The world s most famous living atheist, Richard Dawkins, is now calling himself a Christian - sort of. Well, I don t know what else to do with that other than to find out what it means that the world's most famous atheist is now a Christian.
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00:06:45.380Today, we have some good news, which is that the Cardinal of Washington, D.C., Wilton Cardinal Gregory, who is known as a rather liberal prelate, just went on CBS News, Face the Nation, and called out President Joe Biden for saying that he's a very devout Catholic while undermining important aspects, non-negotiable aspects, of the Catholic faith.
00:07:15.500I would say that he's very sincere about his faith.
00:07:19.140But like a number of Catholics, he picks and chooses dimensions of the faith to highlight while ignoring or even contradicting other parts.
00:07:30.860There is a phrase that we have used in the past, a cafeteria Catholic.
00:07:39.280You choose that which is attractive and dismiss that which is challenging.
00:07:46.820Or, as Thomas Aquinas would say, you allow your conscience to guide you.
00:07:52.560Is there something on the menu he's not ordering, in your view, so to speak?
00:07:58.660I would say there are things, especially in terms of the life issues, there are things that he chooses to ignore or he uses the current situation as a political pawn rather than saying, look, my church believes this.
00:08:23.820This is really, I know it seems, maybe if you're not Catholic, if you're kind of looking at this from the outside, it seems as though Cardinal Gregory here is being very measured, even perhaps a bit restrained.
00:08:38.920This is a brutal challenge to the president who makes his Catholicism an important aspect of his political persona.
00:08:49.460And Cardinal Gregory is basically saying, yeah, man, you are contradicting very important elements of the faith.
00:08:55.480How dare you call yourself a practicing Catholic?
00:09:00.900I have to address that ridiculous Episcopalian priestess woman because it's so, I almost couldn't even pay attention to the rest of the clip where Cardinal Gregory is making this really important point in a very charitable way, but he's still making it clear.
00:09:16.660And then this mouthy Episcopalian priestess lady, masquerading as a prelate, comes out and she says, well, you know, actually, maybe he's just going to let his conscience be his guide to quote St. Thomas Aquinas.
00:09:41.880That is, I don't know where in the Summa this woman, well, I don't know.
00:09:48.260I guess this woman, her reading of the Summa Theologiae must be a little bit off base if she thinks that she can become a bishopress or whatever she's pretending to be.
00:09:56.960But I don't know where she got that actually the way to practice the faith is to just always let your conscience be your guide.
00:11:29.000Trump is demeaning the office of the presidency.
00:11:32.400And I, Joe Biden, I'm going to restore dignity to the Oval Office.
00:11:37.260I'm going to make America good again, okay?
00:11:40.080I'm going to – America's back, baby.
00:11:42.080And what Gregory's saying is, actually, man, you're promoting infanticide on a mass scale.
00:11:49.660You're doing all sorts of things that are really contrary to your faith.
00:11:52.320Don't – I guess you can pursue whatever you're going to pursue, but don't try to pretend – don't try to slap this patina of moral legitimacy on it because it ain't really there.
00:12:02.940Biden, I think, now is indisputably very far afield of the Catholic faith, which even moderately attentive observers already knew.
00:12:20.720So when the two don't seem to conflict, he can pretend to be a practicing Catholic.
00:12:25.140But when they do conflict, he's a liberal on questions of life, on questions of human nature, on questions of marriage, on all sorts of questions.
00:12:33.480He – whenever there's a conflict between the two faiths that he is inclined to profess, he's going to choose liberalism.
00:20:45.800And it's yet another example of this guy pulling a rabbit out of a hat.
00:20:53.780Now, of course, he still will face a cash crunch if the New York civil fraud case demands that he pay up a bunch of cash,
00:21:02.300a bunch of extortion payments to the New York attorney general.
00:21:05.900But in any case, it seems to me that this whole episode, which would have destroyed any other political candidate,
00:21:19.420any one of the prosecutions or the civil case or the other civil case.
00:21:26.540Remember, there was the other civil case with the gossip columnist lady who said that Trump ravished her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 55 years ago or whatever, 30 years ago.
00:21:36.100Any one of those cases would have destroyed any ordinary political candidate.
00:21:42.320And so I don't want to seem like I'm giving undue adulation to Trump here.
00:21:48.340I'm pointing out the man can make $3 billion in one day and then lose a billion dollars and then go and then be threatened with 700 years in prison and then be charged half a billion dollars and then have that reduced to $150 million.
00:24:34.300It's not some hot new 22-year-old female influencer or something.
00:24:39.040It's the president of Guyana who just destroyed the BBC with facts and logic.
00:24:46.920According to many experts, more than 2 billion tons of carbon emissions will come from your seabed, from those reserves, and be released into the atmosphere.
00:24:58.680I don't know if you as a head of state went to the COP in Dubai.
00:25:22.620Does that give you the right to release all of this carbon?
00:25:26.020Does that give you the right to lecture us on climate change?
00:25:30.020I am going to lecture you on climate change because we have kept this forest alive that stores 19.5 gigatons of carbon that you enjoy, that the world enjoy, that you don't pay us for, that you don't value, that you don't see a value in, that the people of Guyana has kept alive.
00:25:45.840Are you in the pockets of those who have damaged the environment?
00:25:49.260Are you in the pockets, are you in your system, in the pockets of those who destroyed the environment through the Industrial Revolution and now lecturing us?
00:26:03.400The BBC doesn't have very much to say, but it's an important point that he's making.
00:26:07.340He's saying, hold on, you Brits, you are after, what, a century and a half, two centuries of industrialization, about a century and a half, I guess, of industrialization, spewing pollution into the atmosphere.
00:26:24.000You are now, you've woken up after this has led to a lot of wealth and material prosperity for your country.
00:26:30.660You have decided, okay, actually, now that we got our bag, this is kind of bad for the environment.
00:26:37.020So we're going to tell all the poor countries that are developing right now and that are beginning to see the fruits of that material prosperity, we're going to tell them to stop.
00:26:45.260Because we got ours and now we don't want all that pollution.
00:26:49.500And Mr. Guyana over here says, hold on, we have a forest, just one forest that is bigger than your country and Scotland.
00:27:00.660So a large, large portion of the whole United Kingdom combined, we could start using those resources.
00:27:09.720We could start spewing carbon into the atmosphere.
00:27:28.820And think about how offensive that is at an even more basic level.
00:27:35.580What the people in Guyana, just like the people in India in particular, India, now the most populous country in the world, and a lot of the West is telling India not to develop because this could be bad for Mother Gaia.
00:27:49.540And the sun monster might, you know, send more harmful rays at us if the Indians continue to develop.
00:27:56.060Well, what these nations are saying is, hold on, we have people here.
00:28:00.600Forget about the Delta smelt for a second.
00:28:02.680Forget about the sun monster, you know, melting the ice caps, which isn't even really happening.
00:28:06.680We have people here who are hungry, who want to feed their families, who want to flourish.
00:28:12.480And you're telling us that your abstract concern for the polar bears in the Arctic on the other side of the world is more important than the immediate concern that we have and the responsibility we have to provide for our people.
00:28:28.760Your fantasies about unconscious life on the other side of the world is more important to you than our people.
00:28:44.480But it's the natural consequence of a kind of environmental cult, which upends the way that we traditionally understand the natural order, which is that human beings are made in the image and likeness of God.
00:28:58.160We know this, not merely through revelation, but through reason.
00:29:56.860We live to serve the rocks and Mother Gaia and the sun monster.
00:30:02.320And if that means that some people in Guyana aren't able to feed their families, well, too bad.
00:30:08.480If that means that Indians are going to have to die of starvation, well, you know, that's, we're just going to have to do that because we want to make sure that the polar bears have a bigger ice float.
00:30:18.220Even though the ice isn't necessarily really melting, it doesn't matter.
00:30:23.160We're just, does that sound good to you?
00:30:26.200He says, have you lost your freaking mind?
00:30:28.420It actually ties in with what we were talking about at the top of the show, which is Richard Dawkins.
00:30:33.020These people, specifically the Brits, I guess, in this case, I don't want to be too harsh to the motherland, but they've thrown out the religion that built our whole civilization.
00:30:45.460They've turned it into some bizarro kind of cult of the self, but then not even the self.
00:30:51.780You know, it's not even just pure selfishness.
00:30:53.460It's kind of an abolition of the self, which could be expected because when man finds his identity in the source and summit of all being in God, then he knows who he is.
00:32:00.300Speaking of Western pathologies, new study out.
00:32:04.800You don't really need a study for this news story.
00:32:07.740But it turns out that loneliness is on the rise.
00:32:12.240This research, according to one poll commissioned by Zumba, polled.
00:32:16.880The Brits, again, I don't know why the Brits are so in the news this week, found that 40% have gone at least three days without a face-to-face conversation with another person.
00:34:11.520I say that the fundamental error, among the fundamental errors of liberal modernity, is that we have decided that people are basically individuals.
00:34:57.260The left and the right, in modern liberal life, say that we're individuals.
00:35:04.620And the left expresses this through their embrace of weird sex stuff and the defense of killing babies and just doing whatever you want to pursue your own will, regardless of the moral reality to it.
00:35:16.580But the right feels this way too when it comes to money.
00:36:17.960We enact policies that diminish the family, that define the family out of existence, that take away protections that would support the family, that divvy people up in society.
00:36:34.200We encourage a political order that speaks primarily of rights and entitlement rather than obligations and duties that we have one to another.
00:36:43.960We deny any kind of common good or communal endeavors that we engage in.
00:37:26.680And if you don't do that, you're going to be really miserable and sad.
00:37:29.300And then, this is the scariest part, even when you do come together, you're not going to know how to relate to one another.
00:37:35.240So you're going to come together, and then one in four people at a party is going to feel alone.
00:37:39.300One in four people at their office, surrounded by people, you're still going to feel alone because you've allowed the muscles of your social nature, which is essential to your nature as a human being.
00:37:53.560You've allowed those muscles to atrophy.
00:37:55.240You won't even know how to do it when you are melded up together, and you will continue to be unhappy.
00:38:01.100Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
00:38:03.620It's an important lesson to take to heart.
00:38:05.320It has very practical, deleterious effects on your life, and you need to take very practical steps.
00:38:14.200You need to make a point to see people in person.
00:38:17.160You need to show up to that family reunion.
00:38:20.600You need to have children if you can have children.
00:38:22.340You need to—if you are single, if you're celibate, if you're—you need to make sure that you're around other people and engaged in their lives.
00:38:28.560You have to make an effort to do that, or you will be miserable even when you try to create the simulation of social life.