Father Barron on "Slumdog Millionaire" (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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People & Blogs

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• Slumdog
• Millionaire
• father
• robert
• barron
• god
• jesus
• catholicism
• cast
• away
• hanks
• fate
• destiny

[WKRPinCINN]

it is a shame, an intelligent and insightful man like barron corrupted by a belief in god founded in such an outdated and limited viewpoint. it is such a waist to see outdated superstition taking hold of a modern mind. --- please don't write a comment in return to this, as it is only my opinion and not a fact. please don't try and convince me that your opinion is more valid or real than mine.

[wordonfirevideo]

@WKRPinCINN So you can say whatever you want, and I can't say anything in return! Friend, take a look at my videos on the existence of God and then we can talk about whether belief in God is a "superstition."

[bloodr0cuted]

How can I tell when I am following providence and when I am falling off course?

[wordonfirevideo]

@bloodr0cuted Are you being led along a path that makes you more or less loving? Answering that question will tell you whether you are following God or something else.

[wolf1750]

So he gives millions of innocent Indian girls disgusting, lusty, old husbands, because they need them?

I would rather say: because their parents want the money. -

[wordonfirevideo]

I have no idea where that comment is coming from! God permits the freedom of will by which certain people might make themselves lusty and disgusting. But this doesn't compromise God in any way.

[josephdc22]

I love your review of the movies, father! So beautiful and insightful. I especially love your interpretation of Castaway. I loved that movie very much. I never saw those "theological" aspects until now. Wow!

[tethercott]

You spelled "Destiny" wrong.

[MonicaCreixel]

I don't know... I see people who spend their life suffering and never get their happy ending, is it because they didn't recognize the opportunities God was presenting them? Anyway, I pray God to light the way so I can follow the path he has builded for me

[dodolombok]

bravo !

[gmayer66]

@gmayer66 One last comment: I'm not comfortable with the term "closet atheist" I used in the beginning of my response, and for this I do apologize (youtube will not let me edit the comment). But I do maintain that a claim to know God's plan for oneself is an untenable theological position. Unless we know God's plan for us, we cannot make judicious use of the "parcels" he sends in our way (e.g., in Fr Barron's analogy to the Cast Away movie).

[gmayer66]

@gmayer66 On most issues, certainly eludes both the religious and the atheist. We can be certain on some issues. On others we cannot be certain. The most difficult part is that we cannot always be certain on what we can be certain or not. :-) Neither religion nor atheism buy you a solution to Man's epistemological problems.

[gmayer66]

@gmayer66 An atheist believes neither in God nor in God's divine plan. To the religious, there is a general religious framework in which to live one's life (e.g., Catholicism), but he too has no access to the divine plan. Religion doesn't give you religious certainty. To a religious person, religious certainty is a devil's trap of using a person's arrogance to mislead him to think he can know what God has in mind.

[gmayer66]

@gmayer66 Not knowing what God's specific plan is in any specific case, not knowing if He plans for us to live, die, suffer or enjoy an easy life, we are forced to religious humility of not being able to refer to the details of God's specific plan. When people think they can know what God wants in their own lives, they are forced to renounce their faith when they suffer and cannot find what piece of the puzzle they'd missed. Job is comforted only after admitting that he doesn't know God's plan.

[gmayer66]

@WKRPinCINN Don't worry. Fr Barron is probably a closet atheist. Anyone who believes that God gives us everything we need in order to live out God's plan, isn't saying much: (1) We don't know what God's plan is; (2) Many deeply religious people simply perish under the most horrible circumstances. Either you are going to fault these many good and religious people for not having understood God's plan, or you are back to 1:

[billybagbom]

@WKRPinCINN I admire your candor and humility (at least in this last posting), though I am more in sympathy with Jim1905's arguments. But I thank you for reminding me that there's more to vlogging than "passion and fight[ing] with teeth."

[WKRPinCINN]

@Jim1905 - jim, if you think that i am pretentious and arrogant when i state my opinion (or ridicule) i cant disagree with you. but i would ask you to consider the fact that we may BOTH suffer from the same defect of character. i will say this, you have passion and fight with teeth. but for all of your effort, you haven't swayed or convinced me that anything i've said in my original post was inaccurate.

- if you want to respond to this to get the last word in, feel free. i'm done. goodbye.