The BadCatholic Drinking Game

January 5, 2013 By 38 Comments
popeBeer

I got this from a reader today. It's awesome. I cannot be held responsible for any deaths that result. The BadCatholic Drinking Game Take a drink: - When a post can be summed up using a Chesterton quote - When you can identify the author he’s been reading - When someone comments thinking Marc’s arguing the exact opposite point - When someone comments expressing disappointment over crude language in the post - When a comment thread is longer than 20 comments -  Make a White Russian … [Read more...]

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An Attempt to Explain Christianity to Atheists In a Manner That Might Not Freak Them Out

September 27, 2012 By 443 Comments
resurrection2007

Between being told that Christianity is a system of oppression, a complex way to justify burning with hatred over the existence of gay people, and a general failure of the human intellect, I begin to suspect that few people know why Christians exist at all. This is my attempt to explain why I am a Christian. Any philosophy that claims that there exists nothing supernatural cannot grant purpose to suffering. If some natural, secular purpose could be granted to the man suffering, then his pain … [Read more...]

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Why I Believe In God

April 17, 2012 By 128 Comments
jew

I believe in God because the Jews terrify me. The atheistic explanation of religious belief -- that it is cosmic wish-fulfillment and an opiate of the masses -- cannot be applied to יאַרמלקע-rocking people. They did not follow the dictates of their God because they were promised everlasting bliss for doing so. They did not live a religious life because they would be rewarded for it after death. In fact, the early Jews didn't even believe in Heaven. They believed in Sheol, "a place of … [Read more...]

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How the Catholic Church Became Cool Overnight

February 10, 2012 By 172 Comments
bishop cool

Having tested the waters of agnosticism, the general culture, and a whole host of personal heresies, sins and stupidities, I have come to Walker Percy's conclusion: Q: What kind of Catholic are you? A. Bad. Q: Are you a dogmatic Catholic or an open-minded Catholic? A: I don’t know what that means . . . . Do you mean do I believe the dogma that the Catholic Church proposes for belief? Q: Yes. A: Yes. Q: How is such a belief possible in this day and age? A: What else is there? Q: What … [Read more...]

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So, remember that time I invited David Crowder to become Catholic?

January 26, 2012 By 82 Comments

Yeah, that might have been redundant. I'm happy as can be, and praying for Mr. Crowder, hoping he comes into full communion soon, though it seems his heart is already there. … [Read more...]

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I Was Waiting for the Perfect Video…

January 19, 2012 By 26 Comments

...to rebut that Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus Video. I think I found the best one so far. … [Read more...]

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An Open Invitation To David Crowder To Join the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church

January 16, 2012 By 100 Comments

Dear Mr. Crowder, Thanks to your fine work, I find myself in one of the most incredible moments of my music-loving, Christ-worshipping, Roman Catholic existence -- a Requiem Mass is the number 2 album in the world. That's right -- Album, not Christian album. Nestled comfortably between Adele's 21 and Snow Patrol's Fallen Empires -- as I'm sure you are very aware -- is David Crowder Band's Give Us Rest (A Requiem Mass in C, [The Happiest of All Keys]). To the Christian, this is … [Read more...]

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5 More Things No One Knows Are Ridiculously Catholic, But Should

December 28, 2011 By 90 Comments

A mild follow-up to the unbelievably spicy 5 Things No One Knows Are Ridiculously Catholic, But Should. I'm beginning to develop the belief that you could give me just about anything at all and I could link it to the Holy Roman Catholic Church. And yes, that's a combox challenge. Up, up and away then: 1. Chief Sitting Bull Somewhere in the bowels of a stoner apparel store, on the clothing rack next to the incense sticks, between a Rage Against the Machine T-Shirt and "Legalize It" hoodie, … [Read more...]

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Ripples From The Rock

October 13, 2011 By 27 Comments
Untitled

If I had but one sermon to preach it would be this: The ripples are not the rock, the rock is not the ripple, and it is the confusion of the two that damages the Church. A current trend amongst Catholic leaders, priests and ministers is to look at the Holy Mass and ask, "How can we get the world to come? Ah, well, we could bring the most beautiful art into our churches, we could bring the music people like into the Mass, we could orientate it towards families, we could have a later Mass … [Read more...]

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Our Stubbornly Resistant Church

October 12, 2011 By 16 Comments

The problem with writing post-sized posts is that I always have essay-sized new ideas while writing them, but I know I would be justly excommunicated from the Internet if I ever took up the habit of extrapolating upon every shiny bit of A.D.D that flutters into my temporal lobe. A Chesterton I'm not. So today my afterthought hearkens back to two days ago, back to Cathedrals. One of the glories of a big, hulking, Gothic cathedral is that it's a fantastic metaphor for the similarly hulking … [Read more...]

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