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131 - Virtue Is Not Enough - J. Budziszewski

The Catholic Culture Podcast

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The Importance of Being a Nihilist

I remember reading on your website years ago, a very moving account of your youthful nihilism and eventually your exit from it. I wonder if you could tell that story a bit about what it was like to be a nihilist and what got you out of it. There is the pop culture nihilism that says, nothing has any meaning. And then there's the macho kind of nihilism that say, nothing has Any meaning. Now my type was the macho nihilism. It was the proton nihilism. But I wasn't living. You're right. God pulled me back after I was pulling out every component one after another right before I got to the motherboard. He didn

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