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@pj100003 BTW - Thank you for your replies. Your explanations helped me to better understand the premises by which Kreeft and his cohorts operate, and also that I can misread people. I didn't mean to come off as snarky in my exchanges with you, if I did. Thanks again.

(Cont.) That continues to be the case, and I liked Hitchens for confronting that. I like Fr. Barron for confronting it from the other side, too, in spite of these disagreements. I'm not a cheerleader for Hitchens, exactly, though it may come across that way, but I felt compelled to voice some...

@m1chae15 Huh? I wasn't trying to be argumentative, I was simply pointing out that Dr. Hawking is, in fact, a doctor and can be fairly addressed as such. What is controversial about that? His apparent lack of civility is entirely beside the point. It doesn't really matter which title you use,...

@MichaelGuardia887 It has? If you look in one of my comments to hiswife2002, you can see that I seconded one of the ideas you wrote, so I don't think you can say I'm simply writing to trash Catholic doctrine. I don't believe inquiring about the nature of life as it extends to abortion is "menta...

@billyboy630 I hesitate to get involved in a debate like this, but I just have to say this. Stating that homosexuality is not inherently wrong yet acting on its impulse is is a bait and switch. How does this make any sense? The same cannot be said for heterosexuality, and pedophilia, for insta...

I agree that the New Atheists do not take religion seriously enough. My firmest criticism of them, despite having some sympathy for some of their arguments, is that they really don't get how much religion underpins society and just can't be separated from our history. An atheist friend of mine ...

You might want to look up the book, "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle," which linguist and former Christian missionary Daniel Everett discusses the decades in which he lived amongst the Piranha people in the Amazon. They have no concept of God or the super...

I've only watched some of this video, but I have a dispute with one thing Kreeft is doing: he's taking the upper hand by appealling to prayer. He says atheists should pray so that they don't miss out in case they are wrong. Why? To experiment? The assumption is that prayer is a pipeline to Go...

@KrashOmnis I get what Kreeft is doing here - the power of Socratic thinking is the right path, clearly, and it is the enemy of ideology. However, the fact that we now have more diseases than years ago does not mean having more doctors has anything to do with it, which, bizarrely, seems to follo...

What this guy is advocating is basically slinking into the lives of others (Jews) to infiltrate their lives and especially their worldviews. He talks about caring for them like any other person, but there is a manipulative agenda afoot in doing so that Brown doesn't want to face up to, at least ...

Ugh, I hate this sort of roundabout talk, that God can help gays to not be gay, or at least not act on those desires (as the RC Church would say). No credible mental health professional will tell you what Brown is speaking of now, which is to say that homosexuality is inherently wrong (minus the...

@wordonfirevideo Fr. Barron, I generally find you quite cogent, but I spot what I believe be a major hole in this thought process, which is why I don't find your explanation entirely convincing. To say Hell is self-imposed is to open up the possibility that one can unfetter him/herself from it, ...

Cain needs a lesson in international politics. Nobody in Canada is trying to "undo" anything. Ask any Canadian, and he or she will tell you that their system is in need of reform but not overhaul, and they certainly would not advocating switching to the US model. Canadians overall are happy wi...

So what happens when you finish after 30 hours? It doesn't count? Obviously they are not going to phyically pull those last people in the video off the course when they can still get to the finish line themselves, even if it isn't recorded. I dont' get this.

Hi Fr. Barron, I'm pretty sure you are underestimating the number of people killed in the last century. From my estimates it's more like 200 million people! (20-40 million for Stalin + 50-70 million for Mao + 11 million for Hitler + 16.5 million for WW1 + 50-70 million in WW2 + 20-40 million or...

@Derrickoify That's a side issue, again not addressing the real moral problem I believe the New Testament presents. Clearly you don't see it that way, but for some reason you keep coming back to inerrancy. That's not what I'm getting at. How so many Christians have no issues with the idea of e...