The Bible OPPOSES Racism! | Ask Me Anything

0:00 - Introduction
01:02 - What do you think about the supposed references to Jesus in the Talmud?
08:10 - Please explain how does the process work when a priest earns the title of Monsignor I’d like to understand how that whole process works.
13:?42 - Can you make a distinction between God’s miracles and what demons are capable of?
18:39 - Who is the “destroyer” / angel of death in Exodus? An actual angel?
20:24 - Do you think the Jewish faith was reinterpreted after Jesus’s death and resurrection
25:10 - Why is the word Holy Ghost said instead of Holy Spirit?
28:25 - Why are there so many people who say that the Catholic Church is evil? The red shoes are evil. The room that looks like a serpent, at the Vatican. And other claims…?
32:43 - I was recently challenged on the papal bulls allowing conquest and enslavement, followed by the bull Sublimis Deus forbidding enslavement, which I take as an abrogation of the prior. The interlocutor asked 1) how can one infallible bull overrule another one; and 2) how was anyone supposed to know when Sublimus Deus doesn’t mention the prior bulls or say they were abrogated? What do you say?
35:24 - Can you explain how the Godhead and the Trinity are not conflicting ideas or doctrines. I get SO MANY people who challenge the Trinity and say that Catholics try to replace the Godhead with the “false doctrine” of the Trinity.
44:50 - Let’s say a person was properly baptized as a child but didn’t remember. They grow up and live a secular life until finding the faith later. They go through RCIA and, not remembering that they had been already baptized, are baptized and confirmed into the church.This person thinks that their recent baptism washes away the sins to that point and so does not go to confession for those sins. Is this person in trouble spiritually? Can they, since they are ignorant of the situation, receive the Eucharist?
48:08 - ANTI-RACISM: Jimmy Akin, what’s your most recent and thorough reflection on Numbers 12? (Bible condemns racism)
51:57 - Do we have one guardian angel for our whole life?
53:11 - What are your thoughts on the “manna machine”?

[@CTdonnner1991]

God bless you Mr. Akin

[@darlameeks]

Always a fun listen!

[@blueroselion5243]

Jimmy may I quote you? "Demons are jerks" 😂 I love it!

[@kimfleury]

>> That do'n't mean your face i'n't gonna melt 😂

[@moosekeeto]

No nuclear reactor... so no levers, no buttons... no switches, lights, or knobs. No blinking and beeping and flashing lights. Well, the Ark just sounds downright boring.

[@jonharson]

But what about the round things, it need the round things

[@tonyl3762]

"1 When the Philistines captured the ark of God, they carried it from Ebenezer to Ashdod; 2 then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon. 3 And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place. 4 But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off upon the threshold; only the trunk of Dagon was left to him. 5 This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. 6 The hand of the LORD was heavy upon the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, "The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us; for his hand is heavy upon us and upon Dagon our god." 8 So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" They answered, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath." So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there. 9 But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out upon them. 10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But when the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, "They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to slay us and our people." 11 They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not slay us and our people." For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there; 12 the men who did not die were stricken with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven." 1 Sam 5

[@ladysaffire4006]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@jonharson]

The Bible, also told me to sell my medals and berets to buy an AR. I swear it is in there.

[@atrifle8364]

If anything Scripture suggests that nations and generations are important. God created them, as He did gender. They are not imaginary social constructs that we get overlook because we all were born in the late 20th century. In that, I find most contemporary discussion on the topic to be the child of the age. It makes an 11th commandment out of at worst, a specific subset of pride. It's unhelpful in viewing the past or the present.

[@phrikaphrak40k]

Are we really still talking about racism as if it’s just as shallow as “skin color different, therefore I don’t like them”. Race has never been that simple or inconsequential, it’s a juvenile way about thinking about people.

[@treadstoned9915]

I'm not trying to say racism isn't real, however can't we all agree that every human could be the same color and we will still find ways to be tribal?

[@mike-cc3dd]

What about recognizing patterns and understanding statistics though?

[@supernerd8067]

What are you referring to? This question is out of context. (Edit) Are you asking if it is okay to hold racist or stereotypical views towards a group if statistics back them up?

[@atrifle8364]

​@@supernerd8067- He is asking if we are allowed to notice patterns. Currently we are not because we will be shunned based on the only public error left.

[@velkyn1]

curious how this is the cult that came up with the "curse of ham".

[@rashadfoux6927]

The only thing more confusing to me than racism is people using Church teachings to justify it. Thank you Jimmy! :)

[@atrifle8364]

It's not the 11th commandment. The issue is the importance it takes on, particularly in the secular world. Any number of serious sins out there, but people are not shamed until they told an edgy joke.

[@rashadfoux6927]

​@@atrifle8364 As a former atheist, the reason for that is because there is no sense of an internal spiritual life as Catholics see it. Absent the knowledge that God sees all and knows me personally and completely, the only things of moral value are those things which are seen and considered bad to decry, or good to encourage. That's why virtue signaling is so popular. Outside any cultural context or intention/perceived benefits, virtue signaling is an external, visible act of goodness. Kind of like the Pharisee's who would loudly declare their holiness and the good deeds they'd done. True that racism isn't the 11th commandment, but that shouldn't matter. Imitating Christ means that we're called to love our brothers and sisters as ourselves, not hate them. There's no exception that makes it okay to hate anyone. Even enemies we are at war with. Also worth noting: I don't generally care about racism unless it affects my family, money, or safety. People can be racist, and that's going to be there problem when they face God. In any context, against any race. But there is such a thing as decency and kindness. And one person's edgy joke, is another person's painful reminder of an opportunity lost, an insult or degradation received, a moment of terror, or a dead loved one. And there are still places in America that I cannot take myself or my family because the risk of harm due to racism is extremely high.

[@atrifle8364]

​@@rashadfoux6927- The faith makes a distinction between venial and mortal sins. The topic in question at very best is venial, in the way most present it. There are much more serious sins. We waste much energy on it unfortunately. And it appears we are not living in the same America, unfortunately. I worry for my son and my husband and their ability to make a living, gain access to resources etc. It has been increasingly hostile to them in my lifetime and by extension me. I am sorry about your feelings, but I have never encountered any problems ever in that regard anywhere in the country. If anything it's a hyper welcome, even in the supposed bad places.

[@Biblia1776]

@@rashadfoux6927 You mean that there are places in America where white people might physically attack you because they don't like the color of your skin? Come on man. In reality there are plenty of places where white people can't go because the risk of being assaulted or robbed by black people is extremely high. The root problem with the very concept of racism is that it has been invented and defined by people who are anti-christian and trying to fit it into a Christian worldview as if we were dealing with an actual sin that the Bible opposes is like trying to stuff a square peg in a round hole. It seems that the way you and a lot of christians are trying to resolve the problem is by defining racism as "hate" but that just makes the concept of hate as arbitrary as the concept of racism is. I agree that if someone really hates other people without a legitimate reason that is a sin but once loving your neighbor is simply defined as hating the stranger that is a deception.

[@ValAllOver]

Many of them criticizing Atkin here are not baptized Catholic, just like the *top commenter above, just to let you know. Well at least that one person is honest. God bless you 🙏🏻😇

[@CamGaylor]

Oneness pentecostals use the term the God Head all the time when they are bashing the Trinity. I bet the person who asked the question was talking to a oneness pentecostal

[@tonyl3762]

No evidence that Christianity was a factor in the Jews' rejection of the Deuteros and establishment of a smaller canon? Really? “The Gospels and heretical books do not defile the hands. The books of ben Sira, and all other books written from then on, do not defile the hands” Tosefta Yadayim, 2:13 (Rabbi Akiva) Do you disagree with Gary Michuta? What evidence do you have? Or maybe I'm misinterpreting you?

[@atrifle8364]

The modern religion appears post Christianity and is an explicit rejection of it. I have no idea why Christians are so resistant to that idea. There is a celebration of a holy day in the part of the canon that was rejected. Why? I suspect it's because the deutros clearly lead to the New Testament.

[@atrifle8364]

I wrote a longer reply, but I agree with you. The modern religion is an explicit rejection of Christianity. Not sure how we get to the idea that it played no role.

[@atrifle8364]

I agree with you. The modern religion develops post 70AD, in a rejection of Christianity. It does not develop in a vacuum. I would need an extraordinary amount of evidence to believe that thesis.

[@certifiedsadboi3387]

The racists aren’t going to like this one Mr.Akin. God bless you for speaking against evil

[@faelgrim5130]

Define racism.

[@certifiedsadboi3387]

@@faelgrim5130 Discrimination of an individual person or a group of people based on their ethnicity or skin color. Something like that

[@faelgrim5130]

@@certifiedsadboi3387 okay great because I discriminate based on statistics and a desire to not see my white race and culture eradicated by the globalist cabal.

[@faelgrim5130]

Okay good, because I discriminate based on statistics, and a desire to not see my white race and culture eradicated by the globalist cabal.

[@faelgrim5130]

Okay good, because I discriminate based on statistics, and a desire to not see my white race and culture eradicated by the gl0balist c@bal.

[@StanleyDaniels-eb9hd]

Like

[@Biblia1776]

So what exactly is this supposed racism that the Bible opposes? Is it any criticism of race mixing? Didn't God himself forbid Aaron for marrying someone from another nation? It seems quite ad hoc to interpret Miriams leprosy as a rebuke on "racism" when Aaron was not punished at all of the same sin. Or do you hold on to the view that Miriam crossed some undefined line of being too racist while Aaron was not "racist" enough to be condemned?

[@kimfleury]

Well, Miriam was listed first, indicating that she was the ringleader or instigator. Obviously Moses married the Cushite woman, and she was included among the Hebrews, so it's not about skin color, it's about allegiance and what gods the potential spouse worships.

[@Biblia1776]

@@kimfleury Could it not be possible that Miriam was listed first because she was a woman and therefore her rebellion against the authority of Moses was even more offensive and that is why she is the only one punished? Since even though Miriam is listed first the Bible clearly says that they were both in it together, not that Miriam was a ringleader and Aaron was somehow under her spell. The Bible nowhere says that the unnamed cushite woman was included among the hebrews as if she magically turned into an ethnic hebrew by marrying a hebrew man. In fact pointing out that she was a cushite highlights her foreign status not necessarily her skin color so she could have been just Zipporah. Of course marrying an unbeliever from a different race would be even worse than marrying a believer but from that it does not follow that "it's not about skin color" i.e. that ethnicities have absolutely no meaning. Moses himself declares the commandment of the Lord to Aaron in Leviticus 21:14-15 that he can only marry a virgin from his own people so that he shall not profane his seed among his people.

[@rachaelchavez8766]

I listened to Father Mike Smitnz Bible in a year, and he had another interpretation of the story of Miriam, Moses, and Aaron. He said that maybe God chose to strike Miriam with leprosy because, in an instant, both Aaron and Moses forget their argument and are both united in their concern for Miriam. So God gave Miriam the woman a temporary punishment of 7 days being a foreigner, and Moses and Aaron are united by their love for their sister.

[@martyfromnebraska1045]

Unless you're Jewish, right Jimmy?

[@atrifle8364]

The question is bubbling up. I am tired of the obvious overlooking the one religion that has the concept at it's core. Catholics are supposed to be over the top worried about it, while making sure that we don't offend people who really do believe in their genetics.

[@user-cz5ge2yn9e]

Please tell the Talmudists, Jimmy!

[@tarheelcatholic3394]

Tribalism is good and natural.

[@olofberkeskold9554]

So natural human behavior is opposed?

[@Variab13]

If you consider racism natural human behavior, yes. That wouldn't be the only natural human behavior opposed in the Bible.

[@emilio6425]

Racism isnt natural human behavor but a perversion of it. It is good to care first for, and protect those closest to you, and historically those closest to you looked like you, but as creatures with reason I think we can understand that favoring widely an entire color of people despite their location being 1000s of miles away, and never having met them is not conductive to the purpose of that primal response. Tribes used to look a like, and now they don't always.

[@rachaelchavez8766]

Natural human behavior? Yes we have that natural nagging human nature called sin. Been causing trouble for centuries.lol

[@miclam00]

​@@emilio6425Nonsense. Multiculturalism is destructive. Look at blacks. Over 400 years here and they still haven't assimilated to Western culture. Race is salient and important.

[@nilsalmgren4492]

If you are concerned with racism you are of the world.

[@faelgrim5130]

Being concerned with what statistics show us about different races, as well the erasure of distinctive cultures, and the homogenization globalists are pushing, is not racism.

[@supernerd8067]

Not necessarily. If you are trying to use race a cudgel to receive special treatment, revenge, or a false idea if justice, that is of the world. If you are concerned about people not being treated fairly based on their tribe or skin tone, that is of God. God made every race of people, present and extinct. If God didn't love them, he would not have made them. God wants us to love our neighbors, even if they hate us or if we are not fond of them.

[@nilsalmgren4492]

@@supernerd8067 If you are talking about sinful actions related to racism, it is the sinful action that needs to be discussed, not racism. Racism in itself is not sin and even Jesus makes racist claims. He likened a non-Jewish woman to a dog for not being Jewish.

[@supernerd8067]

@nilsalmgren4492 Jesus was not racist. It is a sin to be racist because you are viewing another person or groups, made in the image and likeness of God, as being less than others in dignity. I am aware of the Scripture you are referencing, but Jesus was not being racist there. Jesus was telling her He came to the Jewish people first to begin his ministry and fulfillment of the Covenant with them. He was not saying Gentiles were less than Jews; He was telling her their time had not come yet. I believe Christ also knew her heart and was testing her faith, and it was because of her faith and humility He cured her child.

[@nilsalmgren4492]

@@supernerd8067 If Jesus was not racist, why did he refer to the woman as a dog? Better yet, why is calling a woman a dog for being the wrong race not racist?

[@kevinkelly2162]

You are my chosen people = racism.

[@piafounetMarcoPesenti]

"You are my chosen people = racism." = simplism.

[@kevinkelly2162]

@@piafounetMarcoPesenti = excuses for your tribal bronze age god.

[@piafounetMarcoPesenti]

@@kevinkelly2162 I'll call John Cleese for you to have some arguments.

[@Believer1in3]

@@kevinkelly2162tell us on the doll where God hurt you. I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.

[@Believer1in3]

The Cushites were from what is now known as Sudan.

[@Church888]

Jesus, hope of the Gentiles. Don't support the seat of the anti Christ.

[@jonharson]

Don't care, I am still going to favour my people, over the others. It is my most primal directive.

[@emilio6425]

There is something natural about favoring "your people," but as creatures with reason I think we can understand that favoring widely an entire color of people despite their location being 1000s of miles away, and never having met them is not favoring your people as your nature intended, but a perversion of that primal instinct. Favoring your people is good as we have more moral obligation and more ability to protect and care for those around us. Historicaly those around us would look like us, in modern times that's not the case.

[@atrifle8364]

​​@@emilio6425- What you describe does not exist. Almost always issues between nations are about behavior and culture. Nobody cares about appearance and people 1000 of miles away and never did. At best they were the physical markers of the other conflict. Our modern allowed discourse is almost anti-intellectual. It certainly solves almost nothing because it understands almost nothing of the real issues.

[@Kleithap]

If you’re a Christian your first objective is to love God. Next is to love your neighbor as yourself. Racism has no part in either.

[@miclam00]

​@@Kleithap Interlopers who degradate the society my forefathers built and my children will inherit are not my neighbors.