Conversations with Catholics will invariably result in a defense of what they call “the Eucharist” (also called “the Sacrifice of the Mass”). Catholics will insist that the “Real Presence” and “Transubstantiated” Eucharist can be found throughout the entirety of church history. So, what better proof could there be besides one …

This is part of a series on Roman Catholicism and the eucharist. See this index. I recently had someone ask Grok AI a question about the Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence. Here is the response: For readers who read last week’s post, this will sound extremely familiar: You know it’s …

This is part of a series on Roman Catholicism and the eucharist. See this index. In “Eucharist, Redux #2” we defined the eucharist of the early church and provided a 10-item list of things that the church offered in its sacrificial thanks-offering. Inspired by the interaction in the screenshot above, let’s …

This is part of a series on Roman Catholicism and the eucharist. See this index. Since I wrote my (now 48-part) series on the Eucharist, I’ve since interacted with dozens of Roman Catholics and read many Catholic apologists defending the Eucharist of the Roman Catholic Church. While there are a …

A while back, a certain commenter to this blog was saying that women must veil because men are made in the image of God: The commenter claimed that this means that only men must, by necessity, be the image of God. I pointed out that this makes no logical sense …

I was reading this thread about how some theologians say that the heart is for religion and the brain is for science, thus dividing the heart and mind. For example, here are some teachers who promote the inherent division between the heart and mind: This Greek-philosophy-derived idea has been a repeated theme …

If there is one thing I do, it’s write about fringe topics that no one is asking me to write about. I tend to think about and draw conclusions about things that no one else is pondering. This post is no different. Sorry if you were hoping for different! From …

With God, equality and worth are metaphysical matters. Without God, equality and worth collapse into empirical and physical matters, governed by arbitrary philosophical abstractions. The result is blankslatism. Blankslatism is, ultimately, a rejection of God, yet often done so in the name of God. Consider this. In the Bible, the death penalty …

The blogs of Bnonn Tennant and Michael Foster (itsgoodtobeaman.com and bnonn.com) are no longer available. The former site has been deleted, with its DNS A record deleted. The latter is returning a 404. I’ve written about both men over the years and interacted with their material on a number of occasions. …

This is part of a series. See the index here. Hypergamy and polygamy are related terms that originally referred to marriage. Hypergamy, as traditionally defined, is marrying up into a higher caste and polygamy is having more than one wife at the same time. These days even monogamous marriage is on …