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The Catholic Church Betrayed Its Children

The Catholic Church betrayed its children. This episode doesn't look away from that. But it asks the question most people skip: when we say what was done was truly, permanently wrong — wrong before the law caught up with it, wrong when powerful men said otherwise — what standard are we actually using? And what does it mean that it grew inside the tradition that failed to live by it? Beginning with a cardinal who put the Church on trial in 1049 and ending with a survivor who resigned from the Vatican's own child protection commission in 2017 — this is an episode about the difference between the carriers and the thing being carried. The carriers failed. The question is whether what they were carrying failed with them.

Can Science Explain Why We Exist?

In this episode, we explore one of the oldest and most serious arguments for the existence of God — the argument that the universe exists, but didn't have to. That everything you have ever seen, touched, or encountered is borrowed. That borrowed things require something to borrow from. And that the chain of borrowing has to end somewhere. What you're actually hearing in this episode is three distinct philosophical arguments running together: the Cosmological Argument from Contingency, associated with Gottfried Leibniz; Aquinas's Third Way, from possibility and necessity; and the Kalam Cosmological Argument, which adds the dimension of time and the universe's beginning. Each of them arrives at the same place by a different route. In this episode they run as one. In future episodes, each will be unpacked and examined on its own terms.

Can You Actually Defend Your Atheism?

Most people walking around with confident opinions about God have never actually examined the question. This video is for them.Six arguments. No preaching. No easy answers. Just the case that the question deserves more than the dismissal it usually gets — and that some of the most rigorous non-religious minds of the last century quietly agreed.Watch it. Then disagree with me in the comments.

The Extraordinary Trial of Jesus of Nazareth

In first-century Jerusalem, two legal systems operated side by side. One was built with more protections against wrongful execution than almost anywhere else in the ancient world. The other placed total authority in a single man with no obligation to justify his decisions to anyone.On a single night, both of those systems were used on the same man.One condemned him. One declared him innocent.He was executed anyway.Subscribe for videos on Catholic teaching, Christian history, saints, Scripture, apologetics, philosophy of religion, and the meaning of faith in the modern world.Visuals may include AI-generated artistic illustrations and symbolic reconstructions used for educational and storytelling purposes. They are not archival images or depictions of recorded events unless otherwise stated.

Why Has Every Human Culture Believed In God?

Every human culture that has ever existed has done the same thing. Separated by oceans, by millennia, by thousands of miles of wilderness — they all reached for something beyond the visible world.Plenty of serious people have tried to dismiss it. But the more you push on it, the harder it becomes — and the more uncomfortable the alternative gets. Because if the reaching is universal, if nothing in human history has ever stopped it, if even the most powerful states ever built couldn't extinguish it — then at some point you have to ask yourself an honest question.What if we've been right all along?