This guy is awesome. Not only does he have the namesake of the patron saint of BC, he's going to bring down the conservative hammer on all those liberals in our church. The hand holders during the Our Father better listen up. Benedict is not going to let our 2000 year old establishment fall into the depths of "progressiveness" that the Episcopalian Church has lost itself in. I believe he is correct in warning against the "Dictatorship of Relativism." If we began to mold our church teachings to fit whatever culture norms we have today, than the Church would mold itself out of existence. Benedict is the hard ass needed to prevent this catastrophe from happening. He is even willing to lose a few members to the "progressive ideals" in order to preserve the Orthodoxy that the Church has developed and argued for nearly 2000 years. I found this quote of him this morning when Benedict was then Cardinal Ratzinger.
"The Church will become small, and will to a great extent have to start over again. But after a time of testing, an internalized and simplified Church will radiate great power and influence; for the population of an entirely planned and controlled world are going to be inexpressibly lonely and they will then discover the little community of believers as something quite new. As a hope that is there for them, as they answer they have secretly always been asking for."
Bring it on hippie Catholics. Either take it or leave it... But I am asking you to please leave it. A mass liberal exodus would allow the Roman Catholic Church to last for at least another 2000 years.
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I completely agree. If you think priests should be able to marry, if you think women should be allowed to become priests, if you want to hold hands, if you think queers should be able to marry, if you'd rather hear guitars and drums instead of organs, if you're for abortion, then be my guest: Go be a protestant. It's that easy.
Don't infect my 2000-year old church w/ your liberal, hippie B.S.
You know I don't speak German.
One other one: If you think the federal government should be allowed to take more of my tax dollars to fund something I'm completely morally opposed to, like harvesting embryoes solely for the purpose of stem-cell research, then you should also leave the church. And not vote.
Yes, that includes you, John Kerry.
He'll never live up the legacy of Pope Marcellus II. A truly great man. Those were the golden years.
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