Posted by:
Primus
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Date: October 08, 2010 02:27PM
The Church is a sinking ship. No unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing, however, the internet and changes in the consciousness of society can. As has been stated in other posts, the Church is hemorrhaging the youth and could be 2 generations away from irrelevancy (I don't think it will actually completely diminish for some time) When disaster is happening, but you can't or won't do anything to solve the problems, what better way to draw attention away from that then to make a 'straw man' enemy. For all of it's talk of love and peace, the church survives best when it is on the attack. If they really wanted to fix things, they would examine their own ship and fix things instead of trying to 'draw the mote' out of their neighbors eye.
The church should follow their own plan for repentance.
1. acknowledge they have done something wrong.
2. Try to make restitution.
3. Never do it a gain.
Of curse the big step is making them realize that they did do something wrong.