Recently, I was having a conversation with a friend and the phrase: “I may not agree with what you say but I shall defend to the death your right to say it?” came up. This phrase is often attributed to Voltaire, though there is some evidence that someone else may have come up with it instead. However, it really doesn’t matter who said this stupid phrase, since I’m going to refute it anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxjH5hZYTbQ&t=184s
As an apologist who deals with Islam, I believe that we should be careful about the arguments that we use against them. They should be thought out and well researched. In terms of those blog posts on Surah 5, they actually came after carefully researching the passage through Islamic commentaries and the historical context and even field testing them against Muslims. A good example would be to look at Protestant arguments against Catholicism. Here’s an example:
On the cross, our Lord said: “It is finished”. That speaks about our redemption, does it not? How come in Romans 4:25 St. Paul says: “He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.” which seems to link redemption with the resurrection of our Lord. A contradiction perhaps? Scott Hahn opens up with this dilemma presented to him by his Pastor of the Evangelical Church he was attending many years ago. In the sermon, the Pastor throws out the dilemma but admits that he didn’t know the answer. Over the next several years, Scott Hahn would figure out the answer, give numerous speeches about it, and eventually publish The Fourth Cup which was released this January.
My free Quran form the Local Mosque
When a Christian and a Muslim debate, often the holy books are in the crosshairs. The Christian tries to find errors in the Quran, and the Muslim will do the same thing with the Bible. A good tactic? I don’t think so.
I’ve seen this little Muslim meme trending online lately so it’s time for me to respond to it. It’s actually not hard to respond to in the slightest. The Christian has a few options and I’m going to go through them. Ijaz Ahmad has put this on his website and it’s getting a lot of attention. Unfortunately no one is responding to it properly. This type of argument is exactly what to expect from street dawah and dawah booths in Western countries. We need to be prepared. Before you read any further, think about how you might respond to this.
It is true that most Christians don’t know the Bible that well. In this day and age, we’re bound to run into some young zealous Muslim who engages in dawah and wants to sell Islam to us. The answer is simple, we need to know our Bible and how to debate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_298J0M1DY
I hope that all of my readers had a good Easter. I also want to offer my congratulations to all those who became Catholic at the vigil. Welcome to the family!
The Nahal Hever manuscript
Does Psalm 22:16 actually say “they pierced my hands and my feet” as most Christian translations portray? This verse is a major Messianic prophecy. It’s probably the most quoted prophecy after Isaiah 53. If it doesn’t say “they pierced my hands and my feet”, does it say “like a lion” as the Jews claim? Let’s look at this verse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-yYtcT1k_4&t=7s
I remember about five or six years ago when Faith Goldy came on the scene. As a Catholic, I was happy to see a young, attractive, articulate and traditional Catholic standing up for the faith in a our extremely secular country. She eventually started working for The Rebel Media where she gained further fame. She even went to Iraq to cover the genocide of Christians happening over there.
In this day and age, the crusades have been used as baton to beat the Christian over the head and shame them in their faith. This is true for both liberals and Muslims. We could draw up a list of pros and cons about the crusades and come up with many under each column. I should just point out that Thomas Madden, Jonathan Riley Smith, and Edward Peters are the ones to read on the crusades.