On Error and Sin
Back when I was posting articles on a daily basis, I was having a lot of interaction with Bruce Charlton in our articles and in their comment sections. We had been discussing the nature of repentance, faith, forgiveness, salvation, and eternal life. Through various twist and turns I was reminded of …
Useless Books of the Bible
When I wrote “The Living Voice,” I noted that the way scripture and authority are presented implies that the Book of Revelation is useless. This is quite important. If the metaphysical belief is that the prophecies—of Daniel, John the Revelator, Jesus at the Olivet Discourse, and Paul in 2 Thesssalonians—are …
Assortative Paring
I’ve talked before about how “opposites attract” is a myth. Couples pair up with people who are similar to them. This is one reason why people perceive hypergamy to be a real phenomenon: reality gets interpreted through a non-random selection filter. A person’s individual experiences are almost never representative of …
Must Read
Not since Lori Alexander’s “Godly Men Prefer Debt-Free Virgins Without Tattoos” has an influential woman wrote on a topic so central to the Manosphere: Helen Andrews, “The Great Feminization.” If you read nothing else this week, this is just as important. Of course, like Lori’s post, it isn’t saying anything …
The Bible in Latin
The following are six of the most important mistranslations of the original Hebrew and Greek that are found in the Latin Vulgate, Jerome’s translation of the Bible and the official Bible of Roman Catholicism. The influence of these errors upon Roman Catholicism has been profound. All of the above are …
The Roman Catholic Axiom: Applied
Once you know what the Roman Catholic Axiom is, it is often quite easy to identify its use: But sometimes it can be a bit tricky to unpack in complex arguments. There is the Roman Catholic Axiom—sola ecclesia—right there in bold, and it is quite revealing. Let’s see how Angelo …
The Roman Catholic Axiom: Defined
The Roman Catholic Axiom can be defined in various ways. Here are a few: All of these formulations point to the authority of the Roman Catholic church to claim that what it teaches now is correct, apostolic, and testified to by the apostles in unbroken succession backwards through time, either by …
Canon 6 of the Council of Nicaea
Since all the Roman Catholic readers of this blog have, for months now, abandoned it—or just stopped commenting—I’ve, instead, been having a series of discussions with more willing Roman Catholics on Twitter. One recent conversation can be found here. There, Michael—a married Roman Catholic from NYC with two children—sent me …
Anonymity
The same problem with anonymity applies elsewhere on the internet. Anonymity is a cancer that removes personal accountability and self-restraint.