Month: June 2025
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Transgenderism, Nihilism, and Frankenstein Rufo comments on contemporary gender theory that is taught in college, writing: “they wanted to smash the conception of sex and argue against all traditional notions of human nature, including the biological reality of male and female. This has, understandably, caused enormous frustration, as there is…
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Inside the Transgender Empire Christopher Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He has a well-researched essay here entitled “Inside the Transgender Empire”, that is based upon a lecture he gave at Hillsdale College. Rufo doesn’t pull any punches and calls the transgender movement out…
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James Sire, widely respected apologist, author, and lecturer who served for more than thirty years as senior editor at InterVarsity Press, provides five reasons why nihilism is unlivable: 1st) From meaninglessness nothing at all follows, or rather, anything follows. If the universe is meaningless and a person cannot know and…
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“Nihilism is a denial of any philosophy or worldview—a denial of the possibility of knowledge, a denial that anything is valuable. If it proceeds to the absolute denial of everything, it even denies the reality of existence itself. In other words, nihilism is the negation of everything—knowledge, ethics, beauty, reality.…
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The cosmological constant controls the rate of expansion of the Universe. Too large and the universe would have collapsed back in on itself, rendering life impossible. Too small and stars and galaxies could not have formed, again rendering life impossible. The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics went to physicists Saul…
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While the gospel can be condensed to John 3:16, a good apologist must be able to defend the gospel in all of its glorious fullness. It is extremely difficult to execute theological triage and know when to fall on one’s sword if we hold only an abbreviated form of the…
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Contingent beings are things that exist, but do not have to exist. Examples are my iphone, my car and me. Contingent beings depend upon upon other beings for their existence. In contrast, something is a necessary being if it exists, has always existed and has to exist; it cannot “not…
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Nationalism is distinguished from patriotism. Patriotism is an “expression of devotion to country that is defined by justice” while Nationalism is “tribalistic, triumphalist, idolatrous, exclusivist and violates justice”. By definition then, patriotism leads to open exceptionalism while nationalism fosters closed exceptionalism. Closed exceptionalism inevitably infects theology as it tends to…
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Evil is the consequence of sin (Rom 1:30 – “they invent ways of doing evil.) While evil must always be countered, we need to recognize that is always only a stop-gap measure at best, akin to pulling up the top half of a weed but leeaving the root for it…
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Blaise Pascal was a brilliant French mathematician, physicist, inventor, and philosopher. He was also a strong Christian with an interest in apologetics. He died young at age 39. When he died, he had been writing notes for an eventual book on apologetics which he unfortunately did not live to complete.…
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Christian Apologetics 