with John DeRosa
In one conversation, a non-religious friend told me he thought both sides of an atheist-theist debate defended a rational position. He said this in response to the book An Atheist and a Christian Walk into a Bar, which I recommended to him. Despite considering the arguments of the book, he...
The Bible supports Slavery. This slogan provides atheists with an easy reason to dismiss the Bible. They will say: “How can you support the Bible when it supports slavery? It’s an immoral book that only a blind idiot would follow.” This is a good opportunity for you to...
In a previous post, I explained how various tenets of the Catholic Christian worldview fit with the facts of evil and suffering in the world. In this post, I consider how the facts of evil and suffering fit with atheistic worldviews. I will examine two ideas directly related...
On the Facebook page for Classical theism, the atheists only seem to interact through memes. So, I’ve decided that I will answer any memes they post! In the future, I can simply respond, “I’ve answered that meme here [insert link].” You will benefit from these. For each meme,...
In our time, the two biggest objections leveled by atheists against theists are: The Problem of Evil The Problem of Divine Hiddenness I answer the Problem of Evil in a series of posts starting with this one. While that series helps answer the problem in conversation, it does...
Racism, Charlottesville, and Christianity In case there was any doubt about the Christian view of racism: 1) Tim Keller explains how the bible firmly stands against racism. (source) 2) Libertarian Christian Bob Murphy has a nice, concise response to self-described Christians preaching hatred of Jews: (source) It’s not...
Davies and Theodicy Brian Davies O.P. wrote The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil (2006), and it is the best book I have ever read on the subject. Drawing upon the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and others in the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition, Davies defends many theses and...
I ran across some atheist memes recently. Here are some quick answers. Of course, the full answer to a meme sometimes requires an essay. But in the day and age of short snippets of information, it’s best to say something brief rather than nothing at all (or a long essay no...
I contend that evil and suffering fit well within the Catholic Christian worldview and do not fit well in atheistic worldviews. This provides yet another reason why the problem of evil fails as an objection to the existence of God.
In part 1, we examined how to situate the problem of evil in conversation. In part 2, we answered the logical problem of evil. We saw that the logical version poses no threat whatsoever to the existence of the God of classical theism. Paul Draper, an agnostic scholar,...
