I'm still in the middle of a series of posts on sin and immorality (and planning to respond to Peter Somerville's questions about my post on drone strikes) but, unfortunately, I have a paper and a song to finish before class tomorrow, so I'll have to wait a little on those posts. In the meantime, I'd love to know if any Christians (or particularly well-informed atheists) can explain something that perplexed me during the readings at Mass today.  Rather than paraphrase, I'll include the … [Read more...]

Update: I was pleased to see that Catholic convert and blogger Mark Shea chose these scriptural passages as the inspiration for column at Inside Catholic.  Check it out here. This post is about what seemed to me to be an inconsistency in the Gospel, but is not meant to be a debunking of Christianity or an explanation of why I do not believe (I'll be trying my hand at that later in the day).  Therefore, I'm not trying to start an argument about the truth of the Bible in this post, I'm just … [Read more...]