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wah_wah_wah posted...

For all he's built up to be this reformer, what he says is basically empty and contradictory enough not to get him in too much trouble with the right and it never translates into action that would get the Church to stop promoting harmful and dangerous practices in developing countries.

This is really the heart of my gripe. There's no weight to all of these statements and it ends up falling into the territory of lukewarm Christianity which is not only the laziest kind but the worst ideologically speaking. Since most people seem to have trouble parsing Protestants from Catholics, at least in the crazyland of social media and buzzwords it ends up taking everyone along for the ride.

The happy-go-lucky everyone's a sinner and that's okay hippieisms need to be tempered with the same amount of cold reality. Francis in particular likes to talk like he's in the cool kids' club and drags his feet when it comes to serious business, coming off as two-sided and shady which means nobody actually trusts him. The last thing the Church should do is conform to what the left wants but church reform (internally) is a constant and ongoing process. The progress of the last millennium might as well be called surface cleaning.

One of the biggest problems is the thought that the Church is at war or in conflict with strict liberals/Islam/etc. when it's all just a bunch of distracting skirmishes. The whole LGBT mess is one of those.
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