The Beautiful, the Good, & the True
Fr. Barron gives your lecture of the week this week, with 7 pieces of advice to approaching religious discussion. Don’t miss it. This one is as good as he always is…
Jesus Existed
And I quote… But probably the best example of an element in the story which was so awkward for the early Christians that it simply has to be historical is the crucifixion. The idea of a Messiah who dies was totally unheard of and utterly alien to any Jewish tradition prior to the beginning of…
DetailsThe Self-Evidence of God
I know a few people that definitely deserve a heaven if there is one, people whose goodness is so far beyond my own that it makes me doubt I’ll ever be in the running… But perhaps the best argument for God isn’t about proofs or sound reasoning, but in the observation of man and self.…
DetailsAnother Word to the Historically Ignorant
Quite a few words, in fact. Just over a week ago, I posted about how those claiming that the Middle Ages were a time in which the Catholic Church sought to control and cruelly subjugate all “for their own benefit” are both historically ignorant and theologically bereft. I don’t want to end it there, since…
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God Is Self-Evident
Among the arguments for God, we have: Kalam Cosmological Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism The existence of beauty, objective morality, and mathematical realism The moral and extratemporal senses of human beings Teleological argument from design (fine tuning) Quantum & interdimensional physics The experience of consciousness & Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem The historical person of Jesus Christ The historical…
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