Daily Breakfast 480 - I Want To Believe
In this episode: does the Redemption by Christ affect the whole universe? Catastrophies in China and Myanmar: if we can’t blame God, then who’s to blame? UK opens X-Files: are UFO’s real? Cannes, Indiana Jones, Crystal Skulls and X-Files 2; what lack of sleep does to your health.
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Father is it possible that the last two episodes of the DB are not on Itunes yet? b/c my computer cant download them?!
Linda, both episodes are also on iTunes, you might want to unsubscribe and resubscribe, that sometimes helps to refresh the feed. And you can listen via the website too of course.
I loved the X-Files talk today. I was not a regular watcher of the series — only on occasion. But, I recall two of my co-workers back in the mid-1990’s who were always buzzing about it the next morning. I’ve watched some of the re-runs. I just saw a re-run of the first motion picture feature. I have never been a big SciFi fan but love listening to you talk about it. I have come to enjoy some SciFi type programming. Over the last year, I became a fan of Heroes and Kyle-XY. Peace.
Hey Fr.,
I remember reading in a C.S. Lewis book, The Problem of Pain, that we may not be solely responsible for the fallen state of our universe. He suggests there that the fall of the angels may have caused much of the evil in nature that we now see. There is a certain amount of sense to this. Anyone who has heard an animal suffer for hours before dying has got to figure God didn’t want this, and yet this certainly went on every day for many millions of years before humans arrived on the scene.
Now, granted, our fall could have caused trans-temporal effects stretching forward and backward through time given the trans-temporal nature of our souls, God, and other things we presently aren’t aware of. But the idea that the fall of the angels could have effected much of the damage in nature is an interesting one.
I was also thinking that Christ could have redeemed aliens, though not through his passion here on earth. We know that Christ is both God and man, but do we have anything to say that he wasn’t also God and alien? Perhaps Christ is the life for us, and for others, and for all others who have fallen, through his redemption, unique to each fallen people. Christ’s resurrection did redeem the whole universe, but his redemption here on earth as man may be only one piece of his universal redemption. It’s not exactly an idea I’m familiar with from the catechism, but then I know of nothing in the catechism that would prevent it being true.
Thanks for breakfast, God bless,
Scott
Oh, one more thing I was thinking of about with sleep! It might be helpful to try using a fan to blow on you while you sleep. I find at the cottage on hot summer nights this can really help.
And for your eyes, why not try getting a little mask that covers over only your eyes? Block out the light no matter what type of windows you have. If you have noise problems as well, I can attest from personal experience that ear plugs can be lifesavers. I sleep with them every night now, and am guaranteed a good sleep. My ears are trained to hear the alarm, or anything else out of the ordinary, but nothing else - yours would likely adapt fairly quickly as well. Just a thought! God bless,
Scott
Thank you for this episode, Father. One of my personal struggles with Catholicism is coming to grips with why pain and suffering happens in this world, and how it is caused. I appreciate you clearing this up for me, your words have renewed my faith, and I wanted to express my gratitude to you.