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[paedraggaidin]

It's somewhat ironic that what the Vikings and the English couldn't do, the Church herself is doing in Ireland: stamping out the Catholic faith.

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[garpu]

and over here the bishops care more about a wad of cells than the fact that there are people dying for lack of healthcare.

Why are we staying, again?

[paedraggaidin]

Better than the alternatives? Lesser of many evils? Prettier vestments? At this point, I don't know.

[garpu]

it's getting harder to answer that question...

[paedraggaidin]

I keep saying that they can't kick me out, and that's true...but at this point I'm really, really wondering what the hell the Holy Spirit is doing.

[paedraggaidin]

Yep. I fear he gets it even less than JP2 did.

[travelintheways]

I think this says something really interesting about how people hold religious beliefs: that the threat and use and force can't do it, but that cruelty *within* can stamp it out. The flipside of this is the main reason I've held on to my Episcopalian identity so long - it's not the fundies' threat of hell that keeps me coming back, it's the real goodness I see within the church.