I think that this is a result of many Christian denominations allocating large percentages of their time and resources towards developing their political action committees. It seems that they are focusing more on the "law" than the "spirit."
I disagree. Considering this was done in the U.K. where - with the exception of Islam - the religious voice is pretty much regulated to the margins of the public square, any time or resources committed to anything by Christian denominations would be inconsequential on the collective consciousness of most Britons.
What it is the result of is the constant drumbeat of leftest and liberal voices within academia drunk on secularism, scientism, Marxist critiques of culture (race, class and gender) and a media apparatus readily willing to convey the message. The obvious consequence is a public that is both ignorant of the teachings of Catholicism and convinced it is always a force for evil concerning individual freedoms.
Moreover you have a Western society that is predisposed to see someone like the Pope as the poster child for all that is repressive concerning individual human freedoms, especially concerning sex, since libertine views on sex are the badge of honor for the truly enlightened in Western society and the Pope is the symbol of a bygone era of hair shirts, crusades and white patriarchal oppression of...well just about everything.
Yet someone like the Dali Lama gets a free pass on his traditional and highly restrictive views of sex, because a.) he is not Caucasian; b.)he is exiled by a repressive Chinese government; c.) his religion, Buddhism, is de facto more enlightened because it not Christianity and it's the darling of the left in the West, and d.) Buddhism is fairly inconsequential politically on a global scale so it can be easily made into whatever one wants it to be.
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I think that this is a result of many Christian denominations allocating large percentages of their time and resources towards developing their political action committees. It seems that they are focusing more on the "law" than the "spirit."
I disagree. Considering this was done in the U.K. where - with the exception of Islam - the religious voice is pretty much regulated to the margins of the public square, any time or resources committed to anything by Christian denominations would be inconsequential on the collective consciousness of most Britons.
What it is the result of is the constant drumbeat of leftest and liberal voices within academia drunk on secularism, scientism, Marxist critiques of culture (race, class and gender) and a media apparatus readily willing to convey the message. The obvious consequence is a public that is both ignorant of the teachings of Catholicism and convinced it is always a force for evil concerning individual freedoms.
Moreover you have a Western society that is predisposed to see someone like the Pope as the poster child for all that is repressive concerning individual human freedoms, especially concerning sex, since libertine views on sex are the badge of honor for the truly enlightened in Western society and the Pope is the symbol of a bygone era of hair shirts, crusades and white patriarchal oppression of...well just about everything.
Yet someone like the Dali Lama gets a free pass on his traditional and highly restrictive views of sex, because a.) he is not Caucasian; b.)he is exiled by a repressive Chinese government; c.) his religion, Buddhism, is de facto more enlightened because it not Christianity and it's the darling of the left in the West, and d.) Buddhism is fairly inconsequential politically on a global scale so it can be easily made into whatever one wants it to be.
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