Contra Gentiles

With Grant on vacation, Jeremy brings friend of the show, Jay, on to discuss FIFA World Cup 2022, "traditional" Catholics, what it means to be truly masculine, and more. (Recorded 12/2/2022)

Still awaiting Grant's return from England, Jeremy and friend of the show, Joshua Hamm, get to the bottom of what society needs and why. (Recorded 12/9/2022)

The boys discuss the evils of the insurance industry, handling anger, Jeremy's spotty history of dog-ownership, race's involvement in personal nutrition, and more.

Grant and Jeremy discuss the 2022 midterm elections, third party voting, the differences between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, and Matt Walsh's appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience.

The boys get together for a brief late-night discussion of Grant's banning from Twitter, Pennsylvania's insane 2022 senate race, and the decline of Jordan B. Peterson.

The boys continue their discussion of the Summa Theologica. Also, shockingly, both statistics and units of measurements are fake.

Jeremy and Grant finish up their discussion of Aquinas' five ways before dipping their toes in the third question of the Summa's Prima Partis.

The boys launch the fourth season of Contra Gentiles with a discussion of a section of one of St. Thomas Aquinas' most influential works. (Summa Theologica Prima Partis, Question 2)  Patreon: patreon.com/contragentiles

Grant and Jeremy reflect on the past two years of Contra Gentiles before assessing the most famous work of history's most successful heretic. 

The boys discuss joyful natives, the nature of time, anxious young people, the idea of a married priesthood, and more.

The boys discuss one of Plato's most influential dialogues.

Grant and Jeremy talk about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the nature of proper self-defense, living in Anchorage, how many tradcaths raise children, and more.

The boys discuss the insanity of treating hypotheticals as real, the dissident right's fixation on Jews, the gross and depressed fashion sense of the New Atheists, problems with banning prostitution, and more.

Grant and Jeremy discuss the absurdity of the idea that taxation is theft, student loan forgiveness, and Bishop Robert Barron's recent interview with Shia LaBeouf.

The boys talk about insane contemporary parenting techniques, the suicides of Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington, the problem of theodicy, hoping that even the worst of us might be saved, and more.

Grant and Jeremy discuss the meaning of prayer, the mental fatigue of being too online, lifting weights, Nintendo tweaking its franchises, and more. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/contragentiles

The boys address some comments about last week's episode before discussing loser ideologies, the weird nature of female self-pleasure, the taxonomy of hotdogs, and more. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/contragentiles

Grant's mom joins the boys to talk about childhood memories of fighting, Mormons, the beauty of childbirth, the challenge of faith in the face of unanswered questions, and more.

The boys discuss David Bentley Hart's Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief (2022). Also discussed are Protestants' refusal to call Luther a prophet and why capitalism is a dumb word.

Grant and Jeremy discuss Donald Trump's July 9th rally in Anchorage,  arguing with dumb people online, the modern death of metaphysics, the inaccuracy of anarchist (consensualist) and libertarian (new label TBD)  buzzwords, and more.

The boys investigate BAP's Bronze Age Mindset and assess what value it might have beyond the meme.

Grant and Jeremy discuss gay surrogate pregnancies, the myth of divorce, memories of death, Ellen Page, Nancy Pelosi's receiving the Eucharist at the Vatican, and more.

The boys celebrate the demise of Roe v. Wade, the absurdity of global conspiracy theories, angels and Lucifer, child abuse scandals in the Church, Roman vs. Eastern Rite Catholics, and more.

The boys talk about morality, what it means to be a rational being, sedevacantism, the SSPX, submitting to the truth, and more.

The boys talk about politicians with hot wives, the absurdity of atheism, growing up with technology, and more.