Sin is a privation of freedom; beatific vision is perfect liberty. A healthy tree freely grows upward toward the sun, not because it could choose to wither, but because it is functioning perfectly.

Over time, if every response—no matter how thoughtful or well-supported—is brushed aside, what starts as skepticism quietly hardens into a posture. The skeptic’s list may feel like solid ground, but it risks becoming a substitute for real inquiry; not a continuation of it.

Liberalism/feminism kills fertility → population collapse. To survive, liberal societies import immigrants from cultures not ruined by feminism. So liberalism is self-defeating: it can’t reproduce itself, only replace itself.

People who have actually read and studied the literature extensively on both sides of the debate tend to agree that the other is being rational and reasonable. This is not controverisal in the analytic philosophy of religion: premierunbelievable.com/articles/forge…

Infernalists often characterize universalists as holding that all are beamed to heaven upon death, whereas it’s consistent with universalism to hold that in fact most go to hell — just not forever (but “not forever” can be a very long time — like billions of years long).

If Protestantism is true, then what Christ Himself established was weaker than what the Reformers re-established. Great article. catholic.com/magazine/blog/…

I skimmed your article and it is based on a superficial understanding of the literature

“Too little and too much reason both set men at odds with religion.”

We make idols of the powerful, even when they do great evil. The reason is that power is a divine attribute, and thus we’re drawn to it. But since the corruption of the best is the worst, its abuse is demonic. To correct this, Christ, though omnipotent, took the form of a servant

Creating music is the place where an evolutionary creature acts like a metaphysical being. It’s where we behave least like animals, but animals still understand us.

My philosophy in a tweet: Ontology: Divine Conceptualism Epistemology: Intuitionist Foundationalism Philosophy of Religion: Classical Personalist Theism Theology: Classical Christian Theosis Morality: Theocentric Virtue Ethics Meta-ethics: Theistic Moral Realism

Modern modal skeptics of Anselm's ontological argument face a stark choice: Option 1: Admit self-evident necessities: Some propositions are known to be necessary or contradictory by understanding them alone. But then the Anselmian can legitimately claim that certain modal

"The idea of God, or a supremely perfect being, is such that it cannot be separated from existence without contradiction." - Rene Descartes

“A Bible falling apart is usually owned by someone who isn’t.”

Moral maturity is not just a property like having two arms. It is a settled orientation of the will formed through freely chosen acts over time. A virtue that has never been chosen is not yet the creature’s virtue, and some goods are logically posterior to prior acts of freedom.

Traditionalist infernalism creates a striking theological tension. On the one hand, it claims that most of humanity will be eternally damned. On the other hand, it insists that the visible Catholic Church—through the reforms associated with Second Vatican Council, modern

Easter is not the celebration of spring. It is the claim that reality is not finally tragic.