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Big news. God exists. Christ is Lord. And He established the Catholic Church. I'm not kidding.
Joe Schmidt shares his journey from agnosticism to Catholicism, exploring philosophy, faith, and compelling arguments for theism.
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Key Takeaways
- Faith journeys can involve intellectual struggles and evolving beliefs over time.
- Philosophical arguments and personal experiences can powerfully influence religious belief.
- Theism offers a unifying explanation for complex phenomena that naturalism struggles to address.
- Engagement with knowledgeable mentors and rigorous dialogue can shift perspectives.
- Conversion to Catholicism is portrayed as both an intellectual and deeply personal love story.
What the video covers
- Joe Schmidt, a philosophy PhD student at Princeton, recounts his conversion to Catholicism after years of agnosticism and atheism.
- Raised devout Catholic, Joe struggled with reconciling evolution and faith during middle school.
- He lost faith in 10th grade after grappling with the problem of evolutionary suffering and naturalism.
- Joe discovered new theistic arguments through Dr. Josh Rasmussen's YouTube channel, which challenged his atheistic views.
- Extensive correspondence with Rasmussen led Joe to suspend judgment and adopt agnosticism by the end of high school.
- In graduate school, Joe encountered further compelling arguments for theism, leading him to lean toward belief in God.
- He views theism as a simple, elegant hypothesis that unifies diverse data better than naturalism.
- Joe references various evidences including laws of physics, moral facts, religious experiences, and miracles supporting Catholicism.
- He shares stories of saints and miraculous events that deeply influenced his faith journey.
- Joe concludes his story emphasizing that his conversion is ultimately a love story and invites viewers to explore their own faith.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Conversion Announcement
- 01:38Reconciling Evolution and Catholicism
- 03:22Losing Faith and Embracing Atheism
- 04:43Discovering New Theistic Arguments
- 06:11Correspondence with Dr. Josh Rasmussen
- 08:11Leaning Toward Theism in Graduate School
- 09:45Theism as a Unifying Hypothesis
- 11:37Evidence Supporting Catholicism and Miracles
- 12:37Stories of Saints and Miraculous Events
- 14:36Conclusion: A Love Story and Invitation
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I just converted to Catholicism. Well, actually, Joe, you're just a revert, so that's technically misleading. My dude, conversion is a change of heart and mind.
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And that just happened. For those of you who don't know me, shame on you. I'm Joe Schmidt. I'm a PhD student in philosophy at Princeton University, and I've been an agnostic and public critic of theism and Catholicism for quite some time.
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But, earlier this year, that all changed. So, today I'm just going to share my personal journey. Uh, if you want my hours-long comprehensive case for Catholicism, stay tuned.
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That's coming very soon. Oh, and I also have some cool things later on in the video, so stay tuned. So, I grew up in a devout Catholic household.
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I went to private Catholic school from kindergarten through 12th grade. I frequented the sacraments. I prayed all the time. I was totally into Catholicism. Everything was like smooth sailing in my faith. In fact, I was like really devout until maybe around like
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7th or 8th grade when I had the first wobble. So, in 7th or 8th grade, my Catholic school taught us evolution. And thankfully, Catholics are totally down with science, so they're like, "Yeah, we can teach you guys evolution. I mean,
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there's like so much scientific evidence for it, and it's totally compatible with Catholicism." But, it did cause me to start wondering like, "How do I mesh this with my commitments concerning Adam and Eve in Genesis? Like, how do I make
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sense of that?" That wobble didn't last too long because I came across the work of people like Francis Collins and the Biologos Institute defending theistic evolution.
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And I also started appreciating that, you know, Genesis, although there are historical elements to it, its genre is something like mythopoetry with some, you know, theological and historical aspects sprinkled in.
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And so, I was like, "Okay, you know, I can I can see accepting evolution together with um what Catholicism teaches about Genesis and human origins." But then, nearing the end of ninth grade, I really started reflecting further on the evolutionary process.
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And in particular, I reflected on the brutality of it. I mean, for hundreds of millions of years, animals were just like ripping each other to shreds and just suffering and languishing.
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And it was just so hard for me to mesh that with belief in an all-good, all-powerful, all-knowing God. This problem of evolutionary animal suffering just like gnawed at me for quite some time.
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It really bothered me. And you know, one thing led to another, and soon enough I was just like voraciously consuming debates and content online concerning theism versus atheism and Christianity versus non-Christianity and and whatnot, you know? So I was just like watching
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William Lane Craig debates and watching the new atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, etc.
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Et cetera, right? Those dirty new atheists, right? That was a joke, okay? Karma, karma. After some time, the problems for theism and Christianity just kept mounting and mounting, and eventually I lost my faith.
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That happened sometime around 10th grade. I came to conclude that atheism is true, so God does not exist.
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And I also thought that naturalism is true. So, you know, at bottom, the world is just fundamentally indifferent. You know, there's no fundamental purpose, there's no fundamental mindedness. At bottom, as Richard Dawkins says, it's just blind, pitiless indifference. You know, the
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natural world is all that there is. At the time, I thought that that was just the best explanation of the data. But then, in the summer before senior year, I stumbled across this YouTube channel called A Worldview Design.
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And I was just captivated. Like I started watching these videos, and I was like, "Whoa! These are like some new arguments for theism that I've never come across." And the host behind the channel was just like super loving, but also incredibly
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intellectually rigorous and sophisticated. So I binge-watched all his videos, and whoa, they just opened my eyes to this new world of like academic theist philosophy.
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So, the person behind the channel as I came to discover was Dr. Josh Rasmussen.
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He's a Christian philosopher. And at the time he was publishing a book with Alexander Pruss called Necessary Existence defending all these new and interesting contingency arguments for God's existence.
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And he was just like popularizing and publicizing that cutting edge work in his videos.
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And so, you know, after I'd been watching these videos I was like, "Whoa, there's way more to theism than I thought." Um there are all these new and interesting arguments that seem really forceful to my mind. But hey, I still
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got some objections. So, I reached out to this mysterious person whom I didn't know at the time. I was like, "Dear Dr.
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Rasmussen, you know, I I I've recently been been what binge watching your videos." And I was like, "I have some objections. Can you help me?" And so, then we just had this extensive email correspondence going all throughout my senior year. Uh and, you
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know, eventually I was like, "Yeah, there just is a lot more going for theism than I thought." And also, you know, just being introduced by a professional philosopher who knew a lot more than me, who was just like utterly
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mogging me intellectually, just revealed to me that I think I'd prematurely judged the question of whether God exists.
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And so, as a as a result of coming across these new arguments and dialoguing with Josh, I was like, "Okay, I can no longer maintain my confident naturalism. I think I should suspend judgment on the question of whether God
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exists. So, I should neither believe that God exists nor disbelieve." And you know, the evidence at the time just seemed to me maybe roughly counterbalanced. Maybe it's difficult to tell which way the evidence points.
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But as a result of all this, I became a kind of settled agnostic, maybe somewhere around the end of 12th grade.
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And that state of agnosticism kind of just like stably persisted all the way up until grad school. But somewhere around the end of my first year of grad school or maybe the beginning of my second year in grad school,
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things started to change a bit. I started coming across these like new and interesting arguments for theism that like seemed to me pretty forceful. And I also started losing some objections that I previously had to theistic arguments that I thought failed. So, over the
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course of my first, you know, 1 or 2 years in grad school, I started leaning towards theism.
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I started seeing theism, you know, the view that the fundamental nature of reality is just like pure limitless perfection. You know, there's this perfect being at the foundation of reality with every perfection to an unlimited extent. I started seeing this
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view as a, you know, a relatively simple coherent non-arbitrary elegant hypothesis. And not just that, but a hypothesis that offers a unifying explanation of a vast and diverse array of otherwise highly striking data. Data that other hypotheses either have to
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explain piecemeal or do a very poor job at explaining or have to take as brute facts. And so, like, this kind of meta argument for theism, that like on the one hand, it seems to be a relatively simple, elegant,
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coherent, non-arbitrary hypothesis, and on the other hand, it provides this like wonderfully unifying explanation of a vast and diverse array of pretty like strikingly fortunate data, I started leaning towards theism. And what data are we talking about? Well,
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there's too much to explain, and I explained it all in significant depth in my comprehensive case for Catholicism that's coming out very, very soon. So, stay tuned. Stay finely tuned.
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And come on, that was a good one. But just to give you a glimpse into some of the data that really started pulling on me. I mean, I already had in the background like a decently high confidence that
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some kind of necessary foundation to reality. So, some kind of ultimate reality that could not have failed to exist.
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And I at least leaned toward that view on the basis of the various contingency arguments that I mentioned earlier on from Alexander Pruss and Josh Rasmussen and various other philosophers like Rob Koons, et cetera. So, I already had that
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in the background, and then the question was, well, you know, what is this being?
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Well, maybe let's examine the character of its effect. And when we look at the character of its effect, it's just like utterly saturated with like extremely fortunate coincidences that had to like happen just right for basically anything interesting or valuable to occur in the
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world. So, it's striking to begin with that there are any laws of physics at all. But, let's suppose there are. Even then, it's pretty surprising that those laws of physics have constants that are even have life-permitting ranges to
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begin with. I mean, after all, we can imagine a hordes of different laws, many of which are much simpler than the laws that we actually have, which would preclude basically anything interesting or valuable happening. You know, basically like, it is a law that there's
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a single particle which just like vibes for all of eternity. You know, I couldn't get anything interesting or particularly valuable in such a world.
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But, we live in a world like that. Instead, the law structures that we have are at least compatible with life. And not only that, but these law structures, the form of these laws, they contain certain constants or fixed values. And
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those fixed values need to fall within exceedingly narrow ranges in order for life or basically anything interesting to develop. So, like, we sort of hit the complete cosmic jackpot there. And then, even then, we weren't done. In addition
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to that, the laws of nature actually match the contents of the universe so as to result in temporal evolution. And then, even when you get temporal evolution, it's surprising that conscious subjects evolve cuz we can imagine a world which is physically just
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like ours, but where consciousness doesn't exist. And so, it's actually quite striking that consciousness exists. And not only does consciousness exist, but it's paired up very fortuitously with the physical world.
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Our mental lives are strikingly orderly and coherent and intelligible and rational given our physical states, functioning, and behavior. And if you think about like the vast horde of conceivable ways of pairing up conscious states with physical states, only an
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exceedingly tiny portion of those actually lead to consciousness involving goods like rational agency and meaningful relationships and virtue and enjoyment and aesthetic experience and so on. And then, we have moral knowledge, and it's really difficult to see how that could be the case under
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naturalism cuz the moral facts don't explain our moral judgments under naturalism. And then, we also have a priori knowledge and that bunch of different people are experiencing God, they have religious experiences, and then beauty is just saturating the
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world. And so, I just was reflecting on all these different pieces of data and all the coincidences that I'd have to stack one on top of another in order to remain an atheist, and that was just it was getting
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difficult. But, I still didn't go all the way to theism. Why? Well, because I had all these barriers to theism. I had the problem of evil and various other difficulties and arguments against theism that pulled on my mind and those still just seemed so
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strong to me. But then in my second year of grad school I started coming across overwhelming evidence for miraculous phenomena. I mean, it started with certain people making videos about like Our Lady of Zeitoun, you know, this apparition at
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top of Coptic Orthodox Church that literally like hundreds of thousands of people saw in addition to tons of medically documented healing miracles associated with it. Another thing that kick-started my journey here was that my friend Cameron Bertuzzi was interviewing
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a bunch of different like professional psychiatrists and deliverance ministers and exorcists and various other people who are on the periphery of deliverance ministry concerning demonic phenomena and manifestations that they've witnessed with their own eyes. And like here we're talking about like super
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recent in totally perceptually conducive circumstances with sane people sometimes in the context of like multiple or even dozens of witnesses and like things that it seems like it's really hard to be mistaken about and which are like these,
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you know, complex multimodal experiences where like, you know, the temperature of the room would just like instantaneously drop to freezing such that the person can literally see their breath and then become scorching hot such that everyone in the room just starts like sweating
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and testifying to things like, oh, you know, like a few days ago I literally saw with my own eyes and multiple people present also saw it and they told me afterwards where like multiple things were just flying across the room of
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their own accord and various other like instantaneous supernatural changes in facial structure or eyes or various other things like levitation and so on.
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And I didn't actually believe these things for the longest time. I thought it was actually pretty implausible. But Cameron just kept pushing me. He was like, "Joe, watch this video. What's your explanation of this person's testimony?" You know, I'd like give
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these flailing kind of implausible naturalistic explanations concerning which I have no independent evidence and, you know, basically I'm like having to divine from the armchair that these people are just like lying straight to their teeth and then also like all the
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other deliverance ministers are in on it and these various psychiatrists are in on it and then like also, you know, like the the the reports that we have to some of these phenomena are also like that the people who testified in those are
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just mistaken and then like dozens of other I was starting to shift in my seat. I was starting to become uncomfortable.
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And that was just like the first of my worries. Because over the course of my second and third year of grad school, I was just utterly inundated with overwhelming evidence for miraculous phenomena. And like the caliber of evidence that we're talking about here
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is not like, "Oh, I prayed and my headache got better." It's like, "Okay, okay, Susie. Like, I'm glad your headache got better, but I'm not not not quite sure that's a miracle." Instead, we're talking videos, photographs, blinded laboratory analyses, x-rays, you
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name it, we got it. It's like we got blinded laboratory analyses saying, "Yeah, this is suffering myocardial tissue." And what's that doing in a host that a Catholic priest just prayed over?
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Like, if you see that, what am I supposed to do? WHAT AM I SUPPOSED to do when you see that? It's like, "Oh, no." And for some of these healing miracles, it's like we got documentation to like complete instantaneous permanent
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remission of advanced multiple sclerosis in combination with an uncollapsed lung, redefinition of calf muscles, and instantaneous removal of blindness at the same time. Oh, all in connection, by the way, with like a complex hallucination. And I know actually like
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a religious experience of like a booming voice saying, "Get up, my child, and walk." Like, that's the level of evidence that we're talking about. And like for some of the canonization healing miracles for which medical documentation is required, it's like we
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got pictures of the dude beforehand with his severe bilateral congenital clubfoot. We have pictures from his childhood where you can see them and he's like We have testimonies from all of like his friends and his teachers like to the effect that he'd always have
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to like walk on the sides of his ankles and whatnot. And we've got pictures of him throughout childhood with that. Oh, and then he prays to one of these Catholic saints. [laughter] And then, afterwards, both of his legs are straight and
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completely healed. It's like, "Okay, this is insane." Oh, and it's like we've got x-rays afterwards and pictures afterwards. Okay, what's going on here?
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[laughter] And then you just go through all these other cases and it's just insane and I just can't believe the conspiracy that I would have to posit in order to explain them all away. It just seems like the
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universe was conspiring to make it look like God exists. God is performing certain miracles. And not just miracles, but miracles that seem to vindicate distinctive Catholic doctrines. You've got for instance very well evidenced Eucharistic miracles. You've got extremely well evidenced Marian
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apparitions like Fatima and Lourdes and Zeitoun where like Mary is like granting requests for conversion to Catholicism.
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She's saying, "Get the Holy Father to consecrate Russia outside of his jurisdiction, by the way, to my Immaculate Heart." Thereby vindicating the Immaculate Conception, which only Catholics dogmatize. And of course, you know, she's like, as I said, granting
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petitions to convert people to Catholicism. She's like telling people to pray the rosary. Pray the rosary. So she's like advancing the cause of praying the rosary, which of course meditates on mysteries like the Assumption and the Coronation of Mary.
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Oh, and of course, it's like it's Mary herself, the Mother of God, appearing to people. It's like it's just shot through with Catholic vindicatory implications.
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And there are all sorts of reasons why naturalistic aren't good and why demonic explanations aren't good. And that's just Fatima. Like at Lourdes, you've got Mary telling St. Bernadette Soubirous like, "Je suis l'Immaculée Conception." Or however it is. Like, "Parlez-vous
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français?" We are not. Hey, you want the baguette, the croissant? Anyway, she she's literally saying to St.
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Bernadette, "I am the Immaculate Conception." I mean, how much clearer could you possibly get? And then God just goes out of his way to perform like the most unprecedented string of like concentrated medically documented healing miracles in all of history at
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Lourdes. It's just insane. Or you know, if I want to be I want to be French, Lourdes. And God's also going like out of his way on multiple occasions, on multiple different continents, and in multiple different centuries. He's going
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out of his way to like make sure that when like a Catholic priest Oh, and it only seems to be Catholic priests. When a Catholic priest prays over some bread, it turns Oh my goodness, there's suffering myocardial tissue afterwards.
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And like we've got the the got like scientific documentation of this in like blinded laboratories and like blinded scientists who look at these things. And we also have the pictures of them that we can compare. You can can even ask AI
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to look at the pictures and it's like, "Oh yeah, this has like seems like musc- musculoskeletal or some kind of like muscular tissue." It's like, "Hmm." And of course, you know, the miracle at hand simulates like precisely the ontological
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change that Catholics believe in. And there are so many other things that I'm leaving out, but like finally, in February of this year, I sit down with Ethan Muse for like 4 hours to talk about the overwhelming evidence behind Saint Padre Pio's
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mystical charisms. Like we have we have doctors who issue reports like immediately afterwards where they're like "Yeah I they're describing like tremendous detail their observations. Like like, "Yeah, he literally palpated his hands and his feet." And like he's like
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describing like, "Yeah, I felt a palpable void in between his hands and it was separated by thin membranes on both sides." Oh, and another doctor on an earlier occasion was like, "Yeah, I examined it and there it was like a
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complete hole going through his entire hand such that I could literally read things on the other side of the hand if I like if I put his hand up against it." So, it's like okay.
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What's going on? Oh, and then he has these for like five decades long with a bunch of other people seeing them. We have pictures of them. We have videos of them. Thousand tens of thousand hundreds of thousands of people probably millions of people
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saw these over the course of those 50 years. Oh, and then I've got you know, like we've got pictures on the day of his death where he has no scars despite having deep wounds for five decades. And of course, like the etiology and the
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character of these wounds is just totally incompatible with various naturalistic explanations that you might proffer. And then that's just the stigmata and then it's like we've got so many medically documented healing miracles with him involving like the regeneration of eyes and also like this
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odor of sanctity. Also like where he sometimes where he goes like it would come in like waves, this like massive beautiful fragrance that would like fill rooms and it would like stay with some of his relics for like years on end. Oh,
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and also like dozens of times doctors are taking his temperature and it's like re- giving naturalistically inexplicable readings. So, like on one of the occasions a doctor has a mercury thermometer, takes his temperature under his armpit with a mercury thermometer,
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it literally shatters. So, then they get a professional bath thermometer and then take his temperature with it, and then it reads 125°. I mean, it's just all your organs would just utterly fail at that point. I could go on and on, and
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there are lots of reasons why all of these have like Catholic distinctive vindicatory implications, where like it seems like God is going out of his way to put his stamp of approval on distinctive Catholic doctrines. My broader point is that over the course of
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my second and third year of grad school, I just start getting inundated with evidence for miracles, firstly, but also miracles that seem to vindicate distinctively Catholic doctrines. And not just that, but just as theism offered just this like wonderfully unifying explanation of
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like a vast and diverse array of otherwise pretty striking and coincidental data, I started to see Catholicism in the same light. It started to seem to me that Catholicism just unifyingly explains all this miraculous evidence, the pattern of
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miracles, the individual miracles, and then it also would make it not particularly surprising that I might be going systematically astray with respect to some of my moral intuitions or some of my intuitions against hell or various other things like that. So, I started to
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see Catholicism in much the same way that I saw theism. Of course, I still had lots of objections to Catholicism. It was so hard to get through all of them, you know, like I had objections to hell, and
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I had objections to the Bible, and I had objections to the moral teachings of the church, and I I had magisterial objections and whatnot. But, just over the course of, yeah, those two or so years, I just started looking into the objections
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further, and and they just started to wane. So, in addition to like reading like theology and philosophy, and, you know, magisteriology, in addition to all of that, I watched lots of YouTube videos. But, also I would just sit down
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for like hours on end with my my good friend Ethan Muse, and we would just go back and forth and back and forth on these various objections.
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And for the most part, he was just like systematically coming out on top. So, I was like, "Oh man, [laughter] what's going on here?" Um no, but like and his responses to my objections were actually quite powerful. I mean,
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ultimately it was the the 4-hour conversation with Ethan Muse on Padre Pio that convinced me intellectually that Catholicism is true. I just said to myself like, "Listen, I can't imagine if I died right now and I saw Christ,
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I can't imagine having to tell him what I'd have to tell him by my lights as a non-Catholic. I was just not willing to bet my soul on just like not only a single conspiracy, but just like a conspiracy of
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conspiracies that or just like conspiring to make it look as though Catholicism is true. And so, the day after that call with Ethan Muse, I did my examination of conscience covering a decade of my life away from the faith.
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And then the following day, I did my general confession. Praise God. Now, I've been giving you the intellectual side of the story, but any conversion not only has intellectual elements, it has personal elements, spiritual elements.
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Right? Because conversion is not just a change of mind. Conversion is a change of heart.
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And so, what helped me change my heart? I mean, ultimately it was God, right?
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But what what changed? Well, it started with Saint Maria Goretti. I watched this video produced by Gabby After Hours on the story of Saint Maria Goretti.
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And long story short, you know, she's this 11-year-old girl who's a 20-year-old neighbor takes an impure liking to her.
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And one day, this 20-year-old neighbor, Alessandro Serenelli, comes up to her and says, you know, "Unless you do what I want you to do, I'm going to kill you." And he's got this like long, sharp object that he's pointing at her.
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And she says, "No. I'm going to remain pure." And so, he stabs her. Ultimately, 14 times.
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On her deathbed, the next day, you know, she's rushed to the hospital. Somehow, she survived this, even though he thought he had finished the job.
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On her deathbed, she's like offering up all of her suffering for the salvation of souls.
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She's enduring it patiently, not complaining. And she also says, "I forgive Alessandro Serenelli. And I want him with me in paradise." You know, Alessandro Serenelli is caught. He's brought to prison. And he's just like this ragingly hateful man. He's just like blaming her.
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He's full of resentment. He's like being violent with his other inmates and whatnot. But then, one night, he has a dream.
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And in that dream, Saint Maria Goretti appears to him. And hands him, one by one, 14 white lilies.
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Which he, of course, rightly interprets as her forgiving him for each of the 14 times he stabbed her.
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He wakes up a completely changed man. He calls in a priest. He confesses to having murdered Saint Maria Goretti.
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And he radically transforms his life. To the point that now there's a cause for his canonization.
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So, like, what When I reflected on this story, I was like, "This is such a profound and beautiful story of radical forgiveness, radical love, radical purity.
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And it's like, listen, whatever she's on, I want some of that." And so, this was like one step along the path of kind of instilling within me a kind of magnetic pull, a kind of magnetic attraction to Catholicism.
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The same thing happened with uh Saint Maximilian Kolbe. And of course I was already quite quite affected by the figure of Christ in the Gospels. You know, he speaks with this authority.
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You know, he's he's preaching like radical love of neighbor, like radical forgiveness, radical self-sacrifice.
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And that was already quite attractive to me. But the stories of some of these saints, and you know, there are lots of others too, like St. Damien of Molokai, um really influenced me. And then in addition to that,
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I had these like quasi-religious experiences where I was just like I'd just be sitting in gym and I would just feel almost in waves, just like this sense, "You could be a saint.
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You could be a saint." I didn't actually like hear a voice in my head, but I knew that that that somehow was what's being communicated to me, right?
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I just felt this palpable call to sainthood. And then as I said, it almost like came in waves. And at the same time I was being convicted of my sin. I was just seeing the manifold ways in which I seriously fall short
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of how I'm supposed to live. And so God was here just launching like a full-frontal assault on me to get me converted, right? Like he's just like putting all these like overwhelmingly beautiful and inspiring saint stories on my radar. He's making them have a
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significant impact on me. He's like giving me these like quasi-religious experiences, kind of calling me to sainthood. He's giving me this like weird, almost indescribable magnetic attraction to Catholicism.
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Um and his frontal assault succeeded in changing my heart. You know, at some point in every conversion, someone goes from that reaction that I said earlier, like, "Oh, no." Like, "There's so much evidence for Catholicism." Like, "Oh my gosh." You
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know, you look at the miracles and then you got this cognitive dissonance where like you're like, oh no.
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At some point you go from that to like, oh man, this is so wonderful. This is so beautiful.
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You have a change of heart. And so, God affected that within me. And so, it was the combination of the kind of head factors and the heart factors that ultimately culminated in that general confession.
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God is good. So good. Don't write off who you take to be even the hardest of sinners.
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Because where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more. Now, I said at the beginning of the video that I've got some cool things to share. So, one of those is a new channel intro. So, let's get into that.
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[singing] [music] [music] [music] Wow. Isn't that so cool? I don't know, I love it. My friend Juan put it together.
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Thank you, Juan. Everyone say, thank you, Juan. And then there are a few other very cool things coming up. So, on Monday, my in-person interview with Matt Fradd is coming out. And then, throughout the rest of next week, there
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are lots of other mysterious in-person interviews that are going to come out that I'm not going to talk about right now. You're just going to have to find out what those are about and who they're with. Here are some plans for the
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channel going forward. I'm I'm planning to occasionally produce general philosophy content. There will be a major change though. So, the major shift is that I'm planning to focus on arguing for Catholicism and theism going forward. I'll be going through
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everything I went through in this video in much more depth. It will take a lot of time, but I want to essentially create and compile together the best series of videos in history on arguments for God's existence and Catholicism.
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I can't promise it, but I'd like to do it. So, first I'd like to start with arguments for theism, then systematically respond to arguments for atheism, then comb through the miraculous case for Catholicism, comb through the non-miraculous arguments for
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Catholicism, respond extensively to all the objections to Catholicism issuing from atheists and generic theists and Protestants and Orthodox, etc. I want to develop an extensive body of videos criticizing other religions. Like again, this is all just like a dream of mine.
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I'd like to do that. And we will see where the Lord takes me. Debates and discussions will be continuing. And I also just ask for patience. You know, things are getting very busy. And I also ask for your prayers. Know that I will
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be praying for you. And also, stay tuned very soon for my many hours long comprehensive case for Catholicism. I think I think you're really going to enjoy it. That's going to be on my channel. So, definitely of course hit
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the subscribe button and the notification bell and like give me like thousands of dollars in Patreon of course. Hey, our time together has unfortunately come to an end.
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That's my conversion story. It's ultimately a love story. And I hope it's the beginning of a similar love story on your end.
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Praise God.
Topics:Catholicismconversion storyphilosophy of religiontheismagnosticismevolution and faithmiraclesSaint Padre PioJoe SchmidtDr. Josh Rasmussen
