James 3:6-18 (RSV) And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell. [7] For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by humankind, [8] but no human being can tame the tongue — a restless evil, full of deadly poison. [9] With it we bless the Lord and... Read more
Someone on the Tippling Philosopher atheist blog that I frequently visit who brought up the point that the Bible and/or Catholicism requires an “anthropological universality” in the Flood (meaning that all the human beings in the world were in the Mesopotamian floodplain in c. 2900 BC and were wiped out, save for those in the ark). The Catholic Encyclopedia in it’s article, “Deluge” in 1908 indeed espouses this view. But it’s not authoritative or magisterial (i.e., not binding on Catholics).... Read more
This issue has come up again, after my critique of former Catholic and singer Audrey Assad raised a firestorm of protest among several leftish Catholics. It turns out that I retracted it and apologized, after she informed me that she had read a lot of apologetics, whereas my “primary theory” for her departure from Catholicism was a lack of reading of same. She graciously accepted my apology, yet these other Catholics (including one really well-known and widely published one) seem... Read more
Jason is a Protestant and anti-Catholic apologist, who runs the Tribalblogue site. I will be responding to his article, What To Make Of 1 Timothy 3:15 And Catholic Claims About It (10-6-20). His words will be in blue. ***** 1 Timothy 3:15b (RSV) . . . the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth. Roman Catholics often cite 1 Timothy 3:15 in support of their view of their denomination. Yes we... Read more
[compiled on 3-16-81; likely drawn from Nave’s Topical Bible; all passages: RSV] * This was put together way back in March 1981 (as an evangelical Protestant), with the use of Nave’s Topical Bible: just as I was starting out my apologetics career. We apologists are far too often accused of not caring at all about behavior and loving others, discipleship, spirituality. Our numberless critics say that we are supposedly all about being know-it-alls, arrogantly despising and putting down everyone who... Read more
Atheist anti-theist Jonathan M. S. Pearce is the main writer on the blog, A Tippling Philosopher. His “About” page states: “Pearce is a philosopher, author, blogger, public speaker and teacher from Hampshire in the UK. He specialises in philosophy of religion, but likes to turn his hand to science, psychology, politics and anything involved in investigating reality.” His words will be in blue. ***** Jonathan managed to scrounge up a desperate pseudo-pseudo-quasi-“reply” [choke] to my most recent paper on Noah’s Flood with passing references to my... Read more
+ Striking Analogies Between the Biblical Flood and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 Atheist anti-theist Jonathan M. S. Pearce is the main writer on the blog, A Tippling Philosopher. His “About” page states: “Pearce is a philosopher, author, blogger, public speaker and teacher from Hampshire in the UK. He specialises in philosophy of religion, but likes to turn his hand to science, psychology, politics and anything involved in investigating reality.” His words will be in blue. ***** First Jonathan wrote a blog article saying that... Read more
I have decided to take another look at my book idea that became the kernel and “original draft” for my later volume, 100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura: published by Catholic Answers in 2012. The initial title in 2009 was 501 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura: Is the Bible the Only Infallible Authority? I undertook that project after an anti-Catholic Protestant remarkably and ridiculously claimed there were “no” arguments whatever against sola Scriptura in the Bible. So I produced 501. Now,... Read more
He’s Against Contraception, Cohabitation, Same-Sex “Marriage”, Abortion, Euthanasia, & Biomedical Reproduction Technology: in Five Paragraphs 19. The family is the natural centre of human life and society. We are concerned about the crisis in the family in many countries. Orthodox and Catholics share the same conception of the family, and are called to witness that it is a path of holiness, testifying to the faithfulness of the spouses in their mutual interaction, to their openness to the procreation and rearing... Read more
I coined the term radical Catholic reactionary on 3 August 2013. If anyone else claims they did, or that someone besides myself did, they’re lying or misinformed. I was the one; and I did so for very specific reasons (and I thought, practical, sociological, and charitable ones), as I will explain further below. First, I’d like to go down a list of what the radical Catholic reactionary — as I have carefully defined it (and this hasn’t changed at all... Read more
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