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I had this video recommended more than once, but I can't listen to Vaush even by proxy.

He is the distillation of all the bad contained within Breadtube. Being a libertarian and a weird brand of zoofile are actually his minor character flaws.

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I was kinda surprised to see his name come up but if you attack Fr. Mike the Anglosphere Catholics are gonna come after you. Bible in a Year was the most downloaded podcast for several of the last few years including during the pandemic. He's probably the single biggest name in the Church over here aside from :marseypope: Francis.

TBH if you haven't given it a go I highly recommend it to all !christians and !catholics, ~20 minutes a day for a cover to cover read. There's a reason he's so popular and it's not just the looks. :daydream:

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Eh, I thought it was only ok. What I mostly didn't like was how one episode would cover multiple books at once (which granted, I get why they did. Trying to get through all of Numbers straight through ain't easy. Just not how I'd prefer to listen).

I also wanted deeper theological analysis than he went into. Which…again, makes some sense because it's aimed as a broad intro. But the very surface level analysis just didn't make it as worth it for me…and I think the average listener could have handled more analysis too. It seems to underestimate the listener.

The final thing that kinda turned me off was his hand wringing about ‘difficult passages.' Like, sometimes the OT God just wanted a b-word smote. Accept it and move on, whatever. That's probably a me thing again though. :marseyshrug:

Basically he strikes me as a nice enough dude good at outreach, but not exactly an heir to Bishop Fulton Sheen. I don't dislike him, but I don't totally get the popularity either.

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The final thing that kinda turned me off was his hand wringing about ‘difficult passages.' Like, sometimes the OT God just wanted a b-word smote. Accept it and move on, whatever. That's probably a me thing again though.

People make this harder than it has to be. God is sovereign. No difference between him taking your grandma with cancer vs taking some dude who accidentally touched the Ark of the Covenant. It always sucks for us, but it's part of our world.

Modern people are uncomfortable with the idea that God is responsible for bad things too. But that leaves God very weak if all the bad things are just stuff that "happens," and that means God's less "fair" biblical actions become intolerable to us in a way that they never did for our ancestors.

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I tend to agree with you tbh, my favourite is Bishop Barron though I love his stuff

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I'm not familiar with him, I'll have the check him out. (I'm actually a dirty Protestant, I just like reading and learning about different takes so I've ended up doing a decent amount of Catholic reading/listening).

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Have you listened to catechism in a year?

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Ugh, I can't listen to Trent either. This video is a hard Pass.

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He does look and sound like a guy selling time shares, doesn't he?

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