I sometimes get the impression that major newspapers, in staffing their religion sections, achieve this goal by the chief editor looking around the table and asking, \u201cSo, do any of you guys believe in God?\u201d One person tentatively raises his or her hand and says, \u201cWell, I consider myself spiritual, but I don\u2019t really buy all the religion crap\u201d. Everybody else averts their eyes lest they make eye contact with the editor or his hapless victim. \u201cGreat!\u201d says the editor. \u201cYou have the religion beat. Only, don\u2019t go native on me.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d says the new recruit.<\/p>\n
And so you wind up with farragoes of ignorant nonsense like this.<\/a><\/p>\n Clues for the clueless, there has been no change in the Church\u2019s stance on condoms<\/a>, the Church has no problem with adult stem cells, just with killing people in ESCR, and the Church has no particular difficulty with evolution accept when it is used to fly cover for a half-backed philosophy of atheistic materialism. <\/p>\n And then the ignorami in the comboxes take if from there. It just give you a headache to watch the conjunction of ignorance and arrogance: \u201cScientists are looking for answers, but the Catholic Church authorities are scared of what we might find.\u201d Mike Flynn<\/a>, the world needs you more than ever!<\/p>\n