Book Review: One Less God Than You by John DeRosa

Last updated on: March 16, 2025 at 7:38 pm By Dennis Knapp

I discovered John DeRosa while watching Joe Heschmeyer’s debate debrief after his discussion with Dr. James White. Joe recommended John’s Classical Theism Podcast, which eventually led me to DeRosa’s book, One Less God Than You: How to Answer the Slogans, Clichés, and Fallacies That Atheists Use to Challenge Your Faith (Catholic Answers, 2020). After reading it, I decided to write a review and highlight some popular atheist arguments DeRosa addresses. I welcome any comments on DeRosa’s responses to these challenges.... Read more

How I Escaped Sola Scriptura’s Circularity Loop

Last updated on: March 11, 2025 at 8:27 am By Dennis Knapp

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In my last article, I highlighted the circularity problem inherent in the Protestant foundational doctrine, sola scriptura. To rephrase my conclusion: Any appeal to Scripture is an appeal to an interpretation of Scripture. The Scriptures require a legitimate authority to properly read, exegete, and interpret them. All appeals to the “standard of Scripture” for self-correction fall into the category of “any appeal.” Any attempt at self-correction that appeals to Scripture ultimately appeals to an interpretation of Scripture. Therefore, the paradigm... Read more

That’s Just Your Opinion, Man… Sola Scriptura & Circularity

Last updated on: March 3, 2025 at 8:19 pm By Dennis Knapp

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…any appeal to Scripture is an appeal an interpretation of Scripture. The only question is: whose interpretation? When we are faced with conflicting interpretations of Scripture, we cannot set a Bible and ask it to resolve our differences of opinion as if it were a Ouija board. In order for Scripture to serve as an authority at all, it must be read, exegeted, and interpreted by someone. As a Catholic, I wholeheartedly agree with the above statement. Now, some readers... Read more

In-Depth Response to a Critical Reader: What About…?

Last updated on: February 26, 2025 at 1:42 pm By Dennis Knapp

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In the comment section of my last article, a reader blasted me for writing on a topic they considered “rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.” The topic in question involved an Anglican female minster participating in Eucharistic prayers and receiving communion, while dressed as a priest. This reader, an atheist, saw no issue in such liturgical abuses, as such abuses concern the sacred, which according to them, does not exist. They then proceeded to post a video by a... Read more

To Catholic Subversives Who Support the Priestesshood

Last updated on: February 20, 2025 at 2:07 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Recently, during the installation of a new archbishop in Brazil, a scandal occurred. This scandal purports that a female Anglican minister participated or “concelebrated” in the liturgy of the Eucharist, including receiving communion. Now, faithful Catholics observing this scandal rightly expressed concern. Furthermore, the archdiocese issued a statement apologizing for this “isolated incident of inadvertent violation of liturgical norms” and promising to renew their commitment “to doctrinal orthodoxy and liturgical orthopraxy…” However, some Catholics may wish to engage in an... Read more

Is AI (Artificial Intelligence) Catholic?

Last updated on: February 15, 2025 at 7:53 pm By Dennis Knapp

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LIke many of my readers, I sometimes play around with different AIs by asking various philosophical and theological questions. Recently, while conducting research for another article on penance in the early Church, I asked three separate AIs (Perplexity AI, Gemini AI, and Chatgpt) the following questions: Was the method the early church used to address serious sin compatible with the Protestant doctrine of faith alone? Does this incompatibility with faith alone indicate a break with the bible? Did the early... Read more

Will You Submit to a Church that Tells You “No”?

Last updated on: February 2, 2025 at 5:12 pm By Dennis Knapp

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In my last article, I addressed the importance of Christian unity, and the means God provided to maintain unity in His Church. To summarize: God provided the Church with legitimate and continuous apostolic authorities (bishops and the Pope) to maintain unity through the use, if need, of excommunications and anathemas. The use of such authority remains an essential part of maintaining Christian unity to this day. In other words, the Church possesses the authority to tell individual Christians “no.” In... Read more

The Value of Christian Unity: A Tale of Two Schismatics

Last updated on: February 1, 2025 at 12:35 pm By Dennis Knapp

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Recently, two questions entered my mind regarding the role of unity within the Christian Church. What value does St. Paul and other biblical authors (the Bible) place on unity in the Church, if any? If the Bible teaches the importance of unity, what means did God give the Christian Church to maintain unity, if any? Now, I make a few assumptions in the above questions. A historical person (Jesus Christ) established a Church in history. An authoritative collection of books... Read more

A Silent Revolution: Invocation of the Saints (Reply 3)

Last updated on: January 20, 2025 at 7:58 pm By Dennis Knapp

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I want to again thank Matt for his time discussing this important topic. Below, I offer my thoughts on Matt’s arguments and observations. Let’s get started. An Appeal to the Incarnation Concerns Veneration, not Intercession or Invocation Dennis’s main premise is: Through the Incarnation, the Saints share in a measure of God’s glory (dulia). The above merely represents a part of my argument. In my first article, I offered a counter to Matt’s contention that Saint and Marian veneration came... Read more

Prayer to Saints: A Pagan Accretion (Reply 3)

Last updated on: January 16, 2025 at 10:42 am By Dennis Knapp

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Guest writer: Matt Graham. In this post, I’ll make a few comments in reply to Dennis’ last post and then begin to make my positive case for why praying to saints is not a legitimate Christian practice. Reply To Dennis Dennis mainly repeated his earlier claims and then added a few more examples to establish early attestation to the practice of praying to saints. It should be noted that adding a few more historical data points doesn’t amount to making... Read more