He was Catholic

@@jitheshdsouza98 An astute observation. I am in your debt.

research eastern orthodoxy.@@franklinbumgartener1323

Please come all the way home to catholicism

@@hagmatic I did. I believe in the genuine catholicity of Christ's body.

Strange, but as long as he saved you from the woke cult religion, then good for you!

Then you've missed the entire point of Chesterton's writings. Chesterton is a Catholic not an Atheist.

@@taokuoh6805 This is to assume that there is “one point to get” from Chesterton’s writing. When I read Chesterton I discovered the flaws in the Christian religion. Maybe this wasn’t Chesterton’s intended purpose but to me that is irrelevant.

@@jesseminns What's flaws in Christianity? Everything he points to is how it's true.

Well as I read Chesterton, and think of Chesterton as one of the greatest writers on Christianity I still came away with no evidence for a god outside of human need to explain our existence, our purpose and our meaning.

They're grounded in reality because they tell us they are?

@@Nick-qf7vt Empiricism, and accountability via peer review keep you more grounded than being an armchair apologist preaching to the choir, yes. I hope I don't have to explain why.

@@edwardlecore141 You're no different then the religious people I presume you hate. Take what they say, don't question it. Believe what the scientists say when for all you know, they could be lying.

@@Nick-qf7vt I am Christian, I just don't appreciate the arrogance of anyone that thinks they can second guess the conclusions of scientists without any scientific expertise or accountability to peer review. That is demagogic.

@@edwardlecore141 It's idiotic to believe what scientists say when you yourself cannot prove it.

HOLY FACE “Rejoice, My Daughter; because the hour approaches when the most beautiful work under the Sun will be born.” Our Lord To Sister Mary of St Peter Our Lord refers here to the work of reparation to the Holy Face, which He revealed is destined to be the means of defeating atheistic Communism and restoring peace to the world. In Tours, France during the 1840’s a young Carmelite nun, Sister Marie of St Peter received a series of revelations from Our Lord about a powerful devotion He wished to be established worldwide - the devotion to His Holy Face. The purpose of this devotion was to make reparation for the blasphemies and outrages of “Revolutionary men” (the Communists) - through whom God is allowing the world to be chastised for its unbelief - as well as for the blasphemies of atheists and freethinkers and others, plus, for blasphemy and the profanation of Sundays by Christians. He said that those sins of blasphemy and the profanation of Sundays pierce His heart with a poisoned arrow. THE GOLDEN ARROW Our Lord gave Sister Mary this short but powerful prayer called’ “The Golden Arrow” by which a person can “shoot directly into the Heart of God” to heal the wounds inflicted on it by the malice of sinners. May the most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most incomprehensible and ineffable Name of God be forever praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in Heaven, on Earth, and under the Earth by all the creatures of God and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. Amen. After reciting this prayer, Sister Mary of St Peter was given a vision in which she saw the Sacred Heart of Jesus delightfully wounded by this “Golden Arrow” as torrents of graces streamed from it for the conversion of sinners. REPARATION PRAYER Offering The Holy Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ to GOD The Father in order to appease His Justice and draw down Mercy upon us. ETERNAL FATHER, turn away Thy angry gaze from our guilty people whose face has become unsightly in Thine eyes. Look instead upon the Face of Thy Beloved Son, for this is the Face of Him in Whom Thou art well pleased. We now offer Thee this Holy Face, covered with shame and disfigured by bloody bruises in reparation for the crimes of our age in order to appease Thine anger, justly provoked against us. Because Thy Divine Son, our Redeemer, has taken upon His Head all the sins of His members, that they might be spared, we now beg of Thee, Eternal Father, to grant us Mercy. Amen. PRAYER TO REPRODUCE THE IMAGE OF GOD IN OUR SOULS I Salute Thee, I Adore Thee, And I Love Thee, O Adorable Face of my Beloved JESUS, as the noble stamp of divinity! Completely surrendering my soul to Thee, I most humbly beg Thee to stamp this seal upon us all, so that the Image of GOD may once more be reproduced by its imprint in our souls. Amen. holywounds.net

Tolkien was Catholic from his childhood thanks to his mother and remained devout. Both conversations with Tolkien and reading Chesterton were important to C.S. Lewis conversion.

Could be God used evolution to create us.

I just heard of him though a quotation on another video, now I'm adding him to my growing books to read list

I know. It’s terrifying.

Chesterton can be a little long-winded, sort of his style. But he has many thought provoking insights. Some are dated due to the "hot topics" of his day which we don't relate to, but still very interesting. Enjoy!

+The Jesus Peace Thanks! Reading "Orthodoxy" now and really enjoying it. heard so much good about The Everlasting Man ☺

That's because they struggled against Chesterton when he was alive and the 'new' atheists of today haven't got any better arguments to offer.

@@speakerscornerbestbits No, it's because arguing against religion is futile. the ending verdict is always, you can't prove God exists, I can't prove God doesn't exist. Yet, religious people take this as evidence that God does exist. degens

@@precisi0n86 Can we have references, or links, to either claim, please? ("What is asserted without evidence, can be deined without evidence and it is the denial which stands")... Nevertheless, 1. An animal responding to sensory stimulation is infinitely removed from a person seeing a joke and laughing. Firstly, I'll wager that this mouse 'laughing' is the interpetation the researchers gave to the observed phenomena, rather than it conforming to some strict biological criteria for laughter (if there is one). 2. You must be a pretty poor artist if an elephant can paint better than you...

G K Chesterton is the brilliant mind that saved me from from being a lifelong Christian. Thank God for GK Chesterton! 🙌

@@thelaughingphilosopher2421 It's not the quality of the art it is art itself. Your snarky comment at the end is irrelevant

edgy

I actually think I know what you mean. Many people don't truly believe in God and Heaven. If they did, they would not worry about death or material things.

And God rose on the third day. If we killed him, why can't he just stay dead? Go figure.

...that is not said as a triumph, even in Nietzsche, but as a warning. "God is dead and we have killed him...and nothing can wash away the blood."

"You are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you" (John 15:14). In other words, you are my friends if you in turn lay down or sacrifice your own life for me through obedience.