Avoiding Babylon

Avoiding Babylon Crew
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Avoiding Babylon was started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these difficult and dark days, when most of us were isolated from family, friends, our parishes, and even the Sacraments themselves, this channel was started as a statement of standing against the tyrannical mandates that many of us were living under. Since those early days, this channel has morphed into an amazing community of friends…no…more than friends…Christian brothers and sisters…who have grown in joy and charity.  As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace.  Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said: “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!”

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  1. 6h ago ·  Video

    She Survived Her Execution: Christa Pike & The Death Penalty Debate

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! A lethal injection that allegedly didn’t do its one job sets the tone for a wild conversation: witness accounts of strange sounds in the chamber, headlines about an all-women execution team, and the feeling that the public is being handed a story engineered to trigger a specific reaction. We sort through what’s being claimed, what feels inconsistent, and why “humane” capital punishment can still look brutal when the process goes off the rails.  Then we zoom out to the bigger issue underneath it all: narrative control. When the same medicalized language can be sold as torture in a death penalty case but mercy in euthanasia, it forces a hard question about moral consistency and institutional trust. From there we get into how social media algorithms reward outrage, how selective reporting can inflame men versus women hostility, and why parenting in 2026 means having honest, awkward conversations with your kids before the internet does it for you.  The back half turns to AI ethics and AI safety, including reports of companies pushing “AI personhood” and trying to influence religious leaders and public language. We also talk practical AI adoption at work, what tools like Claude can actually do, where they still fail, and why hallucinated citations and fake confidence are not small problems. If you care about capital punishment, media manipulation, parenting, or the future of artificial intelligence, hit play, subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave us a review with your take on what’s real and what’s performance. Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  2. 7h ago • Subscribers Only

    She Survived Her Execution: Christa Pike & The Death Penalty Debate (Full LOCALS Show)

    A lethal injection is sold as the clean, modern face of capital punishment, right up until it doesn’t work. We react to a botched execution report that sounds chaotic from the first moments, then pull on the thread it exposes: how “sanitized” procedures can still be brutal, how public outrage gets engineered, and why some of these stories feel less like reality and more like carefully staged theater.We also zoom out to the bigger trust problem. If the only truly serious argument against the death penalty is the chance of executing an innocent person, what does that mean in a world where institutions feel corrupted, narratives get spun instantly, and the public rarely gets the full story? That question collides with the way social media cycles cases to provoke men against women and women against men, while algorithms quietly train us to live on adrenaline and suspicion. We talk through parenting conversations that actually help: boundaries, avoiding scandal, and forming a conscience that isn’t outsourced to porn, sitcoms, and trend-driven “sex ed.”Then the tech anxiety lands hard. We dig into the push to frame AI as conscious or deserving moral standing, including the Vatican angle and why personhood language matters. We keep it practical too: where AI genuinely saves time at work, where it still hallucinates, and how deepfakes and edited footage could supercharge propaganda in the near future.If this one hits a nerve, share it with a friend, subscribe so you don’t miss the next live, and leave a review with your take: are we being informed or emotionally herded?

  3. 2d ago ·  Video

    The Wages of Sin: How Sin Destroyed Caleb Flynn's Life

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! A married pastor. A 20-year-old singer on the worship team. A secret relationship that stops being “just an affair” and turns into something darker, uglier, and catastrophically permanent. We break down how this case unfolds, why the text messages matter so much, and how two people can talk themselves into the kind of evil they’d never admit to in public, all while leaving a digital trail that’s basically a confession. We also wrestle with the parts people love to ignore: motive and consequences. When divorce threatens a reputation, a job, money, and the future someone feels entitled to, the temptation is to “solve” the problem instead of facing it. We talk about why the intruder story is so common, why it almost never works, and why “he seems remorseful” often translates to “he’s devastated he got caught.” Along the way, we pull out the bigger lesson about temptation, desensitization, and why real accountability and boundaries matter long before anything crosses a line. Then we change gears into culture and theology, reacting to a women’s conference clip that sets off alarms for us, plus broader frustration with how certain talking points spread across generations. We close with a thought-provoking segment sparked by a clip describing Judaism as a “worldly religion” and our Christian argument for what it means that God chooses to dwell with His people, not in a building. If you got value from this conversation, subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find it. What part of the story hit you hardest, the texts, the motive, or the aftermath? Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  4. 2d ago • Subscribers Only

    The Wages of Sin: How Sin Destroyed Caleb Flynn's Life (Full LOCALS Show)

    A clean conscience doesn’t collapse overnight, it erodes one rationalization at a time. We start with a case that still feels unreal: a pastor with a public platform, a secret relationship with a younger worship singer, and a trail of messages so reckless they end up being read aloud in court. The details are grim, but our focus stays on the bigger pattern: how obsession grows, how resentment becomes a shared language, and how the fantasy of a “new life” can convince people they’re smarter than consequences.We also dig into the part too many people ignore in 2026: digital evidence is forever. Phones, apps, “private” chats, and deleted threads have a way of resurfacing when investigators get involved, and we talk about why that reality should sober anyone flirting with secrecy. From there, we get practical and personal about accountability, boundaries at work, and why the honeymoon phase can feel like destiny when it’s really just novelty and dopamine. If you’ve ever wondered how ordinary people torch everything they claim to value, this conversation puts that slow drift under a microscope.The second half turns toward culture and media. We react to viral commentary around a high-profile family tragedy and the pressure to perform the “right” emotions for cameras, plus a wider discussion about how online narratives, influencers, and generational propaganda shape what people excuse and what they condemn. Agree or disagree, you’ll hear the reasoning laid out plainly, with the same throughline the whole time: guard your mind, because your choices follow your attention.If this hit a nerve, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show. What boundary or habit has actually helped you stay honest when temptation shows up?

  5. Sep 25 ·  Video

    Jeremy Boreing Is Wrong About Integralism and the American Founding

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! America doesn’t have a “neutral” public square, it has a creed it rarely names. We take on the rising debate over Catholic integralism by reacting to Jeremy Boreing’s interview with a Catholic academic and then pulling the thread all the way back through Catholic social teaching, church and state history, and the modern liberal order that most of us were taught to treat as inevitable. We start by defining liberalism in plain terms, not as a generic insult, but as a set of ideas with real consequences: religious liberalism that separates civil society from the Church, political liberalism that grounds authority in popular consent, and economic liberalism that elevates individual autonomy in markets. From there, integralism becomes easier to understand as a competing vision of the common good, where the state is not a “theology-free zone” and where spiritual ends outrank temporal ones without collapsing into theocracy. We also tackle the hard part Catholics keep circling: Vatican II and religious liberty. We talk through why Dignitatis Humanae is invoked as a conversation-stopper, why older papal condemnations like Quanta Cura still matter to many Catholics, and what it means when people read everything through a conciliar lens. Then we test popular claims about Spain, Ireland, and Quebec by looking at the timing of religious decline, the role of Catholic education, and the way culture shifts can break practice faster than any single policy. If you care about Catholic integralism, post-liberalism, Americanism, or the future of Catholic institutions, this is a sharp, source-driven conversation that refuses easy slogans. Subscribe, share this with a friend who disagrees, and leave a review with your best question: can a liberal state ever be truly neutral? Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  6. Sep 23 ·  Video

    Did Jimmy Akin Just Defend the Golden Calf?

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! A couple hundred bucks lost in Atlantic City turns into a surprisingly honest gut check: why do some temptations feel instantly disgusting, while others slowly become normal? From that cold open, we move into two listener stories that hit the opposite note: real momentum in Catholic life through community, courtship, conversion, and even a vocational step forward. It’s a reminder that small choices and daily habits can compound in either direction. Then we tackle the main spark for the night: a viral clip featuring Jimmy Akin and a question about the golden calf. Were the Israelites attempting to worship the one true God through an image, or was it a flat-out return to pagan idolatry? We don’t just react to the clip, we walk through why the framing matters, why “context” can still leave a bad argument intact, and how Catholic apologetics can drift when novelty starts replacing clarity. Along the way, we talk about Church messaging, interreligious dialogue, and how vague language can leave ordinary Catholics unsure about mission, conversion, and what the faith actually demands. We also widen the lens to modern pressures that shape the soul and the headlines: prescription stimulants and the fear of spiritual numbness, AI and cyber-panic narratives, and Canada’s MAID assisted dying program as a case study in the culture of death Pope John Paul II warned about. If you’re tired of recycled talking points and want an unfiltered conversation about doctrine, culture, and discernment, press play, then share this with a friend and leave a rating and review so more people can find the show. Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

  7. Sep 23 • Subscribers Only

    Did Jimmy Akin Just Defend the Golden Calf? (Full LOCALS Show)

    Losing a couple hundred bucks in Atlantic City shouldn’t feel like the end of the world, but it does if you actually respect what work costs and what “easy money” does to your head. That story kicks off a night where we move from personal accountability to the bigger question underneath so much modern chaos: who is shaping the stories we’re told, and why do so many institutions seem allergic to clarity?We unpack a viral theology clip about the golden calf in Exodus and push hard on what it implies about idolatry, worship, and the temptation to soften religious claims until they mean nothing. From there we talk about interfaith messaging, bishops’ public statements, and how that tone can ripple into real family conversations where people struggle to understand why conversion, sacraments, and the Cross matter at all. Even if you disagree with our conclusions, you’ll hear exactly why we think precision and courage beat vague “dialogue” language every time.Then we shift to the modern body-and-soul battlefield: pharmaceuticals, stimulants, and the fear that a medicated culture can become spiritually anesthetized. We read a bracing passage from St John Chrysostom, argue about prudence versus scrupulosity, and connect it to the way AI is being sold to the public with human language like “hopes,” “sacrifices,” and “thinks.” We close by asking what comes next if AI panic becomes the excuse for digital ID, tighter surveillance, and financial control during the next crisis, then we lighten things up with a wild fire hydrant window clip and a stunt video that is almost hard to watch.Subscribe for more long-form Catholic commentary, share this with a friend who’s tired of euphemisms, and leave a review to help more people find the show. What part of our argument did you agree with, and what part did we get wrong?

  8. Sep 18 ·  Video

    60 Years of Nostra Aetate, Adderall, and Novus Ordo Mystics

    Want to reach out to us? Want to leave a comment or review? Want to give us a suggestion or berate Anthony? Send us a text by clicking this link! A single phrase can light the fuse on half the Catholic internet, and we’re watching it happen again. We start with the behind-the-scenes fallout in Catholic media as friendships fracture, platforms rebrand, and old “trad movement” alliances look shakier by the week. The bigger question we keep coming back to is what all this conflict does to regular Catholics trying to hold the faith without getting dragged into constant faction warfare. Then we dig into the real flashpoint: new talk around Nostra Aetate, Vatican II, and the claim that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is “irrevocable,” paired with the insistence that Christ is the one and only Redeemer. We wrestle with how Catholics should read that language, how Romans 11 gets invoked, and why unclear wording fuels suspicion, bad arguments, and endless online escalation. We also talk about the pressure-cooker created by modern rhetoric, where people fear labels more than they fear confusion, and where “interreligious dialogue” sometimes gets treated as a substitute for straightforward Catholic evangelization. One of the most powerful moments comes from a viral clip at a Novus Ordo Mass: a priest appears physically shaken, struggling with the chalice, and overwhelmed as he prays. We take it seriously as a reminder of Eucharistic faith, the weight of sin, and the danger of letting our hearts grow cold, especially when our first instinct is to sneer instead of to pray. If you care about Catholic theology, Catholic Jewish relations, Vatican II debates, and the future of online Catholic media, you’ll find plenty to wrestle with here. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who needs a calmer take, and leave a review with your biggest question from the conversation. Support the show Get 10% off an amazing Black Monk Rosary by going to https://www.blackmonkrosaries.com/?ref=AVOIDINGBABYLON and using code AVOIDINGBABYLON at checkout! Check out our sponsor, Nic Nac, at www.nicnac.com and use code "AB25%" for 25% off of your first order! Please subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKsxnv80ByFV4OGvt_kImjQ?sub_confirmation=1 https://www.avoidingbabylon.com Merchandise: https://avoiding-babylon-shop.fourthwall.com Locals Community: https://avoidingbabylon.locals.com Full Premium/Locals Shows on Audio Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1987412/subscribe RSS Feed for Podcast Apps: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1987412.rss

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Avoiding Babylon was started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. During these difficult and dark days, when most of us were isolated from family, friends, our parishes, and even the Sacraments themselves, this channel was started as a statement of standing against the tyrannical mandates that many of us were living under. Since those early days, this channel has morphed into an amazing community of friends…no…more than friends…Christian brothers and sisters…who have grown in joy and charity.  As we see it, our job here at Avoiding Babylon is to remind ourselves and those who enjoy the channel that being Catholic is a joyful and exciting experience. We seek true Catholic fraternity and eutrapelia with other Catholics who, like us, are doing their best to live out their vocation with the help of God’s Grace.  Above all, we try to bring humor and joy to the craziness of this fallen world, for as Hillaire Belloc has famously said: “Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!”

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  • Creator
    Avoiding Babylon Crew
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    722
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Avoiding Babylon
  • Show Website
    Avoiding Babylon
  • Provider
    Robert Blyton

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