tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post4675457147333611402..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: The Things We Do For LoveK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-31023612914114824152023-01-31T08:53:56.490-08:002023-01-31T08:53:56.490-08:00"He's a turncoat who is trying to open th..."He's a turncoat who is trying to open the gates for the lizards to get into the last, great bastion of civilization, the Catholic Church."<br /><br />Perhaps, but I don't think that's it, exactly. I think he is a high official in an organization that he perceives as losing members, and he is in a panic about it. Since most of the power and wealth of the Church is critically dependent on having a lot of members, he wants them back rather desperately. <br /><br />He <i>thinks</i> they are leaving over issues of sexual morality, because that's the story the Church has been pushing for many years -- that people leave the Church because they want to be free to be immoral without being chastised for it. And he apparently thinks that if he just "fixes" the Church positions about sex, that the people who left because they were considered sexually immoral will come back. <br /><br />They won't, of course, because he's misdiagnosed the problem. Maybe some people leave the Church so they will be "free to sin", but I don't actually know any and they look to me to be a small minority. Until and unless he addresses the real reasons people leave the Church, they aren't coming back. And since the Church apparently doesn't even want to <i>ask</i> people why they left, they will never find out what those reasons are, and so will be unable to overcome them. <br /><br />And meanwhile, he will continue annoying the people who <i>haven't</i> left yet with his poorly-directed and ultimately ineffectual flailing. tim eiselehttp://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.comnoreply@blogger.com