Dating someone with a past
Another great post from the Chastity Project on a very sensitive subject:
Month: October 2013
Recycled Jesus
Another of the articles I saw while I was away last month was one from Catholic Answer’s Matt Fradd, speaking about the supposed relationship between Jesus and Pagan deities: Is Jesus a spin-off of Pagan Deities?
Wise Words on Wednesday: Like the only one
It was immensely disarming and engaging to be treated as if you were the only one in his life; but then, for the time you were with [Fr. Joe], you were. He loved the one he was with; spiritually promiscuous, utterly discreet
– Father Joe, Page 252
“There is no evidence for the existence of God”
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. Over the next few weeks I’m going to be posting one of his short videos responding to the common claims of Atheists:
Dialog with Jerry: Part 3 (The kitchen sink)
Over the last couple of days I’ve been posting (with permission, of course) some of my exchange with a Protestant called Jerry. The final portion of his email took a wide tour of Catholic teaching and contained lots of assertions and various accusations tangential to our main conversation. For the sake of providing him with some basic answers, I responded to each of them briefly…
The Saint-Making Marriage
I know I’ve made two posts today and generally try and keep to that limit, but this one is just too good not to share. Here is a post my one of my all-time favourite bloggers, Dr. Thomas Neal, on his blog Neal Obstat. It is entitled “Saint-making marriage”:
Jesus: Roman Invention
You may have been hearing recently about a guy called Joseph Atwill who is going around saying that he has proof that Jesus was a piece of Roman fiction. If any of your friends post about this on Facebook, I’d invite you to post in response a link to the following article by Catholic Answers apologist, Jimmy Akin.
Jimmy decimates Atwill’s hypothesis. Jimmy can do this because, quite frankly, Atwill’s assertions are utterly ridiculous and probably the worst “mythist” theory I’ve ever heard…
