translation, this is an important business peer nhf and belief and not hostility towards christianityshop barron urges the recovery of the church fathers, thehe bible, the livesf the saints, classical philosophy and literature, and the record of living in the church that stretches over centuries. bishop barron response to the new atheists that he agrees with them in terms of the god they dismissed and their arguments. he too doesn't believe in a god who is merely the highest be on the topmost item in the universe, a god that succeeds by making us his puppets or demanding irrational belief. god, bishop barron argues, is transcended, the creator through whom everything comes to e be in the world. god is the sheer act of being itself. the fear is that god wants to dominate us and diminish us to controlling us. he asks, what if it's the exact opposite? bishop barron repeatedly quote the second century state, saint irenaeus, quote, the glory of god is made fully alive we become what we love and what we praise, right brace manifest itself in a well ordered, joyful, and flourishing life. in