Family Member 1: "The Left Behind books are terrible. Bad theology. They're crap."
Family Member 2: "But many have come to Christ through them."
Me: "God can work good from bad."
I'll leave it to the reader whether I was temporarily insane.
Secret Agent Man defends kitschy, though orthodox, art:
We could say all this is trite. But I don't think anyone's holding up medieval passion and devotional plays as the equal of Shakespeare. Catholic art, like anything else Catholic, has one goal and one goal only -- to get a soul into heaven by any means necessary. (That's not relativism, because the goal dictates the range of acceptable means). God used some science fiction, a boy's novel, an undergraduate-level knowledge of classical history, and a comic book about the life of John Paul II as part of His plan to get me into the Church. We can get all snooty about the quality of Catholic art, but most of us would be amazed at the condescending things God does just to get us to pay attention to Him.
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