by Karlo Broussard | Sep 16, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
“Thou shalt not kill the innocent.” Everyone accepts that, right? Think again. Fifty years ago, Judith Jarvis Thomson didn’t buy it. In her 1971 paper, “A Defense of Abortion,” she explicitly denied the idea that “directly killing an innocent person is always and...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 18, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Protestant apologists often argue against the papacy along the following line: if Peter were the first pope, as Catholics say he was, then we’d expect to find the New Testament mention such a Petrine office when it would have been pertinent to do so. Since we don’t...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 6, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
It’s often argued that sexual activity with a member of the same sex is immoral because it’s a disordered act, or a perversion of the sexual faculty. The idea here is that moral disorder enters human acts when we willfully direct some faculty or power away from its...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 10, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Do you want to be left behind? For those of you familiar with Tim LaHaye’s Left Behindseries, you’re probably thinking, “Heck no! I don’t won’t to be left behind.” Well, I’m here to tell you, “You do want to be left behind.” The question is prompted by Jesus’ teaching...
by Karlo Broussard | May 11, 2022 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Some Christians think the possibility of going to hell is solely for unbelievers. They don’t believe that a true born-again Christian can lose his salvation, hence the common phrase once saved, always saved. But for other Christians, hell is a stark reality to contend...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 22, 2022 | Articles, General Ethics
When you hear the sentiment “thou shalt not be a white supremacist”—it’ll be dressed up a bit, but that’s the meaning—you can rest assured that the moral absolute being expressed here isn’t really about white supremacy. Sometimes it amounts to a form of relativism...
