They have no familiarity with the Desert Fathers, the Doctors of the Church, the writings of the mystics, the scholasticism of the Middle Ages, the meaning of the liturgy and the sacraments, the heroism of the saints, nor the unbelievable breadth of the artistic, monastic, and apostolic traditions that emerge from, and sustain themselves on, the fact that the Church, according to scripture, came into being at the behest (and with the authority) of Christ, and yet they, these ‘reasonable’ people, are ready to dismiss all these things as irrelevant, patriarchal, or ‘fantastical’, merely because they themselves have a quarrel with some element that can be associated with these things, some ‘trauma’ that they are unable to ‘get past’, or because they are too lazy, stubborn, proud and embittered to engage sincerely with the Church herself.