Get 30% off Blinkist premium and enjoy 2 memberships for the price of 1! Start your 7-day free trial by clicking here: https://www.blinkist.com/cosmicskeptic To support me on Patreon (thank you): http://www.patreon.com/cosmicskeptic To donate to my PayPal (thank you): http://www.paypal.me/cosmicskeptic To purchase Cosmic Skeptic merchandise: https://cosmicskeptic.teemill.com/ ---------- VIDEO NOTES ---------- Welcome to Within Reason, a new weekly podcast dedicated to broadly philosophical discussion with expert guests. Bishop Robert Barron is the bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester and the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. His website, http://www.WordOnFire.org/, reaches millions of people each year, and he is one of the world’s most followed Catholics on social media. His YouTube videos have been viewed over 125 million times, and he has over 3 million followers on Facebook. Bishop Barron joins host Alex O'Connor to discuss the "crisis of meaning" we might be living through, the reducibility of purpose to evolutionary drives, the conditions for salvation on Christianity, and whether God can be accurately described as analogous to a tyrannical dictator. ---------------- LINKS ----------------- Alex's previous debate with Bishop Barron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC9tKeJCJtM Bishop Barron's Website: https://www.wordonfire.org/ --------- TIMESTAMPS ----------- 0:00 Introduction 4:51 The Crisis of Meaning 17:39 Are we Just Driven by Evolutionary Drives? 30:55 Death 41:17 What if Someone Struggles to Believe in God? 44:18 Jesus Christ and the Conditions for Salvation 1:02:43 Is God a Tyrannical Dictator? 1:09:41 Outro ------SPECIAL THANKS -------- As always, I would like to direct extra gratitude to my top-tier patrons: Itamar Lev Evan Allen John Early Dmitry C. Seth Balodi James Davis g8speedy James Davis Thanks to Arian Foster for producing the Within Reason intro music, and to Matthew Sienzant (https://mdsienzant.com/) for the animations. ------------- CONNECT -------------- My Website/Blog: http://www.cosmicskeptic.com/ SOCIAL LINKS: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cosmicskeptic Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cosmicskeptic Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/cosmicskeptic Snapchat: cosmicskeptic ------------ CONTACT --------------- Business email: contact@cosmicskeptic.com Or send me something: Alex O'Connor Po Box 1610 OXFORD OX4 9LL ENGLAND ------------------------------------------