"THE YOUTUBE HERESIES"

Fr Robert Barron's keynote address at an Archdiocesan Congress in 2010.

In this talk he highlights and responds to several common misconceptions about the existence and nature of God, interpretation of Sacred Scripture and the authenticity of the Catholic faith.

For more insightful commentaries on faith and culture by this wonderful Priest, theologian and author, go to:

www.youtube.com/user/wordonfirevideo
www.wordonfire.org/

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[megaead69]

As a former atheist, I'm so thankful for men like Fr.Barron!!

[bmcm184]

i think this is fr. barron's 9th symphony. put another way i'd enjoy being salieri to his mozart :)

[NiallMcNally]

Thanks for this informed, and articulate engagement with the culture from a Catholic perspective. I found this really encouraging. You should self this as a DVD I Like to buy it if you have for sell.

[BoethianAcolyte]

@symplythebest Yes, Christian does have parallels with older religions, and so does Judaism. It better, or it couldn't possibly be true. Finding parallels does nothing to undercut truth. I'd like to know your definition of myth, because it's a word scholars have argued about, and not settled, for hundreds of years.

[francisxcc]

@symplythebest

You can address questions to Fr Barron on his channel, which is "wordonfirevideo".

[symplythebest]

@francisxcc We are not talking the same language. I would like to ask my questions directly to Fr. Barron.

The fact that I benefit or suffer from the death of someone does not make any difference to the person who dies. The point is that they are death and they did it for a cause that is not worth doing it or by accident.

There are many ancient myths in the xtian mythology that come from ancient religions. Born from a virgin and sacrifice among many others. Myth is not reality.

[francisxcc]

@symplythebest

So you believe that the death of someone who sacrifices his life (a soldier or a fireman, for instance) to save yours is the same (or as "meaningless") as that of a suicide bomber (who's out to kill you)?

God is spirit. He chose to reveal Himself to His creation by His incarnation as man, died, rose and ascended to heaven. That's the Christian claim. Given that, you're not exactly going to find Him looking through your telescope or whatever - exactly as Fr Barron contends.

[symplythebest]

@ Human sacrifice and the celebration of it is not obvious to me. I feel that the death of the morons flying the planes into the towers are as meaningless as the death of Jesus.

However my point was on how Fr. Barron goes from Aquinas' definition of god to a a human incarnation of it. In one paragraph he said "science cannot find god in the universe" in another one he says "Jesus is god"

Aquinas was ignorant to many scientific facts. How can his view be the reference to define god?

[francisxcc]

@symplythebest

Either you don't know the obvious difference between human sacrifice and a compassionate, incarnated God laying down His own life (and rising again) to destroy the eternal death that mankind had brought upon itself, or you're just being cute, because you don't really have a point to make. Sorry, you owe youself a better performance if you're going to take on topics of any depth such as this.

[symplythebest]

@francisxcc The fact that you believe in it does not make it true. You have to understand that concept.

Jesus and xtianity is the celebration that human sacrifice is the way god helps others. Is no different from any religion where human sacrifice is the center of the dogma. It does not make any difference if Jesus existed or not. What it matter is that people buy into the idea that god killed himself to make things better. Yet things are not better. Did he/she/it fail?

[francisxcc]

@symplythebest

Yes, I suppose Jesus was just an exceptional person who even after His death continued in His exceptional ways by rising from His grave. As He Himself said of skeptics, "If I told you, you would not believe; if I asked, you would not answer. Even if the dead came to life to testify to the truth you would not believe."

Now there's a cue for you to claim that Jesus was actually a myth, not an actual historical person. And that all the witnesses of the resurrected man lied.

[symplythebest]

@francisxcc Jesus might have been an exceptional person. But he was not god. That is using the same definition of Fr. Barron. Jesus is a contingency. It does not matter how it makes you feel. It is not proof that god exists or that it/she/he has a personal relationship with humans.