by Karlo Broussard | Sep 6, 2016 | Articles, General Ethics
Are you tired of being charged with intolerance? I know I am. Anyone who believes in absolute truth has felt the sting of this charge. “We should accept everyone’s opinions as equally valid,” say the relativist. “Since you absolutists don’t, you’re intolerant.” Let’s...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 19, 2016 | Articles, General
Catholics claim Christ constituted his church as a visible society with a hierarchical structure. And as Dominus Iesusteaches, this society “subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him” (16). Catholics...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 16, 2016 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
That God demands man—indeed, created man—to worship him is a fact. He desires the praise and worship of every man and woman without exception. What does this tell us about God’s character? Is his demand and desire for worship unreasonable? An article at the Richard...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 26, 2016 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
There are many charges atheists level at Christians, but one of the most common is that their faith is blind—that is to say, faith is belief without evidence. Leading atheist voice Richard Dawkins writes, “Faith, being belief that isn’t based on evidence, is the...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 7, 2016 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Can the universe be a mere brute fact? Can we say, “The universe just exists and that’s that—it has no explanation at all”? Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, thinks so. In a recent interview with Phil Torres at salon.com,...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
It never ceases to amaze me how so many things in life can be a point of departure for reasoning to God’s existence. For example, I look at a cup suspended above the ground due to the causal activity of the desktop, the desk’s legs, the ground, etc. and realize that...
