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August 2013

August 06, 2013

“I AM” is not “Is”: Nihilism

“Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?” -Nietzsche (The Will...

July 2013

July 08, 2013

“I AM” is not “Is”: Problems in Scholasticism

In consideration of ontotheology, it is important to look into the history of it. Heidegger...

June 2013

June 19, 2013

“I AM” is Not “Is”: An Introduction to Ontotheology

I would be hard pressed to find someone who wouldn’t agree that there is something...

June 08, 2013

How Your Work-Out Might Be Destroying Your Destiny

Work-out mania has always disturbed me. Perhaps it is my inherent fear of people too...

May 2013

May 31, 2013

Subjectivity, Truth-Relation, and Learning to Be Charitable

There is a problem I have found within the climate of American Catholics (I'm sure...

May 30, 2013

Why Dan Brown Desperately Needs Jesus to Have Sex

It's been said that I resemble a younger version of a certain Slovenian philosopher by...

May 10, 2013

Why St. Josemaria Escriva Might Just Be the Ubermensch

There is an unfortunate tendency both within the Church and within society in general to...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

Kierkegaard, Chrysostom and Christmas Boredom

In the technological age, we have a horrendous tendency towards boredom. This is unfortunately true...

December 22, 2012

What Friedrich Nietzsche Can Tell Us About Heaven

Nineteenth Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is renowned by atheists everywhere for his (usually taken...

December 18, 2012

A Case for Camus

In times of great tragedy there are so many questions. The greatest of these questions...

December 15, 2012

Can Anyone Really Be an Empiricist?

To be an atheist, one must deny the existence of God, any God. When pressed...

October 2012

October 21, 2012

Why We Have Secular Humanism

Among the ruins of the old, theocratic, feudal order lives a most peculiar creature, modern...

October 16, 2012

Being and Nothingness: and Their Relation to Christianity

There are many differences between the Hebrew God and the gods of other ancient Near...

September 2012

September 18, 2012

Can Christianity Answer the Modern Question?

Christianity is often criticized for not understanding the struggle of the modern man. Many of...

May 2012

May 30, 2012

Why Atheism is a Dead End

A great debate has raged since the Deists of the Enlightenment first lost their ground...

May 23, 2012

How Christianity (Really) Ruined the World

It's common on the internet to run into a myriad of attacks on Christianity. But...

December 2011

December 13, 2011

Truth

Truth is a peculiar thing in most human minds, it is that perfection that we...