Kevin Alan Wells

This past week in 1692 the Salem witch trials began. What started as an attempt to stop the contorted fits of three young girls ended in 150 people accused of witchcraft. [...]

Thousands of books and websites recommend just as many formulas to help you use the various means of devotion. These devotional formulas can be helpful. But they can also be harmful.

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A self-serving motive can lay behind the attempt to recast Jesus as a love-gushing peace activist. [...]

The simplest way that I can think of to express the Catholic argument is this:

The pope is infallible because he is the heir of the Apostle Peter’s infallibility.

Roman Catholic doctrine teaches that Christ assigned Peter supreme human authority over the Church, and placed a spiritual safeguard over him to ensure he successfully carried out this leadership assignment. When Peter died, his spiritually-guarded leadership role transferred to a successor, the bishop of Rome (the pope).

There are the four pieces to this argument:

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We don’t know. And we can’t, because God’s existence is improvable. Both theists and atheists can offer evidence for their position, but neither can provide proof. [...]