Bishop Robert Barron

Yes.

You often hear, and it's accepted uncritically, or was when I was a kid anyway, that religion, Christianity leads to violence. Right. You know, and that was really the driver. I mean, Hitchens, who I knew well, that was his main argument. People get, you know, inflexible when they believe in the supernatural and they have to kill anyone who disagrees. But does the historical record support that?

You often hear, and it's accepted uncritically, or was when I was a kid anyway, that religion, Christianity leads to violence. Right. You know, and that was really the driver. I mean, Hitchens, who I knew well, that was his main argument. People get, you know, inflexible when they believe in the supernatural and they have to kill anyone who disagrees. But does the historical record support that?

You often hear, and it's accepted uncritically, or was when I was a kid anyway, that religion, Christianity leads to violence. Right. You know, and that was really the driver. I mean, Hitchens, who I knew well, that was his main argument. People get, you know, inflexible when they believe in the supernatural and they have to kill anyone who disagrees. But does the historical record support that?

is not to more violence it's to respond with forgiving love that's christianity now the distortions of it are everywhere but that's christianity it's not a religion of violence it's so non-obvious it's so preposterous and crazy that the fact that that became the world's most popular religion tells you it's true yes like who could make that up Yes. It's so unappealing.

is not to more violence it's to respond with forgiving love that's christianity now the distortions of it are everywhere but that's christianity it's not a religion of violence it's so non-obvious it's so preposterous and crazy that the fact that that became the world's most popular religion tells you it's true yes like who could make that up Yes. It's so unappealing.

is not to more violence it's to respond with forgiving love that's christianity now the distortions of it are everywhere but that's christianity it's not a religion of violence it's so non-obvious it's so preposterous and crazy that the fact that that became the world's most popular religion tells you it's true yes like who could make that up Yes. It's so unappealing.

Like, your God got tortured to death and didn't fight back?

Like, your God got tortured to death and didn't fight back?

Like, your God got tortured to death and didn't fight back?

Oh, I read Dominion. Yeah, yeah. Yes.

Oh, I read Dominion. Yeah, yeah. Yes.

Oh, I read Dominion. Yeah, yeah. Yes.

So it does seem like you were saying that Kant was the root of the ideas that led to the French Revolution and Auschwitz and, like, you know, every... And I agree with you. But Kant sort of began writing at the beginning of a technological revolution. Yeah. And as technology advanced, first incrementally, then exponentially, and now we're on the verge of, like, singularity with AI...

So it does seem like you were saying that Kant was the root of the ideas that led to the French Revolution and Auschwitz and, like, you know, every... And I agree with you. But Kant sort of began writing at the beginning of a technological revolution. Yeah. And as technology advanced, first incrementally, then exponentially, and now we're on the verge of, like, singularity with AI...

So it does seem like you were saying that Kant was the root of the ideas that led to the French Revolution and Auschwitz and, like, you know, every... And I agree with you. But Kant sort of began writing at the beginning of a technological revolution. Yeah. And as technology advanced, first incrementally, then exponentially, and now we're on the verge of, like, singularity with AI...

And those ideas became stronger and more dominant. So there's a connection between technology and the belief that man is God and all the suffering it results.

And those ideas became stronger and more dominant. So there's a connection between technology and the belief that man is God and all the suffering it results.

And those ideas became stronger and more dominant. So there's a connection between technology and the belief that man is God and all the suffering it results.

But the 21st century sees a continuation of those trends, like, in a way that you couldn't even imagine 15 years ago or 25 years ago at the end of the last century. So, like, where are we going?