Two years ago, we wrote , re Andrew Sullivan, of an --
Iron Law of Sully ... he invokes his Irish ancestry when he's feeling alienated from his American conservative friends
Today, in a long post continuing his debate with atheist Sam Harris and in the broader context of his feud with the National Review --
But it also comes from where I was born and grew up - England. The Catholicism I imbibed was a minority faith in a majority Protestant or agnostic culture. And I can track its origins through history - through my Irish ancestors who held onto it despite cruel persecution,
Incidentally, in his clearly sincere invocation of the universality of catholic faith, he's dodging around the role of the Anglican church, which claims the same continuity as the catholic one. Leaving himself open to the question of why, rationally, he remains catholic.
[thanks to reader CS for the tip]
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