James Swan Ignores Protestant Errors on Luther’s Canon

Last updated on: May 8, 2020 at 2:40 pm By Dave Armstrong

Instead, He Absurdly Blames Catholic Apologists for Historical Errors of Protestant Writers [Anti-Catholic Calvinist polemicist James Swan’s words will be in blue] ***** It’s simply amazing, the amount of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda James Swan dishes out. He can’t help himself. He’s so used to — in his profound anti-Catholic bigotry — lying about and distorting anything that Catholic apologists do (above all, anything I do), that he literally could no sooner stop this than Niagara Falls could reverse its course. His latest farcical entry... Read more

Luther & the Previously Obscure [?] Bible (vs. James Swan)

Last updated on: May 8, 2020 at 11:55 am By Dave Armstrong

[Martin Luther’s own words below will be in blue; Hartmann Grisar’s footnotes (only) in brown; James Swan’s words in green] *** The big myth under consideration is the commonly heard legend among Protestants (especially of an anti-Catholic bent) of Catholic hostility to the Bible and desire to keep it out of the hands of the people, for fear that its doctrines will be exposed as contrary to the Bible. I have written about the falsity of this charge: Catholic Church: Historic “Enemy” of... Read more

Salvation is a Process & Not Instantaneously Assured

Last updated on: May 7, 2020 at 12:14 pm By Dave Armstrong

From my book, Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths (2009), except that here I use the RSV version rather than KJV. ***** 1 Samuel 11:6; 18:12 And the spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard these words, . . . Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul. Ezekiel 18:24 But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that... Read more

Defending the “Bad Boy” Pistons and Isiah Thomas

Last updated on: May 9, 2020 at 2:41 am By Dave Armstrong

NBA basketball has been my favorite sport to watch for over 30 years now: ever since the Detroit Pistons, led by Isiah Thomas started becoming very good in the late 80s. I was born and raised in Detroit (till age 17) and have lived in metro Detroit my whole life. So I will obviously have that local bias. But I will make a “case” for the “bad boy” Pistons of that era, over against the bum rap that they seem... Read more

Phil Lawler’s Mythical Private Letter (Unfruitful Discussion)

Last updated on: May 6, 2020 at 1:09 pm By Dave Armstrong

This occurred in a public post on Patrick Coffin’s Facebook page, then later on Leila Lawler’s public Facebook page. ***** Patrick Coffin: Don’t miss next week’s episode of The Patrick Coffin Show —Making Sense of Pope Francis with author Phil Lawler. Mike Mudd: Wanna make it really interesting, have Dave Armstrong on as well. :-) Lawler would never agree, even if I wanted to, so it’s a complete non-starter. Mike Mudd: Even so, it would be a great show to discuss... Read more

Ultra-Hypocritical James Swan Insultapalooza Post

Last updated on: May 6, 2020 at 12:23 pm By Dave Armstrong

[photo source] *** Anti-Catholic Reformed Protestant polemicist James Swan put up “The Beggars All Insultapalooza Post” which documents some insults (and true statements) made about him. He included four of my comments (all of which are quite true and easily able to be massively defended and documented): James Swan Bolsters His Reputation as a Dense Amateur Church Historian and Hypocritical Nitpicker Yet Again. So let Swan play his games and spend his time on trifles and stupid stuff. But a... Read more

James Swan Attacks My 1991 Paper (Calvin & Bucer)

Last updated on: May 6, 2020 at 9:29 am By Dave Armstrong

I just put up earlier today, a paper dealing with an attempt in 2015 of anti-Catholic Calvinist apologist James Swan, to belittle a mistake regarding Luther’s successor Philip Melanchthon that I made in my research, that actually originates from an erroneous citation made by secular historian Will Durant. I noted in it that this was his frequent methodology, and cited another paper of mine on the Anabaptists, which caused Swan to make a very embarrassing citation error (mistaking a 16th... Read more

James Swan Silliness, Melanchthon, Bishops, & Princes

Last updated on: May 5, 2020 at 2:16 pm By Dave Armstrong

Because secularist historian Will Durant misattributed a quote to the Lutheran successor of Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and I cited it in 1991 research, therefore, according to Calvinist anti-Catholic polemicist, James Swan, “Rome’s cyber-apologists” are guilty of “sloppy work” and this is an illustrative example of “Rome’s apologists at their best” and therefore, Catholics aren’t “deep into history.” Huh? This is really how this guy “argues,” believe it or not. It’s from a recent paper by Swan, posted on his Boors All website.... Read more

Phil Lawler vs. Vatican II? (“Troublesome” / “Ambiguities”)

Last updated on: May 5, 2020 at 11:57 am By Dave Armstrong

Papal nitpicker Phil Lawler (“Personally I am not a traditionalist. I love the Latin Mass, and attend it occasionally, but I do not seek it out”: 8-24-17), author of the notorious book, Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis is Misleading His Flock (2018), which I have critiqued many times, appears to expressly question the Second Vatican Council. The use of the word “ambiguities” in particular is taken straight from the playbook of reactionaries. They clearly have influenced Lawler’s thought, even though he is... Read more

Uncensored Exchange at Reactionary Site, “The Remnant”

Last updated on: May 4, 2020 at 12:45 pm By Dave Armstrong

They allowed me — bless their hearts — to post a one-sentence reply, to their comments under an article about myself, Karl Keating, and Phil Lawler. Then when I gave a lengthier reply to Ferrara’s answer, they censored it. Just now I tried to post a one-sentence protest at being censored, which was censored. What are they so scared of over there? ***** Steve Skojec • I wonder why these guys think about us so much when we don’t give... Read more