Catholic Anchor Online
By FR. ROBERT BARRON
The cover story for “Newsweek” magazine during Holy Week, penned by political
and cultural commentator Andrew Sullivan, concerns the “crisis” that is
supposedly gripping Christianity. Weighed down by its preoccupation with
doctrines and supernatural claims, which are incredible to contemporary
audiences, compromised by the corruption of its leadership, co-opted for base
political ends, Christianity is verging, he argues, on the brink of collapse.
The solution Sullivan proposes is a repristinizing of Christianity, a return to
its roots and essential teachings. And here he invokes, as a sort of patron
saint, Thomas Jefferson, who as a young man literally took a straight razor to
the pages of the New Testament and cut out any passages dealing with the
miraculous, the supernatural, or the Resurrection and divinity of Jesus.
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