The 2040 version of you will be making the same point re GS.
Engage the noggin a bit and donât just go for the low hanging fruit.
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The Reformation is a a period of history that I have no experience whatsoever in, it just never came up for me.
But listening to the recent Martin Luther podcasts on the rest is history youâd have to say that the proddies are spot on
Most catholics believe in Protestantism. As if anyone actually believes in transubstantiation.
Not really. Who even considers transubstantiation?
Protestantism is the individual belief that you are saved and better than the lad down the road.
(Irish) Catholics are obsessed with the lad down the road 
But they think that he may be better than them
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And putting the toaster in the cupboard.
Jim mcguinness living rent free in the Vatican
https://x.com/ShadowofEzra/status/1790189348358443041?t=l-fV2hjiM5RJGlkrdHC5DQ&s=09
There was a thing on the radio last night that the Church of Ireland have voted to keep a provision that allows a clergyman refuse to baptise the child of unwed parents.
Canât be far off from Robots or pre recorded Masses taking place on Sundays with communion pre-consecrated centrally in a regional church before being distributed and handed out by lay people. Unless they let priests marry the concept of the priesthood is literally dying in front of their eyes
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Would there not be an opportunity to bring in priests from foreign shores? Or would the right wing nut jobs lose their shit over that as well?
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The Church will have no choice but to let priests marry in the next 25 years. They either do that, or youâre looking at the whole thing caving in on itself by 2050. They are approaching a crossroads nowâŚâŚwhich way they decide to go will determine whether The Church survives into the second half of this centuryâŚâŚ
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Letâs hope it doesnât.
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The church/faith is a fundamental cornerstone of western society, which developed around it. For all itâs sins (and Iâm not downplaying them), the Catholic Church did a fierce amount of good in this country - it gave employment, educated the masses when the state couldnât afford to, and established and maintained some of the first hospitals in the country.
Religion gives solace to a large amount of people, and those who strayed away from it in their youth, often find themselves being drawn back to it as they grow older. Praying is a form of therapy, itâs cathartic, and people take comfort from it. One doesnât have to agree with all church doctrine in order to participate in and appreciate the basics of religion.
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Apparently itâs not a very large number of people anymore and diminishing by the day. Which is a positive thing.
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Itâs one thing straying away from it, for the next couple of decades people entering old age will come from a tradition of mass going at some stage in their lives, it after that thereâs nothing
Most kids now wouldnât know the our father or the Hail Mary
Cos itâs gender based prayer mate. If theyâd an âour rearerâ itâd be box office
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What employment did it give? Priests and nuns paid out of the church going around with the paw out demanding âduesâ off people or the women they imprisoned and used as slave labour?
Weâd definitely be better off without the church having been involved in education or hospitals.
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Individually there are some fantastic priests and nuns, really special people, but the whole institution behind them is rotten to the core.
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