26 January 2009  Fifty Years Since The Council Was Called
Or am I being too cynical and slapdash?   rev'd up said...
Perhaps it's because Voltaire was a "rebel without a cause,"
whereas the bully-boys are "rebels with a cause? If so, their
cause is to impose indifference in the hearts of men; and in
particular Christian men.  The only thing that produces a stern
condemnation from the "Church" is failure to conform to the
Hermeneutic of Indifference. You're more likely to suffer at the
hands of "Christian" leaders for rebuking sin and heresy (God
forbid, someone become offended). "Our numbers are small
enough," they say, "so we better not offend the adulterers, the
paedophiles, the liars, the contraceptors, the effeminate, the
idle, the drunkard, the obese, the Judaizer...for as long as
we're in "full communion" we're OK. Estne Deus caritas? Deus
caritas est, BABY! If it feels good, do it."  I for one wish for
the days when the unbelievers were not even allowed to observe
Church services (let alone aske