Furthermore…

I got a story today on some kind of news feed that comes into my computer unsolicited. It was about how the British Museum is going to be loading its Codex Sinaiticus (oldest Bible manuscript) pages onto the Internet, giving scholars a look at early material that has largely inaccessible until now. I was reading this with some interest when I discovered there was attached a gaggle of follow-up comments that had poured in, mostly hateful snobbery about how Christianity, Catholicism and the Scriptures as we have them are malicious fabrications and hokum foisted on the world by dark conspirators. Just then I was brushing up a bit on last Sunday’s readings, in preparation for our weekly faith enrichment meeting, so it was a strange experience to come across at such a time these snarly arguments presented as the last word in ripping away the veil of ecclesiastical deception.  Fun though!  It came across to me as getting a chance to eavesdrop on conversations in Hell, each devil trying to outdo the other in vitriolic accusation against belief.