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...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 16, 2021 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
When life is tough, we all have our coping mechanisms. Some are be based in reality, like friendships, and some are not, like drowning our sorrows in alcohol. For some atheists, religion, and in particular belief in God, is one of those coping mechanisms that isn’t...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 28, 2020 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
St. Thomas Aquinas is famous for seeing the most mundane things in our human experience as starting points for reasoning to God’s existence. For example, in the first of his famous “Five Ways” he starts with motion (Summa Theologiae I:2:3). In the second, he starts...
