The evil revealed in elite scandals like Epstein's is not shocking if you understand modern philosophy's influence. When a culture elevates sensation as the primary human experience and abandons objective truth, goodness, and beauty, it produces boredom, addiction, and an obsessive search for novelty. In ordinary people this results in distraction and vice. In the powerful, it becomes dangerous — because their access to limitless choice pushes them toward increasingly exotic and morally unthinkable experiences.

Why does the Society of St. Pius X provoke such intense reactions among Catholics—especially among those who have no real connection to them?

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In this video, I don't argue whether the SSPX is schismatic or whether they should be excommunicated. Instead, I look at something deeper and more widespread: the culture of online "chattering" that erupts whenever a controversial Church topic hits the headlines - and why that habit does real damage to Christian unity, charity, and credibility.

Drawing on history, St. Thomas Aquinas, and common sense, I argue that many Catholics mistake being informed for being authoritative, and opinion for competence. The result is a cycle of outrage that solves nothing and often makes the Church look worse to outsiders.

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Can God die? Muslims often argue that the Trinity and the Incarnation are incoherent, but their own theology makes that argument impossible.

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Islam's dominant Divine Command Theory teaches that God can will anything whatsoever, even what seems incoherent or contradictory. Therefore Muslims cannot logically argue that the Trinity or the Incarnation are impossible, because their own theology denies any intrinsic limits on God's power. At most they can claim that God wouldn't do these things, which shifts the burden of proof and collapses their usual objections.