Women from Jerusalem
In the past, I’ve written several posts on the theory that Muhammad is predicted in the Song of Solomon. I did a post about the context of the book and how it promotes the drinking of wine in a positive way. I looked at the word that is supposedly Muhammad’s name and showed that those who know Hebrew don’t spell Muhammad’s name that way. That includes Muslims and Quran translations into Hebrew.
On the morning of February 11, 2013 I was pulling into the parkade where I worked at the time. I had just received a text message from my mother telling me of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Before I got out of my car to go to work, I immediately looked up the age of Cardinal Walter Kasper on my iPhone. His 80th birthday was three weeks away and he’d be 80 before the conclave started. I felt a huge sigh of relief come over me. Did the Pope wait this long intentionally so that Kasper could not have been eligible? In his last book he talks about how he had decided to resign in the summer. Did he wait until February to announce this so that Kasper would not become Pope? We can only speculate.
On Saturday I was at my old roommates place and we decided to watch a pilot of a Netflix original program. We decided on Jessica Jones. It only took 20 minutes for the homosexual propaganda to come full force. There were these two homosexual women who were together. One was a lawyer named Jeri and she and her secretary named Pam show a homosexual “love” interest in each other.
Mecca – The city where Tawheed was invented
In debating with Protestants, a doctrine that usually comes up is Sola Scriptura, aka Scripture alone. In debating with Muslims the concept of Tawheed vs Trinitarianism comes up. For those who don’t know, Tawheed is the word for Islamic Unitarianism. As a Catholic, I believe both Sola Scriptura and Tawheed to be false doctrines and ironically their apologists make the same logical flaw in defending them.
View from the balcony where the discussion took place.
The discussion about ex-Muslims was good but earlier in the evening another discussion took place. The birthday was at a downtown condo. I had a good discussion on the balcony with a lady from my Church. The topic of discussion was the presence of Islam in the West and the Identitarian movement, specifically a YouTube video including Martin Sellner.
He wanted to appear younger than he was so he didn’t put a 2 in front of the 6
On Wednesday I was at a birthday for a friend. It was a really fun time. In addition to praying the rosary at this birthday party, we sang happy birthday in multiple different languages. There was only about a dozen of us but we sang Happy Birthday in English, French, Spanish, Polish, Hungarian, and Arabic. Personally, I thought Hungarian sounded the best. I was actually surprised that I understood most of the Polish version.
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.
Christopher Hitchens
I was recently going through my book collection which is getting pretty large these days. I happened to come across a book that was published in 2007 and that I read in 2008. This was my early days of apologetics. The book was written by Christopher Hitchens and titled: God is not Great: How Religion Poisons everything. Ah yes, what a catchy subtitle.
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.