Shameless Popery

Joe Heschmeyer responds to Alex O’Connor’s claims about Biblical inconsistency in his debate with Dinesh D’Souza. Transcription: Joe Heschmeyer: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So I finally got around to watching the debate between Alex O’Connor and Dinesh D’Souza. And let me tell you, as a Christian, it was somehow even worse than I thought it was going to be. For a guy who spends a lot of time complaining about genocides and massacre in the Bible, Alex O’Connor had no problem publicly murdering Dinesh dea. Now that might sound un char…

Joe Heschmeyer addresses theological claims about Trump’s assassination attempt and survival. Transcription: Donald Trump nearly was assassinated and it’s only because he turned his head at the last second that he ended up having the bullet nick his ear instead of ending his life. Does that odds defying survival prove that the hand of the Lord is upon him, the hand of providence is with him, and Christians should get aboard backing Donald Trump? That’s what I want to explore today, and I want to say at the outset a few things. Number one, this isn’t really a...

Joe Heschmeyer examines the evidence of miracles and the case they make for Catholicism’s validity. Transcription: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. What do we make of miracle claims? On the one hand, they’re all over the old and New Testament. On the other hand, I think as Christians it can be a little awkward that it’s like, oh yeah, but miracles sound ridiculous to many modern people and certainly to non-Christians. Miracles can be a source of mockery and derision. Take for instance, Richard Dawkins book, the God Delusion, which he suggests t…

Joe Heschmeyer responds to the popular “one less God” argument for atheism, showing how it fails on many fronts. Transcription: There’s an argument that I see atheists put forward against Christianity that I do not understand why they make it. And it’s the argument that as atheists, they just disbelieve in one more God than Christians disbelieve in. Or to put it another way, they believe in one less God or one fewer God. It’s super confusing as to which one to use. Normally you’d say fewer, but in the case of one, it might be less. I dunn...

Joe Heschmeyer examines the subject of demonic activity, posession, and exorcism and the case it presents for the truthfulness of Catholicism. Transcription: Demonic possessions, miraculous cures, exorcisms. These things play a pretty big part of the New Testament story as Graham 12 tree points out, the academic dean for the London School of Theology. Of all the activities associated with Jesus in the synoptic gospels, Matthew, mark, and Luke exorcism appears to be the single activity that took the greatest amount of his time. Now, you would not know that listening to the way a lot of modern C…

Joe Heschmeyer responds to the “who created God” argument. Drawing on philosophical insights, he challenges atheists to move beyond this flawed argument and explore more substantial discussions about the existence and nature of God. Transcription: One of the most common arguments I hear against Christianity, and against religion more broadly is this idea that we don’t need a creator. If you say, hey, creation needs a creator, the response is also, well, who made God or who created God. In fact, this is such a common problem it has its own Wikipedia entry called The Problem of…

In this 4th of July special, Joe Heschmeyer tackles Christian questions about patriotism and how it relates to our life in Christ. Transcription: Joe: Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans, for those of you not from the United States. 4th of July is of course our independence Day, the day when we successfully declared independence from England, from Britain. Now these days there’s like 65 countries on earth that can say some form of that, but we did it first. And I’m not here to bash on England. In fact, one might say this is a good day...

Who decided which books belong in the Bible? How many books did they decide? Do we today as Christians have the right ones? Joe Heschmeyer covers these questions and more in today’s episode. Transcription: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery; I’m Joe Heschemeyer. and I want to explore three questions today. Number one, who decided which books belong in the Bible? Number two, how many books did they decide? And number three, do we today as Christians have the right ones? Jessica, over on Patreon, which by the way is in the link below, recommended that I do a re...

Joe Heschmeyer explores what constituted Sacred Scripture in the time of Jesus. Transcription: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. What did the Bible look like at the time of Jesus? That’s the question I want to explore today. Did it look more or less like the Bibles that we have carrying around our bone, personal KJV or RSV or ESV or NAB or whatever, or did it look radically different than that? And I think we’re going to find out the answer is it looks radically different and in some ways that are really important for how we make...

Joe Heschmeyer goes toe to toe with Chat-GPT, rebutting the internet’s best large language model’s arguments against Catholicism. Transcription: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. I want to do something different today and specifically I wanted to try out chat GPT-4o. Now there’s a lot of different ways you can do this and I in particular want to look at arguments against Catholicism. So I have not done this yet. I actually, I’m not sure I’ve ever used chat GPT for, so this is a brand new one. I actually had to pay $20 t...