Lex Fridman - Podcast 304

Bishop Robert Barron: Christianity and the Catholic Church

Lex Fridman

From Wikipedia: Lex Fridman is a Russian-born American computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, and podcast host working and teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Outside of academia, Fridman is more popularly known for his podcast and YouTube video series where he interviews a wide variety of guests including scientists, mathematicians, political commentators, authors, historians, philosophers, economists and artists.

You can see this episode here:Episode #304 on YouTube
You can see his website here:LexFridman.com
His YouTube page is here:YouTube.com

Bishop Robert Barron

From Wikipedia: Robert Emmet Barron is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester since 2022. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization, Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS. Previously, he served as rector at Mundelein Seminary (2012-2015) and as auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (2015-2022).

Barron has published books, essays, and articles on theology and spirituality. He is a religion correspondent for NBC and has also appeared on Fox News, CNN, and EWTN. He has been informally called the "bishop of social media" and the "bishop of the Internet".

You can see his website here:Word on Fire’s Website
His YouTube page is here:YouTube.com

Topics

There are 20 topics total including the introduction. I'm just pushing through chronologically, and we'll get there as time permits. Right now 1-3 are up, and 4 is in progress.

1) Introduction (00:00)

2) Who is God? (06:50)

3) Christianity (20:30)

4) Sin (25:18)

5) The Trinity (42:48)

6) Catholicism (44:32)

7) Sexual abuse scandal (54:29)

8) Evil (1:01:16)

9) Atheism (1:12:59)

10) Jordan Peterson (1:24:21)

11) Jesus (1:26:56)

12) The Bible (1:29:42)

13) America (1:32:17)

14) Nietzsche (1:35:08)

15) Word on Fire (1:39:12)

16) Gay marriage (1:42:31)

17) Abortion (1:44:48)

18) Advice for young people (1:51:38)

19) Mortality (1:54:12)

20) Meaning of life (1:58:30)

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