From child sexual abuse to outright fraud and money-grabbing, today's church seems to follow antinomianism very nicely. And the religious right appears to ignore everything other than their own desires.

Oh, well.

Even if those laws are designed to protect children from being raped by church officials.

Kinda sad really.

Defending the indefensible...

Perhaps you have heard of this phrase?

And the RCC calls antinomianism a heresy.

So what exactly are you saying?

Some feel they are not constrained by normative ethics in pursuance of the interests of the faith. That is, some feel it is fine to lie, mislead, or otherwise fiddlefuck with the truth when apologizing for their religion.

Without naming names, of course.

That said, it was one particular form of antinomianism.

I know antinomian progressives ("civil disobedience", anyone?) and Xians ("the fourth commandment, nah, that's done away with&quot . It's hard to assign that particular heresy to somebody who has no real chance of being "nomian" or "legalist". The phrase originally applied to God's law, not just any law, but it was easy enough to spread liberally.

Note, though, that those objecting to antinomianism are seldom legalist. Almost every person I've known has been antinomian to some extent; and very few of those who argue against it--for example, here--opt for legalism. Complaining about one feature doesn't seem to imply any kind of appreciation for its opposite.

I don't know of any Catholic that argues that sexually abusing a minor is an okay thing. In fact, the entire argument is that there are laws (with child sex abuse being illegal) but there are also laws in church canon which are also to be respected.