I’ve heard of him in the past, but finally got around to checking out Mark Shea. I instantly subscribed. You gotta love stuff like this:

Heresy is stupefyingly boring.  Just off the top of your head, which would you call the more interesting story even if you didn’t believe it: that the Creator of the entire universe became a human being on an out of the way planet in the spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy, performed miraculous deeds, changed lives and hearts, encountered opposition from the Powers that Be, was betrayed, arrested, subjected to a kangaroo court and murdered in the most heinous way imaginable, rose from the dead, ascended to heaven, and now offers eternal ecstasy to the miserable species that killed him, or,

Jesus was a dead rabbi with a girlfriend.  Jesus said that niceness was nice.  Jesus was pretty much indistinguishable from a commentator on TV who urges bromides about gender equality and tariff reform.

Or this:

I have periodically made clear that, for myself, I will not support any candidate who asks me to support grave and intrinsic evil.  That, naturally, thins out the field pretty fast, since virtually all our candidates on both sides of the aisle support grave and intrinsic evil, whether it be abortion, torture, or embryonic stem cell research.  Many Catholics, animated by the heretical new theory that opposition to abortion taketh away the sins of the world, get upset with me when I voice this view.  Some ask whether it is a greater mortal sin to vote Democrat or Republican.  Others, amazingly, tell me I am a prima donna with impossibly high standards and beg me to go along with them, for fellowship ….

Followed by a nice clip from “A Man for All Seasons.”