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July 2019

July 06, 2019

Does the Mass “banish the remembrance of Christ’s death”? Part 3 of a series on John Calvin’s Institutes IV.18.

Note. This is a long-awaited continuation of a series that I began in December...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

Dear James White: Thanks for the Applause. You Left a Few Things Out.

I tried to get the word to Dr.* James White before he took to his...

December 2015

December 01, 2015

Calvinist Blogger Reads James; Discovers That We Must Do Good Works.

So I was making my periodic round of the blogs in order to find out...

April 2015

April 23, 2015

Two Highly Illogical Arguments for Sola Scriptura.

Highly illogical is a recent post by Stephen Wolfe, which comes recommended to us by...

April 20, 2015

Misquoting St. Cyprian; Or, How “John Bugay” Abuses the Church Fathers.

Polemical rogue Mr. "John Bugay" is promoting a group that calls itself "Operation St. Cyprian"...

March 2015

March 04, 2015

The Woman of the Apocalypse According to Popes

Steve "Purple" Haze, in a recent post at Failablogue is once more trying to pit...

March 03, 2015

Did Theodoret of Cyrus Teach Sola Scriptura? White vs. Matatics (1997): Part 2

Not satisfied with his effort to co-opt St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Dr.* James White of...

January 2015

January 27, 2015

A Frustrated Steve Hays Resorts to Ad Hominem, More Haze

This post is the latest in a discussion between myself and Reformed “apologist” Steve "Purple"...

January 26, 2015

Scuse Me While I Refute This Guy: A Reply to Steve “Purple” Hays on the Pope, NFP, and C-Sections

Steve "Purple" Hays of Failablogue (he calls it Triablogue, for duplicitous reasons of his own)...

January 23, 2015

In Attack on Pope, Polemical Rogue John Bugay Makes Crude Joke About Multiple Orgasms. (You Read That Right.)

There is no cesspool so foul that John Bugay will not jump into it with...

January 01, 2015

Do Priests Rob Christ of His High Priesthood? Part 2 of a Series on Calvin’s Institutes IV.18

"Satan,” John Calvin says in the Institutes, “has attempted to adulterate and envelop the sacred...

December 2014

December 26, 2014

Does the Mass “Overthrow the Cross of Christ”? Part 1 of a Series on Calvin’s Institutes IV.18

The reason I write about the loopy Mr. Kevin Failoni is because he has a...

December 20, 2014

Which Came First? The Bible or the Church?

Half the battle, in any discussion with any anti-Catholic is coming to an agreement on...

December 18, 2014

First, the Really Bad Argument Against Infallibility

The real flaw in the loopy Mr. Kevin Failoni’s thinking is the idea that infallibility...

August 2014

August 13, 2014

Once More, Regarding the Monophysites & the Crusades

It may chance that Mr. Bugay knew he had blogged his way into a spot...

August 09, 2014

Polemical Rogue John Bugay Blames Catholic Church for ISIS

Dear reader, the man in Pittsburgh has officially lost it. If there were doubt before,...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Three Reasons to Take John 6 Literally

Christ's words in John 6 could have a merely spiritual meaning. The manna in the...

July 29, 2014

Mr. X Struggles With Metaphor, Transubstantiation, & John 6

Of late, the anonymous blogger, five-pointer, and crack theologian TurretinFan has been struggling with the...

June 2014

June 23, 2014

Did Cyril of Jerusalem Teach Sola Scriptura? White vs. Matatics (1997): Part 1

It is an old and tried tactic of the anti-Catholic apologist to take a Church...

May 2014

May 28, 2014

Oops! Calvinist Pastor Ken Temple Appears to Say Bible Contains Mistakes.

Do Reformed folk no longer believe in the plenary inspiration of Scripture? Loraine Boettner himself...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

TurretinFan Interprets the Lightning

If lightning strikes a tree, how do we know that it is random; whereas, if...

January 20, 2014

Steve Hays & the Parable of the Biltmore

Steve "Purple" Hays, at Failablogue has proposed the following argument regarding sola scriptura: It is...

January 16, 2014

Desperate John Bugay to Catholics: Shut Up About Sola Scriptura

Protestant apologists are creative and tireless in their efforts to find sola scriptura in the...

October 2013

October 21, 2013

Lies and the Lying Liars Who Accuse Others of Them

I have next to me a copy of the American Heritage Dictionary. I looked at...

October 14, 2013

Forgive Me Father, For I Smashed a Brick Against My Face

For all this year I could not go an hour without wanting to smash a...

October 10, 2013

Is the Infant of Prague Idolatrous?

Every so often the Catholic apologist will be minding his own business, fulfilling the precepts...

October 04, 2013

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. I

It is worse than irony. The very same lysergic, Francis-bashing acid, which one can buy — almost...

May 2013

May 21, 2013

James White Agonistes

The Dividing Line of May 21, 2013, found here, is all the evidence I need...

May 16, 2013

A Counterblast to Dr.* James White and His Blithe Denial of 48,509+ Protestant Sects

Dr.* James White (Th.D., D.Min., etc., etc.) seems to walk through life with the assumption...

May 14, 2013

Ephesians Chapter Four: Only One Church

If in Gal. 1:7 St. Paul says that there is not any other gospel, in...