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. 2h ago • Subscribers Only

    Christ Is King, Never Vivek: The Speech That Aged Perfectly (Full LOCALS Show)

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  2. 2d ago ·  Video

    Belloc Was Right: Europe Must Return to the Faith or Die

    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! France is burning on your timeline and it’s hard to look away, not because it’s “foreign news,” but because it feels like a preview. We bring on Adrian from Sips with Sarah to talk through the France riots, the copycat unrest spreading across Europe, and the sickening vulnerability of churches, cathedrals, and historic landmarks when the state hesitates and mobs realize there’s no consequence. We keep coming back to a concrete question: what does real, non-vigilante resistance look like when sacred places and public order are on the line?  From there, we get into the bigger drivers people don’t want to name: European immigration policy, the collapse of assimilation expectations, and a cultural formation pipeline that can teach both natives and newcomers to despise the very place they live. We also unpack why so many officials seem frozen, including the idea that the post-war moral framework treats “racism” as the ultimate heresy, making leaders qualify everything while cities burn. Adrian adds a Catholic lens, including what older Catholic teaching says about borders, obligations to the common good, and the duty to respect a nation’s religious heritage.  The conversation doesn’t stay purely political. We talk about why watching formerly Catholic countries drift from their roots feels like a spiritual wound, what the Church’s leadership gets wrong when it defaults to dialogue alone, and whether any recovery requires something like a Nineveh-level return to God. If you care about Europe, Christianity, mass migration, assimilation, and the future of Western civilization, this one will challenge you. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a review with your take: are you hopeful or bracing for worse? 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

  3. 2d ago • Subscribers Only

    Belloc Was Right: Europe Must Return to the Faith or Die (Full LOCALS Show)

    Europe isn’t “having a moment” it’s showing stress fractures in real time. We watch the footage out of France and ask the question that’s hard to say out loud: what happens when a country can’t or won’t defend its streets, its borders, or its churches? With Adrian from Sips with Sarah, we talk through riots, immigration, assimilation, and why Catholic cathedrals and historic monuments feel like more than tourist sites when your faith is tied to the civilization that built them. From there, we dig into the deeper story underneath the headlines: the fear of being labeled racist, the way leaders soften language while cities burn, and the idea that the post World War II “never again” consensus functions like a secular religion with its own heresies and original sins. We debate whether politics can actually solve a spiritual crisis, why “dialogue” can become denial, and why any real renewal has to include repentance, prayer, and courage from ordinary people. Then the conversation turns personal and practical. Adrian shares his path into the Catholic Church, how marriage and family life change when your spouse comes from a Buddhist background, and what confession, catechesis, and fatherhood demand when you’re serious about raising kids in the faith. We even detour into a brutal breakdown of Apple’s latest home tech ad as a snapshot of modern family dysfunction and where AI and surveillance culture may be headed. If this hit a nerve, subscribe, share it with someone who’s been doomscrolling Europe, and leave a review with your biggest question: what’s the first thing a culture has to defend to survive?

  4. Oct 16 ·  Video

    Race War & False Religion: What's Really Destroying America

    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! Your feed wants you furious, but your soul can’t live there. We start by unpacking why a recent guest conversation sparked such a split reaction, and why we still think friendship, charity, and real dialogue matter even when we strongly disagree. The internet trains us to be adversarial on reflex, but we’re trying to keep a Catholic framework: speak honestly, avoid performative dunking, and remember there’s a real person on the other side of the take. From theology we move straight into the interior battle: what happens when fear turns into scrupulosity and despair. We talk about hell, how different saints describe judgment, and why obsessing over the harshest interpretations without Mass, confession, and grace can wreck your spiritual health. Along the way we share a powerful Marian intervention story tied to the rosary, suffering in the NICU, and a slow conversion that comes through patience, devotion to Our Lady, and the beauty of the Latin Mass. Then we hit the cultural flashpoints that tempt people to lose their souls: immigration policy and planned resettlement, the pain of walking into a familiar place and feeling like a stranger, and the danger of letting justified anger harden into disgust. We also talk about modern spectacle: phones ruining presence, social media turning everything into content, and why livestreaming executions crosses a line by making justice feel like entertainment. Finally, we dig into the Noahide laws controversy, Ben Shapiro’s rhetoric, and why Christians should be clear-eyed about theological conflict instead of sleepwalking through influencer politics. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who’s sick of rage bait, and leave a review that tells us where you think righteous anger ends and spiritual danger begins. 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

  5. Oct 16 • Subscribers Only

    Race War & False Religion: What's Really Destroying America (Full LOCALS Show)

    If you’ve ever felt your anger rising and then wondered, “What is this doing to my soul?”, we’re right there with you. We start by responding to the mixed reaction to a recent guest and explain why we refuse to run a gotcha show. We can disagree, even sharply, and still treat people like human beings. That sounds obvious until you’ve watched Catholic online culture turn every conversation into a loyalty test.From there, we get into heavier territory: hell, scrupulosity, despair, and how certain kinds of hyper-online religious content can push people toward fear instead of repentance and trust. We talk about mercy, what the saints actually emphasize, and why the sacraments and daily prayer matter more than “knowing all the arguments.” Then we share a listener’s Marian intervention story that cuts through the noise: a brutal NICU season, heartbreaking loss, a coworker’s quiet witness, and a rosary that becomes the turning point toward the Latin Mass and conversion.We also tackle the cultural storm head-on: immigration policy anxiety, the way social media turns real places and real suffering into performance, and the moral line between justified anger and hatred. That leads into a debate about the death penalty and why livestreamed executions risk becoming entertainment, plus the Noahide laws controversy and what it reveals about confusion between Christian belief and modern political punditry. We close with a blunt look at marriage deserts, delayed family formation, and why treating divorce as “two adults drifting apart” ignores what kids actually learn about permanence and loyalty.If this conversation helps you think clearer, pray deeper, or argue less online, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show.

  6. Oct 14 ·  Video

    Monitoring the Situation: Aliens, AI, and What Comes Next

    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! “Non-human intelligence.” “Non-human biologics.” “Crypto-terrestrials.” If UAPs are simply aliens from another planet, why does the public language keep getting fuzzier instead of clearer? We take that question seriously and use it as a map through the UFO and UAP conversation, from congressional testimony to whistleblower interviews, and we ask what the wording is trying to include, or avoid. Then we follow the other thread that keeps showing up alongside UAPs: AI. Drawing on Diana Pasulka’s way of watching belief form in real time, we talk about why AI and “alien” narratives so often intertwine, and why the most unsettling part might be spiritual rather than sci-fi. When AI becomes the “god that answers,” always available, always confident, always responsive, discernment can get blurry fast. We connect that to reenchantment, the return of pagan frameworks, and the modern struggle to even name the weird without flattening it into superstition or PR. We also dig into the latest AI doom reporting, catastrophic cybersecurity predictions, and why regulation talk can double as competitive strategy. That opens into TESCREAL, effective altruism, longtermism, transhumanism, and the Frankenstein logic of “we have to build it because someone will.” Along the way, we get practical about how we actually use AI tools for podcast prep, outlines, clips, and posting, without pretending the machine is the author. If this conversation hit a nerve, subscribe, share it with a friend who loves UAPs or AI, and leave a 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. Oct 14 • Subscribers Only

    Monitoring the Situation: Aliens, AI, and What Comes Next (Full LOCALS Show)

    “Non-human intelligence.” “Non-human biologics.” “We are not alone.” Notice what never gets said out loud: aliens from another planet. We dig into why UAP language stays blurry, what that ambiguity does to the public imagination, and how it collides with a culture that was trained to treat anything spiritual as superstition.Then we pivot to the part that feels even closer to home: AI. We talk about Diana Pasulka’s ideas on UAP as religious formation, and why the AI and alien conversations keep intertwining. When people start treating an always-available chatbot like an oracle that never stops answering, it can quietly become a counterfeit source of authority, meaning, and reassurance. That is where “forging gods” stops being a metaphor and starts sounding like a description of the social function these tools can take on.We also get practical and political: tech executives warning about an “inevitable” AI catastrophe, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure risks, classification and secrecy, and the incentive structure behind regulation and regulatory capture. Along the way we draw a hard line between using AI to outline, clip, and schedule content versus using it to fake authorship, and why undisclosed AI-written writing is a trust-killer.If you’re here for UAP, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, re-enchantment, and honest Catholic cultural commentary without easy answers, you’re in the right place. Subscribe, share this with a friend who loves the weird edges of the news, and leave a review with your take: what do you think “NHI” really means?

  8. Oct 9 ·  Video

    Mass Immigration & the End of America

    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! Something feels off when the rules look flexible for everyone except the people who grew up here. We follow that feeling straight into the most charged corners of immigration policy: H1B visas, workplace gatekeeping, housing access, and even who ends up staffing hospitals. Along the way we push back on the comforting slogan that “America is an idea” and argue that national identity, shared culture, and assimilation are the real center of the conflict. We break down allegations we keep hearing from listeners and seeing firsthand: managers hiring only within their own networks, visa dependency that keeps workers silent, and the sense that fraud is tolerated until it becomes impossible to hide. Then we zoom in on North Texas examples like Frisco and Plano, where rapid demographic change and housing competition turn politics into something local and personal. When people believe apartments and opportunities circulate through closed channels, “affordability” becomes a question of enforcement and fairness, not just interest rates. Healthcare takes the pressure to a new level as we react to reporting about residency programs filled overwhelmingly by foreign-trained doctors and what that does to trust, quality control, and accountability. We also get into the political theater around it all: how scandals suddenly surface near elections, who gets scapegoated, and why we think the real story is the system that incentivizes it. If you care about immigration reform, assimilation, national identity, and how policy choices hit jobs and housing in real life, hit play. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave us a review with the biggest question you want answered next. 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
    733
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Avoiding Babylon
  • Show Website
    Avoiding Babylon
  • Provider
    Robert Blyton

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