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Could someone check on this for me?  I thought, for some reason, that Chris Matthews was Catholic.  Is that right?  The best information I have on him is that he's a professing Catholic.  So something just doesn't add up here.  The outright hostility this guy takes routinely now towards the Biblical text is pretty telling.  And I'm not just talking about when the Biblical text interferes with the modern agenda of the Democrat Party that Matthews champions.  I mean even on non-political issues.

He was at it again the other day when he took the time to rip into Republican strategist Ron Christie for his belief in God as the Creator.  Here was the perplexing exchange:

Chris Matthews: In other words, there is no manmade influence on climate change? Is that your belief, Ron Christie? I didn't know that. Are you out there with the full-mooners on this one?

Ron Christie, Republican strategist: Let me enlighten you on this one, Chris. I think global climate change is the biggest fraud that's been perpetrated in this country. The scientific evidence isn't there. This is something that Al Gore and his cronies have made millions of dollars of perpetuating a myth. That's what I think.

Matthews: How are you standing on evolution these days?

Christie: I'm feeling pretty good in evolution.

Matthews: Do you believe in it?

Christie: God it our creator and I think that we all evolved from the good Lord.

Matthews: So you don't believe in evolution?

Christie: I believe that God is our Creator and we all evolved from the good Lord.

Matthews: What is with the troglodyte? The Luddites? What is the party that used to believe in things?

Christie: Troglodytes? It's true. One of the things you're missing here is faith. You're missing faith in this country.

Matthews: Excuse me, I don't want to just plum the depths the position the party is taking that is so far right these days. Let's go back to life on this planet here.

Okay, first of all, notice once again the direct tie-in between global warming and Darwinism.  I don't mean that one caused the other or anything like that.  I mean, the left takes the same approach to both of them.  They want to wall off any criticism, any alternatives.  They want to proclaim that anybody who disagrees with either theory, either idea, either belief is a "troglodyte," meaning caveman.  If you aren't enlightened enough to believe liberal orthodoxy and the liberal interpretation of scientific and political reality, you are a knuckle dragging lunatic. 

Once again, recognize how this is the antithesis of science.  The left hates academic freedom and free inquiry.  They don't like it - it's a threat to their dogma. 

But larger than that was this whole scoffing by Matthews at the idea that God is our Creator.  I mean, that's kind of a fundamental part of Christian doctrine.  It's kind of basic common sense too.  But here is Chris Matthews, a guy who for some reason I thought for sure was a Catholic saying how the proposition that God created all things is just silly caveman stuff. 

I would disagree with Ron Christie on one point, however.  And that is this: Chris Matthews is not lacking faith.  No, he's got more faith in his pinky than I have in my whole body.  Anybody who can look at the incredibly complex design of the universe and conclude that everything from the inner workings of a cell to the massive expansion of a universe that has this one little sphere stuck in the middle where we live could all happen by chance, without purpose, that person has more faith than anybody I've ever known.  Faith in the frail and feeble efforts by man to offer up some view of all things independent of the God that created them, maybe, but faith nonetheless.