Amen and Attack, bro.

Time to go back to kicking ass.

That woman is frightful, as is the picture of Cosby holding her up. I did not realize he got into weight lifting.

I started jiujitsu this year after a while of reading your blog here, thank you for the bump to get after it. I wish I had started long before 30 years, and so far he likes it too.

Thank you for providing the Catholic perspective and commentary. I appreciate the feedback.

With respect to the points you raise, a few issues with the logic immediately arise:

First, the problem of infinite regress. If the problem is the issue of sinfulness, rather than purity and chastity, then what is to stop Mary’s mother from being conceived through immaculate means? After all, that’s the only way it makes sense, since otherwise, the angel of the Lord could not enter Mary’s mother to plant the seed that became the Virgin Mary. And if that is the case… where do you stop? You’d have to go back to ALL the women, ALL the way back to Eve, to claim immaculate conception to avoid the issue of sinfulness.

Second, the problem of the miraculous birth. Jesus is the entire driving force of the Old Testament prophecies, the entire point of the New Testament. If Mary was born of immaculate conception, this leaves no room for Jesus as the true Saviour.

Third, the problem of Mary as the intercessor. Nowhere is this mentioned in any of the Scriptures. Mary is barely mentioned in the New Testament once Jesus is an adult, and nowhere is she shown as someone who can change Jesus’s mind. Yet, the Catholic Mass, particularly in the Vulgate after Second Vatican, very clearly implores Mary to intercede to persuade God to provide redemption to sinners. This makes no sense whatsoever. Mary has never been shown to have any power in the Scriptures to change Jesus’s mind, and while Our Lord clearly respects and honours her in the way that He addresses her, He also makes very clear in John 2 that their relationship is no longer merely mother to son, but woman to Lord. In that specific chapter, Jesus makes perfectly clear that the issue of the wine is not His problem – and she leaves it up to Him to decide what to do. She doesn’t persuade Him. She simply points out the problem.

Fourth, the problem of the sacrificial Mass. Pastor John Macarthur has outlined the flaws with the Catholic sacraments rather well, by pointing out the flaws involved in a Mass in which the bread literally becomes the flesh of Christ – which obviates the entire point of one sacrifice for all, made once, forevermore.

Here is an alternative set of views, which I think are healthy to view and understand:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_hX1yntQEcGeZ23jr0dnrnfoEbAM0W2G

While I respect the Catholic Church and do not wish it ill – and, as I said, I have no problems worshipping in a Catholic church or cathedral – there are some serious flaws in the logic and doctrine that make it difficult to stomach.

In fairness, I think the same way about pretty much EVERY Christian denomination, so I’m not singling the Catholics out for criticism here, just so we’re clear.