If you feel like there was some big mistake when you were created, then let’s just be brutally honest and say that we don’t share the same definition of God.
“God doesn’t make mistakes.”
Like making people trans, right?
“No not like that.”
If you feel like there was some big mistake when you were created, then let’s just be brutally honest and say that we don’t share the same definition of God.
“God doesn’t make mistakes.”
Like making people trans, right?
“No not like that.”
They used to be and still think of themselves as the world’s dominant religion. Their decline really began a few hundred years ago but, previously being at the head of a thousand year empire, they have some staying power and the Catholic Church is still the world’s largest religious organization. Their decline has accelerated in the past few decades. They are now losing members much more quickly than they can breed new ones.
Their shift to a generally more progressive and accepting stance is an attempt to stem the flow of younger members leaving the church. They see that the world, especially the parts with disposable income that could be donated to the church, rejects much of their conservative belief system and are attempting to soften it to keep younger members without abandoning it which would run off the members that they’ve spent decades scaring into following the “one path to salvation”.
The problem is that if they become too progressive, they lose the extremist conservatives too. Some of them are already angry about the Catholic mass not being in latin or have flown off into anti-vaxx adjacent lands.