comic books heroes so seriously as to mine them for meaning as this preacher does?

or i simply enjoy a work of fiction

[wordonfirevideo]

@Strefanasha Why do you think it's an either/or?

[wordonfirevideo]

@georgiaissexay Must confess I have no idea what you're talking about here...

If you're really interested in Catholic theology, I would recommend the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

[HolyknightVader999]

Batman and his counterparts are just killing off the symptoms of the disease, not the real disease. It should be both violence and reform of society. What they should do is change society.

[cashernandes1]

@DougsDreamDotCom Oh, I see. Thanks for the reply. ;)

[DougsDreamDotCom]

@cashernandes1 Aquinas does not "directly" advocate a death sentence for heretics, the one statement he wrote is considered a "conditional statement" he was explaining his own society at that time and how forgers and other lesser crimes were receiving the death penalty yet heresy endangers the soul, and is a much greater crime than forgery, hence, If forgers are executed under the law, then heretics should also. Even my answer is not sufficient for his writing..not enough space.

[cashernandes1]

@wordonfirevideo Just changing the subject a little bit: can the Crusades and the Inquisition really be considered bad things indeed? The crusades were the response of Christians to the threat of deadly Muslims, and the Inquisition was about preserving our dogmas from heresies. And very few people were actually killed for being heretics. And St. Thomas Aquinas himself advocated a death sentence to heretics.

[blablabla1864]

Let's not forget that what father is saying, that it's not non-violence that is the answer to violence. You would just get killed. But Jesus is the answer. One day He will come back and take away all the evil from this world. On His own terms. Ofcourse, non-violence is surely the best way to go.

[dannytibi]

@dannytibi But the "solution" will only ever be superficial at best, and at worst it will keep fuelling the vicious cycle. Maybe there was no other way out for Harry Truman and the US army in WWII, but that does not mean we can regard the atom bomb as an acceptable solution, if it were, there are so many of them that violence should not be a problem any more.

[dannytibi]

@savioblanc I don't think that is the case historically either. I don't think the bombs were the only option. But I am willing to grant for this discussion that it was the only way to end that specific conflict. Did it lead to an end in the cycle of violence? No, it only fuelled more violence later on. We can delude ourselves into thinking that as long as we can put an end to specific conflicts by means of violence, we will have a custom made solution to this problem... (cont...)

[savioblanc]

@dannytibi I can see ure point but don't u think not throwing those bombs would have led to millions more American and Allied forces dying in Japan? WW2 would likely never have gotten over and we would very likely be in a horrible stalemate, which would mean Japan would be more like North Korea, divided likely between two parts - one still honouring the Emperor and the other democratic and under the Allied forces. I seriously believe, for all the smaller wars later, those bombs put an end to WW2

[dannytibi]

@savioblanc It put an end to A war, but it subsequently led to a nuclear arms race and tension between 2 superpowers that led to several other smaller wars that we are still feeling the effects of in the violence of today. Violence will never do away with violence absolutely.

[licewithrice]

I understand. But I always kind of saw myself similar to Batman. Quick to temper, misunderstood, but always wanting to help people.