"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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Last time I was in a church (about 1960), the charlatan didn't need a
microphone. He just spoke up and everybody could hear him dribbling
down his chin. Why the **** does this crap have to be recorded? Isn't
it bad enough that it gets heard even once?


I wonder what the church has done to
alienate itself from the people?


Become increasingly irrelevant. There was a time when natural disasters were
believed to be "acts of the gods", so keeping the gods sweet by making
sacrifices and performing the prescribed rituals made some sort of sense.
But now we know what causes natural distaters, and we know that they are
neither some sort of divine retribution for our "sins" nor can they be
avoided by performing rituals.

So what actually is the point of the church these days?

David.