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MineralMan

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1. Relevance would be a good starting point, Your Holiness.

Reply to cbayer (Original post)

Tue Oct 9, 2012, 10:49 AM

Oct 2012

Your church is increasingly irrelevant to the lives of many of its members. It focuses on things that those members know not to be valid, and drives them away from active participation. You can evangelize all you like, but if what you are selling is irrelevant to the listeners, you will not succeed.

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Relevance would be a good starting point, Your Holiness. MineralMan Oct 2012 #1

That sounds more like wishful thinking than analysis. rug Oct 2012 #8

Does it? MineralMan Oct 2012 #10

It does. rug Oct 2012 #11

The pope can piss off. Goblinmonger Oct 2012 #2

Lol rug Oct 2012 #9

Glad you've finally realized the ridiculousness of the pope. Goblinmonger Oct 2012 #13

Well, what I find ridiculous does start with "po--", bit the word is not pope. rug Oct 2012 #14

"the concept of objective right and wrong": How about hiding child-rapists... DetlefK Oct 2012 #3

It will be interesting to see whether they address any of these things or just cbayer Oct 2012 #4

+1 hrmjustin Oct 2012 #6

I support this dmallind Oct 2012 #5

Yep, doubling down on the crazy and radical, immoral, teachings of the church... Humanist_Activist Oct 2012 #12

The RCC is under tremendous pressure to be even more radically wacko rightwing. dimbear Oct 2012 #7