Fr. Barron comments on Religious Drifters

Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture. For more visit http://www.wordonfire.org/

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[TheEpicion]

The answer to this video is simple. People stopped surrendering their reason, logic and critical thinking to god or gods, because they now know better.

[wordonfirevideo]

@TheEpicion Sorry friend, that's not simple; it's simplistic.

[dejesusluisx]

Your religion doesn't matter, all that matters is that you become one with the Lord, that you are in His same wavelength, living in grace. Religion is a tool to know God, not a goal. You can get to the same place without religion, although might take you more time and effort. Jesus was brought as a means to facilitate that journey, a role model, a message, the incarnated verb. Religion is important because to get somewhere a map is always helpful, but not indispensable if God guides you.

[wordonfirevideo]

@dejesusluisx The only reason that you know about the Lord is that a religion taught you!

[wordonfirevideo]

@bigguitar22 A person is a being endowed with intellect, will, and freedom. You don't have to be a denizen of this world to be a person. If you're looking for magic shows, you're not taking religion seriously. God is not to be toyed with or manipulated. In point of fact, his existence is on display everywhere in both the beauty and contingency of the universe, if you have the eyes to see.

[badpanda84]

@dringwa "If we think that Christ isn't the same one day from the next, we run the risk of being swayed by all sorts of strange teachings"

You mean strange teachings like women have right and slaverly is not ok.

OR that the worlld revolves around the sun ( and not the other way around)

[ThePaphnutius]

There is a lot of wiggle room when someone says they are chosen by God, Joseph Smith could say he was chosen by God for the two angels spake unto him in the forest.

People who convert to Catholicism, do so as a result of a long process of research into church history etc and a lot of rational critical thinking along that same line. They don't hear a booming voice from the sky "choosing" them. It's the result of a personal journey and their own free choice.

[SunsetSix]

I had a friend who was a Tibetan Bhuddist Lama, and he took me to a lot of T.B. ceremonies, empowerments and teachings, and the more he taught me about T.B., the more it strengthened my Catholicism, and the more precious Jesus and Our Lady and the Saints became to me.

[TheEpicion]

@wordonfirevideo To over complicate simple matters is seen to be devious. I stand by what I said, one should take things at face value, rather than imagine a world of delusion and subside within it.

[Bill99Cass]

Don't leave your religion they got to eat too

[CoryTheRaven]

America has never encountered a heresy it didn't like. It is a literal marketplace of ideas, and Americans are consumers of a religious product. Some like the Evangelical Christian brand, some like the New Atheist brand. Coke, Pepsi.

[CoryTheRaven]

@bigguitar22 What do you want? Like, for God to raise someone from the dead or something?!