One of the positive things about discussions with atheists is that most of them insist on rational discussion. They say they want to discuss things reasonably. It's disappointing therefore when the conversations sometimes end up with atheists descending to profanity, emotional rants, ad hominem attacks and blasphemy. Nevermind. Some Catholics are fond of irrational rants too. [...]
Guest blogger Ed Blanch writes for knotRED– the Intercollegiate Marxist Review. An activist with the Occupy Chick-Fil-A movement, he is also a member of Citizens for Rap Music. He comments regularly on the PETA website and blogs at There’s No Sky Fairy. Ed is a sophomore at North Jersey College of Technology majoring in media studies. It was [...]
An interesting story has popped up about miracles taking place in India. I've heard church workers report that the growth of the church in Africa is also attributed to a rush of miracles happening there. So why no miracles here? First of all, to see a miracle you have to believe in miracles. C.S.Lewis said he [...]
Would a good God send anyone to hell? Some folks tootle on about the Christian God being some sort of "invisible moral enforcer". He's the big school monitor in the sky; the eternal policeman. They reject that sort of God, and that's okay because that's not really the God of the Catholic faith anyway. We believe [...]
Atheists like to tell us that they can be "good without God." What they rarely do is define what they mean by "good". If they mean they can have good manners, do volunteer work, give to worthy causes to make the world a better place, then of course they can be "good without God." If they [...]
In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice Caroline says to Mr Bingley, I should like balls infinitely better, if they were carried on in a different manner; but there is something insufferably tedious in the usual process of such a meeting. It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing were made the order [...]
Guest blogger Ed Blanch writes for RED– the Intercollegiate Marxist Review. An activist with the Occupy Chick-Fil-A movement, he is also a member of Citizens for Rap Music. He comments regularly on the PETA website and blogs at There’s No Sky Fairy. Ed is a sophomore at North Jersey College of Technology majoring in media studies. [...]