Excellent further analysis on that video and the tendency to uproot Jesus from his Jewish roots, from the concrete historical embodiment of Christ in his mystical body, the Church--the beauty, truth and goodness which Fr. Barron himself presents so compellingly in his "Catholicism" series. In a sense, the "Catholicism" series as a whole is the best answer to the "Hate Religion" video.
I'm reminded of Fr. Barron's brilliant commentary on Anne Rice, who made a similar move to distance herself from the real religious Jesus and the religion he founded, with all its sacraments, worship, and institutional expression, a move to turn Jesus into her own private lover.
As Fr. Barron points out, this is a widespread tendency to create one's own deracinated, dejudaized, ahistorical, individualized Jesus free from the mess of the institution--inconveniently human as well as divine--that Jesus established on earth. It is not a new tendency. It arises not only in Protestantism but has precursors in the early years of the Church, in the Marcionite and Gnostic heresies. It is a powerful temptation in all ages
I'm reminded of Fr. Barron's brilliant commentary on Anne Rice, who made a similar move to distance herself from the real religious Jesus and the religion he founded, with all its sacraments, worship, and institutional expression, a move to turn Jesus into her own private lover.
As Fr. Barron points out, this is a widespread tendency to create one's own deracinated, dejudaized, ahistorical, individualized Jesus free from the mess of the institution--inconveniently human as well as divine--that Jesus established on earth. It is not a new tendency. It arises not only in Protestantism but has precursors in the early years of the Church, in the Marcionite and Gnostic heresies. It is a powerful temptation in all ages
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