Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Fighting The Reformation

One of the criticisms I have heard about my church is that some of our leaders are still fighting the Reformation of which Vatican I in 1870 was an extension.  The Reformation fight is in part about we are right and everyone else is wrong.  You can put whatever "we" you want into the equation, one Christian denomination or another.  In my case it would be the Catholic Church.  Well, if we are right and you are wrong, then we cannot change our answers.  Can we be right if we change our answer?   Regardless of new information be it historical, scientific, cultural, or psychological, some people just will not budge.  A rule is a rule.  Forget mercy.  This group or person is this, and that is that.  Whenever I do not want to change in relation to someone or something else, in spite of overwhelming evidence pointing to a change, it is usually because I am still fighting some old battle, memory or hurt.  Have you ever found yourself refusing to change your attitude or opinion of someone in  spite of concrete, evident change in their life?  I have heard a person say that they do not like someone because "all those people" are this or that, usually having to do with color of skin, language, or ethnic origin.  Jesus was very probably a dark skinned short fellow, losing hair, a Jew, with a big hook nose.  Still like being a Christian?

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