My only comment on the matter...

[edwarddain]

John C. Wright

I'll give him props for being a devout enough Roman Catholic to concede on a point of doctrine - and to do so publicly.

But...

Seriously, when it takes Darth-Fucking-Vader to tell you that you are being an bigoted ass, you have some real problems. If the Inquisition (you know, like Torquemada?) is on the other guy's side, you have

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[wombat_socho]

Oh, come on. The Holy Office ain't been like that in quite some time.

[edwarddain]

;-)

I will admit to a certain dramatic license in my choice of rhetoric. But I was relatively certain that with a couple of notable exceptions, if I said the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" and I pretty certain that even fewer would know who I was talking about if I said "Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer" or referenced, say, Father Sobrino or even Matthew Fox (which is sad in Fox's, though he was also a bit off - who becomes a Dominican but denies Original Sin?)

[wombat_socho]

Yeah, Fox :facepalm:. Whatta ultramaroon.

[edwarddain]

I've read Fox and even like some/much of what he says - but he isn't any (or much) closer to Roman Catholicism than Aleister Crowley was with Thelema.

[ifimust]

Fox's problem was that he never knew when to stop - he'd have a really good idea but take it about three steps further than sense would suggest was a good idea.

God loves us? Check

God became human? Check

Therefore human is God and we have no need of salvation cause we're all you and you're me and we're a tree? Um... what?

[edwarddain]

LOL!

[goth_hobbit]

I'm obviously going to have to check out this gent's writing.

[ifimust]

I thought he was great - for the first half of most of the stuff of his I read. Then... a bridge too far.

And seeing him in person - just, no, really, no...

[goth_hobbit]

Thomas Merton meets Ram Dass?