May 2019 - To Give a Defense

God willed Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XXII.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • May 19, 2019 • Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome

There are two senses in which one may speak of “God’s will.” One may speak of God’s perfect will — that is, what God specifically ordains. For example, the fact that the pope has supreme teaching authority in the Church is God’s perfect will. But one may also speak of God’s permissive will — that is, what God does not ordain but permits. The fact that some people would resist the pope’s teaching authority and there would be Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome is part of God’s will in this latter sense. Whatever happens is God’s will.

Crisis!!! plays Benedict vs. Francis on Amoris Laetitia.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • May 16, 2019 • Amoris Laetitia; False Report

Richard A. Spinello, author of a recent article at Crisis!!!, goes as far as to claim that the pope emeritus’s letter on the sex abuse crisis was an “implicit rebuke” of Amoris Laetitia. Odd, then, that the Vatican gave the green light to B16. How very careless of Frank, to miss his subtext this way. But Spinello sees all, even though “Benedict is quite discrete, of course, and never mentions Amoris Laetitia.” It all has the tone of wishful thinking on Spinello’s part. And I say that because Spinello accuses Pope Francis of denying what the text explicitly affirms.

It’s not your body, AOC. An unborn child is its own body.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • • Politics; Pro-Life Issues

I have made no secret of my admiration for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That said, I must point out how wrong she is to resurrect, in the wake of the Georgia and Alabama abortion laws, the tired old “my body, my choice” rhetoric. She did this on Twitter, a place she frequents almost as much as the Dear Leader himself. Now, it is worth noting here that even Christopher Hitchens, atheist and abortion rights advocate, rejected this argument in its favor. The unborn child, Mr. Hitchens said, is a “separate body and entity,” and the very phrase “unborn child, even when used in a politicized manner, describes a material reality.” Let us not be anti-science.

Everything you need to know about Ben Shapiro, in one tweet.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • May 12, 2019 • Debates; Media Personalities

Ben Shapiro, as you will have heard, was “destroyed” in an interview with BBC journalist Andrew Neil. Even Mr. Shapiro admits to his destruction, upon which he cried: “I’m popular and no one’s ever heard of you!” and ran away. (Embrace the argumentum ad populum.) If you’ve not heard about this, the gist of it is that Shapiro was first triggered by Neil’s description of the Georgia abortion law as “barbaric” and a “return to the Dark Ages”; and then, he grew increasingly petulant as Neil confronted him with his own tweets.