A couple of my friends over at The American Catholic - Don McClarey and Darwin - have some excellent posts about a recently released book by a professor of theology at Notre Dame (of course) that attempts to call into question the history of the Church's early persecution at the hands of the Roman Empire. Read them both here and here.
As I said in my comments at The American Catholic, this professor's motivation
appears quite clear (and she pretty much confirms this in her promotion of the book):
If the Church and individual Christians suffer
government and/or legal sanction because their beliefs and how they
practice those beliefs are at odds with cultural “norms” – be those
norms abortion-on-demand, the HHS mandate, or same-sex “marriage” – they
are not REALLY being persecuted. In essence, the Church and individual
Christians can either get on board with the agenda or not; but if they
choose not to, they wouldn’t be able to legitimately cry “persecution”
if the legal fallout is not to to their liking.
Moss’s motivation, as with the motivation of many on the religious left who are critical of the Church's teachings, is actually
quite transparent: political ideology trumps religious dogma.
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