Tuesday, April 25, 2006
'Prune the congregation'
John Farrell has a Darwin-Awards mentality when it come to those worrying about the impact of the 'Da Vinci Code' on the faithful:
John Farrell has a Darwin-Awards mentality when it come to those worrying about the impact of the 'Da Vinci Code' on the faithful:
Having read the novel, my own feeling is, if your faith is such a wisp o' nothing that it gets blown out by an overwrought melodrama (based on sham research), you probably didn't have much faith in the Church to begin with. Maybe the Church should be taking advantage of natural selection here, if I may borrow a metaphor, and be grateful for the opportunity to prune the congregation of its intellectually weaker elements.
