Declassified 1945 Documents Regarding Nuclear Strikes

Last updated on: July 26, 2019 at 1:47 pm By Dave Armstrong

President Harry Truman and Others Reveal Moral Qualms and Quandaries Concerning the Nuclear Bombing of Japan The first collection of these documents on the Internet which I will cite is: The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II: A Collection of Primary Sources: National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162, Edited by William Burr (posted on August 5, 2005). The author states: With the material that follows, the National Security Archive publishes the most comprehensive on-line collection to date of... Read more

Seidensticker Folly #35: Is God an Inveterate Liar?

Last updated on: August 3, 2019 at 2:03 am By Dave Armstrong

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got 1000+ posts here attacking your worldview. You just going to let that stand? Or could you present a helpful new perspective that I’ve ignored on one or two of those posts?” He also made a general statement on 6-22-17: “Christians’ arguments are easy to refute . . . I’ve heard the good stuff, and it’s not very good.” He added in the combox: “If I’ve misunderstood the Christian position or Christian... Read more

Seidensticker Folly #34: Does God “Regret” or “Repent”?

Last updated on: July 25, 2019 at 12:23 pm By Dave Armstrong

Seidensticker Folly #33: Clueless Re Biblical Anthropopathism

Last updated on: July 24, 2019 at 1:05 pm By Dave Armstrong

Holy Trinity: Not Demonstrable From Scripture Alone?

Last updated on: July 24, 2019 at 10:14 am By Dave Armstrong

I was writing back and forth with a Protestant pastor. He was saying how, if he spoke on the Trinity in a Catholic environment, that the Catholics in attendance would be thinking that Protestants “got” the doctrine of the Trinity from Catholics and not from Scripture alone and that Catholics believe in it solely because the Church teaches it, and not [also] because the Bible teaches it. This was my reply: * * * * * That’s not how most... Read more

Newsflash!: Catholicism Utterly Opposes Idolatry, Too

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 11:45 am By Dave Armstrong

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: Idolatry 2112 The first commandment condemns polytheism. It requires man neither to believe in, nor to venerate, other divinities than the one true God. Scripture constantly recalls this rejection of “idols, [of] silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see.” These empty idols make their worshippers empty: “Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them.”42... Read more

Defense of Vatican II (vs. Paolo Pasqualucci): Master List

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 11:11 am By Dave Armstrong

Paolo Pasqualucci (signer of three of the reactionary-dominated “corrections” of Pope Francis), a Catholic and retired professor of philosophy of the law at the University of Perugia, Italy, wrote “‘Points of Rupture’ of the Second Vatican Council with the Tradition of the Church – A Synopsis” (4-13-18), hosted by the infamous reactionary site, One Peter Five. It’s an adaptation of the introduction to his book Unam Sanctam – A Study on Doctrinal Deviations in the Catholic Church of the 21st... Read more

Vs. Pasqualucci Re Vatican II #12: SC & Liturgical “Creativity”

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 11:24 am By Dave Armstrong

[see the Master List of all twelve installments] Paolo Pasqualucci (signer of three of the endless reactionary-dominated “corrections” of Pope Francis), a Catholic and retired professor of philosophy of the law at the University of Perugia, Italy, wrote “‘Points of Rupture’ of the Second Vatican Council with the Tradition of the Church – A Synopsis” (4-13-18), hosted by the infamous reactionary site, One Peter Five. It’s an adaptation of the introduction to his book Unam Sanctam – A Study on Doctrinal Deviations in the Catholic Church of... Read more

Vs. Pasqualucci Re Vatican II #11: SC & Sacrifice of the Mass

Last updated on: July 23, 2019 at 11:23 am By Dave Armstrong

Atheist Bob Seidensticker: Intellectual Coward (My 32 Critiques)

Last updated on: July 20, 2019 at 7:36 pm By Dave Armstrong

[Bob Seidensticker’s words will be in blue] Former Presbyterian, Bible-Basher Bob’s blog, Cross Examined contains (according to the “About” page) “roughly a million words in more than a thousand posts” and a “quarter-million comments.” He advertises his efforts as “an energetic but civil critique of Christianity.” But the blog is anything but “civil”: as a glance at any of his endless comboxes will prove. Here (as an altogether typical example) is the feeding frenzy on his site where I was the... Read more