Oh I knew I would be criticized for wanting church elections that would never do.
See the church does want to influence society and entrench its views in an open
and elected society that is fine with me. However if the members want to have a
say in how the church is run and who runs it then they should be an open society
with their members.
It wouldn't be a popularity contest at all it would be an ideological contest and the
danger for the old boys club is the conservative, unforgiving unchanging church
would or could conceivably lose their grip on the Vatican. They could lose the
throne to a more progressive and open direction that would never do.
It will be a long cold day before I return for more of the same old views dressed up
in modern music and smiles.
I suppose I began to lose my enthusiasm for the church back around twenty years old.
We had an old priest and this guy was old. Nicest man I ever met actually outside my
dad. He would pick up stuff thrown out of car windows to keep the roads clean where
he walked. He went to see the sick so many a day and walked. He didn't care if they
were Catholics, Jews or any other faith and everyone in our area liked him.
His reward? Father Sweitzer was condemned by some of the high brow people who
thought he should be going to see sick Catholics, they petitioned the Bishop to move
him. My father went to see the Bishop more that a hundred miles away and told him
the parish was basically full of some of the most mean spirited people around.
After several months they took his parish away and sent him to an old folks home as it
were where he died a short time later.
After that I understood what good church going Christians in the Catholic church were
about. Some years later I watch a congregation destroy another old priest like the first
one. From then on I stayed to hell away from the church.
I adopted a more liberal approach, no not a political Liberal a more liberal approach to
life. I am pro choice,
I am of the opinion the church is more of a political movement than a spiritual one and not
just the Catholic Church.
Nope I will not be in the back pew let alone the front one. I accept every Christina I meet
on an individual basis many are very good people and practice what they believe. The
church as an institution is not what I would consider to be a healthy atmosphere at all
avoid it like the plague.
