by Karlo Broussard | Sep 10, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Imagine you’re at a public gathering of religious believers—say, a pro-life event or something similar. Across the street you spot a group of atheist protesters sarcastically waving a sign that says: “Religion. . . because thinking is hard.” This has become one of the...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 18, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
The Catholic Church has been a great patroness of philosophical wisdom, with Augustine and Aquinas being perhaps the greatest representatives of this tradition. Some Christians think this emphasis on philosophy in the Catholic tradition, however, contradicts the...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Sometimes, we’re called to explain our Catholic beliefs using Scripture, often when talking with our Protestant friends. Other times, a historical approach works best, such as when we’re defending the reliability of the New Testament or Jesus’ resurrection to someone...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Critics of the doctrine of hell often argue that it’s unjust, because eternal punishment exceeds the temporal nature of a mortal sin. Why should any sin we commit on earth, in time, require everlasting punishment in hell? It’s not proportional. St. Thomas Aquinas...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that “every spiritual soul is . . . immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final resurrection” (366). But some Christians outside mainstream Protestantism, in particular...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 26, 2018 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
In “Is the Only Real Knowledge Scientific Knowledge?” I argued that scientism—the belief that science is the only source for real and objective knowledge—is a self-referentially incoherent belief. It’s not empirically verifiable or quantifiably measurable, and thus is...
