Culties do invite this sort of thing. Note that the kid who made it is only 16, which means that the BS detector in the teenage nose remains as strong as ever. Read more

Marshall Brain (appropriate name) is the voice behind the “Why Won’t God Heal Amputees” site. He’s also deeply invested in the transhumanist hope of someday ditching our bodies so as to live, if not forever, at least till the parts wear out. There is, at the end of the day, a curious note of cowardice in the inchoate longing of the atheist for some technological way to avoid death. May God grant him the grace to face what he shall... Read more

Back in the day, “conservative Catholics” were (I thought) all about standing with the teaching of the Church against the Progressive Dissenters who wanted to trim out all that stuff that interfered with their sex lives and their politics. The torture debates cured me of that illusion once and for all. A great deal of what passes for “conservative Catholic” stuff in the public square is really an attempt to co-opt and even contradict the Church (while still selling itself... Read more

Another slaughter of innocents by Bronze Age thugs. Cue the “Christians are just as bad, in fact, worse” rationalizations and denial in three, two, one: Read more

…kill their children. Sanger’s dream of a whiter world marches on! Read more

Joe Biden labors to make clear that not just one of our Vice Presdential candidates was unqualified for the office. While the press keeps obsessing over Palin’s gaffes (who, you know, lost) they keep turning a blind eye to the garrulous old fool who won. The man is a gaffe factory! He sure does make Obama look good by comparison though, which is probably the idea. Read more

Though “St. G.K. Chesterton” has an even better ring. I’m holding out for a miraculous multiplication of macaroons or for the miraculous transformation of a veggie burger into a steak as the sign of divine approval on GKC. Read more

Pope Benedict and his Circle of Minions gather in the secret dungeons beneath the Vatican to plot… against Tony Alamo! What with all the wars, international crises and so forth going on at present, it’s good to see that Rome still has that attention to micro-managed details and still takes time out of their busy schedule to frame some obscure crank. Read more

“What if business’ first priority was to provide goods and services to society, to promote the common good, to make society a better place.” As near as I can tell, much of the mistake of capitalist apologetics turns on something similar to the mistake made in Protestant polemics against the Immaculate Conception. I trust I make myself obscure? What I mean is this: Protestant polemics against the Immaculate Conception tend to go wrong because they identify what is normal with... Read more

Q: Why Won’t God Heal Amputees? A: He does. A reader found this after about five seconds of Googling. Of course, when presented with things like this, the atheist has to shift his ground from simply banging away on Thomas’ Objection #1 (“Life sucks. So there’s no God.”) The only *reasonable* way to do this is to shift to Thomas’ Objection #2 (“Everything Works Fine Without God. So There’s No God” or, more briefly “Everything Has a Natural Explanation”). The... Read more