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    1. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      Just a brief word on this powerful piece from my friend @DamonLinker, on the moral ugliness of contemporary Catholicism and why he can't remain in the pews anymore:http://theweek.com/articles/792775/unbearable-ugliness-catholic-church …

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    2. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      I didn't grow up Catholic, but within various kinds of Protestantism, which meant that the Old Testament loomed pretty large in my childhood religious imagination.

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    3. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      One of the striking things about the Hebrew Bible is that it's the record of a people that makes extraordinary claims for itself -- that their tribal god is the Only God, that they are His chosen people, that all nations will eventually worship him, etc.

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    4. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      And they buttress those claims with an extensive history in which they are ... terrible. Morally terrible, politically impotent, constantly apostasizing, ignoring their prophets, the works.

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    5. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      Basically the Hebrew Bible says: "Hi, we're the true chosen people of God, and to prove it let us tell a long series of stories about how our patriarchs were sinners, our kings were even worse, and we failed God completely time and time again."

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    6. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      The *best* king of Israel, the awesome all-conquering one, is a philanderer and murderer. The second-best one, the temple-builder, becomes an idol-worshiper. And about the rest, the less said the better.

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    7. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      Pace certain evangelicals-for-Trump and certain RC churchmen, this is not an argument for tolerating ugliness in service of some higher good. God and His prophet deal very harshly w/David when he kills Uriah, and the attitude of the prophets throughout is horror at Israel's sins.

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    8. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      But for all their horror the prophets never doubt that Israel *is* the elect, the chosen people, God's intended bride. And if the Old Testament is supposed to be a revelation with big implications for the new covenant, for the Christian church, that part is important.

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    9. Ross Douthat‏Verified account @DouthatNYT 29 Aug 2018

      I don't expect this point to revive Damon's flagging faith, or anyone else's, in the face of so much ugliness. But all I would say is that if you're a Catholic Christian (or any other kind) who reads the Bible, you've been well-warned that it might, all too often, come to this.

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Aug 2018
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      This is what I don't understand about people who "have a crisis of faith" about misdeed X or Y or Z: how could you read the bible, understand free-will, understand that men are sinners, and NOT find all of this to be perfectly compatible with what we have always known of humans?

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        1.  🇺🇦is not  🇷🇺‏ @DrKC4 29 Aug 2018
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          Bcs The Church claims infallibility for the Pope&demands obedience to people who turned out2b secretly evil. Bcs the mechanisms of The Church covered the crimes. Because the rules of The Church discouraged honesty. Man alone was not the problem. The “sacred”institution failed.

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