The Pillays of South Africa, Self-Made Energy Crisis, Response to Derrick Brite

   This morning I noted Erik Raymond’s blog entry on relics here (Hi Erik!). There are few things more repulsive to the life-long Protestant than relics, and nothing more creepy than entering an old style traditionalist Roman Catholic church filled with skeletons and bones and the like. The relic trade continues to this day, despite how often modern Roman Catholics try

The following argument was presented by a Roman Catholic apologist by the name of Phil Porvaznik by means of the Internet. We provide a brief response and rebuttal that we hope will be useful to all. 1) There was a person who lived in the first century named Jesus of Nazareth. Yes, there was. 2) According to the record we

   As I have looked over my archives I see that almost three months have passed since my last installment in response to Steve Ray’s attempt to defend the concept of the Bodily Assumption of Mary from Scripture. Of course, this 30 page pdf, cobbled together from various sources, is only partly on the subject of the Assumption. A large portion