Noah<\/em> flick<\/a>.\u00a0 He\u2019s perfectly right, of course.\u00a0 It\u2019s just movie.<\/p>\nI\u2019ll go see it, partly out of professional interest and partly because I want to see the spectacle of a global flood done right, even if the theology is as deep as a mud puddle.<\/p>\n
Poor Steve, however, is now going to have to cope with the Attack of the Fundamentalists who insist the Faith teaches the earth is six thousand years old and who are convinced that somewhere along the line the Church defined the dogma of the absolute scientific accuracy and newspaper-like historicity of the Noah account.\u00a0 Suggesting that Noah is theologized myth and that the Church allows for this\u00a0view is,\u00a0to these people, like trampling on the Eucharist.\u00a0 They know perfectly well that the Magisterium needs their help to smoke out evil monsters like Steve and purge them\u2013and almost everybody else\u2013from the Church.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s one of the reasons evangelism is so loathed by the Pure.\u00a0 Bring in *more* people?\u00a0 There are too many in the Church already!\u00a0 No more converts till we\u2019ve kicked out most of the members we have, hit the reset button, and then begun to *very carefully* admit newbies once they have passed the thicket of shibboleths, ideological purity tests, and secret handshakes necessary to show one is a True Catholic[TM].\u00a0 With this piece, Greydanus exiles himself from elite ranks of the Real Catholics[TM] for many of the St. Blog\u2019s Combox Orthodoxy Cops\u2013along with such threats to the Faith as Pope Francis and Fr. Robert Barron.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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