"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“[R]emember that abortion is shocking in and of itself. We don’t have to run through the streets shouting, ‘Abortion is murder!’ in order to make it shocking. A gracious defender of the pro-life view knows that the facts speak loudly so we don’t have to.”
– Trent Horn, Persuasive Pro Life
The other day I was pleased to discover that Catholic Answers have put up on YouTube the entire debate of Trent Horn with atheist Dan Barker entitled “God: Supreme Being or Imaginary Friend?”
The March For Life in Washington DC is quickly approaching, so for the next week or so I’m going to be posting exclusively on the subject abortion, even dispensing with some of my “regularly scheduled programming”, such as Music Monday and Friday Frivolity.
To kick off this series of posts, here’s a video of Catholic Apologist Trent Horn speaking with Dr. Malcolm Potts on “Issues on Reproduction”:
(Unfortunately, the audio quality isn’t good, but the content is great)
A few days ago I published a post of a debate which Trent Horn from Catholic Answers had on the subject of abortion. Today’s post is of another debate in which Trent recently engaged, this time with the famous mythicist, Dr. Richard Carrier:
I was fortunate enough to ask a question Dr. Carrier a question concerning Ignatius of Antioch. There other question I wanted to ask though. Given that Dr. Carrier regards the Gospels as large works of allegory, what does he make of all the New Testament scholarship which explores the different senses of Scripture, one of which is the allegorical sense. Wouldn’t that mean that we have allegories inside allegories?
I will certainly say that Dr. Carrier knows his stuff, but by the end of this debate I was honestly bewildered by his position. Not only is it rather complicated, he has to go to great lengths to explain away the all the evidence which points to a far simpler narrative: that there was a man named Jesus of Nazareth who lived in the First Century whose followers claimed rose bodily from the dead.
A Restless Pilgrim favourite, Trent Horn, recently engaged in an abortion debate on Atheist Analysis:
While enjoyable, I thought the pro-choice position was especially weak. Honestly, I’ve seen far better defenses of abortion. During the Q&A, Trent’s opponent repeatedly responded with “I don’t know”, “I’m not sure about that” etc. While this shows humility and that’s commendable, it doesn’t really speak highly for your cause if you’re unable to offer a rational, thought-out responses to simple questions…
A while back, I posted about Catholic apologist Trent Horn’s debate with Dan Barker on the subject of atheism, as well as his debate with Cecili Chadwick concerning abortion. Well, later this month Trent is going to be debating Dr. Richard Carrier on the historicity of Jesus. You can register for tickets here. Since I couldn’t find one, I also created a Facebook event:
This debate should be particularly interesting since Dr. Carrier is a prominent Jesus Mythicist and, to the best of my knowledge, the only historian with a PhD in Ancient History who casts serious doubt of Jesus’ existence. He’s published a couple of books on the subject where he explains why he thinks the scholarly consensus is wrong and what historical methods should be used instead.
If you’ve been to the other debates which Trent has done, you’ll know that this is sure to be a charitable and engaging debate. See you there 🙂
There are three upcoming talks this summer at Santa Sophia: “How to be Persuasively Pro-life”, “What were the Crusades?” and “Mary, The Mother Of God – What’s All The Fuss About?” I love Catholic Answers, but their social media presence is pretty terrible. So, in the absence of seeing it anywhere else online, here’s a link to the upcoming events this summer in San Diego:
