Shadowing Practice: Where is the evidence for God? | Bishop Robert Barron - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I think what most people get wrong when speaking of God is to imagine God as a big being.
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I look up in the night sky and I see stars and planets and look around I see animals and plants.
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I see the world of beings, of things.
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The great mistake is to say, well, he must be the biggest being around.
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He's the supreme being among the many beings of the world.
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And that's precisely what God is not.
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How often atheists, both old and new, will say something like, well, where's your evidence for God?
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If you imagine God as one more big contingent thing among others, well then there's just there's no evidence for that reality.
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They're operating out of a scientific framework.
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But see, if you're looking for God that way, you'll never find him.
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That's not what he is.
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God is the sheer act of existence itself in and through which all particular things exist.
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But people get caught up in misunderstanding God and therefore seeking him in a sort of empirical, scientific way.
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That's not going to work.
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You know, the theologian Paul Tillich, who was one of the great
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Protestant theologians of the last century, he said the word faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary.
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And I've always felt that's right.
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How do people read faith?
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Through a scientific lens or a scientistic lens.
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Faith is credulity.
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It's superstition.
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It's accepting things on the basis of no evidence.
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It's the way a child thinks.
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That is not faith.
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That is indeed superstition, credulity, stupidity.
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The Church, at its best, is calling people beyond that.
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We're not satisfied leaving people in a state of pre -rational superstition.
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So what's faith then?
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It's something on the far side of reason.
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When reason has gone about as far as it can possibly go, it looks into a kind of alluring darkness.
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Faith in ways like that, the full presence of God, is such that it overwhelms the mind.
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And of course it does.
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And that shouldn't be surprising that God, ipsum esse, the sheer act of being itself, the creator of all things,
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that in whom essence and existence coincide, is not going to be definable by our minds.
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It won't fit into our minds.
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So what does the mind want?
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Well, it wants the truth.
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And so it seeks it.
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It seeks it scientifically, psychologically.
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It seeks it through literature.
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It seeks it through philosophy.
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That's the beauty of the mind.
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I'd be asking people not to close their minds, but to keep opening their minds.
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I love the sciences.
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But I don't like scientism, which is the reduction of all knowledge to the scientific form of knowledge.
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I love the sciences and their success in the technology they've delivered to us.
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But first of all, there's all kinds of other ways of knowing the truth about the world.
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Hamlet doesn't have a bit of science in it,
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but Hamlet delivers to us profound truths about human life and about love and about frustration and about aspiration.
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We've got to open our minds beyond just a scientific vision of reality.
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So what I would say is religion doesn't close the mind.
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On the contrary, I'm opposed to any system that wants to shut down the spirit and say, no, no, that's all you can know.
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No, no, no, don't go beyond these limits.
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No, blow open the limits.
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Go beyond the limits.
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See, and that to me is language of faith, not infrarational stupidity and superstition.
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No, no, no. But faith is this alluring horizon, this darkness beyond the light.
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And by God, yes, I want to keep opening that up for people.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “Where is the evidence for God?”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: faith, scientific, beyond, superstition, seeks. Deze video bevat 45 zinnen en 614 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 3:56. De spreker praat in een natuurlijk tempo van ongeveer 156 woorden per minuut, dicht bij een alledaags gesprek. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| darkness zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈdɑɹk.nɪs/ | duisternis, donkerheid |
| lens zelfstandig naamwoord | /lɛnz/ | lens |
| sheer bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ʃɪɚ/ | flinterdun |
| stupidity zelfstandig naamwoord | /stuˈpɪdɪti/ | stomheid, domheid |
| framework zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/ | geraamte |
| creator zelfstandig naamwoord | /kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/ | creator |
| precisely bijwoord | /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/ | precies |
| contrary bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈkɑntɹɛɹi/ | tegengesteld, tegenovergesteld |
| horizon zelfstandig naamwoord | /həˈɹaɪ.zən/ | horizon, horizont |
| rational bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/ | rationeel, redelijk |
| essence zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛsəns/ | essentie, wezen |
| satisfy werkwoord | /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/ | voldoen, voldoende zijn |
| frustration zelfstandig naamwoord | /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ | frustratie |
| oppose werkwoord | /əˈpoʊz/ | tegenhouden, tegengaan |
| profound bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /pɹəˈfaʊnd/ | diep, diepgaand |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| shut down werkwoord | afsluiten, uitzetten |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 17 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals doesn't, don't, gonna. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: atheist /ˈeɪ.θi.ɪst/, theologian /ˌθi.əˈloʊd͡ʒən/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: sheer /ʃɪɚ/, reduction /ɹɪˈdʌk.ʃən/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, frustration /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: stupidity /stuˈpɪdɪti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, empirical /ɪmˈpɪɹɪkəl/, credulity /kɹɪˈduːlɪti/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: lens /lɛnz/, oppose /əˈpoʊz/, profound /pɹəˈfaʊnd/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, coincide /ˌkoʊɪnˈsaɪd/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, satisfy /ˈsætɪsfaɪ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, misunderstand /mɪs.ʌn.də(ɹ)ˈstænd/, aspiration /ˌæspəˈɹeɪʃən/
- /w/ — met ronde lippen: framework /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als darkness, lens, sheer.
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