For what it's worth (and I don't really see what it has to do with this) his movies are, for the genre they belong to, at the less-objectionable end of a spectrum I'm not terribly interested in.
I am completely comfortable with the concept of the cafeteria catholic, being one. What I'm not comfortable with is someone who makes an announcement at the beginning of the meal that the cafeteria isn't good enough for them, takes a big mac out of their briefcase to eat for lunch and then goes around to the other tables afterwards swiping tips like they owned the place.
I'm thrilled that these people have chosen to go schismatic, as I think they were a dreadful influence on modern roman catholicism, and I'm quite sure they'll be an ornament and a stimulant to whatever reactionary church they choose to form or join, but they're ex-communicate from the Roman Catholic church, which has as its price of admission the acceptance of the pope's power to make decisions you don't like.
You don't get to decide if you like the pope before you have to listen to him, either. Harsh.
I know that when I fall short of what the church expects me to do, it makes me, doctrinally, a flawed roman catholic. I don't presume to tell them that they should change the basic structure of the church because some decrepit ancient shock jock with a famous kid doesn't like the idea of letting the jews off the hook for whatever happened back then 2,000 years after Jesus did.
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Re: Sorry
Date: 2003-06-15 10:05 am (UTC)I am completely comfortable with the concept of the cafeteria catholic, being one. What I'm not comfortable with is someone who makes an announcement at the beginning of the meal that the cafeteria isn't good enough for them, takes a big mac out of their briefcase to eat for lunch and then goes around to the other tables afterwards swiping tips like they owned the place.
I'm thrilled that these people have chosen to go schismatic, as I think they were a dreadful influence on modern roman catholicism, and I'm quite sure they'll be an ornament and a stimulant to whatever reactionary church they choose to form or join, but they're ex-communicate from the Roman Catholic church, which has as its price of admission the acceptance of the pope's power to make decisions you don't like.
You don't get to decide if you like the pope before you have to listen to him, either. Harsh.
I know that when I fall short of what the church expects me to do, it makes me, doctrinally, a flawed roman catholic. I don't presume to tell them that they should change the basic structure of the church because some decrepit ancient shock jock with a famous kid doesn't like the idea of letting the jews off the hook for whatever happened back then 2,000 years after Jesus did.