"David Looser" wrote in message
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"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?

Most people who attend church seem to regard it
as some sort of a life-after-death insurance policy:-)

On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:02:26 +0200, "Iain Churches"
wrote:

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

Probably the same as it always did, but not hiding it as well.

There's also the multi-cultural influence. When other religions are
on our doorstep, affecting us culturally and politically, noticing
THEIR corruption and lack of real basis makes us realise OUR'S are no
different.