JIM ANDERSON
VICTOR ANDRADE
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RICHARD BENNETT
Armstrong vs. Collins & Walls #5: The Church “Gave” the Bible? [10-19-17]
Did Luther Rescue the Bible in German from Utter Obscurity? [National Catholic Register, 10-30-17]
The Catholic Church Does Not Claim Superiority Over the Bible [National Catholic Register, 8-13-18]
Catholic Biblical Interpretation: Myths and Truths [National Catholic Register, 12-3-18]
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Dialogue on Development of Doctrine (Esp. the Papacy) [2000]
Dialogue on Doctrinal Development (Papacy & NT Canon) [2-26-02]
Proof That Anti-Catholic Apologist Jason Engwer Ignores an Average of 80% of Catholic Opponents’ Arguments (Four Exchanges With Bryan Cross and Myself) [1-14-10, at Internet Archive]
Evidence That Anti-Catholic Apologist Jason Engwer Mostly Ignores Catholic Arguments in “Debate”: Exactly What He Cited From Two of My Recent Papers [1-14-10, at Internet Archive]
Catholic Development of Doctrine: A Defense (Emphasis on the Canon of the Bible & Church Infallibility) (+ Pt. II / Pt. III / Pt. IV) [1-15-10]
Papias (c. 60-c. 130) & the Rule of Faith [1-18-10]
Papal Passages Lk 22:31-34 & Jn 21:15-17 [5-12-20]
Dialogue: Galatians 3 & Justification [5-29-20]
Baptismal Regeneration and Justification [6-4-20]
Invocation of Saints: Jesus Allegedly “Calling on Elijah” [6-8-20]
Reply to Protestant Challenges Re Eternal Security [7-26-20]
Defense of Bible Passages vs. Eternal Security & Faith Alone [8-12-20]
Mary’s Assumption: Patristic Analogy to Protestant Distinctives [8-15-20]
St. Peter Listed First in Lists of Disciples: A Debate [10-12-20]
Jason Engwer, Origen, & the New Testament Canon [10-15-20]
Jason Engwer, Origen, & Intercession of Saints [10-16-20]
Jason Engwer, Hippolytus, & Mary’s Perpetual Virginity [10-17-20]
Reply to Engwer’s Alleged “Absence of a Papacy” [8-25-21]
I Timothy 3:15 vs. Sola Scriptura & Jason Engwer [10-4-21]
Anti-Perpetual Virginity Arguments Debunked (vs. J. Engwer) [11-7-21]
Was Mary Sinless? (vs. 3 Church Fathers & Jason Engwer) [11-9-21]
Was Jesus Unclear in John 6 (Eucharist)? [11-16-21]
Mary’s Assumption & Biblical Evidence (Analogies) [11-30-21]
James Listed Before Peter (Gal 2:9)? (vs. Jason Engwer) [12-3-21]
Anti-Catholic Argument (!) for Mary’s Assumption [3-11-22]
Is First Clement Non-Papal? (vs. Jason Engwer) [4-19-22]
Sinning Mary in the Bible? (vs. Jason Engwer) [6-21-22]
Jason Engwer, Trent Horn, & My 50 NT Petrine Proofs [7-28-22]
Jason Engwer’s Anti-Papalism Refutes Denominationalism [8-2-22]
A Lot of Patristic Problems with Sola Scriptura [Facebook, 8-17-22]
Debate: Early Catholic Authority & Development of Ecclesiology [12-10-22]
Polycarp vs. “Faith Alone” (vs. Jason Engwer) [1-27-23]
Protestant Anti-Catholic Apologist Jason Engwer Denies Direct Biblical Proof of Sola Scriptura [Facebook, 2-18-23]
Prayers to and for the Dead (vs. Jason Engwer): Did Jesus & Peter Talk to Dead People Before They Rose from the Dead, and — Along with Elijah and Elisha — Pray for the Dead, or Only Ask Them to Move After They Were Raised? (+ Part 2) [3-13-23]
Jason Engwer vs. the Biblical Case for Invoking Saints [4-22-23]
Invocation of Saints: Jason Engwer Still Out to Sea [7-19-23]
Does Baptism Save or Only Sanctify (1 Pet 3:21)? [9-19-23]
St. John Chrysostom Rejected “Faith Alone” (Contra Jason Engwer) [Facebook, 9-22-23]
Reply to Jason Engwer on Justification [9-23-23]
Reply to Jason Engwer Re Eternal Security [9-26-23]
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“EXCATHOLIC4CHRIST” (TOM)
“Catholic Verses” #1: 1 Tim 3:15 (Church) (Also, the Biblical Definition of the Gospel) [10-24-23]
“Catholic Verses” #7: Tradition, Pt. 2 [11-1-23]
“Catholic Verses” #8: Tradition, Pt. 3 [11-1-23]
“Catholic Verses” #9: The Papacy [11-2-23]
FOXE’S BOOK OF MARTYRS
Inaccuracies of Anti-Catholic Foxe’s Book of Martyrs [2-10-11]
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Robert Gagnon: Fathers Accepted Sola Scriptura (?) (St. Thomas Aquinas Didn’t Believe in it, Either. Nice Try . . .) [9-16-24]
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Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #2: Eli’s Sons (1 Sam 2:25) [10-25-21]
Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #3: Absalom’s Judgment [10-27-21]
Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #4: Judgment of Assyria [10-27-21]
Debate: Matthew 16:18-19 & the Papacy (vs. Steve Hays) [10-30-21]
Steve Hays, Onan, Bible Commentary, & Contraception [1-11-07, 2-28-14; revised & expanded on 12-14-21]
Sola Scriptura: Self-Refuting? (vs. Steve Hays) [12-14-21]
Reply to Steve Hays’ Caricatures of the Papacy [2-28-23]
Tackling Steve Hays’ 695-page Catholicism [Facebook, 5-11-23]
Anti-Catholic Steve Hays’ Remarkable Change of Mind Regarding Me as a Person and Apologist [Facebook, 5-14-23]
Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #4: Miracle of the Sun at Fatima [5-15-23]
Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #5: Our Lady of Fatima [5-16-23]
Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #6: Purported Cures from Lourdes [5-17-23]
Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #8: Tradition & Authority; Bankruptcy of Sola Scriptura [5-18-23]
Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #9: Rule of Faith; Catholic Mariology [5-18-23]
Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #11: Visible Church; Eucharist in Acts 2:42; Ever-Changing Catholicism? [5-22-23]
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The James White vs. Steve Hays Anti-Catholic Civil War [Facebook, 9-26-23]
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MATT HEDGES
Dialogue on St. John Chrysostom & Sola Scriptura (Includes a Discussion of the Proper Definition of Sola Scriptura) [2-23-21]
Did Pope Gelasius (r. 492-496) Deny Transubstantiation? [3-24-21]
Pope St. Clement of Rome & Papal Authority [7-28-21]
Biblical Defense of Images and Icons (vs. Matt Hedges) [8-3-22]
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TIMOTHY F. KAUFFMAN
St. Ignatius, Bishops, & the Rule of Faith (vs. T.F. Kauffman) [7-14-23]
Is All Bowing Before Images “Idolatry”? (vs. T.F. Kauffman) [7-14-23]
Bible on Imitating Saints (vs. T.F. Kauffman) [7-17-23]
Sinless(?) Joseph, John the Baptist, Anne, & the Incarnation [7-18-23]
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“Romanists” Killed 100 Million? David T. King & Other Geniuses [6-29-00]
Absurd Anti-Newman Rhetoric in Anti-Catholic Polemics [3-19-02 and 9-27-05]
Answer to Sola Scriptura “Prooftexts” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 & Romans 16:15-16 (vs. Reformed Pastor David T. King) [6-26-12]
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Next Brazilian Protestant to be Refuted: Juan Roberto de Oliveira [Facebook, 9-27-23]
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AUSTIN REED
GEORGE SALMON (19TH CENTURY ANGLICAN)
Absurd Anti-Newman Rhetoric in Anti-Catholic Polemics [3-19-02 and 9-27-05]
Next Big Project: Replies to Anglican Anti-Catholic Polemicist George Salmon (1819-1904) [Facebook, 3-10-23]
Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 1 [3-10-23]
Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 2 . . . In Which Dr. Salmon Accuses Cardinal Newman of Lying Through His Teeth in His Essay on Development, & Dr. Murphy Magnificently Defends Infallibility and Doctrinal Development Against Gross Caricature [3-12-23]
Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 3 . . . In Which Our Sophist-Critic Massively Misrepresents Cardinal Newman and Utterly Misunderstands the Distinction Between Implicit and Explicit Faith [3-12-23]
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Dialogue on the Logic of Catholic Infallible Authority [6-4-96]
Apostolic [Quasi-] Protestantism?: Dialogue with Eric Svendsen [6-26-96]
Debate on the Nature of the Church and Catholicism [7-5-96]
Dialogue on “Tradition” in the New Testament [1996]
Dialogue with Protestants on Various Aspects of Development of Doctrine (Particularly Concerning the Canon of Scripture) [vs. Jason Engwer & Eric Svendsen] [3-19-02, at Internet Archive]
Eric Svendsen: Catholics Raise Mary to the Holy Trinity [4-2-04]
Luke 1:28 (“Full of Grace”) and the Immaculate Conception: Linguistic and Exegetical Considerations [2004, at Internet Archive]
What is it With Anti-Catholics & Written Debate? (The Sad Case of Eric Svendsen as a Typical Example) [10-4-04, at Internet Archive]
“It’s Greek to Me”: Illuminating Exchange w Eric Svendsen [6-5-03 and 1-10-05]
James White’s, Eric Svendsen’s, and Jason Engwer’s Glowing Tributes to Pope St. John Paul II [4-5-05, at Internet Archive]
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Eric Svendsen Sez Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, and Dr. James Dobson Betray the Gospel and R Lousy Evangelicals, in Distinct Danger of Damnation [4-28-05, at Internet Archive]
Follies of Anti-Catholic Former Apologist Eric Svendsen [4-25-10]
Dave Armstrong Fan Club #2: Anti-Catholic Protestant Polemicist Eric “the Yellow” Svendsen [Facebook, 3-3-19]
JAMES SWAN (REFORMED)
Martin Luther’s Mariology: Reply to James Swan: . . . Particularly the Immaculate Conception / Has Present-Day Protestantism Maintained the Classical “Reformational” Heritage of Mariology? [4-26-03; rev. 4-6-23]
Luther’s Mariology: the Protestant View [4-26-03]
Use of Primary Citations: James Swan’s Double Standards (and his particular animus against the Austrian Jesuit and biographer of Luther: Hartmann Grisar) [4-26-03; expanded on 7-15-20]
Anti-Catholic Caricatures of Catholic Mariology [4-26-03]
Vs. James Swan #2 Re Luther’s Mariology (+ Part 2) [original full dialogue: 6-28-03; uploaded on 4-29-24]
2nd Reply to James Swan Re Luther’s Mariology [6-28-03; abridged on 7-19-20]
Biblical “Ass” (Donkey) & Holier Than Thou Anti-Catholics (subtitle: It Matters Not to Anti-Catholics Like James Swan Whether “Ass” is a Legitimate Term in the Bible, Shakespeare, & Even John Calvin) [2007; abridged & revised: 1-19-19]
Anti-Catholic James Swan’s Goofy Anonymous “Reviews” of My Book [6-30-10]
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Calvin & Mary Ever Virgin (w Tim Staples vs. James Swan) [6-5-14]
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James Swan, the Immaculate Conception, Luther, & Lutherans: He Still Refuses to Admit that Many Eminent Lutheran Scholars Contend that Luther Believed in Mary’s Immaculate Conception for His Entire Life [6-22-23]
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Luther Meme and James Swan’s “Clarifications” [Facebook, 8-21-23]
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Salvation by Works in the Catholic Catechism? [5-8-02]
Proper Theological Application of the Term “Anti-Catholic” [9-24-05]
Frank Turk and Phil Johnson Reply to My Critique With Christlike Examples of Charity and Reason / James White’s January 2001 Resolution to Avoid All Interaction With Me (!!) [7-21-11, at Internet Archive]
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FRANCOIS TURRETIN (1623-1687)
For many counter-replies, see the section, “Replies to Francois Turretin” on my Calvinism & General Protestantism: Catholic Critique web page.
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“TURRETINFAN” (AKA “THE ANONYMOUS ONE” OR “TAO”) (REFORMED)
Six Anti-Catholics Challenged: “Is Catholicism Christian?” Wouldn’t a real debate be nice for a change? (All Declined) [Tao Declined to debate as proposed on 10-27-07, after lengthy ruminations and maneuverings (Link One / Link Two); see additional related puerile inanities] [10-8-07]
Final Exchange with TAO on the Silliness of His Debate Refusal and Also James White’s Refusal [1-31-08]
Anti-Catholics & Alleged Catholic Idol-Worship at Mass [4-11-11]
Does God “Want” Men to Sin? Does He “Ordain” Sin? [2-17-10 and 3-16-17]
Did Jesus Commission the New Testament (or the Disciples?) [5-31-18]
Armstrong Fan Club #5: Reformed Protestant Fanatic “Turretinfan” [Facebook, 3-5-19]
Chalice or Host Only Contain the Body & Blood of Christ (Reply to Two Direct Challenges from the Calvinist Anti-Catholic Sophist and Polemicist, “Turretinfan”) [11-21-19]
Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) Decrees: Universally Binding? [11-21-19]
“Turretinfan” Calls a Statue of Jesus Christ an “Idol” (While His Buddy Bishop James White Praises the Statues of “Reformers” Calvin, Farel, Beza, and Knox) [6-8-10; rev. 6-24-20]
Origen & the Rule of Faith (vs. “Turretinfan”) [12-2-21]
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A Discourse on The Discourse on the Holy Theotokos (Anti-Catholic Distortion of St. Athanasius) (Paul Hoffer) [4-10-09]
TAO’s Continued Use of the Pejorative Papist (+ Part Two) (Paul Hoffer) [6-23-09]
What Saint Augustine, Bishop, Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church Actually Held Pertaining to Transubstantiation: A Response to Turretinfan (+ Part Two) (Paul Hoffer) [8-20-11]
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JERRY WALLS (+ KENNETH COLLINS)
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Series of Critiques of Kenneth Collins’ and Jerry Walls’ Book, Roman but Not Catholic: What Remains at Stake 500 Years after the Reformation (Oct. 2017):
My Amazon Review (good overview of #1-#10 below) [10-21-17]
Defense of My Amazon Review [10-23-17]
Odd Trio: Jerry Walls, Ken Collins, & Anti-Catholic John Bugay [10-24-17]
#1: Newman’s Mariology [10-17-17]
#2: Queen of Heaven [10-18-17]
#3: Necessity of Immaculate Mary? [10-18-17]
#4: Mary “Not a Genuine Human Being”? [10-19-17]
#5: The Church “Gave” the Bible? [10-19-17]
#6: Assumption, Queen Redux [10-19-17]
#7: Unbiblical / Non-Patristic Purgatory? [10-19-17]
#8: Heretical Tobit? (Alms & Salvation) [10-20-17]
#9: “Apocrypha” (Jerome, Athanasius, Etc.) [10-21-17]
#10: St. Peter & the Papacy [10-21-17]
#11: Good & Bad Monothelite Heretics [10-22-17]
#12: Salvation (Soteriology) [10-22-17]
#13: “Reformed” Censorship & Intolerance [10-26-17]
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BISHOP JAMES WHITE (REFORMED BAPTIST)
The material formerly listed here has been moved to a new page: Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White: Anti-Catholic Extraordinaire
MIKE WINGER
Reply to Mike Winger on Sola Scriptura [4-30-22]
Symbolic Adult Baptism? (vs. Mike Winger) [5-2-22]
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CATHOLIC INQUISITION
“Romanists” Killed 100 Million? David T. King & Other Geniuses [6-29-00]
The Inquisition Killed 4.9 Million? (John Bugay’s Whoppers) [6-4-10]
Catholic Inquisition Murdered “50-68 Million”? [April 2014]
MISCELLANEOUS REFUTATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
Classic Anti-Catholic Polemicists (Chick, Boettner, & Hislop) [1-25-91]
Anti-Catholicism: Classic Catholic Replies and Retorts [1-25-91]
Are Catholics Christians? (vs. James White) [May 1995]
Dialogue on Grace (vs. Anti-Catholic Phil Johnson) [1996]
“Xmas” & the Christian “Fish”: Etymology & History (vs. Matthew Bell) [12-22-98]
Sophistry: Reflections on “Debating” Anti-Catholic Polemicists [11-27-00]
Oral vs. Written Debates About Theology: Which is Better? [Jan. 2001; rev. 9-30-04]
Anti-Catholics Are Catholics’ Brothers in Christ [4-18-02; reposted on 4-22-24]
Books by Dave Armstrong: Twin Scourges: Thoughts on Anti-Catholicism and Theological Liberalism [June 2003]
Latest Anti-Catholic Theory on Catholic Converts: Filthy Lucre (Scott Hahn and Steve Ray Supposedly Were Motivated Primarily or Solely by Financial Gain, to Become Catholics?) [7-15-04; rev. 1-27-17]
Absurd Anti-Newman Rhetoric in Anti-Catholic Polemics [3-19-02 and 9-27-05]
“Moderate” Heinrich Bullinger: “Reformation” Anti-Catholicism [1-16-07]
Old website editions of the Anti-Catholicism Page preserved at the Internet Archive (much material later deleted or modified: choose from between the dates of 6-11-04 and 2-11-07)
Prayer For Our Non-Catholic Brothers and Sisters (Especially Those Who Do Not Regard Us As Their Brothers and Sisters in Christ) [6-2-07, at Internet Archive]
The “Adolescent Theory” of Pervasive Anti-Catholic Mindsets and Behavior [Facebook, 10-4-07]
Zwingli, Bucer, Oecolampadius: Luther & Lutherans Not Christians [1-10-08]
Anti-Catholics: Sincere & Ignorant or Malicious? [10-7-08]
Why Folks Like the New Catholic Answer Bible (+ Clueless Anti-Catholic Attacks On It) [4-5-09; slightly revised on 8-5-21]
Clarification of Why I No Longer Attempt Debate With Anti-Catholic Protestants [7-4-09, at Internet Archive]
Judaizers: “Proto-Catholics”? (Alleged Works-Salvation) [12-14-09]
Amazing Grace: “Anti-Catholic” Hymn? [11-1-10]
How Anti-Catholics Often Argue (Massive Use of Ad Hominem, Personal Insult, Smear Tactics) / My Humorous, Satirical Retorts [2-24-10, at Internet Archive]
Young Earth Creationism of Notable Anti-Catholic Protestants [9-18-10]
High Praise from a Protestant Critic of Mine [sarcastic title: Facebook comment on an anonymous critic who claims that no Protestant apologist takes me “seriously” at all; 12-22-11]
C. S. Lewis’ Belfast Childhood & Contra-Catholicism [6-26-12]
Dialogue on Newman’s Kingsley / “Apologia” Controversy [11-27-12]
Multiple Meanings of “Paradise” in Scripture and Anti-Catholic Cluelessness About Literary Genre [see also the accompanying Facebook discussion] [12-1-14]
Bizarre Anti-Catholic Junk Refuted (Series) [compiled on 4-7-16]
Debates with Anti-Catholic Polemicists [compiled 4-20-16]
Brief Exchange with an Anti-Catholic Regarding Whether Catholicism Teaches a False Gospel [Facebook, 3-18-17]
A Friend of 34 Years (Who is Anti-Catholic) Would Rather End Our Friendship Than Read and Discuss One of My Papers [Facebook, 8-11-17]
“Church Sign” Regarding Anti-Catholic Willful Ignorance [Facebook, 3-22-19]
St. Cardinal Newman on English Anti-Catholic Prejudice [2-17-20]
Defining “Church”: “Exchange” w Anti-Catholic Zealot [3-9-20]
More of that Profound Anti-Catholic Calvinist Love (Gene “Troll” Bridges) [Facebook, 8-15-20]
Is it Wrong to Celebrate and “Make Merry” About the Birth of Jesus and God Becoming Man? No! Clear Biblical Models [Facebook, 12-15-20]
Discussion with Brazilian Catholics About the Leading Brazilian Anti-Catholic Protestant Apologists [Facebook, 5-24-22]
Does Lucas Banzoli Intend to Ignore My Critiques [So Far, Ten] of His Writing? [Facebook, 6-7-22]
Just a Coincidence (Five Influential Anti-Catholics Who — After Years of Debates With Me — Suddenly Pretended That I No Longer Existed) [Facebook, 9-19-23]
My 29-Year Experience with Anti-Catholic Protestant Debate Opponents: Notice Any Pattern Here? [Facebook, 4-3-24]
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“ANTI-CATHOLIC”: DEFINITIONAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
“Anti-Catholic”: Scholars Use it Both as a Noun & Adjective [8-4-08]
Dialogue: Definition of “Christian” (vs. Reformed Pastor) (+ Did Trent Anathematize all Protestants?) [6-5-10]
Debates on the Controversial Term, “Anti-Catholic[ism]” [compilation of old archived discussions, from 5-11-16]
Quick and Handy Definition of “Anti-Catholic” [Facebook, 7-29-24]
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