This mirrors a recent talk I had with someone on heaven & hell:Catholics aren’t such straw men [& women] as they are often made out to be in the world of weak religions…. This Mark Shea article summed up the points I made on Good Friday last year and the topic of many a Sunday’s…
DetailsFr. Robert Barron on Protestantism, authority, and Cardinal Newman: Faint allusions to Chesterton, Lewis, Rolheiser, Keating, and Merton in there too… All points aside, in my opinion, Alister McGrath is one of the most powerful Protestant minds today or down history’s halls. This Fr. Barron guy is good too, and his reasoning reminds me of…
DetailsFrom now on, I think the political stuff will be limited to one day only. Friday is that day. The blog has gotten bogged down in political stuff, so I should change that. Startingggggg…. after today. In the meantime… Kids say the darnest things: END THE FED!: Bishop of Nova Scotia found with child pornography…
DetailsA few years ago, there was another of these debates between Dinesh D’Souza, arguing for God/religion, against Christopher Hitchens, arguing not only that God doesn’t exist, but that as a construct, God is bad for humanity. D’Souza is in fine form on this topic, as always, and Hitchens is by far the smartest of his…
DetailsA fellow blogger posted a portion of this article by Thomas Sowell (about this nation’s love of underdogs), but I thought the whole thing was worth putting up, especially since it is relevant to the firestorm I started yesterday involving race… In addition to the article, there is a video on point…: Yet more proof…
DetailsSome things I have been thinking about… Whew! My first part needs to be rephrased…. Update soon… My second thought is about priests and holy water. Why wouldn’t a preist turn all of the water he drinks and showers with into holy water? That’s what I’d do. But what difference would it make? What special…
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