by Karlo Broussard | Sep 20, 2024 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways are well-known paths we can take to prove that God exists. The first way of the five argues from motion. Imagine a stone that’s being moved by a stick in my hand. There’s nothing about the stone itself that explains its motion. It’s in...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 2, 2024 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
One reason why skeptics don’t believe in the God of the Bible, the argument goes, is that he’s a slayer of the innocent. As one example, Exodus 12:29 reads, “The Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt.” So, the question becomes, how can God be all-good and...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 21, 2023 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Scientism rears its ugly head again: Scientism is the philosophical worldview that states only the methods of modern science can give us real knowledge. This is clear from the meme: science is the only one that gives us knowledge that the black cat is in the dark...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 7, 2023 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Imagine if someone with a decent platform got on Youtube or Twitter and said, “I think we’re overly focused on a rational approach to COVID-19 issues and vaccines. We should pay more attention to our emotions about these things.” What sort of response would there be?...
by Karlo Broussard | May 24, 2023 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
News flash: “Catholicism is “Bull#!*%” Hmmm…news to me, but apparently not to one of our followers: The reason? The Church teaches, “Death was contrary to the plans of God the Creator and entered the world as a consequence of sin” (Catechism of the Catholic Church...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 18, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
During the question-and-answer session after a talk I gave in Illinois, a military man posed an objection against the existence of absolute truth. It went something like this: If truth were absolute, then there wouldn’t be disagreement among people. Since there is...
