by Karlo Broussard | Jul 24, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
If someone asked you, “What does the New Atheism have in common with Protestantism?” you might say, “Nothing!” It would seem that devout Bible believing Christians such as Protestants would be as far away from atheists as possible. Yet there is more to this...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 11, 2017 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman says that we can’t trust the Gospels in their reports about Jesus’ resurrection. His basic argument is that the Gospels are “hopelessly contradictory” (The Historical Jesus). In his 2006 debate with William Lane Craig,...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 3, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
If the Catholic Church is casting a negative light on itself by opposing something that the culture has accepted as a norm, then should the Catholic Church give up its efforts in opposing the homosexual lifestyle? This is a question that a caller posed to me...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 20, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Imagine that you finally get to meet your new neighbors. And at the get-to-know-each-other barbeque you discover that the husband Joe is a fallen away Catholic, and is now a staunch Protestant. As you’re having a few cold ones near the grill, Joe begins to share his...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 7, 2017 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
A few months ago a caller on Catholic Answers Live said he didn’t believe that God exists because the belief cannot be proven true (verified) or false (falsified) based on empirical observation. What he meant was that there is nothing in our sense experience that can...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 25, 2017 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Skeptics will argue that Jesus’ resurrection is just one more instance of the dying-and-rising-god motif prevalent in the religions of the ancient Near East. The Scottish social anthropologist James Frazer popularized this motif in his 1890 book The Golden...
