More Thoughts on Jimmy Carter's New Theology

Magister from over at the Bedlam or Parnassus makes an excellent point when he says that you know something is wrong with someone's theology when commenter's on the HuffPo are even recognizing it.
From the combox at HuffPo:

"Sorry for you (bible) thumpers, Carter just gave the game up with one line:
"Every worshiper has to decide if and when they want those particular passages to apply to them and their lives."
After that, religion has no credibility since you can pick and choose what you want to follow."


Magister sums it all up with this statement:

 "Just as no one should take seriously such lunatic pronouncements, so people should not accept the random declarations of what this or that verse of the Bible really means when offered by just any Tom, Dick, or Jimmy.

Ah, if only there were some sort of, oh, I don't know, maybe a teaching authority within the body of the Church universal that could help here, a body of teachers (magistri), a magisterium, perhaps?"

(Full disclosure: Magister is not a Catholic, he is a reformed christian but thinks with the mind of the Church. )