The Father Bob Show #49
Bob is being very random today. We discuss his feelings about the last podcast and the “god” argument. We have a long chat about the activities of our various operatives (previously ninjas). The tone you hear indicates where I had to edit out long conversations between Bob and the electrician. Terry Monagle (Bob’s biographer) joins us at the end for a friendly chat.
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February 10th, 2007 at 7:55 pm
I hope you win lots of money for the poor Father Bob.
you seem to be a well read and intelligent fellow (when you’re not going on one of your esoteric tangents :P)
You don’t have to worry about tv coverage for your beloved Pies, they’re the big wigs of the competition. They’ll get special attention.
Have pity for the Kangaroos who will only see 9 of their games televised on free to air TV
The AFL has screwed over their less commercially successful clubs.
ps: I’m a west coast supporter… its a good time to be a chardonnay sipper =)
February 12th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
“Ambushed”??? Oh come on. I just asked a simple question! I’m re-listening to the show now.
Me: “Father Bob, what is the justification for the 32.9 million people Yahweh killed in the Bible?”
Bob: “None because it’s not a scientific and reasonable thing.”
Me: “The numbers come out of the bible.”
Bob: “The numbers in the bible are not mathematical numbers. They are legendary numbers, mythological numbers. You can’t read books, you can only read numbers.”
And so on. If I can’t ask a Catholic priest a simple question about God, what is the world coming to???
February 13th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
True, many/most priests are happy to answer quesions about God. However, we are not dealing with any old garden variety priest here. Also, we all know that it wasn’t just a simple question, but also a provocation.
We also all know that Bob has gotten used to little old softie me, who introduces her questions about god very gently.
Me thinks you catch more flies with honey…
February 15th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
Cameron, you did kinda chase after Father Bob with a metaphorical kitchen fork.
It seems to me that this argument is about the difference between religion and spirituality. I would be interested to hear Bob and Cameron’s definition on the two terms.
February 17th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Hi Tom,
We will definitely answer this one in a Skype Cast so that Bob and Cameron are in their corners, literally!
Cheers, Michaela.
February 19th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
It seems to me that the religion that Cameron is attacking is not the religion that Bob is talking about.
In all respect and good humour, Cameron, it’s easy to create a ’straw man’ of belief or religion that is a throwback to primitive times, and then destroy it with some well-placed arguments. But I don’t think you’ve actually said much about Bob’s definition of religion.
Having said that - love the robust discussion, guys.