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Show 102: THE EXISTENCE OF A SUPREME BEING · The Uncensored Catholic

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Hey you, well, welcome to today's show. We're paying to pick up
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right where we left off yesterday. We're talking about the Apostles Creed but of
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course, as usual, we will start with radio replies. And the questioner
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asked of the priest today, if miracles were so evident, I don't see
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how the Jews could refuse to accept Christianity. What the person is saying is,
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if Jesus performed all these great miracles, how could he have been rejected
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by the Jews. The person's essentially denying the divinity of Christ. Okay,
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it's a valid point, though, I mean, I mean this is a
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topic that will come up if you deal with apologetics. And they answer many
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a man knows what he ought to do, but it's another thing to do
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it altogether. They actually said, but to do it is another thing altogether.
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I am sorry. I'm dyslexic. My brain guesses its sentences. So
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a lot of times you don't know all the editing I put into this show.
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Let me just put it that way. I put a lot of editing
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into this show. I make sure it's right for it goes out because of
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it. You know, it kind of matters when you're talking about Catholicism,
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they continue. The Jews could not honestly deny that Christ was God and that
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his religious teaching should be accepted. Some did accept it, others did not.
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Even God would not compel these to accept the true religion, and Christ
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warned them of the guilt and their bad will when he said, he who
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does not believe me shall be condemned. We have to remember that a tenant
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really attended about the Jewish and Christian religion is that God does not force man
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to believe. He gives us freedom. He gives us free will. You
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have written recently from mizzi Odae about why didn't Jesus, Why did you speak
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in parables? Why wasn't he more clear? Why did Jesus not come as
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the Messiah? The Jews expected the king of the world, who was going
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to vanquish all enemies and do away with all evil. Well, if he
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had, everyone would have had to accept that he is God. By coming
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as a weak, helpless, humble infant from a poor family, suspected to
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be born illegitimately looked down upon, no one had actually any logical reason to
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believe that he was the Messiah. Only if they were open to accepting his
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miracles. Like you told the followers of Saint John the Baptist, the lame
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walked the death. Here the blind received their sight and sins are forgiven.
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Those were the signs of the Messiah, any of the great things that they
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expected. In fact, Judas may have been motivated to betray our Lord because
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he expected him to be a political figure, a ruler, a king,
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you know, whatever his motivation that that may have been. In Actually,
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so had Jesus appeared in all his glory and power, everyone on earth would
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have been forced to accept it. And God does not violate our free will,
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not until the end time, the final judgment. We are free to
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believe. We are free to choose, and you know, probably it's for
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worse, far more than it is for better. But yeah, even though
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he could, he won't. So the person says, most people who are
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Christians cannot give a valid reason for their for their faith. Will you give
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me a valid reason for your faith? It's kind of a sweeping state.
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I think at least most Christians I've known, well, granted where I live,
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most Christians I've known are basically Evangelical Protestants, so they will certainly give
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you a reason for their faith. I don't know, I don't know.
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I'm not sure why someone would actually say that. But you know, there
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are a lot of Catholics in name only Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. They
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are Catholic because they grew up in a Catholic family, and they can still
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consider themselves Catholic even though they've totally rejected all the teachings of Christ and his
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church. And that's actually really not good. You know, that's a quick
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way to go to Hell. Let's just put it that way. Yeah,
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anyway, Yes, Historically, it is certain that Christ really lived, really
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claimed to be God, proved that claim by his supreme command over the laws
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of nature established by God, taught the Christian religion an obliged man to accept
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that religion. Topically, Christianity alone gives an adequate solution and explanation of the
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origin, condition, and purpose of human of the human race. Religiously,
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is it infinitely surpasses all other forms of religion and alone completely corresponds to the
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innate religious tendencies of man. That's very true. Literally, before becoming Catholic,
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I studied every religion I could find, Catholicism was my last choice and
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the one I didn't want to make. I know that may sound strange to
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you, but you know, uh, let's just say I wasn't the most
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moral person when I was younger, so I did not want to accept Catholicism.
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So I literally did explore nearly every religion in the world and all branches
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that I knew of of Protestantism before realizing that the only true religion is Catholicism.
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So you know, take that with a grain salt, believe it if
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you want or not. I'm a pretty smart guy, technically a genius,
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you know, according to IQ test. I'm not like bragging about it.
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My mom's a shrink, Okay, she's a psychiologist. I grew up with
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a lot of information and testing that other people don't have. I was actually
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used in case studies as a child to show what a genius child could do.
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Okay, So it's I mean, I'm not bragging. In fact,
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it's not always been a positive to be very smart. It really does kind
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of alienate you from your your your peers, your contemporaries. Seriously, and
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when I was in high school, I did everything I could not to make
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good crates basically just later on the smoke pot all the time. I mean,
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I'm serious. I was not a great guy at deb I was chasing
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girls and and just you know, so Catholicism that their claims saying that Catholicism
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is the superior of religion to all of the world's religions. I'm going to
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tell you that's true because I've actually explored them. I mean, I was
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a practicing dallast for almost a decade. What do you you say, what's
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a Dallast? Well, Daoism is the original kind of folk religion of China.
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It's what informs Zen Buddhism. It's what differentiates Chinese Buddhism. I'm gonna
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say Chinese, it's Zen Buddhism. There are actually two schools, at least
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of Buddhism in traditional Chinese culture. One is far more influenced by Hinduism and
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Confucianism. I would say both are influenced by Confucianism. Actually, which is
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is a beautiful philosophy. Actually, you know, uh can Feuchius probably would
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have accepted Christ as a savior had you know, they lived at the same
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time and he known of him and I would say the same thing of Lauza,
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the sort of historic mythical founder of Daoism. I would say the same
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thing of the Buddha. I mean, honestly, you know, Siddhartha,
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Sha, Kamuni, whatever you want to call him, probably would have accepted
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Christ's savior because of the superiority of the Christian religion. It gave them the
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answers they were looking for, and they looked hard. They were not spiritually
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lazy. I mean, the Buddha stood meditated steering at a wall for ten
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years solid, trying to find enlightenment. Lautza ruam the mountains and the streams
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of the most remote places of China, trying to find essentially the same peace
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that early Church fathers, the Desert Fathers found being hermits in caves. I
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mean, yeah, they really were not that far off. They just did
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not understand the one revealed religion which was given to the Jews and Binds.
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It's fulfilment in Christ. But yeah, you'll totally find tons of wisdom really
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in those three and the Native American most of them. Okay, you can't
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make a broad sweeping statement. The tribes are very different, you know,
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Cherokee took the Christianity right away because it was very close to their own religion.
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The Aztecs were eating people, okay, I mean they were sacrificing human
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victims to demonic gods and eating them. So you just can't make those broad
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statements that people say, Oh, well, the Native Americans believe as well.
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Yeah, okay, one tribe did, another tribe did not at all,
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and the same in Europe. The Germanic tribes were very barbaric, very
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barbaric, and amazingly enough, you know, thanks to Charlemagne and Constantine and
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all those guys, they were some of the first to come to Christianity,
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totally abandoning their pagan religions. The same with the Druids and Saint Patrick,
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the same with the Swedes and Norwegians. I mean, we can go through
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the list of the Turkish that really the early Church was very much centered around
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Turkey, and I mean Saint Nicholas, who were absolutely celebrating right now.
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It was huge in converting the Pagans of the Middle East to his charity is
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kindness, but his powerful, forceful preaching and the miracle he worked. And
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see that's the thing, the miracles really do matter well, anyway, he
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says. The priest continues theologically, I'm a Christian because God has given me
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the grace to perceive the truth of Christianity and to embrace it morally. I
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am obliged in strict justice to accept a religion specified and specified and imposed by
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Almighty God. See the revealed religion. Religion is actually an imposition, you
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know, but you still can reject it if you want. The person said,
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Christ did not intend his religion for you, He and attendant for Jews
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only, and that is an utterly bizarre statement. They answer. Christ was
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fully aware of the prophecy of Isaiah too too, that all nations would be
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called his church. He did not intend his doctrine to be preached for Jews
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only. He did. He did that his doctrine be preached to the Jews
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first, and only afterwards to Gentiles. For this reason, he told his
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disciples not to preach it to the Gentiles during the period preserved for the Jews.
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But Saint Matthew chapter eighteen nineteen, Christ himself tels the apostles go teach
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all nations. The person says that the acceptance of Christianity be necessary for salvation
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what then, of those who lived before Christ? It is a very very
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valid question and really only a question that only the Catholic Church can answer.
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Just really unknown to the majority of Protestant doctrine. I mean maybe Anglican,
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but you know, may be very traditional Lutheran. But you know, when
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was the last time I met an Anglican or a Lutheran who actually believed.
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Well, you know, Martin Luther, even though he was an Antichrist,
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even though it was a horrible person, had a strong devotion to the the
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Blessed Mother, blessed Virgin Mary. He you know, as bad as he
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was, his devotion to the Mother of God, which was very Catholic,
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maybe it saved him. Maybe he's in heaven. I don't know. I'm
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not gonna say. I don't judge who's there or not. You know,
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we know when saints are there because of the miracles that are performed. But
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I don't know what happened to him. He did have a strong devotion to
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the Blessed Virgin Mary, so did like all the Anglicans in the first two
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hundred years of the Anglican Church, their doctrine was still extremely Catholic. They
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prayed the Rosary. I mean the Anglicans did. I mean that was really
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big in the early days of the Anglican Church. You know what they believe
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Now I can't tell you. It's become modernized and liberal and Evangelical Protestant,
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rejecting everything the last two thousand years of history. You know, I can't
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tell you. So I don't know, but anyway, they say the merits
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and grace of Christ were applied by God to men of good will in anticipation
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of his death on the cross. God in his eternity is not conditioned,
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but is not conditional by time. He's not bound by the limits of linear
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time, and men could benefit by the death of Christ, just as they
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can make use of an inheritance which is absolutely certain to be given them in
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a due time. The merits of Christ were applied to Jews of good will
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and virtue of their faith, and that the redeemer in a redeemer to come.
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Those who, through no fault of their own, did not know of
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the redeemer to come were saved if they obeyed the natural dictates of their conscience
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and repented of their failings. Every single human being has the moral standard that
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what is apprehended to be morally good must be done, whilst moral evil must
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be avoided. And so the person says of Christianity taught people to be so
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good good, why did the early Christians meet with nothing but persecution? And
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they, of course answer, the more evil a man is, the more
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he resents the goodness of others. Every good man is a living condemnation of
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the conduct of an evil man. The Jews could not point to a single
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sin in Christ, yet they crucified him, and Christ said, the servant
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is not above the master. As they have persecuted me, they will persecute
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you. The quickest road to unpopularity is to refuse to do evil with the
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majority. The world has no hatred of its own, but the enemies of
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worldliness it hates. The early Jews and Romans hated Christianity for both people's feared
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that it would interfere with their comfort. Today, the Catholic Church enjoys this
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inheritance of antagonism, as does no other religion, and that is one of
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the great signs of the Church. It's like the ven Fulton machine said,
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if I want to find the true religion, I will look for the one
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that is hated, because that's what Jesus promised. I'm not going Joe Ostein
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in the megachurches. I'm going to the one that is despised by the world.
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So let's get into the apostles Creed, and we will start with the
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first tenant, the first point and well arguably the most important. I believe
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in God, the Father, the Almighty as fathers. Brogu says. This
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is the belief in the existence of a supreme being. We can infer from
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the created world around us that there exists a supreme being. We cannot see
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the souls of men, but we can infer their existence by a process of
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reasoning. So it is with the existence of God. The heavens and earth
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could not come into existence by themselves, nor could they heavenly bodies move through
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space by their own power. We infer when we see footprints of the snow
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that someone has passed that way. So we infer from the things around us
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that there exists a supreme being. The planets could no more have come into
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existence of themselves than a town could be built by itself. The astronomer Kirschner
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had a friend who doubted the existence of God. He had a globe made
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and placed in his study. His friend came to see him one day and
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asked where the globe came from. He replied that it made itself. When
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his friend laughed at such an answer, Kirchner replied, it could be.
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It would be much easier for a little globe like that to make itself than
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a great one on which we live. A light cannot kindle itself, and
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after it is kindled, it will go out in a few hours. But
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the heavens are lighted. But the glorious light of the sun, which has
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burned for many thousands of years, millions actually without losing any of its brightness.
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Look at the millions of the stars, who made them on calls him
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to illuminate the night. The psalmist truly says, the heavens declare the glory
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of God, and the firmament shows forth the work of his hands. The
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great astronomer Newton used to always used always to uncover and bow his head when
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the name of God was mentioned. Now did they teach it that in school?
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When you're in science class in high school and you learned about Sir Isaac
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Newton, did they tell you that he would uncover his head and bow when
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the name of God was mentioned. We may also infer the existence of God
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from the creatures on earth. Thus Job says, ask now the beasts,
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and they shall teach thee and the birds of the air, and they shall
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tell thee speak to the earth, and it shall answer thee. And the
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fishes of the sea shall tell who is ignorant that the hand of the Lord
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has made these things. I am. I wrote a gospel reflection from missy
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Odai yesterday, published on Thursday. I'll send it out through my newsletter of
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the Unsots for Catholic in which I basically said the same thing. I came
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to the conclusion that had I not grown up in the woods, hunting and
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fishing, hiking in nature, I would have far less knowledge of God.
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I'm not really sure where my path would have taken me, but the beauty
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and the order of nature, which can be absolutely horrific and violent at times
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as well. But when we see the beauty and the order of nature and
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how God arranged everything, you know, that instilled in me a devout sense
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of awe that you know, at the age of five or even younger,
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probably that resulted very much am I becoming Catholic? He continues, If anyone
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were to find a beautiful marble statue on a desert island, he would say,
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without any hesitation, that men had been there. If one were to
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say that the wind and rain had torn it from the mountain side and given
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in its form, we should count him as a fool. A greater fool
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is he who asserts that this wonderful world had no creator. The wonderful arrangement
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order of the world also leads us to infer that it has been framed by
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an architect of surpassing skill. If a ship sails on its way safely to
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its destination, we conclude that it had a clever pilot. To say that
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the stars of heaven of themselves direct their court courses is as foolish as it
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would be to say that a ship had started from New York, sailed around
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the world, and returned safely without anyone to guide it. Cicero said,
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long ago, when we contemplate the heavens, we arrive at the conviction that
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they are all being guided by a being of surpassing skill. In all that
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is upon earth, we see the traces of design and of a most wise
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designer in the construction of the bodies of animals and the bodies of men,
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the succession of the seasons, the trees, and the plants, the adaptation
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of means to ends in the human eye, the ear, the various parts
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of the body, all imply an adapting intelligence, just as the adaptation of
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a watch to indicate time, or the building of a house to shelter us
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implies an intelligent constructor. As it would be impossible that all the letters of
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the alphabet should be grouped together by mere chants of order, and the iliad
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be produced, so it is impossible that the arrangement of the universe could have
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come about by chance and without the knowledge and direction of almighty intelligence. All
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nations of Earth have their inner conviction of the existence of a supreme being.
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That's true. There's never been a traditional people, any tribe on earth,
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any nation on Earth before modern times that was atheistic. About a single example
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of any tribe of people who existed on our ten thousand years ago that was
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atheistic. And yet you know, your college professors and such will say that
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religion is imposed upon man, and that's complete our bs. All the nations
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of the Earth have an inner conviction of the existence of a supreme being.
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Among all nations, even the most degraded, we find invariably the worship of
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some kind of deity. We find towns without walls, without a rule,
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or without laws, without coin, but never without some kind of temple,
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without prayer, without sacrifice. Now, universal consent is a mark of truth.
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The belief in God is an inner conviction, which may be said to
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be inborn, inasmuch as everyone can arrive at it with the greatest ease.
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Only the fool says in his heart there is no God. That's from Psalms.
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Obviously, those who say there is no God in spite of the glories
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of creation which they see around them are those of whom Our Lord said that
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seeing they perceive, not in hearing, they did not understand. Such men
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men are called atheists or infidels. They are invariably men who either are eaten
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up with pride, or live vicious lives, or both. He who denies
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the existence of God, says Saint Augustine, has some reason for wishing that
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God did not exist. Atheists, for the most part, use language which
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is at variance with their real convictions. Many of them are the first to
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cry to God for help when they are in imminent danger. Their bold talk
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means they are not afraid. God will take atheists at their word one day
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and will show himself no loving God for them. So he took at their
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words those of the Israelites who dowed his power to give them a victory over
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the enemies and possession of the promised land. They die before they entered it.
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It's a reverence to a book of numbers of chapter fourteen. I believe
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the existence of God has also proved from revelation. God has at sundry times
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and in diverse manners, which a love the way father Sparrago wrote. I
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wish people still wrote that way. I don't talk that way, do you.
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God has, at sundry times and in diverse manners, spoken to men
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and has given them a knowledge of himself. To Moses, he appeared in
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the burning bush, and he called himself the God of Abraham, Isaac and
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Jacob. To distinguish himself from the false gods, he gives to himself the
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name of the self existent one, or I who am I am? Who
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Am? God is the only thing that exists outside of time, So the
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only one who can truly be at all times. So in giving the law
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on Sinai, he says, I am the Lord, your God. Thou
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shalt have no other gods beside me or before me, depends on the translation.
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I'd also work miracles at various times in proof of his existence, e
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g. By sending down fire from heaven and to consume the sacrifice of Elias
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and Carmel, and by saving Daniel from the lions of Babylon and the three
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young men for their fiery furnace. So we'll wrap it up there by the
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way, I have known a few priests who actually do talk that way.
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Month Singer Mon Singer Jeffrey Ingham and Father Dan down in Hartsville, South Carolina.
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Yeah, they actually talked that way. True intellectuals and very devout men.
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Anyway, y'all, let's wrap it up here. If you listen to
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show you know, I've talked about both of them before, So I'm gonna
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get into a lot of details. Fantastic homalists. I mean, if you
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can find either of them saying mass and view it online or go see him
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in person, go go. I mean I'm talking to living saints. Go
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anyway, y'all have a wonderful evening. Hopefully i'll talk to you tomorrow.
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I may have to go out of town, and if I don't make it
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back in time, I'll pick up on Thursday and try to do a Friday
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show to make up for it. So anyway, in the words of Saint
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Padre Pio, pray, hope, and don't worry and well. By the
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way, today's the feast day of our Lady of Guadalupe, also known as
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Our Lady of the America. So it's a wonderful time if you are so
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inclined to pray for America, Pray for Mexico, pray for the whole two
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continents. Everybody's that baby. Argentina is in really bad shape right now.
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I mean, Trudeau's a disaster, Biden's a disaster. They've got a communist
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in Mexico, El Salvador. Brazil, Oh my gosh, Brazil. I
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have friends in Brazil. It's horrible. So really good time to to pray
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for the Americas. Anyway, taught me next time, have a going