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 t

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 p

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 yea

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 pu

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 associat

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 donR

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

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? Numb

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 radica

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