This occurred underneath my post, “Quantum Entanglement” & the “Upholding” Power of God (10-20-20). Words of Sandy Plage will be in blue. ***** If there is an intelligence behind the universe, there is no reason to think of that intelligence as an omnimax “god”, and there is no reason to associate that intelligence with Yahweh, or Zeus, or Christ. You’ve stated your position but have given me no reason to accept it (you’ve made no argument). Please provide some of those.... Read more
Click the map to create your own at 270toWin.com ***** In 2016 I got 46 of 50 states right, and was just 7 electoral votes off (I predicted Trump would win in May of that year, and gave 15 reasons, with 13 being correct). Not bad for a merely amateur political junkie, huh? I don’t get paid a penny for my speculations and don’t advise any politicians, yet I was more accurate than maybe 95% of the big-shot advisors and... Read more
This is a reply to Matt Slick: Presbyterian pastor and head of the large and influential anti-Catholic Protestant CARM discussion forum. I am responding to his article, “If Mary was sinless, why was she unclean and had to offer a sacrifice for sin?” His words will be in blue. ***** Roman Catholics teach that Mary never sinned. But, if that is the case, why did she need to offer an atonement according to Old Testament Law (Lev. 12:1-8) after giving birth to Jesus? According to the Old Testament,... Read more
I’ve seen this process take place over and over, in my seven-and-a-half years of defending Pope Francis: now literally 176 times: 1) Pope Francis says something (for some people, virtually anything). 2) At first glance (and usually filtered through an increasingly untrustworthy and unbalanced Catholic media; and forget the secular media!), it sounds (especially to jaded cynical “ears”) like it is anti-traditional or downright subversive to the traditional Catholic faith. This accusation quickly becomes the norm in social media discourse, people... Read more
(with Catholic Theologian Dr. Robert Fastiggi) From the combox of my article: Steve Skojec: Pope Sez Death Penalty is Intrinsically Evil (?) [10-8-20] Catholic philosopher Ed Feser’s words will be in blue; Dr. Robert Fastiggi’s in green. ***** Dave writes: Philosopher Ed Feser is a big proponent of it No, Dave, that is not what I have said. I have said that the pope’s statements on the subject are ambiguous. I have written a lot about this, most recently here. Dave also... Read more
Last night I watched a fascinating documentary through Amazon Prime: a NOVA episode entitled “Einstein’s Quantum Riddle”. It was about advances in the area of quantum mechanics; specifically what is called “quantum entanglement.” Wikipedia has a long, complicated article about it. But the gist of it (which the TV special summarized for the layperson) is as follows: Quantum entanglement is a physical phenomenon that occurs when a pair or group of particles are generated, interact, or share spatial proximity in a way such... Read more
Protestant Apologist Jason Engwer Continues His All-Out War on St. Peter & the Papacy Gotta give Protestant apologist Jason Engwer an E for effort and a C for cleverness and inventiveness. He has taken it upon himself to refute many scriptural arguments I have made in favor of Peter’s primacy (while not — in recent years — naming me, which is a frequent tactic of anti-Catholic polemicists). Four days ago, for a fleeting moment acknowledging my paltry existence, he stated... Read more
Protestant apologist Jason Engwer wrote: Tertullian and Helvidius are often named as early opponents of Mary’s perpetual virginity, but other opponents of the concept seem to be mentioned less often. . . . What I want to do in this post is cite some other examples. In the West before Hilary – that is, up to the middle of the fourth century – there is no witness at all for the ‘semper virgo’ [perpetual virginity]; and that can hardly be... Read more
Protestant apologist Jason Engwer (words in blue henceforth) stated on 5-28-15: [T]he evidence suggests that prayer to the dead wasn’t practiced by believers in the Biblical era, is sometimes contradicted by the Biblical authors, and was rejected in the earliest generations of patristic Christianity. And earlier on 6-9-08: The evidence from the earliest patristic sources is against the practice as well. Tertullian, Origen, and Cyprian wrote treatises on the subject of prayer without encouraging prayers to the dead. Instead, they... Read more
Protestant apologist Jason Engwer (words in blue below) recently wrote: It’s common to allege that the twenty-seven-book New Testament canon we have today doesn’t first appear in the historical record until around the middle of the fourth century, in Athanasius. But it probably was advocated in multiple locations prior to that time, including in Origen more than a century earlier. (10-14-20) He links to an 11-year-old paper of his where he fleshes this out: The earliest extant source I’m aware of who... Read more
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