Mark Shea's Muddled Liberal Thinking

Do you know any first grade students, Christian or non-Christian, who believe that 2 + 2 = 5? Do you know any high school students who believe that common water is not H2O? Do you know of any Christian students who, knowing that 2 + 2 = 4 and that water is H2O, ever tried to wish it away by calling on God in prayer? Do you know of any comparable students who believe, or religious people who teach, that two truths can be contradictory, or that a true fact and a false fact can be true as a unit? I thought so.

Welcome to the world of Mark Shea where exaggeration is as common as H2O and making straw men is as common as straw; where calling your opponent a fool or liar is more important than trying to understand what your opponent is saying and why he says it. It’s the same MO as always from Mark Shea: Shoot first, ask questions later.

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  1. HappySwordAugust 1, 2020 at 8:39 AM

    In this day and age of swiftly materializing battle lines, we as a Church can't be in bed playing around with liberalist ideologies like evolution and "climate change" anymore. Shea is still bedded down with his mistresses. I pray he kicks them out soon before he is totally lost.

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