Matt Fradd

If you realize the absurdity of everything, you can be more confident about what is really right and wrong.

Look, if everything is absurd, there is no right and wrong.

To speak of right is absurd.

To speak of wrong is absurd.

Oh, it will make you more patient and tolerant.

No, if everything is absurd, I have no more defense of being tolerant than I have of being intolerant.

There has to be something, there has to be a non-absurd view of life which shows me what is right and what is wrong before I can even decide what is to be tolerated.

Now, you notice that was an interesting little video sketch because it was not only the words that were said, but also the pictures that were given.

When religion was mentioned, there was a man with an angry face and shouting.

That's the way they're trying to program you to think about religion, that religion means

anger and trying to force people into certain kinds of things by pure emotion and without rational argument.

Now, he wasn't giving us emotions of anger here, but he certainly wasn't really giving a rational argument either.

There was no basis for thinking that this is going to make you a more patient person.

In fact, the interesting thing about my religion, the interesting thing about Catholic Christianity, is that we have embraced a unity between faith and reason, a partnership between faith and reason.

We haven't said there are no reasons can be given for anything, which is how he treats religion.

Are you going to be left without answers about right and wrong just because you have a religion?

As though religion is just something beating you over the head with a hammer and saying, do this, do that.

There's no reason.

That's not what my faith says.

My faith is a reasonable faith.