There is a social science principle I am struggling to enunciate which goes something like this: Institutions set up in emulation of one set of principles end up becoming almost exactly the opposite, but they must deny the existence of any contrary tendencies in their ranks, and thus those contrary tendencies develop unchecked and indeed protected - as their discovery would destroy the raison d'etre of the whole institution in the first place.
spot on...any action has a counter reaction.
Frank Schnittger:
If you are correct, then the liberalisation of societal attitudes to homosexuality is the greatest possible threat to the Church - as it removes all necessity for homosexuals to join the Church in order in order to attain respectability.
yes, and this is why ratzi can condone and forgive what's going on inside his church, while decrying those same vices, full of pseudo moral indignation.
romans (applauded by pharisees) hacked jesus' body, the present church has hacked his message, completely inverting it.
the only things holding it together now are habit and sentiment, some will cling to anything, even a sinking raft... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
