[jt8d]

"I suppose you also think widespread clerical abuse of young boys by priests is a recent phenomenon as well."

I do. However, that sentiment is not to imply that homosexual perversion is a new phenomenon, but such debauchery has become integral to our culture, and infested within the Church, ever since we opened the gates to liberalism. The arrogant idea that God is simply all love--without justice, is pure situational ethics, a system which is of a Protestant origin. No suprise.

[MarMema]

The arrogant idea that God is simply all love

Your post brought to mind a quote from a Russian Orthodox theologian in the 19th century, Khomiakov.

"Protestantism was nothing more than papal individualism brought to its logical conclusion. Rome had imposed upon the Christian West unity without freedom; the Protestants achieved freedom, but at the expense of unity. Yet neither unity without freedom nor freedom without unity was of any use. They both meant the isolation of man, and his exclusion from the redeeming influence of true Christian fellowship. The West had rejected the fundamental teaching of love, on which the whole life of the Church was based."