S1E4 – In God We Trust?

SHOW NOTES

Episode 4: “In God We Trust?“

 

1. Bill and Ken are exploring different aspects of joy. We need to share truth because people want to trust each other. Billy Joel’s song “Honesty” says it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS1TiGu6Bak

 

2. Descartes made himself the center of all things, eroding our ties to truth.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rene-Descartes

 

3. Trust is crucial in relationships. Relativism leads to dictatorial relationships, as posited by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. National Catholic Register

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/benjamin-wiker/benedict-vs.-the-dictatorship-of-relativism

 

4. Can we construct trust quantitatively? Ken referred to this in USA Today:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/03/20/review-you-wrote-amazon-priceless/99332602/

 

5. People generally trust only themselves today, says The Death of Expertise by Thomas Nichols, a new book cited by Bill.

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge/dp/0190469412/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1515362249&sr=8-1

 

6. We must trust others in the community and those who pass it along to us. The gift of faith is given by God, but we must receive it. Job’s trust in 13:15.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/job/13

 

7. God has proven Himself trustworthy through his gift of the Divine Mercy, and the Marians of the Immaculate Conception promote devotion to this.

http://www.usccb.org/bible/job/13

 

8. Ken and Bill are discussing components of joy with an eye toward Pope Francis’s emphasis on joy for missionary discipleship, as seen in his writing.

http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium.html

 

9. God wants all people to be saved and come to a knowledge of Himself. Pope Francis makes this point in his Apostolic Exhortation, The Joy of Love.

https://w2.vatican.va/content/dam/francesco/pdf/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20160319_amoris-laetitia_en.pdf

 

(Science causes some people to lose trust in God. But Blessed John Henry Newman says a thousand questions still do not add up to one doubt:)

http://www.ncregister.com/site/article/blessed-john-henry-newman-explains-faith-doubts-and-difficulties