Despite the author's attacks on liberalism, he sounds like a coastal elite leftist when he attacks the Bible Belt and Fundamentalists (not to mention the whining about the persecution of his "indigenous" ancestors by big bad Anglo-Saxons; that gets old too).
Let the Catholic Church stop teaching that the Bible is mythology and a great deal of my own hostility will end.
Catholics have been hit over the head with the Bible by Protestants for so long that they've come to distrust it. Now they've convinced themselves that total inerrancy is merely an adjunct of "sola scriptura" so now they're against it.
And Keating is an evolutionist.
When you say "hostility" do you mean something other than disagreement?
We don't.
evolutionist
Theistic evolution: one of the tools of Divine Creation -- is an acceptable line of thought in Catholicism, yes. It presents no contradiction to the Scripture.
Good job on attacking the messenger. Someone that you do not know and have no idea what he stands for. The fact of the matter is that Catholics for years have had to walk out to their cars and find really stupid "tracts" on their windshields that attack their beliefs. Generally those tracts are put together by people who are either ignorant or liars. One does not have to be a "coastal elite leftist" to see this.
(not to mention the whining about the persecution of his "indigenous" ancestors by big bad Anglo-Saxons; that gets old too).
Yes, pointing out that the British were barbarians in Ireland is so passe. We should all know about every single instance where a Catholic misbehaved but we must never show where Protestants that they have behaved themselves more like Muslims toward their conquered subjects than Christian. That's just "old".
Let the Catholic Church stop teaching that the Bible is mythology and a great deal of my own hostility will end.
Could you show me in the Catechism where the Catholic Church teaches that? If not, retract it and admit that you are doing exactly what the author describes. It is hilarious how people describe "what Catholic believe" and then attack what they say Catholic believe.
Catholics have been hit over the head with the Bible by Protestants for so long that they've come to distrust it.
Please provide an an example of this or retract your statement and admit that you are full of it.
Now they've convinced themselves that total inerrancy is merely an adjunct of "sola scriptura" so now they're against it.
I say this in all charity. You have absolutely no idea about the topic you are speaking of. Your understanding of Catholicism is so far off that it is almost laughable. Please read up on the topics and when you have an understanding of Catholic teaching (the real kind not the Dave Hunt version) you can add serious commentary on Church issues.