Avoiding Babylon
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!”
Avoiding Babylon
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Access to the FULL show on audio!A Friday meat post shouldn’t turn into a purity test, but online Catholic culture often makes it one. We get into why public callouts feel satisfying yet rarely help, how converts and cradle Catholics talk past each other, and what fraternal correction looks like when you actually want someone to grow. Along the way we unpack the deeper issue behind so many timeline fights: the pull to be seen as righteous instead of becoming righteous.
We also react to a clip that raises questions about flirting, boundaries, and the near occasion of sin for married public figures. Even when nothing “technically” happens, tone, context, and incentives matter, especially on camera. We share why we’ve built our own guardrails around guest choices, one-on-one dynamics, and content that can create scandal or bait curiosity.
Then we switch gears with an absurd real-life story: riding on a two million dollar pink “Barbie” speedboat that does 100 mph and attracts a crowd everywhere it docks. It’s funny, but it also surfaces something serious about wealth, status, envy, and how people judge what you buy. We close with a sobering funeral-home service story that felt liturgically and theologically confused, plus a careful note on why clear Catholic teaching around suicide and despair matters.
If you care about Catholic fasting, social media virtue signaling, marriage boundaries, and keeping your spiritual life real in a performance-driven world, hit play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who lives on the timeline, and leave a review. What’s one practice you try to keep private, even when the internet begs you to post it?
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