A Quick Note on Last Night’s Debate

   Over the past few years I, and others, have posted various claims, assertions, arguments, and especially, melt-downs, by participants in the “Speak Your Mind” forums on Patrick Madrid’s Roman Catholic website. As the material was publicly accessible, it was a veritable gold mine of bad arguments, circularity, and, of course, with Art Sippo posting there, a treasure trove of wild-eyed

Over the course of the debates we have done I have often had to point out the difference between theocentric religion and anthropocentric religion. This normally comes up when encountering someone who reads one of the passages in the Bible that can be read prescriptively (“do this so as to be saved”) or descriptively (“this is what a saved person

   Hello, your local “complete mental midget” here, on the road and far from home today, but not completely out of touch, anyway. While traveling I was sent this link to Pat Madrid’s Envoy forums. You will note that the thread begins with the ever-timid Phil Porvaznik doing his best to act as if he can respond to my criticisms of

    A few days ago I mentioned some of the problems with the notes found in The New Catholic Answer Bible. Recall, the author, Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong, referred to them as “the notoriously liberal notes for the NAB,” written by “heterodox, liberal dissidents.” Because of these notes, I felt it would be fitting to rename his book, “The New

It was The Great Debate I. The first big debate on Long Island. An intense evening of debate between myself and Gerry Matatics. Unfortunately, we have not gotten this debate off of VHS onto DVD as yet (it’s on the list). You can find it in the mp3 list, of course. In any case, this was the third cross-ex period

Mr. Mark Shea (link) seems to think that Dr. White’s post (link) is so much “huff-puffery.” Thankfully, the flim-flam from which Mr. Shea’s argument is constructed is so flimsy that it is flattened by even fairly rudimentary analysis. Mr. Shea seems to have forgotten the important lesson of the story of the three little pigs. The lesson wasn’t so much

Recently Concordia Publishing House released Luther’s Works Volume 69. It’s a new English translation of Luther’s writing not previously available in English. While the volume is primarily a verse by verse commentary of John 17-20, interspersed are some interesting apologetic arguments against Romanism. (A word of caution: if you follow the above link to Concordia Publishing and fill out the