Friday, October 17, 2003

The State of Church

I was channel surfing and came across a discussion on the "new" catholic church. The interviewer asked the question and the male spoke first.
Male: "I think people have to remeber that the church serve 1.1 billion people from all walks of life all over the world. While I understand people would like change the catholic church has to change slowly and gradually to accomodate all of its followers. We in North America may want change to come much quicker while those in Africa perhaps much more gradually."
Female : " People have to understand that the church does not work under the same ideals as society. The church is neither liberal or conservative. These are political terms that have no place in the bible."
My take on these two : "Talk about tripe. The people of Africa, I would wager heavily, would dearly love change to come quickly and in abundant amounts. As for political terms and the church; the catholic church is a government. It has its laws, its followers, workers etc...
This interview was mainly about the problems facing the catholic church. If these two are indicative of the people running the church you can pretty safely say catholicism will definitely continue to have its controversies. And thank God for that huh.