TLDR: Male and Female He Created Them

Recently the Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education released a document spelling out some important principles for Catholic educators in the modern world.  It is called "Male and Female He Created Them".  It discusses the ideology known as "gender theory" and how it needs to be opposed with a robust understanding of Christian anthropology.

However, we're all very busy people with limited attention spans.  So I've gone ahead and given it the TL;DR treatment - reducing the text to 1/5 its original size.  Here we go:

Adam, Eve, and Anthropology

The Christian faith is sometimes called a "historical religion".  This means it isn't just a philosophy of life.  It makes claims about world history, claims which need to be true for its teachings to have any merit.  Among these are the creation of the universe, the resurrection of Jesus, and a real Adam and Eve.

The first one seems to have checked out pretty well, the second has received robust defenses, but the third one... not as much.  My feeling is it’s something many Christians would rather not look at for fear of being wrong.

So this year I thought I'd read a couple books on the subject and see whether the Catholic understanding of Adam and Eve had bit the dust.

An Anti-Semitic Shooter, Bad Theology, and Romans 11

On April 27th (2019) there was as a shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue in California.  It left one dead and several others injured.  Prior to the shooter the shooter released a document online revealing his motivations.

Today I want to take a brief look at a couple things he said and compare them to an important passage from the New Testament.