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📜🔥 NEW SONG: “Two Guys Standing on a Bridge” A snarky theological riff based on a classic Emo Phillips joke — NOT on real despair, real self-harm, or anything of the sort. Before anything else: Actual suicide is not a joke. If you or someone you love is struggling, please reach out. Help is real. Hope is real. You matter. 🆘 If you or someone you know is thinking about suicide, please call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You are loved. You are wanted. You are not alone. This track plays on one of the funniest comedy bits ever written — the escalating “What denomination are you?” sketch where two Christians narrow themselves into absurd sub-sub-sub-tribes… until one finally cries “Heretic!” and pushes the other off the bridge. It’s satire about division, not despair. It’s a commentary on how quickly Christians can go from “We believe in the same God!” to “Ah, but which Council of 19-whatever did you affirm?” — as if Jesus instituted a free-for-all instead of a Church. The humor exposes the ridiculousness of theological fragmentation, the endless multiplying labels, and the instinct to excommunicate each other over distinctions too small to see without a microscope and a headache. 🎶 “Two Guys Standing on a Bridge” — out now. A track for anyone who’s ever watched Christians argue themselves into oblivion and thought, “Surely… this is not what Jesus meant.” We’re not doing this for a paycheck — we’re building the Kingdom. 100% of donations go back into making more music. Working for the pension 👆, not the paycheck. 👉 https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque Follow Peter’s Barque: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@peters-barque Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-7821522 Website: https://petersbarque.online X • IG • TikTok • FB: @petersbarque #shortSubscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

“The Art of Veneration: No, Catholics Don’t Worship Statues” — The Song Smashes the Idolatry Myth for Good Every few weeks, like liturgical clockwork, someone confidently declares: “Catholics worship statues!” “Images are idols!” “God hates religious art!” And every time, the internet nods along as if this weren’t contradicted by the Bible the Church and two thousand years of Christian practice. Here’s what the meme-culture theologians never mention: God Himself commanded sacred images. Moses didn’t invent the bronze serpent — God did. Solomon didn’t freestyle cherubim, pomegranates, and carved angels — God ordered it. Beauty wasn’t banned. Idolatry was. And Deuteronomy 4:15? The verse everyone misquotes? God literally says Israel couldn’t make an image of Him because “you saw no form.” No form = no image. Then the impossible happened: God took on a form. Jesus — the image of the invisible God. The Incarnation didn’t just redeem humanity — it redeemed art. That’s why the early Church filled catacombs with frescoes, raised mosaics that preached the Gospel, and carved the saints into stone: the “catechism of the illiterate,” truth for the eyes when the tongue couldn’t teach it yet. Meanwhile… You can build a forty-foot Lincoln, carve presidents into a mountain, or fly a giant Garfield balloon down Manhattan — no one screams “IDOLATRY!” But carry Mary in a procession? Suddenly everyone’s a part-time biblical scholar with a minor in “Graven Images 101.” Images aren’t idols. They’re reminders. They’re witnesses. They’re windows into heaven — the family photos of the Kingdom. This track exists for one reason: to put the “statue worship” myth in its grave once and for all. 🎶 “No, Catholics Don’t Worship Statues” — out now. A track for Scripture nerds, history lovers, and anyone exhausted by the internet confusing art with apostasy. Support the mission: 👉 https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque Follow Peter’s Barque & listen everywhere: https://petersbarque.online Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 X: https://x.com/petersbarque Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarqueSubscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

📜🔥 NEW SONG: “FACT: You Believe In Purgatory” A snarky theological reality check for anyone who thinks they don’t. Most Christians say, “I don’t believe in purgatory.” But then they say… “Of course nobody dies perfect.” And also… “Of course people in heaven are perfect.” And right there — in that tiny, unavoidable gap — they just admitted the whole doctrine. If you die imperfect and enter heaven perfect, then something happened in between. Call it cleansing. Call it healing. Call it finishing the race. Call it washing your robes white in the blood of the Lamb. We just call that moment purgatory. Not a third destination. Not a mini-hell. Just the final sweep of grace before the Wedding Feast. Luke 12 teaches it. Paul teaches it. The early Church lived it. And you… probably believe it already. 🎶 “FACT: You Believe In Purgatory” — a track for cradle Catholics, converts, Scripture nerds, and anyone who thinks the afterlife only has two rooms. 🔖 Hashtags #Catholic #Purgatory #CatholicMusic #PetersBarque #FaithAndReason #Theology #BibleStudy #ApostolicChurch #CatholicTruth #NewMusic #ChristianMusic 🔗 FOLLOW PETER’S BARQUE Website: https://petersbarque.online X: https://x.com/petersbarque Instagram: https://instagram.com/petersbarque TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque Facebook: https://facebook.com/petersbarque 🎧 LISTEN: Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 ☕ Support the mission: https://ko-fi.com/petersbarqueSubscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise

📜✨ “Imago Dei & Human Rights” A snarky, metaphysics-soaked reminder that human rights didn’t fall out of the sky — they sprang from a single explosive revelation: You bear God’s image. And the modern world is still coasting on that shockwave. Some folks love to say, “Equality is obvious.” Really? Nothing about it is obvious. Look at humanity for five seconds: taller / shorter, stronger / weaker, brilliant / not-so-brilliant. The most self-evident truth is that we are not equal in any natural sense. To get equality, you need something super-natural — something no pagan myth ever stumbled within a mile of. Because in the old stories? We were cosmic jokes, factory workers for irritable gods, or the accidental runoff of divine misbehavior. Not one myth dared to say, “You carry God’s image.” Then Scripture detonated in the ancient world: “Let Us make man in Our image.” A sentence that toppled tyrannies, lifted slaves, and rewired civilization from the inside out. Human rights aren’t self-evident. They’re Judeo-Christian. Full stop. And every time the secular world invokes equality, it’s quoting Genesis with the citation scrubbed off. 🎶 “Imago Dei” — out now. A track for anyone who wants to remember why humans actually matter. We’re not doing this for a paycheck — we’re building the Kingdom. 100% of all donations go directly back into growing the channel so we can reach more people with truth and beauty. Working for the pension 👆, not the paycheck. 👉 https://ko-fi.com/petersbarque Follow Peter’s Barque: https://petersbarque.online https://x.com/petersbarque https://instagram.com/petersbarque https://tiktok.com/@petersbarque https://facebook.com/petersbarque Listen on: Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/peters-barque/1857703433 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/07uvm7SPGUVwYdxELtbXv8 #PetersBarque #ImagoDei #HumanDignity #Catholic #CatholicMusic #Theology #Catechesis #BibleStudy #CatholicApologetics #ImageOfGod #HumanRights #BuildTheKingdom #NotThePaycheck #CatholicTok #ChristianMusic #ApostolicFaith #TruthAndBeauty #Genesis126Subscribe to Ask Catholics on Soundwise