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The Absurdity of Evil and the Boston Bombs

Here’s my piece for Aleteia on the Boston Bombing

Polygamy and the Police State

Here’s how same sex marriage will lead to a police state: First this article on Slate calls for the legalization of polygamy. The call for polygamy sort of springboards from the argument for same sex marriage. The piece argues from various viewpoints, but the underlying principle is the same: “Let us decide what marriage is.” [...]

Cults and Common Sense

One of the creepiest things about religion is the tendency for those involved to drift into cult-like behaviors. How can you tell if a religious group is operating like a cult? It’s difficult because the people in a religious group can behave like a cult without them becoming a full blown, identifiable religious cult. What [...]

The Mayans the Mass and Me

Sorry not to have been blogging for some time, but after a week’s vacation in Belize I need a few days to catch up. While in Belize we had the chance to visit some Mayan ruins. I climbed to the top of the main pyramid in Caracol and sitting up there on a beautiful day [...]

Ed the Combox Atheist

Guest blogger Ed Blanch comments regularly on various religious websites and he blogs at There’s No Sky Fairy where he regularly receives 273 visits a month. Ed is taking a break from his studies at North Jersey College of Technology. Domiciled in his mom’s basement, Ed is busy developing an exciting new video game concept. He doesn’t have time [...]

Zmirak’s Roller Coaster

Go here for my review of John Zmirak’s Bad Catholic’s Guide to the Catechism.

American Holocaust Deniers

The horrors of the Philadelphia abortion clinic of Kermit Gosnell rank with the worst serial killers in US history. Jill Stanek writes here comparing Gosnell to mass murderers Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy and Richard Speck. The media covered gruesome stories like that in every morbid and macabre detail. Likewise, if the crime fits their political [...]

Why Religion Matters

With the death of Margaret Thatcher the conversations have been buzzing about the goodness or otherwise of trickle down economics, Thatcherism, Reaganomics–you name it. What people don’t seem to get is that any economic or political system, without personal virtue, will be a failure. Every ideology will fail. Every economic system will fail. Every political [...]

When Did Jesus Die?

Jimmy Akin does his usual detailed detective work to tell us exactly when Jesus died. Go here.

Was Thatcherism Catholic?

Here’s an article I wrote today for Aleteia. Was Thatcherism Catholic? What was true about it was Catholic. What was not true about it was not Catholic…