Pat and Aleks face their accusers and offer advice on dealing with internet trolls. Where my Muscles At??!! Dealing with Haterz and Loserz ft. Aleks Salkin Related Episode EP 466: Pat and Aleks Kill 3 Fitness Myths That Needed to Die Anyway The Pat Flynn Show If you enjoyed this episode, it would mean the […]
Archives for November 2020
A Bad Argument for Student Loan Forgiveness
I continue to hear murmurings on Twitter about student loan forgiveness not being unfair to people who already paid for higher education because it’d be like refusing to divert trolley after it’s already run over a bunch of people. In other words, we can’t help those who are already dead, but we should try to […]
Lockdowns Are Not The Solution and Gyms Are Not The Problem
Update (2/15/2023): This post has definitely stood the test of time. Not only do my original positions remain untouched but have only become further evidenced since I first published this article. There is no way around it: the response to COVID was an unmitigated disaster. As for updates, there is much that could be said […]
God’s Impassibility and Knowledge of Sin
God’s impassibility and knowledge of sin. It is a difficult but ultimately unavoidable question: How God knows sin when God is ontologically simple, absolutely sovereign, perfectly good, and the universal cause of everything else that exists. Tensions arise between these commitments, forcing us to discern where the fallacies lie, and demonstrate, if we can, that […]
Sunday School: Is Christianity a Religion of Fear?
Today’s Sunday School podcast is a response to a listener question (quoted below) on whether Christianity is a religion of fear. UPDATE: Jake, the questioner, has a fitness coaching Instagram here. Please check it out. Is Christianity a Religion of Fear? From the mailbox: Pat, I’ve loved your appearances on Mike Matthew’s podcast. My name […]