Candida Moss is a Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Notre Dame University. On June 11, Thomas Williams, also a professor at Notre Dame, in an article for The Christian Review Website, did a good job exposing recent outrageous claims made by Moss regarding negative reaction to Bruce Jenner’s supposed “transformation” to a woman:
This was not the first time Professor Moss has publicly championed patently absurd and heretical notions. As the article above points out, Moss even, “ attacked Pope Francis for being anti-woman and made the eyebrow-raising claim that “in the beginning” God made human beings neither male nor female, but “androgynes.”
Far worse, however, is Moss’ latest book , The Myth of Persecution. As the Amazon description states:
In addition, Moss appeared on The O’Reilly Factor defending the bizarre notion that Jesus was a socialist and that nobody can enter Heaven unless they sell all of their possessions and give them to the poor. It apparently never occurred to Candida that the logical consequence of this view is near universal damnation.
The real story here is not so much the shocking, scandalous, and absurd claims of Moss as the fact that this woman is still allowed to teach at the University of Notre Dame. Consider her book. Can one imagine a Jewish University keeping a professor on staff who dismisses the Holocaust as “exaggerated”, “invented” and “forged” “fiction?” Yet this supposed Catholic university keeps a professor on staff who basically calls all of the early Christians liars and perpetrators of a hoax to serve their own agenda. In that case, why believe Christianity at all? Why devote your life to being a “professor” of the New Testament and Early Christianity? The answer is clear: to attack it.
Notre Dame has long since lost any credibility as a Catholic university, but by keeping Dr. Moss on staff they harm not only themselves but the Church at large. The media gladly uses shills like Moss to attack the Church. They give her plenty of air time, proudly listing “Theology Professor at University of Notre Dame” under her chattering face as she spits venom at all Catholicism stands for. In the “bad old days” before Vatican II people who held Moss’s views would be lucky to be allowed to clean toilets at Notre Dame much less anywhere near a classroom. However now, in our enlightened age of “academic freedom” Catholics now pay the salary of a rabid anti-Catholic to teach their Catholic children at a Catholic University.
If anyone wishes to send respectful thoughts regarding Dr. Moss’ continued employment to Notre Dame Theology Department, here is the contact page.
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