De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.

"Who are you gonna believe? God or logic?" Foul Mouthed Atheist Dusty Smith, AKA #CultofDusty This is the challenge issued by the 5th most popular Atheist on Youtube, known as "CultofDusty". In this video, he manages to embody pretty much all of the things that concern me most about society in the new age of instant internet answers where, if you want to know something, you hit Google first. Because of the instantaneous nature of information from such sources, we think we are much more intelligent and better informed than any generation who went before us. But we have failed to understand that knowing something is different from reading it and making up a subjective opinion on what it means. This is obviously all the more appropriate when one is reading a book which contains numerous literary genres, written thousands of years ago. I do bang on about this quite a bit, I know, but I think it is because of the benefit formal study has been to my own faith. I...

Welcome to this, the sixth of my reflections on the theology of the Sunday readings at Mass. Thank you for taking the time to read it. I sincerely hope that this reflection will inspire you and help you to see how fantastic Sacred Scripture is, how layered and multi-faceted, and what a carefully considered part of the Mass. If you want to know how these posts came about, please read my first post in this series  here . This Sunday the theme for the readings might be summed up as: Our Union with the Body of Christ The readings are: Joshua 24:1-2, 15-18 Psalm: 33:2-3, 16-23; Response: v. 9 Second Reading: Ephesians 5:21-32 Gospel: John 6: 60-69 First, a little preliminary survey of each of the books. I will post the same, or similar prelims week on week, for each book as we encounter them. This week I have added a bit of detail on the First Reading from the book of Joshua as I thought it brought up some very interesting issues about how we...