Think harder. (catholic tastes).
"A healthy dose of skepticism would serve as a much-needed antidote antidote
Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, to the soft-core spirituality that saps much of contemporary Christianity.... The church of our time needs a theology that repudiates all saccharine sac·cha·rine
adj.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. substitutes for the hard thinking that Christian faith requires."
--Baylor University theologian the·o·lo·gi·an
n.
One who is learned in theology.
theologian
Noun
a person versed in the study of theology
Noun 1. Ralph C Wood (quoted in Current Thoughts & Trends, June 2001)
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