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@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The core message of the Roman church is two-fold: First, it is a direct challeng
But that is *not* what the church is doing anymore. It is spending its time worrying about every wind-blown political cause that tumbles onto its doorstep. It spends its time trying to conform to every whimsical cultural impulse and technological innovation. Its spends its time trying to police its own parishioners, and priests. It spends its time trying to decide whether its liturgy should be in Latin, or Greek, or Russian, or German, or English. It spends its time buying and selling real-estate. It spends its time hobnobbing with celebrities, and sitting on advisory boards.
It spends its time doing everything *but* telling young people to *straighten the fuck up, and start flying right*, and telling them that this Jesus fellow is not merely a nice guy that was victimised by "the man" a few thousand years ago, but the embodiment of both our own capacity for depravity, and the means of our ultimate salvation, and that they have but to take up the mission themselves, to be like him, and better than their present selves - and that this is a challenge that is going to impose great struggle and hardship, but lead them to even greater reward for the effort.
It spends its time doing everything *but* telling young people to *straighten the fuck up, and start flying right*, and telling them that this Jesus fellow is not merely a nice guy that was victimised by "the man" a few thousand years ago, but the divine embodiment of both our own capacity for depravity, and the means of our ultimate salvation, and that they have but to take up the mission themselves, to be like him, and better than their present selves - and that this is a challenge that is going to impose great struggle and hardship, but lead them to even greater reward for the effort.
THAT is why young people are leaving in droves. Because the church is way more concerned with "following the guidelines", than it is with *following Christ*. And the kids can see that. And so they go looking for that call to adventure somewhere else. And they find it in men like Jordan Peterson.