Barf Alert Ping
So, identity politics comes to the Catholic Church. Shut up and pray, cardinal. God doesn’t care about your skin pigmentation nor mine.
If, as Aguto says, racism is an original sin, Aguto, his daughter and Gregory are also racist. Right?
I have had plenty of exposure to this Gregory. He is a tiresome bore about all this racism crap. He is a one-topic person. Hardly red hat material.
Gregory should worry more about declining church attendance, lack of vocations and the closing of Parishes due to non-leadership by the current crop of useless Cardinals and Bishops. Him included.
Gregory will be the biggest racist at the conference.
Our Men’s Bible Study is working our way through 1 Corinthians, and today we were in Chapter 7 where Paul tells the folks in Corinth to remain in the state they were in prior to being saved. If uncircumcised, then stay uncircumcised; if slave, then stay a slave.
Our discussion was, “This would have been the perfect opportunity to condemn slavery right from the start - - why didn’t Paul do that?”
First, it would bring the entire governments of Rome and Greece down on them like ton of bricks - way ahead of God’s schedule for this early church. But more importantly, Paul did not see that as part of the Churches job. The Church was about salvation, and, as Paul stated, slavery had nothing to do with Salvation.
It occurred to us that the Church finds many things to do which distract it from its mission of salvation. Not the these things are not important, but they are up to the people of the Church, not “The Church”, to solve. It was not the church that ended slavery in England - it was Christians in parliament. When the Church takes side on any issue other than salvation it automatically turns someone against it. Paul wanted to be all things to all people so that the most could be saved.
Looks like we may have lost some of that focus.