Leah Libresco Sargeant: How a Rational Atheist Became a Rational Catholic!

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In this video, I talk with Leah Libresco Sargeant about her journey from Rational Atheist to Rational Catholic. If you're wondering how someone can go from being an atheist to a Catholic, this video is for you! We discuss the cognitive processes that led her to change her beliefs, discuss the implications of her change of belief, and answer questions from the audience.
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@pdxnikki1 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Bryan! As a recent convert from Jewish atheism through messianic flavoured evangelicalism, I appreciate your videos. I just sent my Protestant friend & past mentor (baptist) who grew up Catholic your video on the Rosary. She said when I told her I was converting that if I ever had any questions about Catholicism to ask her. She said that she didn't want me to be deceived by false teachings. So I sent her your video & asked her if this is what she had been taught. I told her that it looks pretty solid to me but that I didn't want to be deceived. I'm awaiting her reply. Please pray that the Holy Spirit open her eyes to truth & help her rightly discern the Word of God, since that's all she has to go on. If God brought me into Mother Church He can surely bring a confused former Catholic back to Mother Church. She loves Jesus soo much. 🙏

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Welcome home! Keep up the good work on evangelizing and sharing the faith. Thank you for sharing more videos. They have helped to bring so many back home. Praise be to our good God.

@DarkAngel-cj6sx Жыл бұрын

Most of catholics don't understand about their faith and get drown by aggressive protestant style. Myself I was born catholic, but I was more in protest churches than catholics until the pandemic hit and I researched and now I am a solid catholic. Check Dr Brant Pitre, Dr Scott Hann, father mike S, bishop Barron, fr Casey, devine mercy with fr. Chris Alar.

@Kitiwake Жыл бұрын

Many Catholics who lapsed in their teens may hold themselves out all "experts" in the Catholic faith. Whereas their own faith and knowledge of the church was stunted from the time they first began to slip. That usually is much earlier then the time they declare that they left or stopped practicing. In my opinion, Being advised by someone with a child's level of knowledge in any subject is not to be recommended.

@lukebrasting5108 Жыл бұрын

Ask your former Catholic baptist friend about the prophecy found in Malachi 1:10-11 about how gentiles all over the world would worship the God of Israel during the Messianic age with incense and a pure sacrifice. Protestants don't use incense in their services and many of them explicity deny the real presence of Christ (the true Passover lamb) in the Eucharist. And even the ones who accept some form of the real presence (Lutherans, Anglicans and Presbyterians) have rejected the idea that the Mass is an unbloody sacrifice and even denounce it in their official confessions of faith. So no Protestant out there is actually worshipping God withe incense amd offer8ng Him a pure sacrifice as He wants and expects us to in the age of the Messiah, but Catholics sure do. Tell her that you don't won't to offer false or deficient worship to the true God and you want to fulfill the prophecy in Malachi 1:10-11.

@thepic12 Жыл бұрын

Bryan’s video are some of the best! I watch his video’s and some from Catholic Production! Those videos are taught by Dr. Brant Pitre. He speaks Greek, Hebrew, Latin and has studied the Jewish religion extensively! My husband who was an Evangelical Christian is in RCIA now awaiting to enter into the Catholic Church just by watching those videos with me. Your friend could learn much from Bryan’s videos and Dr. Brant Pitre’s videos! God bless you in helping your friend back into the church!

@firangele8094 Жыл бұрын

I hope you are feeling better Bryan. May God bless you and your family, 🙏🙏🙏

@brianfarley926 Жыл бұрын

She’s very sharp. Impressive to listen to

@Deto4508 Жыл бұрын

God bless her and you brother

@danabegley7641 Жыл бұрын

Very articulate guest

@Amazing_Mark 7 ай бұрын

Don't let her fool you. She's good at debating, that's all.

@legolasegb 3 ай бұрын

Brian! Doug Naaden from FUS here! I just stumbled on this. I listened to your CDs not too long ago. Great to "see" you, even if it's just on a video from a year ago!

@CatholicTruthOfficial 3 ай бұрын

Doug!! So good to hear from you! How are you doing? I hope you are well. I'm also glad you discovered my organization's KZfaq channel. :) I hope you enjoy it.

@marietav7342 Жыл бұрын

Pray EVERY DAY for the grace to make you fulfill your spiritual duties like praying, praying the Rosary etc, going to Mass, meditating, reading and studying the Bible, catholic teachings and other spiritual books because the devil and his minions or innumerable evil spirits are always doing everything to stop us or make us abandon our spiritual exercises esp praying or praying the Rosary etc because the enemy can't make us fall into deep sins and he can't make us abandon God and lose our faith if we are faithful doing these spiritual works that make us holy and closer to God. If the devil succeeds in making us neglect our spiritual duties esp praying, we will become weak in resisting temptations and if that happens, it will be easy for the devil to draw us away from God and drag us to great sins and lose our faith.

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

Amen amen! I (Bryan) am off to go see the Rosary right now! :)

@marietav7342 Жыл бұрын

The devil and many evil spirits always send me great distractions to prevent me from doing my spiritual duties. Also always, they make me feel lazy, tired and no interest in doing my spiritual duties especially praying the Rosary. What I do now is I pray additional one Rosary EVERY DAY solely to ask God for the graces to make me fulfill faithfully all my spiritual duties esp praying many rosaries everyday and to persevere in doing them. So despite some laziness and tiredness that I feel when praying/praying the Rosary, I am still able to do them or not neglect doing them. Praise God!

@marietav7342 Жыл бұрын

"Many begin well but few persevere." - St. Jerome

@marietav7342 Жыл бұрын

@@CatholicTruthOfficial Hi, Bryan! Is this video old and you just reposted it?

@marietav7342 Жыл бұрын

The devil always makes praying and praying the Rosary difficult and distasteful to us to make us neglect this powerful prayer because the enemy is powerless against a person who is holy and living a life of prayer. For the devil to succeed in drawing us away from God, in getting our souls and in dragging us to deep sins, he must succeed FIRST in destroying and removing our formidable defense which is living a prayerful life and continual communion with God and praying the Rosary etc.

@GranMaese Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful and inspiring testimony. God bless her. Keep the good work up, Bryan!

@joekeffer3520 Жыл бұрын

Excellent and enjoyable program! Thank you, both! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@slowrelaxingmusic111 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the sharing.

@tanya9463 Жыл бұрын

I just called to say I love you, l just called to say how much I care. I just called to say I love you, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart. ♥️.

@charliego7375 Жыл бұрын

Great interview

@tanya9463 Жыл бұрын

Welcome back Bryan.

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@zacharydunning6874 Жыл бұрын

I spent 20 years at a non denominational church might as well Been Protestant after losing my grandmother in 2012 I was losing my understanding of faith after college I had a lime disease battle in 2016 that included a stigmata I went to the hospital it’s now 2022 now im rediscovered my faith and now I’m born agian

@KH-vp4ni Жыл бұрын

non denom and born again (in name) are protestant...

@rafecolii Жыл бұрын

Her microphone sounds great.

@CatholicChristian51 Жыл бұрын

The Bible made me Catholic

@KH-vp4ni Жыл бұрын

My family converted from atheism as well!

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

👌🙌🙌

@Steven-rp8zo Жыл бұрын

Wow what a great conversation! Thanks both of you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. You've both so smart and articulate, gives me hope for the new generation! Peace be with you, Viva Cristo Rey!

@xSilVerTooTHx Жыл бұрын

please can you do a video of Genesis Adam and Eve and the orgin of humans. woud love to see you tackel this topic as im unsure on the churchs teaching on creationism and evolutionism

@cc5k111 Жыл бұрын

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@xSilVerTooTHx Жыл бұрын

@@josephwells8699 tru. And there is no transitional fossils to show the evolution of the changing of Kind (e.g a ape to a man) All the supposed transitional fossils have been shown to be fully ape of fully human or faked. Just because we share similarities doesn't mean we evolved from them it simply proves a shared blueprint our creator has used.

@Ziiphyr Жыл бұрын

@@josephwells8699 You’re clearly ignorant of Church History if you don’t believe Sunday to be the Lords day.

@xSilVerTooTHx Жыл бұрын

@@Ziiphyr indeed

@Ziiphyr Жыл бұрын

Here on YT, Fr. Casey addresses this very topic on ‘Upon Friar Review’. Creationism vs Evolutionism do not contradict each other. More like two sides of the same coin.

@Lya3588 Жыл бұрын

👍

@cyrusbalangatan2137 Жыл бұрын

I have a question There is another sect today and they're are called natsarim. The natsarim is part of hebrew roots, they believe in the bible, but they are not believe in Christianity. They do not believe that christianity is founded by biblical messiah and they do not believe that the disciples are christians. they claim that the natsarim is the original followers of biblical messiah and not the christians. According to them, the first followers of messiah didn't called themselves christian, and the christians in the first century is not the followers of biblical messiah. They called the biblical messiah as Yahusha HaMaschiach and not Jesus Christ, according to them Yahusha HaMaschiach and Jesus Christ are not same person. they also claim that the Jesus Christ recognize and worshipped by christians, is another messiah and not the biblical messiah. They say that Jesus Christ is a false messiah and Yahusha HaMaschiach is the true messiah and Yahusha HaMaschiach is the messiah in the bible that prophesied by prophets and preached by disciples and not Jesus Christ of christians This is their claim 👇 Christianity - membership (Which is a pagan religion) Headed by false messiah Roman European Jesus Christ Natsarim - relationship (Watchman (The way) headed by our true Hebrew savior Yahusha HaMashiach Is that claim true? That they are the original followers of biblical messiah and not the christians? And the christians follow another messiah, And the founder of Christianity is not the biblical messiah?

@pdxnikki1 Жыл бұрын

No. They're claim is false. My first language is Hebrew and I'm Jewish by birth so I understand their assertion. But they're incorrect. They wishfully insert their ideology into history instead of accepting history as it is. It's a ridiculous claim but I at least understand it.

@lukebrasting5108 Жыл бұрын

No. They're a branch of the Judaizing Hebrew Roots cult. If you come across someone who has fallen for their teachings, ask them how they fulfill the prophecy found in Malachi 1:10-11 about how gentiles would worship the God of Israel in the Messianic age with incense and a pure sacrifice. Then ask them why they don't do that when that's how the first Christians worshipped. The Didache and the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch talk about the Eucharist and what the first believed about it. So why don't they have the Eucharist?

@Ziiphyr Жыл бұрын

Yahusha Ha’Machiach literally just means Jesus the Messiah 😂 but in Hebrew. What are you going on about?

@KH-vp4ni Жыл бұрын

Jesus in Hebrew is Yeshua....

@bwiltz49 Жыл бұрын

Exodus 20

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

1 Chron. 29:11

@nonine5304 Жыл бұрын

Lets pray for the christians who are walking away from the Church.

@JeffreydeKogel Жыл бұрын

"Rational catholic" is an oxymoron.

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

No it's not, but thanks for your opinion not backed up by any facts.

@Wolf-ln1ml Жыл бұрын

@@CatholicTruthOfficial It depends on the intended meaning of "rational". If we go with _just_ the definition of "based on clear thought (or even logic) instead of emotions", then there still is no connection to reality, just as pure math doesn't tell us anything about reality unless it's _based on_ something in reality. I could prove a _lot_ of obvious nonsense using pure logic or "clear thought". Of course, going with this definition, one can easily be a "rational catholic", but it's not a definition I care for at all - in the _exact same_ sense, one could be a "rational hindu" or "rational muslim" or "rational astrologer". The best definition for this purpose that I've ever come across is "the _ratio_ between one's certainty and the evidence for the belief". The more and better the evidence, the stronger the belief can be, but the weaker the evidence, the weaker the belief must be. So a highly rational belief could be strong when there is plenty of good evidence, or it could be weak when there is little evidence. An irrational belief would be strong with very little evidence. So, _any_ rational belief, even if it's fairly weak, needs _some_ evidence to support it. If you disagree, let me know your reasoning for disagreeing. If you do agree - Where is the evidence _for the supernatural claims_ of catholicism in particular, or even just christianity in general? It has to be evidence that _only_ supports the specific religious beliefs of course - so for example, the existence of the universe is _not_ evidence for Christianity since it would be just as much support for claims about universe-farting pixies. Oh, and so far, we haven't even started with all the evidence _contradicting_ various catholic (or christian in general) beliefs/claims, let alone the internal contradictions. Which is where we'd go from "rational" to not just "irrational", but to "delusional"...

@JeffreydeKogel Жыл бұрын

@@Wolf-ln1ml Thank you for wording my point better than I probably could have. Cheers!

@Theunspokentruth77 Жыл бұрын

Don't atheists go to heaven?

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

Jn. 14:6

@CatholicTruthOfficial Жыл бұрын

Jesus is the only way!

@pdxnikki1 Жыл бұрын

No. Not if they deny Jesus as the Christ. Not if they fail to repent for their sins. Not if they're not baptised. I'd like some of them to go to heaven since they do more good works than many so-called Christians, but their good works apart from accepting Jesus as Saviour & Lord won't save them.

@georgepierson4920 Жыл бұрын

@@pdxnikki1 Don't be so sure. I recall what Jesus said to St. Faustina about calling a soul three times to see if it responds. Jesus goes out of His way to offer despairing souls at death a final grace of repentance. When we know of souls that may be in spiritual peril, especially the dying, we should pray that they would respond to this grace of repentance. Jesus revealed this truth to St. Faustina, the great Apostle of Divine Mercy. In a crucial passage from the Diary of St. Faustina, Jesus converses with a despairing soul in a way that gives us reason to hope as He offers the soul this final grace and comes to it three times: Jesus: O Soul steeped in darkness, do not despair. All is not yet lost. Come and confide in your God who is love and mercy. In the soul arises this reply: "For me there is no mercy," and it falls into greater darkness, a despair which is a foretaste of hell and makes it unable to draw near to God. Jesus calls to the soul a third time, but the soul remains deaf and blind, hardened and despairing. Then the mercy of God begins to exert itself, and without any cooperation from the soul, God grants it final grace. If this too is spurned, God will leave the soul in this self-chosen disposition for eternity. This grace emerges from the merciful Heart of Jesus and gives the soul a special light by means of which the soul begins to understand God's effort; but conversion depends on its own will. The soul knows that this, for her, is final grace and, should it show even a flicker of good will, the mercy of God will accomplish the rest (1486).

@Kitiwake Жыл бұрын

@@georgepierson4920 this isn't Catholic teaching though. Saint Faustina or any other post revelation seer of visions, even while formally canonized does not influence church teaching.