On Demonic Possession
Then they sailed to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. And when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demons for a long time. And he wore...
View ArticleMoral Relativism Is Bogus — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor
Oftentimes moral relativism is defined in more abstract terms and described as the belief that values or principles are “subjective” or “relative” to individuals or cultures. What works for one person...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Instantaneous Knowledge of God
Previous post. More clues about how God fattens our intellects. Not through our reason, but by gifts, as it were. THAT THOSE WHO SEE GOD SEE ALL THINGS IN HIM AT ONCE 1 Now that we have shown that the...
View ArticleA Brief Note On Democracy, Authority & Power Inspired by Patrick O’Brian:...
The scene is this: Dr Stephen Maturin, physician and surgeon of England’s Surprise sits dining with his messmates in the ward room, near the end of the Napoleonic wars. The French prisoner and...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Eternity And The Mind of God
Previous post. Eternity is a very long time, so settle back. THAT THROUGH THE VISION OF GOD ONE BECOMES A PARTAKER OF ETERNAL LIFE 1 From this consideration it is apparent that the created intellect...
View ArticleBishop Barron and Ben Shapiro Chat About Salvation
Atheists reject Christ in the sense that they deny Jesus was crucified and rose from the dead because he is God. Atheists also therefore reject the idea of eternal life and the necessity of salvation...
View ArticleProbability Of Abiogenesis? There Isn’t One
Remember before when we agreed nothing has a probability? Bully. So if no thing has a probability, neither does abiogenesis, since abiogenesis is a thing. Since abiogenesis is a thing and things have...
View ArticleDutch Book: Or, How to Gamble
This post first appeared sometime before 2012, but I lost the original date due to the hacking. If you are a gambler, you’ll be delighted to learn that there is a way to create a system of wagers such...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: Eternity Lasts A Long Time
Previous post. You MUST review. It’s been a few weeks since our break, and doubtless your memory is sketchy about where we are and how we got here. THAT THOSE WHO SEE GOD WILL SEE HIM PERPETUALLY 1...
View ArticleScience Without God Is Incomplete
Either God exists or He does not. If He does not, then science does not matter. Nothing does. Anything anybody does is mere prejudice, whim. There is no good, there is no evil. There is no point in...
View ArticleDon’t Panic, But Intelligent Design Is Trivially True (Breathe, Breathe…)
This post, a follow-up to yesterday’s, originally ran 4 August 2016. What I mean by intelligent design (which is perhaps not what you mean by it) is that All There Is, along with the Way Things Are,...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: You Have No Idea Of The Coming Good
Previous post. It’s going to be better than you can think. HOW MAN’S EVERY DESIRE IS FULFILLED IN THAT ULTIMATE FELICITY 1 From the foregoing it is quite apparent that, in the felicity that comes from...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God’s In Charge, And You’re Not
Previous post. It will come as no surprise that if God is God, then He’s in charge. THAT GOD GOVERNS THINGS BY HIS PROVIDENCE 1 From the points that have been set forth we have adequately established...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Preserves All Things In Being
Previous post. Being didn’t happen for no reason, and the so-called laws of physics, or whatever is being claimed to be at base, such as quantum “fluctuations”, cannot account for themselves. THAT GOD...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Makes Things Makers
Previous post. This chapter is mop up from the previous; dotted ‘i’s and the like. Review! THAT NOTHING GIVES BEING EXCEPT IN SO FAR AS IT ACTS BY DIVINE POWER 1 From this it is manifest that no lower...
View ArticleYou Cannot Be An Illusion
“Increasingly, however, scientists are finding that the self is a kind of necessary illusion manufactured by the brain and often more fragile than we’d like to imagine.” So says an illusion at Quartz,...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Is The Grease Of All Movement
Previous post. These past few chapters, including this one in particular, are the start of all science. THAT GOD IS THE CAUSE OF OPERATION FOR ALL THINGS THAT OPERATE 1 It is evident, next, that God is...
View ArticleIs A Material Bearer of Consciousness Intelligible? — Guest Post by The...
Somebody Has To Pay The Consciousness Bill The first problem that I dealt with concerning emergentism was the problem of how unconscious matter becomes conscious. I have previously argued against the...
View ArticleSummary Against Modern Thought: God Is Everywhere
Previous post. There is no escape. This chapter is a primer on the claim. Next week a difficult chapter on the science of it all. But do not miss the comment contra locality in physics in the...
View ArticleHell & Heaven Are Real — Act Accordingly
I went to my first ever Russian Byzantine Catholic mass on Sunday, and very much enjoyed among other things the priest’s homily, which—miracle!—did not shy away from the key message of the Gospel...
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