Apparently, I’m ‘Too Catholic’ — and in the Eyes of the World, So Are You

Musings on being rejected for following Jesus ...

I have concluded, perhaps later that I should have, that so-called liberal Christianity is more of a danger than atheists to the future of our faith.

In the past month, I’ve run into two situations that have made this clear to me. Both incidents have caused me great personal pain but also forced me to reckon with a reality that Christian liberalism is more corrosive than I ever thought possible. I was told in one instance that my “values” did not fit with the mission of the institution. Essentially, my opposition to euthanasia was one of those values.

Atheists would seem like our greatest foe. They are the ones who drive to push religion out of the public square, go into spasms if they see “god” with a capital “G” in any government document, and blame religion for most of the world’s ills. They even see postings of the Ten Commandments in public schools as insidious indoctrination of the young.

But the thing about atheists is that they are honest. There’s no mealy-mouthed defence of their creed. They don’t hide who they are. They don’t water down their positions because non-atheists find them unpopular. I’ve even found over the years of covering religion that atheists can be easy to talk to because they are direct. Some of my most interesting conversations as a journalist were with atheists. I like people who say what they mean without equivocation.

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