MGB:_Should the Church be more secular? It depends. Some of my secular friends, which is the current term for atheistic, are so because of the abuses of the Church - not just the covering of child sexual abuse but in how the Church has politicized itself as the handmade of the reactionary movement. Some in the hierarchy seek, under the guise of religious freedom, religious power over both their employees and society.
Newsflash to the Chancery, if you think the woman going for your plumbing contract may be a lesbian, or you are sure because she talks about her wife, you may not reject her in our name for your bigotry. There is no moral reason to do so. You are being partisan puritans, not moral. You are not tainted by paying her to fix your pipes.
Humanism is not secular. A God that is not a Humanist has clay feet. Morality is about human life, not some angelic future. Moderism is not secular, it is about dealing with fact, whether in evolution or archeology. The story about Original Sin and Salvation must change, as well as homosexulaity and birth control. Democracy is not secular. It worked in the early Church and it will work in an age where Medievalism needs to be buried. These forces are not secular. They are a demand from inside the Church to change. Start with Continence, which is stoicism and bigotry, not purity and the rest of the reactionary artifice in the Church will fall away.
The Christian Left does not stop at the Church door. We do not grant the bishops sanctuary. We are coming inside to slap him in the face so he can receive the Holy Spirit (of Prophesy), whom he has been running from for too long.
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