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...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 22, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
In a previous article, we looked at the nature of the soul and left off with some important questions. Can the soul continue to exist after the death of the body? If so, can it be destroyed? Let’s consider these questions here. The key to answering the question of...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 4, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
If you bring up the topic of the soul, it’s not uncommon for folks to give you a blank stare. And even if folks do have something to say about it, they often think of it as some separate thing in us that’s interacting with our body—like how a puppeteer might...
by Karlo Broussard | May 12, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Recently, there was a Twitter thread of atheists and theists going back and forth that gained a bit of attention. An atheist asked, “Dear theists: What is the mass of God?” A priest responded, “What is the circumference of red?” To put it another way, to demand...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 15, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Classical theists like St. Thomas Aquinas say God loves himself above all things. In other words, the primary target object of God’s love is himself. He loves himself above all things because his act of love can be fulfilled only in loving himself. This is not to say...
